Honduras Country Representative

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 this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected. Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.

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. We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 85 years, and are now active in more than 80 countries.

The Opportunity 

 As a Country Representative, you will be Plan’s legal representative in the country and drive gender transformative programmes and influencing work at the country level, reflecting Plan International’s dual mandate, focusing on the needs of the most vulnerable children, particularly girls.

As a member of the Cluster Management Team, you will be accountable for the delivery of the country strategy and have direct leadership of country programmatic resources. You will work collaboratively with the Cluster Management Team who have leadership over operational support resources.

You will lead a high performing country team, ensuring accountability for meeting targets and maintaining alignment with the Global Strategy. You will ensure that your team is ready and able to respond to emergency and development needs of the most marginalised children and young people, especially girls.

You will be actively engaged in representing the organisation to the national and international donors, and National Organisations.

You will be the organisation's representative within the country, and its main spokesperson to the media and government, and responsible of the Plan's positioning and official communication within the country.

You will understand and drive efforts to deliver positive change for girls through advocating, campaigning and communicating at a national level.

Plan’s Global Strategy emphasizes the need for greater localization, and as Country Representative you will support this through the strengthening of local actors and community engagement in all programmes.

The Individual

• Proven leadership experience  in development and humanitarian programming.
• Proven understanding of “child rights” and “gender in development” concepts and the promotion of girls’ rights in the context of relevant International Conventions (Convention of the Rights of the Child, Convention for the Eradication of Discrimination against Women) and the Global Development Goals (SDGs).
• Knowledge of International Humanitarian Law, Humanitarian Coordination and Humanitarian Donors as well as understanding main stakeholders
• Experience and understanding of the concepts of sustainable community development and participatory approaches and practice in development interventions.
• Knowledge of programming in challenging environments with good understanding and appreciation of the historical and security contexts, political environment, economic, social/religious and humanitarian context in the assigned countryor a comparable environment.
• Experience and understanding of key concept around business development plans and resource mobilization.
• Proven skills in the development and management of effective and motivated teams, including remote team management.
• Fluent Spanish and good English written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven networking and negotiation skills with governmental, donor and non-governmental actors
• Strong diplomatic and communication skills, including through mass-media in order to influence decision-makers and key stakeholders.

• Demonstrable knowledge as a result of study, training or practical experience on the key debates in the humanitarian industry, especially related to working in conflicts and protracted crises, and emergency response methods and effectiveness.
• Knowledge of the requirements of donor compliance and financial management.
• Knowledge of programming in complex and constantly changing environments. 

Please follow this link for a full role profile: JD - Cluster Country Representative.pdf

Location: Honduras

Reports to: Cluster Director

Closing Date: June, 26th, 2024

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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