Overview
Provide overall leadership for Plan International’s humanitarian, development and advocacy portfolio in Chad, ensuring impactful programmes that advance children’s rights and gender equality. The role involves setting strategic direction, leading a team, strengthening partnerships, and securing funding.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide overall leadership for Plan International’s humanitarian, development and advocacy portfolio in Chad.
- Ensure the organisation delivers high-quality, impactful and accountable programmes that advance children’s rights and gender equality.
- Set strategic direction.
- Lead and develop a high-performing team.
- Strengthen partnerships.
- Secure sustainable funding to support ambitious programme growth.
- Drive Plan International’s positioning as a leading voice for children and girls in Chad.
- Ensure programmes remain relevant, evidence-based and responsive to emerging humanitarian and development needs.
- Oversee all aspects of country operations, including programme quality, financial stewardship, risk management, safety and security, safeguarding, people leadership and organisational effectiveness.
- Foster an inclusive, high-performing culture that prioritises staff wellbeing, accountability and continuous learning.
- Ensure robust emergency preparedness and the safe delivery of programmes in a complex operating environment.
- Contribute to regional strategy, collaboration and learning as a member of the West and Central Africa Regional Leadership Team.
Required Experience
Proven senior leader with significant experience managing humanitarian and development programmes in fragile or conflict-affected contexts, preferably within West and Central Africa or the wider Sahel region. Strong track record in donor engagement, business development, partnership management and organisational growth. Demonstrated expertise in security and risk management, localisation and working through partners.
