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

The purpose of this position is to advise the region, Canada National Office (CNO), and partners on all matters related to the SRHR agenda. The advisor should be aware of the main regional discussions on SRHR, accompany countries and partners in the definition of priorities, strategies, objectives, and key messages of influence in different regional and global spaces. He/she will also support capacity building of countries and partners and may participate in Plan International's global internal spaces.

Furthermore, the advisor will provide direct technical assistance, oversight and capacity transfer to CNO’s SRHR grants portfolio funded in the region by donors such as Global Affairs Canada and Global Fund, as examples.  Additionally, the regional advisor will provide strategic support for Plan International's participation in Civil Society platforms on SRHR issues. The position will involve significant collaboration with Plan International's Regional Office, the Global Hub, national offices and partner organizations to follow up on key human and children's rights commitments and the defense of children's rights, particularly in relation to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).

The regional advisor is expected to provide quality assurance for the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the various projects in the region. The position will also support engagement in influencing activities and scaling-up of Plan’s work in SRHR, through building and securing strategic partnerships, resource mobilization/grants acquisition, knowledge management and organizational learning, evidence-based advocacy and external representation in regional forums.

Key End Results

Responsible for the technical quality of the Regional CNO multi-country SRHR portfolio

• Provide technical support to select SRHR focused projects in the region, including support towards designing the programme implementation plans and annual workplans, technical guidance on programme implementation strategies, donor reporting and maintaining project specific strategic partnerships.

• Ensures technical quality in the implementation, monitoring and timely reporting to various donors (e.g. Global Affairs Canada, Global Fund etc.) and dissemination of project objectives, results, achievements and impact according to approved project log frames, donor reports, knowledge management products, presentations, forums etc.  
• In collaboration with Plan Canada and Regional Office of Americas and the Caribbean (ROA) develop and maintain various cohesive, collaborative project support team structures to provide effective oversight to the projects and strategic decisions.

• Ensures close coordination and collaboration with the CNO, ROA and Country Project support teams, Regional hub technical team and Plan Canada Director. Through periodic virtual or face to face meetings to develop actions plans, technical interventions, strategic influencing actions etc.

• Ensure continuous and effective communication with Plan International Canada and Regional technical advisors with a view of fostering learning and improving practices.
• Identifies and contributes to knowledge management initiatives and products including research, presentations of project findings, conference abstracts and presentations to further internal learning, sharing and cross-learning with other internal teams.
• As a member of several Country Support Teams, the SRHR Regional Advisor manages his/her specific contributions to each project's Country Support Plan in full collaboration with the various Program Managers.

Support regional-level influencing

• Lead and coordinate participation in regional and global influencing processes.
• Coordinate between partners and different Plan International for positioning and key influencing messages.
• Coordinate between partners and different Plan International offices for participation in different regional and global influencing spaces.
• Participate in representing Plan International in different regional and global influencing events.
• Lead relationships with different partners in SRHR (UNFPA, UNICEF, UNWOMEN, local women's movements and women’s rights organizations, indigenous organizations, youth organizations, children's organisations).
• Coordinate with different partners for different regional and global influencing processes.

Contribute to Plan International’s DECIDE global network.

• Actively contribute to the global DECIDE network by amplifying the voices and priorities of the Latin America and Caribbean region within global SRHR dialogues, and by engaging in key global processes to ensure regional perspectives are meaningfully represented and integrated. Where appropriate make links between global processes and interested COs.
• Where appropriate make links between Plan International's global processes and project partners.

Coordinate SRHR regional network and support Countries in SRHR work.

• Coordinate and lead regular meetings of the regional network.
• Promote the participation of countries in the regional network.
• Promote the exchange of knowledge between countries.
• Promote the link between the project partners and the countries.
• Promote the participation of countries in the influencing processes organised by the project.
• Different supports to countries and the regional office to ensure coherence and coordination between actions (taking into account the projects) and respect for global policies and positioning, e.g. the formulation of new projects.

The Individual

Knowledge and experience

• Post graduate degree in development, health, social sciences, development studies or other relevant discipline

• Demonstrated knowledge and minimum 5 years professional experience in the areas of sexual and reproductive health and rights, protection rights, gender equality  inclusion and intersectionality in the Latin American region and some experience at international level preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge and minimum 5 years professional experience in the area of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in gender equality &  inclusion programming, particularly adolescent girls and young women’s rights and disability inclusion in development and humanitarian settings (e.g- MEL frameworks, and gender-transformative monitoring tools.
• Demonstrated experience in influencing actions at the national, regional and global level context.
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of the Latin America and Caribbean context (including youth and feminist movements) and the international/regional human rights systems and mechanisms for civil society engagement and participation in regional policy frameworks related to SRHR, such as Montevideo Consensus, ICPD+25, and the SDGs.
• Demonstrated facilitation & training experience.

Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication and influencing skills; (policy, advocacy, communication, partnerships), relationship and management skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team.
• Facilitation skills to support a multi person team through full proposal development life cycle.
• Proven experience of working remotely with colleagues in different geographical locations, other key actors, and of working with local teams to strengthen their capacity.
• Excellent communication skills (both written and oral), including virtually, across different cultures, across generations and in a matrixed environment.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Excellent command of Spanish spoken and written, strong working knowledge of English.

Location: Paraguay, Peru, El Salvador, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Ecuador,  Brazil, Colombia, Honduras  

Reports to: Regional Head of Gender Programing & Influencing

Fixed Term Contract: 12 months renewable

Closing Date: 6th June, 2025

Click for full profile:  Regional DSDR Advisor JD _May_07_2025.pdf

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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