Overview
The Intelligence and Foresight Analyst monitors and analyses the external policy, donor, geopolitical, and humanitarian environment to identify trends, risks, and opportunities. This role provides evidence-based analysis and intelligence to support strategic decision-making and positioning.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct market and landscape scans to identify trends, risks, and opportunities relevant to Plan International's strategy.
- Draft high-stakes briefings, intelligence reports, and strategic memos for senior leadership and governing bodies.
- Build and sustain networks with foresight leaders and economists across key institutions.
- Provide a strategic interface with private sector analytical heads.
- Influence key partners and identify areas for collaboration.
- Consolidate, synthesise, and analyse foresight inputs into actionable summaries and recommendations.
- Deliver evidence-based intelligence outputs to inform decision-making.
- Support global strategy design by coordinating input-gathering and synthesising findings.
- Maintain a live intelligence repository and horizon-scanning system.
- Provide thematic intelligence and foresight analysis to support partnership identification.
- Produce high-quality written intelligence outputs translating complex information into accessible formats.
- Ensure Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion policies are embedded.
Required Experience
- Demonstrated experience in intelligence analysis, policy research, economic trends analysis, horizon scanning, or strategic foresight, ideally within an INGO, multilateral, government, top-tier strategic consultancy firm, or research institution context.
- Experience in applying macro-economic trends and fiscal analysis to development contexts.
- Experience working with or analysing global multilateral systems, institutional funding and financing landscapes, and donor behaviour trends.
- Strong understanding of the global development and humanitarian sector.
- Proven ability to influence senior executives.
- Proven facility in using AI-enabled analytical tools.
Qualifications
Strong analytical background in economics, political economy, international relations, development and humanitarian sectors; and finance, or a related discipline.
