Plan International est une organisation humanitaire et de développement indépendante qui fait progresser les droits des enfants et l’égalité pour les filles.
Nous croyons au pouvoir et au potentiel de chaque enfant. Mais cela est souvent étouffé par la pauvreté, la violence, l’exclusion et la discrimination. Et ce sont les filles qui sont les plus touchées.
En travaillant avec les enfants, les jeunes, nos sympathisants et nos partenaires, nous aspirons à un monde juste, en nous attaquant aux causes profondes des défis auxquels sont confrontées les filles et tous les enfants vulnérables.
Nous soutenons les droits des enfants de la naissance jusqu’à ce qu’ils atteignent l’âge adulte. Et nous permettons aux enfants de se préparer – et de réagir – aux crises et à l’adversité. Nous conduisons des changements dans les pratiques et les politiques aux niveaux local, national et mondial en utilisant notre portée, notre expérience et nos connaissances.
Nous construisons des partenariats puissants pour les enfants depuis plus de 80 ans et sommes maintenant actifs dans plus de 70 pays.
Poste 1 : Directeur de la programmation régionale et de l’influence
Lieu: Any Waca Country, Benin
Entreprise: Plan International
ROLE PURPOSE
The Director of Programming & Influencing, provides strategic leadership to Plan International’s programming and influencing work in the West and Central Africa (WACA) region in line with our 2022-2027 Global Strategy All Girls Standing Strong Creating Global Change. S/he will ensure that all our programming and influencing initiatives are focused on increasing our impact, strengthening our legitimacy and improving our sustainability. S/he will drive the realization of the global strategy in West and Central Africa region working with Country Offices, National Offices, Global Hub departments on high quality gender transformative programming and influencing interventions models, promoting innovation and design for scale approaches. S/he will ensure Plan International agenda is represented in relevant spaces across the region and work with Liaison Offices (UN, AU, EU…) to connect to local to the global and the global to the local S/he will lead the multidisciplinary regional team to provide high quality support to country offices and to carry out impactful regional initiatives in line with the WACA Regional Strategic Framework. S/he will ensure that regional and country perspectives are represented and contribute to global initiatives and forums within Plan. This role will also lead the regional strategic partnerships, multi-country business development and fundraising agenda .
DIMENSIONS OF THE ROLE
- The position is part of the West and Central Africa Regional Core Management Team
- The Director of Regional Programming & Influencing reports to the Regional Director
- Will provide gender transformative leadership and supervision to Plan International’s regional programming and influencing team, fostering integration of program and influencing activities, and ensuring close collaboration and joint objectives setting with the humanitarian programme lead.
- Ensures strategic linkage and communication across the programming & influencing work of Country Offices (Cos), Regional Hub (RH), Global Hub (GH), the AU Liaison Office, strategic fundraising and collaboration on influencing opportunities (across both development and humanitarian settings).
- Engages and supports youth networks and youth movement building for gender equality across the region
- Lead the regional strategic partnerships, multi-country business development and fundraising agenda
- Drive the realization of the global strategy in West and Central Africa region working with Country Offices, National Offices, Global Hub departments on high quality gender transformative programming and influencing interventions models, promoting innovation and design for scale approaches
Line management: This position manages a team across multiple countries and time zones and directly supervises leads of Media & Communications, Policy and Advocacy, Gender Equality and Inclusion, Business Development & Fundraising, Partnerships. This role will work closely with the Regional MERL Specialist, Regional Humanitarian Lead, Regional Knowledge Management and Sponsorship Networks Leads as part of the regional programming and influencing space.
Budget authority: This position is responsible for managing an annual budget for staff and activities comprised of multiple sources of funding subject to varying reporting and accountability processes.
The individual in this position will be a member of the Regional Leadership Team and the WACAH Management Team. They are expected to work in a networked and matrixed way with colleagues across the Plan International family and should be able to set priorities aligned with multiple stakeholders and provide strategic leadership to people and programs without close day-to-day supervision. They should be an experienced external influencer and capable of representing Plan International externally at a senior level.
ACCOUNTABILITIES
Programming and Influencing:
- Responsible for convening the regional Heads of Programme network, to build synergy and strengthen learning, especially in the Areas of Global Distinctiveness (AOGD) to articulate a more persuasive picture of programmes in the region and prioritise improvements in the portfolio.
- Work with National Office (NOs) and Global Hub (GH) AOGD leads to draw more support and attention where it is needed most, building on strategic priorities that have been agreed upon with Country Offices.
- Responsible for supporting the development of strategically aligned, multi-country projects or programmes.
- Build strategic networks & partnerships and steward working relationships with internal and external stakeholders and allies including donors, government representatives and other civil society organizations,
- Contribute to the strategy development process for COs by supporting them to integrate best practice and lessons learned in their long-term programming work.
- As a core member of the Regional Leadership and Regional Hub Management teams (RLT and RHMT), lead the discussions on programme quality and alignment.
- Provide oversight on programme quality in the region, ensuring that the regional team provides effective support to country offices for a high-quality gender transformative programming.
- Lead the development and implementation of the regional influencing strategy and work plans and ensure that they are aligned to global priorities and organized around key change objectives aligned to regional thematic and cross-thematic priorities.
- Ensure that Plan International WACA has a strong reputation as a girls’ rights thought leader and is leading change with and through regional multilateral platforms, working groups and alliances,
- Provide guidance to the creation of a regional “research for influencing” slate of products,
- Provide guidance to the regional communications and campaigns group to develop strong comms and campaigns initiatives aligned with specific change objectives and relevant influencing and program strategies,
- Oversee the approval and dissemination of all regional office produced external communications products in line with relevant sign-off protocols,
- Ensure effective communications capacity to respond to disaster emergencies in coordination with disaster response colleagues. Oversee the provision of regional office comms backstopping in line with relevant procedures and policies.
- Oversee regular and pro-active engagement with NO’s; build a broad platform of support to WACA’s fundraising and initiatives across the Plan federation.
- Supports the regional Hub program specialists’ team to increase grant acquisition in the region (with emphasis on major country grants and multi-country grants), enabling and overseeing their involvement in grant proposal development.
- Map and analyse different segments for fundraising; detailed consideration of opportunities. Present different scenarios and related risk profile for senior management and ensure fundraising strategies are in place across the region.
- Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.
Leadership and Strategic Direction:
- Provide leadership, strategic direction and oversight to the objectives of the Regional Influencing and Program team, ensuring alignment with regional office value proposition as well as applicable global and regional strategies.
- Work collaboratively with Country Management Teams in regard to transformation priorities, country strategy review and development, and other leadership support needed to ensure Plan International in WACA can achieve global, regional and national strategic objectives,
- Maintain a high-performance culture across regional influencing and program functions with a focus on problem solving, driving changes and identifying best practices and flagship initiatives that advance girls’ rights and gender transformation,
- As a member of the Regional Leadership Team, contribute to the development of regional strategies, priorities, and objectives informed by strong political and situational analysis,
- In collaboration with the Directors of Sub-Regions, ensure that Plan International standards of quality are being achieved and Plan International’s key policies and procedures are being followed.
Connect and Support:
- Ensure that country offices are receiving effective and efficient influencing and program support from across the organization and that the support is aligned with global priorities and country office needs,
- Regularly communicate with Country Directors, CO Program Directors and CO Influencing Directors about connect and support needs with an eye to problem solving, driving change and elevating good practice around gender-transformative programming and influencing,
- Serve on relevant global and regional working groups to improve global connect and support functions; be an internal advocate for country office influencing and programming support and coordination needs,
- Provide transparency and accountability for regional office support to Country Offices,
- Ensure that the regional office is working to connect global networks, especially the AoGDs, with regional networks and country office needs.
Capacity Building & People Management:
- Provide overall vision and direction to the team through effective coordination, planning, prioritization, coaching and supervision.
- Support staff to understand and comply with the organizational vision, mission, strategic direction and organization policies and socialize and nurture Plan Values and Behaviours.
- Create an enabling working environment to foster excellent teamwork and high performing staff.
- Oversee the delivery of effective capacity building support for programme professionals in the region – take an active role in capacity building and talent spotting of programme staff in countries and supporting the matching of opportunities to develop effective programme professionals in the region.
- Establish, communicate and monitor standards of performance and behaviours of the team through development of Individual Accountability Plans (IAP), and key performance indicators (KPI’s) that are agreed annually, and monitored and updated regularly.
- Support team members to gain the necessary skills through learning and development.
KEY RELATIONSHIPS
- Media contacts
- External relations with strategic partners and collaborators (including positions responsible for advocacy, communication and partnerships)
- Staff from other INGO’s / UN in West Africa / Civil Society organisations / regional bodies/ governments
- Regional Leadership Team
- Country programming & influencing staff (including positions responsible for advocacy, communication and partnerships)
- Global Hub GIP team
- National Office
- Other RH’s Programming & Influencing staff
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE, SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
- 10 years progressive senior management and/ or development experience, with a strong background in programming and influencing for child rights and gender equality,
- A graduate degree in a field of study relevant to rights-based international development,
- Experience in gender transformative programming and in one or more of the Plan International Areas of Global Distinctiveness: education, protection, early childhood development, child/youth engagement and advocacy, SRHR, youth employment,
- High level program leadership experience in a complex and dispersed organisation; Experience and knowledge gained from working with Plan International would be an asset;
- Senior management experience in programme design, partnerships, quality assurance and learning;
- Strong working knowledge of program development and quality functions in a large, federated structure and their value for driving consistent, sustainable, scalable, high-quality project delivery at the country-level.
- Proven experience and effectiveness leading cross-functional teams and working in a matrixed structure,
- Experience leading advocacy and policy work with government systems in West & Central Africa
- Demonstrated knowledge of gender analysis, rights-based program approaches, and child safeguarding
- Proven experience in leading strategic planning, change management and program management processes;
- An appreciation and understanding of the issues concerning the NGO sector in West & Central Africa both development and humanitarian,
- Embraces leadership in the global south and has worked with social movements; understands social movements and power dynamics in countries in West & Central Africa
- Able to work well under pressure and deadlines,
- Excellent listening, inter-personal, communication and networking skills,
- High level of self-awareness and willingness to take feedback for growth and self-development.
tECHNICAL cOMPETENCIES
Supports partnering and resource mobilisation: Identifies, assesses and nurtures mutually beneficial relationships with appropriate partners, and contributes to writing proposals relevant to own field(s) of work.
Coaches colleagues and partners: Coaches colleagues and partners as part of daily work by explaining key concepts, standards and resources; and working alongside others to apply effective evidence-based practice.
Builds stakeholder capability: Embeds it into program and project design
Shapes strategy, policy, standards and plans: clearly aligned with relevant priorities and stakeholder interests and based on rigorous internal and external evidence
Designs effective programmes and projects: with clear and measurable objectives contributing to overall outcomes, appropriately resourced, mainstreaming gender and inclusion and participatory approaches, and engaging with and influencing relevant actors and stakeholders.
Assesses effectiveness to improve evidence and quality by designing appropriate measures and assessment methods: using on-going monitoring and assessment to improve project design and implementation, initiating research and conducting evaluation, assessing the results and sharing learning.
Adapts work to context: Focuses work appropriately to its geographical scope; rapidly assesses and responds to the relevant context and changes in the fragility of settings.
Campaigning and external mobilization: Strong knowledge of and interest in current events, including those related to politics, economics, social and cultural affairs, technology and media. Familiarity with constantly shifting political, economic, social, tech and media trends and dynamics of relevance to effective campaigning.
Young people as Influencers: Demonstrated experience of developing and delivering advocacy strategies and/or campaigns preferably with a gender equality or girl-led focus advanced practical understanding of child and youth safeguarding and child rights, current issues and best practice including child protection issues associated with youth campaigning and advocacy including digital safety.
PLAN INTERNATIONAL’S VALUES IN PRACTICE
We are open and accountable
We create a climate of trust inside and outside the organisation by being open, honest and transparent. We hold ourselves and others to account for the decisions we make and for our impact on others, while doing what we say we will do.
We strive for lasting impact
We strive to achieve significant and lasting impact on the lives of children and young people, and to secure equality for girls. We challenge ourselves to be bold, courageous, responsive, focused and innovative.
We work well together
We succeed by working effectively with others, inside and outside the organisation, including our sponsors and donors. We actively support our colleagues, helping them to achieve their goals. We come together to create and implement solutions in our teams, across Plan International, with children, girls, young people, communities and our partners.
We are inclusive and empowering
We respect all people, appreciate differences and challenge inequality in our programmes and our workplace. We support children, girls and young people to increase their confidence and to change their own lives. We empower our staff to give their best and develop their potential.
PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT
Typical office environment
LEVEL OF CONTACT WITH CHILDREN
Mid contact: Occasional interaction with children
HOW TO APPLY?
This position is opened for all applicants and females’ candidates are highly encouraged to apply. The successful candidate should be immediately available. To apply, click on the link below and send by September 6th 2022:
Your application should include:
- A comprehensive cover letter
- A comprehensive and clear CV that includes the contact of four (4) of your professional referees, one of whom should be your current employer.
Poste 2 : Spécialiste régional de la gestion financière
Lieu: Dakar, Guinea
Entreprise: Plan International
The purpose of this position is to:
- Contribute to the success of Finance Management strengthening work including supporting the development of a robust finance management culture. This will include developing support material for finance managers, providing virtual and on-site support to finance managers and supporting finance managers to access and successfully participate in Plan’s finance management training.
- Provide inputs to the finalisation and implementation of a new global ERP system including the finance management module to ensure that finance managers are able to manage, analyse and report on results in an effective and consistent way.
- Support finance managers to work in the new ERP system, including the finance management module, to ensure Plan’s approach to finance management is fully informed, transparent and effective.
- Support Cos with data cleansing related activities for an effective migration to YODA
Dimensions of the Role
This position reports The Regional Finance Manager and is matrix managed by Director of Finance Capability and Effectiveness.
The Finance department is focused on supporting our Country Offices to design, plan, implement, monitor and close projects according to best project financial management standards. We aim to support Project Managers to deliver maximum impact on the lives of girls and young people whilst ensuring that the needs of other stakeholders, especially our funders and donors, are efficiently met. The Finance department does this by developing guides and tools and providing well-trained finance resources to support project managers.
The Finance Management Specialist will support specific projects to strengthen Project Management across Country Offices, provide technical inputs to relevant regional initiatives and strengthen project management capabilities. The role will focus on the rollout of the Y.O.D.A. ERP system supported itself by the GH Finance team.
Accountabilities
Outlined below are the key responsibilities for this position.
- Support continuous Finance Management, improvements benchmarked on global best practice
- Provide technical support to Country Offices, and the Regional Hub, including to implement the new online finance management disciplines and approaches and to provide high quality guidelines, tools and upskilling as prioritised by Country Offices.
- Enhance finance management capacity of different teams across the organisation and an understanding of good finance management at senior levels in GH, Regional Hubs and Country offices.
- Support the finalisation and implementation of the new ERP system within Country Offices.
- Support with data cleansing and data integrity activities
Drive continuous learning
- Promote and facilitate an active finance management network across the region.
- Develop, promote and embed finance learning processes and practices across Country Offices.
- Contribute to drafting learning papers that capture lessons from Plan International’s work in order to inform better finance management to improve programme outcomes.
Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.
Key relationships
- Country Office Finance Managers and Regional Hub Finance Managers to provide technical inputs to the implementation of improved finance management.
- Deputy Country Directors to ensure that issues at Country Offices with respect to finance management are raised and addressed.
- Country Management Teams and Regional Management Teams on progress, capacity and status of finance management improvements.
- Global technical leads and coordinators to ensure that projects are well planned and integrate best project management practice, informed by appropriate technical experts.
- Colleagues at the Global Hub and Regional Hub with responsibilities for, or dependent on, good finance management.
- Other organisations and forums externally, for coordination, collaboration, learning.
Technical expertise, skills and knowledge
Essential
Knowledge
- Expert knowledge of financial management in a project context.
- Significant experience and a strong understanding of training processes, approaches, tools and methodologies that facilitate finance management and financial project management, and organisational learning.
- Appreciation of the realities of NGO finance management and how to achieve effective finance management, financial control, monitoring, reporting, evaluation and learning.
Skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Able to develop appropriate guidelines, tools and templates for improved finance management and implement them at scale in challenging environments.
- Able to develop global guidance that is simple and practical for Country colleagues to understand and use.
- Writing in plain English (plus French for the West Africa region and Spanish for the Region of Americas).
- Strong collaboration skills, able to build cooperation and negotiate compromises.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Proven experience of using online technology for communication and learning.
- Fluent in English (plus French for the West Africa region and Spanish for the Region of Americas).
Behaviours
- Listens to and consults with others with genuine curiosity and interest to learn.
- Co-creates with diverse staff across the organisation.
- Demonstrates genuine curiosity and enthusiasm to find win-win solutions when facing challenges and ambiguity.
- Facilitates joint understanding and the development of good practices.
- Inspires trust and support from others.
- Promotes innovation and learning.
- Takes responsibility for achieving significant results.
- Able to build rapport with wide range of groups.
- Demonstrably committed to Plan’s goals and values.
- Committed to child safeguarding.
Desirable
- Capacity in languages appropriate to the region will be an advantage.
- Experience in or supporting project financial management in multiple countries.
- Proficient with Excel with knowledge of Power BI.
- Experience of using or training Microsoft Dynamics D365 would be an advantage.
Plan International’s Values in Practice
We are open and accountable
- Promotes a culture of openness and transparency, including with sponsors and donors.
- Holds self and others accountable to achieve the highest standards of integrity.
- Consistent and fair in the treatment of people.
- Open about mistakes and keen to learn from them.
- Accountable for ensuring we are a safe organisation for all children, girls & young people
We strive for lasting impact
- Articulates a clear purpose for staff and sets high expectations.
- Creates a climate of continuous improvement, open to challenge and new ideas.
- Focuses resources to drive change and maximise long-term impact, responsive to changed priorities or crises.
- Evidence-based and evaluates effectiveness.
We work well together
- Seeks constructive outcomes, listens to others, willing to compromise when appropriate.
- Builds constructive relationships across Plan International to support our shared goals.
- Develops trusting and ‘win-win’ relationships with funders, partners and communities.
- Engages and works well with others outside the organization to build a better world for girls and all children.
We are inclusive and empowering
- We empower our staff to give their best and develop their potential
- We respect all people, appreciate differences and challenge equality in our programs and our workplace
- We support children, girls and young people to increase their confidence and to change their own lives.
Physical Environment
Regional travel, approximately 40-50%.
Level of contact with children
Low contact: No contact or very low frequency of interaction
HOW TO APPLY?
This position is opened for all applicants and females’ candidates are highly encouraged to apply. The successful candidate should be immediately available. To apply, click on the link below and send by September 5th 2022:
Your application should include:
- A comprehensive cover letter
- A comprehensive and clear CV that includes the contact of four (4) of your professional referees, one of whom should be your current employer
Poste 3 : Spécialiste régional de la gestion de projets et de programmes
Lieu: Any WACA COUNTRY, Benin
Entreprise: Plan International
The purpose of this position is to:
- Contribute to the success of Project Management strengthening work including supporting the development of a strong project management culture. This will include developing support material for project managers, providing virtual and on-site support to project managers and supporting project managers to access and successfully participate in Plan’s externally validated project management training.
- Provide inputs to the finalisation and implementation of a new global ERP system (Y.O.D.A.) including the project management module to ensure that Project Managers are able to manage, analyse and report on the progress of projects and results in an effective and consistent way.
- Support Project Managers and Business Development teams to work in the Y.O.D.A. system including the project management module, to ensure Plan’s approach to project management is fully informed, transparent and effective
- Support relevant Country Office teams to develop and manage the relationship between projects and funds, and the management of funds, in the Y.O.D.A. system.
- Support with program data migration and validation to YODA
Dimensions of the Role
This position reports into in the Regional Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist and is matrix managed by the relevant Global Hub Programme Delivery and Resources (PDR) team..
The PDR department is focussed on supporting our Country Offices to design, plan, implement, monitor and close projects according to best project management standards. We aim to support Project Managers to deliver maximum impact on the lives of girls and young people whilst ensuring that the needs of other stakeholders, especially our funders and donors, are efficiently met. The department does this by developing guides and tools to support project managers, by providing virtual, face-to-face and ad hoc training and support and through the provision of a Plan adapted vocational course (Project DPro), which may lead to an external qualification.
The Project Management Specialist will lead specific projects to strengthen Project Management across Country Offices, provide technical inputs to relevant regional initiatives and strengthen project management capabilities The role will focus on the rollout of the Y.O.D.A. ERP system supported itself by the GH PDR team, which will include integration with on-going post deployment Y.O.D.A. support.
Accountabilities
Outlined below are the key responsibilities for this position.
- Support continuous Project Management improvement.
- Provide technical support to Country Offices, and the Regional Hub, including to implement the new online project management disciplines and approaches and to provide high quality guidelines, tools and upskilling as prioritised by Country Offices.
- Enhance project management capacity of different teams across the organisation and an understanding of good project management at senior levels in GH, Regional Hubs and Country offices.
- Support the finalisation and implementation of the new Y.O.D.A. ERP system within Country Offices.
- Support CO preparedness to YODA migration
Provide high quality technical expertise
- Provide technical support to Plan International’s Technical Networks, specifically at Country Office level, including the development and testing of methods and tools for project idea, design and planning.
- Provide ad hoc technical inputs to Regional Hub project management needs e.g. Programme Quality and Transformation.
Drive continuous learning
- Promote and facilitate active project management network across the region
- Develop, promote and embed learning processes and practices across Country Offices.
- Contribute to drafting learning papers that capture lessons from Plan International’s work in order to inform better project management to improve programmes and influencing.
- Input into the development of Plan International case studies, to showcase insights and instances of success and failures in order to ensure ongoing learning and use of evidence.
Provide support to Country Offices and project managers
- Be available to provide ad hoc in-country and virtual support to Country Offices and project managers at all stages of the project (Idea, Design, Planning, Implementation, Closing).
- Be responsive to concerns and requests from other stakeholders including partners, donors and Plan’s National Organisations and provide support and problem solving as required.
Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.
Key relationships
- Country Office Project Managers to provide technical inputs to the implementation of project management.
- Deputy Country Directors for Programmes to ensure that issues at Country Offices with respect to project management are raised and addressed.
- Country Management Teams and Regional Management Teams including Directors of Sub – Regions on progress, capacity and status of project management.
- Global Technical Leads and coordinators to ensure that projects are well planned and integrate best project management practice, informed by appropriate technical experts.
- Country Office Project Managers, Business Development and Finance teams to ensure projects and funds are set up and effectively managed in Y.O.D.A.
- Colleagues at the Global Hub and Regional Hub with responsibilities to or dependent on good project management.
- Colleagues from offices from around the Plan federation with responsibilities to or dependent on good project management, with particular reference to GH Finance and National Organisations.
- Colleagues from Plan’s Learning and Development team in support of the Project DPro course and the development of training materials.
- Other organisations and forums externally, for coordination, collaboration, learning.
Technical expertise, skills and knowledge
Essential
Knowledge
- Expert knowledge of project management in development work, across a wide range of technical areas.
- Strong understanding of rights-based development programming, particularly in relation the major technical areas of Plan’s work.
- Significant experience and a strong understanding of processes, approaches, tools and methodologies that facilitate project management, and organisational learning, that is up to date with best practices in the sector.
- Strong understanding of the realities of NGO project management and limitations that impact project implementation, financial control, monitoring, reporting evaluation and learning.
Skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Able to develop appropriate guidelines, tools and templates for improved project management and implement them at scale.
- Able to develop global guidance that is simple and practical for field colleagues to understand and use.
- Able to analyse large amounts of data and generate powerful reports and information from them.
- Communicating complex technical project management concepts and terminology in simple language to non-experts. Writing in plain English.
- Strong collaboration skills, able to build cooperation and negotiate compromises.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Proven experience of using online technology for communication and learning.
- Fluent in English (plus French for the West Africa region and Spanish for the Region of Americas).
Behaviours
- Listens to and consults with others with genuine curiosity and interest to learn.
- Co-creates with diverse staff across the organisation.
- Demonstrates genuine curiosity and enthusiasm to find win-win solutions when facing challenges and ambiguity.
- Facilitates joint understanding and the development of good practices.
- Inspire trust and support from others.
- Promotes innovation and learning.
- Takes responsibility for achieving significant results.
- Able to build rapport with wide range of groups.
- Demonstrably committed to Plan’s goals and values.
- Committed to child safeguarding.
Desirable
- Capacity in languages appropriate to the region will be an advantage.
- Experience in or supporting project management in multiple countries.
- Proficient with Excel and Power BI.
Plan International’s Values in Practice
We are open and accountable
- Promotes a culture of openness and transparency, including with sponsors and donors.
- Holds self and others accountable to achieve the highest standards of integrity.
- Consistent and fair in the treatment of people.
- Open about mistakes and keen to learn from them.
- Accountable for ensuring we are a safe organisation for all children, girls & young people
We strive for lasting impact
- Articulates a clear purpose for staff and sets high expectations.
- Creates a climate of continuous improvement, open to challenge and new ideas.
- Focuses resources to drive change and maximise long-term impact, responsive to changed priorities or crises.
- Evidence-based and evaluates effectiveness.
We work well together
- Seeks constructive outcomes, listens to others, willing to compromise when appropriate.
- Builds constructive relationships across Plan International to support our shared goals.
- Develops trusting and ‘win-win’ relationships with funders, partners and communities.
- Engages and works well with others outside the organization to build a better world for girls and all children.
We are inclusive and empowering
- We empower our staff to give their best and develop their potential
- We respect all people, appreciate differences and challenge equality in our programs and our workplace
- We support children, girls and young people to increase their confidence and to change their own lives.
Physical Environment
Regional travel, approximately 40-50%.
Level of contact with children
Low contact: No contact or very low frequency of interaction.
HOW TO APPLY?
This position is opened for all applicants and females’ candidates are highly encouraged to apply. The successful candidate should be immediately available. To apply, click on the link below and send by September 6th 2022:
Your application should include:
- A comprehensive cover letter
- A comprehensive and clear CV that includes the contact of four (4) of your professional referees, one of whom should be your current employer.
