Regional Director - The Americas Hub

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 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

 

We are embarking on an ambitious and exciting change process, to make the organisation more relevant, bold, engaging, and effective in a dynamic and fast-changing global context in line with Plan International’s global strategy ¨All Girls Standing Strong Creating Global Change (FY23-FY27)¨.

 

For the next three years, Plan International is embarking on a number of large-scale change initiatives. These include the deployment of an organisational-wide ERP suite of systems, and the strengthening of core business processes linked with project management, supply chain, finance and monitoring & evaluation (known internally as Your Organisations Data and Analytics Y.O.D.A.) Alongside these, we also have an ambitious financial sustainability programme that is being designed and piloted and will be rolled out across all regions in the coming years. Both of these will also impact our operating model, which will be designed and implemented beside these large-scale programmes.

 

These all aim to improve delivery effectiveness and reduce cost and risk in order to realise non-financial benefits and financial returns to the organisation.

 

This role will lead, manage and be accountable for Plan International’s strategies, programmes, operations and transformation in the ROA region. This currently includes 12 countries, and a regional hub, with a total annual budget for the region of €93,5m.

 

The 12 countries are organised by clusters to ensure balance in complexity and distribution of work to facilitate effective management oversight and support.

 

South America Central America and The Caribbean Field Country National Offices

• Peru
• Paraguay
• Ecuador
• Bolivia

• Honduras
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Nicaragua
• Dominican Republic
• Haiti

• Colombia
• Brazil

 

 

The Global Hub in the ROA Region oversees the realisation of Plan International’s country facing programming and influencing activities in the Region and holds business units to account for achieving maximum and timely impact in accordance with our purpose, values and behaviours, global policies, and as directed by the Members Assembly and International Board.

 

Dimensions of the Role

The role oversees a regional hub management team consisting of Directors of Sub-Regions who hold the line management for the Country Directors, Regional Finance & Operations, People & Culture, Safety & Security, Programme & Influencing, Humanitarian, Business Development and other related functions.

 

The Regional Director has overall accountability for regional performance and is the CEO representative for influencing, strategic engagement, fundraising and external representation within the region. The Regional Director sits on the Plan International Inc Leadership Team, the Plan International Global Team and periodically joins International Board and Committee meetings. The Regional Director is a member of the National Board of Plan Brazil.

 

The Regional Director will also lead and be accountable for the transformation and change needed in the region for the following large change programmes:

• strengthened programme delivery, through Y.O.D.A. and associated business strengthening.
• improved cost efficiency, through strengthened procurement, cost recovery and targeted operating model changes identified through FSP1 and Project Leap in GH, RH, COs and NOs and
• fit for the future operating model, reflecting the strategy roadmap, with Y.O.D.A. and FSP as key drivers.

 

Responsible for the successful development and delivery of Plan International’s strategy, programmes, and operations in the ROA region in line with Plan International’s gl