Job Description
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 Opportunity
As a Country Director, you will drive Plan International’s programme and influencing work, setting overall direction, leading a high performing team, ensuring accountability for meeting demanding targets and maintaining alignment with the global strategy.
You will be deeply comfortable with leading transformative change, have a demonstrable commitment to gender equality and relish the prospect of representing Plan International to the highest levels of government, civil society, the media and international media.
You will understand and drive efforts to deliver positive change for girls through advocating, campaigning and communicating at a national level. Equally you will ensure the country operating model is fit for purpose, we have the right funding mix to achieve our ambition, key business processes are in place and organisational values are embedded in everything we do.
You will lead by example in ensuring gender equality is evident in everything we do from staffing, to programing and influencing, to ways of working. You will work with your team to bring about the right culture that ensures we are champions for girls and gender equality.
You will lead a motivated team, ensure legal compliance, and be ready and able to respond to emergency and development needs of the most marginalised children, especially girls.
Plan International has been working in Rwanda since 2007, helping vulnerable children, young people, and their families to break the cycle of poverty. Plan Rwanda’s country office is located within Kigali and Program Units (PUs) in Bugesera and Gatsibo in Eastern Province and Nyaruguru in Southern Province. Plan is involved in humanitarian programming in the Congolese and Burundian refugee camps in Rwanda. Plan International Rwanda has embraced a partnership model and works with partners at both local and national levels. The organisation’s work is guided by a Country Strategy and is built on four country programmes: (i) Early Childhood Development, (ii) Child Protection, (iii) Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights; and (iv) Disaster Risk Management and Resilience.
Currently the country office implements a viable portfolio of approximately Euro 6 Million per annum. This includes grants from both bilateral and multilateral donors.
We currently employ approximately 126 staff led by a Country Director and the Country Leadership Team.
Plan International Rwanda is a key member of the 18+ Centre of Excellence on ending child marriage and teenage pregnancy for the region of East and Southern Africa. It is also a member of the DRM Centre of Excellence on girls in crisis.
As part of the broader organisational effort to transform itself to achieve greater impact, Plan International Rwanda will be embarking on the development of a new strategy.
The organisation is committed to meeting safeguarding expectations across all its operations and will expect the Country Director to ensure all incidents regarding child abuse and sexual harassment are reported and effectively managed.
