Chief Impact Officer

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Plan International is an independent child rights and humanitarian organisation committed to children living a life free of poverty, violence and injustice. We actively unite children, communities and other people who share our mission to make positive lasting changes in children’s and young people’s lives. We support children to gain the skills, knowledge and confidence they need to claim their rights to a fulfilling life, today and in the future. We place a specific focus on girls and women, who are most often left behind. We have been building powerful partnerships for children for more than 75 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.

JOB SUMMARY

Expertise, Knowledge, and SkillsSenior leadership experience at an enterprise level in international development and/or humanitarian response.Proven ability to drive strategic alignment, performance management, and evidence-based impact.Proven ability to lead global impact strategies across humanitarian and development ensuring coherence from global to local levels.Strong understanding of risk-informed, context-aware programming and agile humanitarian preparedness and response.Experience in impact measurement, MERL systems, and using evidence to inform advocacy, learning, and decision-making.Skilled in external representation, global advocacy, and building strategic partnerships with multilateral institutions, donors, and INGOs.Track record in driving culture change, embedding feminist leadership principles, and developing diverse global talent pipelines.Ability to anticipate sector trends, mobilize knowledge networks, and scale successful local innovations globally

RESPONSIBILITIES

Ensure strategic coherence and accountability across global, regional, and country-level delivery and impact, and strengthening capabilities of country offices to be future fit, through co-management of the Regional Directors and in collaboration with the CEOLead global portfolio to deliver measurable, credible, and transformative impact across humanitarian, development, and sponsorship portfolios.Drive agile and effective humanitarian preparedness response at the regional and global level, simplifying systems to reduce operational complexity and ensuring risk-informed, context-aware programming.Oversee global performance and impact reporting, ensuring evidence informs advocacy, learning, communications, and decision-making.Ensure that Plan’s is grounded in evidence, responsive to global shifts, and strategically connected to advocacy, influencing, communications, and partnerships.Anticipate sector shifts and mobilise internal and external knowledge networks to drive innovation, learning, grow humanitarian portfolio and enable organisational agility in a rapidly changing context.Connects thematic programmes and monitoring and evaluation expertise across Plan Worldwide to ensure Country Offices benefit from practical, evidence-based guidance that drives real-world impact.Strengthen global positioning and influence through evidence-based external engagement and strategic partnerships.Enabling Plan’s work on influencing, advocacy, communications, and brand strategy through, ensuring alignment with programme evidence and strategic priorities.Represent Plan International externally in multilateral fora, global coalitions, and strategic partnerships to amplify the organisation’s voice, influence and impact.Take a strong people and culture focus towards wider strategic resourcing and talent pipelines i.e. attract high calibre, develop, progress and retain a diversified and global workforce – promoting equity diversity and inclusion; focus on identification of high performers and talent and developing clear succession plans for key roles at the global, regional and country levels and ensuring that staff at all levels feel empowered and supported to deliver at their best, and feel pride in the work that they deliverLead in driving positive and high-performance culture change across the organisation, consciously embracing and personifying the values-based leadership framework under pinned by feminist principles, holding self and others accountable for behaviours, drawing on strengths and reflecting on areas of self-development. Be intentionally aware of the impact and power, purposeful and visible about changing the organisational culture and our internal power dynamics and empower teams to live and participate in the culture as a group.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

REQUIRED SKILLS

Car driving, Partnerships, Business development, Marketing

REQUIRED EDUCATION

Diploma, Associate's degree