Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership and Organisational Transformation
- Lead the development and delivery of Plan International's global humanitarian strategy and agenda.
- Drive the organisation's evolution as a dual-mandate organisation, integrating humanitarian action, resilience, systems strengthening and policy influence.
- Ensure humanitarian priorities are embedded in organisational strategy, operating models, investments and performance frameworks.
- Champion innovation, learning and thought leadership to strengthen humanitarian impact and effectiveness.
- Strengthen Plan International's visibility, influence and reputation across humanitarian forums, partnerships and policy dialogues.
- Promote evidence-based approaches that advance the rights and wellbeing of children and girls affected by crisis.
Global Humanitarian Capability and Readiness
- Strengthen regional and country-level capability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises.
- Build the humanitarian leadership capacity of Country Office leadership teams.
- Oversee the development of systems and tools that support effective humanitarian programming and performance monitoring.
Programme Effectiveness, Performance and Risk Management
- Oversee humanitarian programme quality, impact and effectiveness, driving continuous improvement and learning.
- Lead global humanitarian risk analysis and forecasting to inform prevention, preparedness and response priorities.
- Ensure strong governance, safeguarding, security, compliance and risk management across humanitarian operations.
- Embed accountability to affected populations and adherence to recognised humanitarian standards.
- Lead the ongoing review and strengthening of emergency procedures and crisis activation protocols.
Strategic Partnerships and Localisation
- Build strategic partnerships and coalitions that strengthen humanitarian impact, resilience and local capacity.
- Increase Plan International's influence through engagement in humanitarian networks and interagency fora.
- Advance locally led humanitarian action and strengthen the role of local and national actors in humanitarian response.
Humanitarian Financing and Growth
- Work with Global Affairs and Finance teams to strengthen humanitarian financing and support response at scale.
- Build and maintain strategic relationships with donors, multilateral agencies, foundations and private-sector partners.
- Advise leadership on investment priorities that strengthen capability, innovation and impact.
- Promote funding approaches that enable locally led and sustainable humanitarian action.
Leadership and People Management
- Lead and develop a high-performing global humanitarian team.
- Foster an inclusive, collaborative and values-driven culture aligned with Plan International's purpose and values.
About You
You are a highly credible humanitarian leader with significant senior leadership experience within complex international humanitarian and development organisations.
You bring:
- A proven track record of leading large-scale humanitarian programmes across multiple countries and regions.
- Experience shaping humanitarian strategy and leading organisational transformation.
- Strong expertise in humanitarian financing, donor engagement and partnership development.
- Experience building organisational capability, preparedness and response systems.
- Exceptional stakeholder management, negotiation and influencing skills.
- Experience representing organisations with donors, governments, UN agencies, multilateral institutions and strategic partners.
- Strong people leadership skills and experience leading diverse, internationally dispersed teams.
- A deep commitment to children's rights, equality for girls and locally led humanitarian action.