Director of Sub Region Mano River

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

Director of Sub Region (Mano River Cluster)(50419)

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Plan International WACA

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Director of Sub Region (Mano River Cluster)

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The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

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The Opportunity

In West and Central Africa, Plan International is present in 15 countries, including 12 in West Africa, namely Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea-Conakry, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Togo, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and 3 in Central Africa: Cameroon, Chad and the Central African Republic (CAR).

Plan International’s approach in the region aims to multiply impact for children and youth, in particular girls, by leading, enabling and connecting key players with innovation. As such, WACAH is a reliable partner for girls’ rights issues at regional level and a facilitator of joint engagement with regional and sub-regional institutions and networks.

Plan International engages and partners with regional and sub-regional networks, bodies and movements to advance children’s rights and equality for girls using evidence from our own interventions and partners best practises. We empower youth and young women-led organisations through regional level networking, capacity building and support to children and youth/girls-led initiatives to promote gender equality in West and Central Africa.

The WACA Regional Hub promotes an enabling environment and supports our countries’ team to ensure excellence in our gender transformative programming and influencing.

Role Purpose

The Director of Sub-Region will be accountable towards coherent and consistent implementation of Plan International’s purpose and ambition across the sub-region, in line with Plan’s values-based leadership underpinned by feminist principles. They will ensure quality aligned strategies are developed and resourced for all countries in the region and programmes delivered with the expected impact. As a member of the Regional Hub Management team and of the Regional Leadership team they will have specific accountabilities to drive elements of the regional hub plan depending on areas of interest, expertise and potential and to contribute to the overall learning and strategic direction of Plan International’s West and Central Africa Region (WACA) in 15 countries in the region of approximately €240 mil (in 2023) through an organisation of over 10,000 people globally of which more than 2300 are based in WACA.

Please follow this link for a full role profile and person specification: DSR Role Profile Mano River.docx

The Opportunity

In West and Central Africa, Plan International is present in 15 countries, including 12 in West Africa, namely Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea-Conakry, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Togo, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and 3 in Central Africa: Cameroon, Chad and the Central African Republic (CAR).

Plan International’s approach in the region aims to multiply impact for children and youth, in particular girls, by leading, enabling and connecting key players with innovation. As such, WACAH is a reliable partner for girls’ rights issues at regional level and a facilitator of joint engagement with regional and sub-regional institutions and networks.

Plan International engages and partners with regional and sub-regional networks, bodies and movements to advance children’s rights and equality for girls using evidence from our own interventions and partners best practises. We empower youth and young women-led organisations through regional level networking, capacity building and support to children and youth/girls-led initiatives to promote gender equality in West and Central Africa.

The WACA Regional Hub promotes an enabling environment and supports our countries’ team to ensure excellence in our gender transformative programming and influencing.

Role Purpose

The Director of Sub-Region will be accountable towards coherent and consistent implementation of Plan International’s purpose and ambition across the sub-region, in line with Plan’s values-based leadership underpinned by feminist principles. They will ensure quality aligned strategies are developed and resourced for all countries in the region and programmes delivered with the expected impact. As a member of the Regional Hub Management team and of the Regional Leadership team they will have specific accountabilities to drive elements of the regional hub plan depending on areas of interest, expertise and potential and to contribute to the overall learning and strategic direction of Plan International’s West and Central Africa Region (WACA) in 15 countries in the region of approximately €240 mil (in 2023) through an organisation of over 10,000 people globally of which more than 2300 are based in WACA.