Business Development Manager

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

Plan Chad is one of the fifteen Plan International’s countries of operational presence in West and Central Africa. The organisation has been registered in Chad since October 2021 and started operations in the country in July 2023 within the backdrop of the Sudanese Refugee Crisis in the East. Since then Plan Chad has led projects in different sectors, including on Education in Emergencies, Child Protection in Emergencies, Nutrition, Cash Programming, WASH and Sexual & Reproductive Health and has become one of the prominent child’s rights organisations in the country.

Plan International Chad is scaling up its programmatic and influencing footprint in the country to respond to gender and inclusive lifesaving immediate needs and addressing vulnerabilities and protenction risks faced by children and their families in the country, particularly those affected by the Sudanese crisis in Eastern Chad.

The Business Development Manager (BDM) will support emergency response activities to develop a funding strategy in line with the Emergency Response Plan as Plan International Chad scales up their response to Sudanese refugees and those entering Chad in the East to escape conflict.

The Business Development Manager will work in close collaboration with the BDM in Sudan to secure funding to support the cross-border response to the crisis.

The role coordinates all proposal development. The BDM will write proposals that speak to the overall strengths and capabilities of the country response while coordinating and incorporating the inputs from technical advisors, programme units, MEAL, finance, People & Culture, Supply Chain Management, partnerships, and security.

The BDM is expected to stay closely informed and updated on current donor strategies and interests in the humanitarian space. They will liaise closely with the Global Humanitarian Team and Programme Delivery and Resources (PDR) department, and with the different National Organisations (NOs), in-country donor representatives and other stakeholders (NGO partners) to identify funding opportunities.

The role maintains and develops relations with in-country donors and Plan International National Organisations.

Please follow this link for a full role profile; BDM Chad.docx

Location: Based in the country office located in N’Djamena with extensive local and some international travel. May be required to travel frequently to remote areas. This role is open to applicants outside of Chad and therefore support with relocation is available if required. 

Type of Role: One year fixed term contract with the possibility of extension

Reports to: Sahel Director of Sub Region

Closing Date: Monday 11th October 

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International's Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

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