Overview
Provide strategic, organisational and external leadership for Plan International’s work in Venezuela, leading the establishment of the operating model, governance arrangements, organisational capabilities and partnerships.
Key Responsibilities
- Guide the transition from emergency scale-up toward a sustainable, compliant and locally anchored country presence.
- Lead a partner-led humanitarian response in which Plan’s role centres on technical and operational accompaniment, quality assurance, partner capacity strengthening, safeguarding, compliance, humanitarian coordination, resource mobilisation, MEAL/AAP and donor-grade reporting.
- Act as senior organisational representative for Venezuela, responsible for institutional positioning, credibility and relationships with authorities, UN agencies, donors, diplomatic actors, civil society, partners and peer organisations.
- Hold executive accountability for the Venezuela country strategy and humanitarian response, including a phased multi-sector portfolio delivered primarily through local and national partners.
- Lead an evolving country structure spanning programmes, humanitarian response, operations, finance, people and culture, security, safeguarding, MEAL, business development, communications and partnerships.
- Be accountable for organisational risk, legal and regulatory compliance, partner assurance, financial stewardship, safeguarding and staff/consultant duty of care.
Required Experience
- Previous Country Director, Head of Mission, Response Director or equivalent experience.
- Substantial senior leadership experience in an international humanitarian, development or rights-based organisation, including accountability for a country programme, major response, complex portfolio or comparable business unit.
- Demonstrated success leading humanitarian response and recovery programming in fragile, politically sensitive or access-constrained contexts.
- Strong understanding of child-centred humanitarian programming, protection, gender equality and inclusion, safeguarding, accountability to affected populations and localisation.
- Experience establishing or transforming country operations, organisational systems, legal/registration arrangements or complex remote/hybrid operating models.
- Strong financial and business management capability, including portfolio budgeting, forecasting, grants management, donor compliance, risk management, and cost recovery.
- Proven resource-mobilisation and external representation experience with institutional donors, UN agencies, diplomatic actors, government counterparts, civil society and peer organisations.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and develop diverse, multidisciplinary and geographically distributed teams in high-pressure environments.
