Global Project Lead, Local and New Markets

Job Description

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 75 countries.

The Opportunity

The purpose of this role is to provide overall leadership and coordination to the process of operationalizing the strategic priorities that Plan International has defined in its Global Strategy, Global Fundraising Strategy and corresponding Growth Plans, related to fundraising in emerging markets and new markets.  The role is not directly responsible for the operations themselves but supports other Plan International entities to book progress on their fundraising path.  The role is in charge of implementing clear opportunity analysis, supporting the roll out of investment programs and facilitating decision making processes on eventual new market entries and emerging market growth, also called local fundraising.

The role provides guidance, and capacity building for local fundraising and new market entries.  This will always be done in very close coordination with relevant stakeholders like Country Offices, Regional Hubs and National Offices.

Key responsibilities;

• Support the design of resource mobilisation strategies at regional and local level and provide guidance to regional hubs on their role in relation to resource mobilization.
• Engage colleagues from regional hubs and country offices in understanding result driven fundraising (based upon investment plans with future return on investment) with a special focus on growing recurrent individual giving income, and local grants income.
• Roll-out and update fundraising categorization assessment to set priority levels for Country Offices related to local fundraising and the corresponding investment requirements.
• Support country offices in defining quality business plans in relation to the available investment solutions.
• Lead on the design of eventual new market entry business cases and drive forward the relevant decision making within the global organisation.
• Lead on the roll-out of the Locally Raised Income policy and its procedures and veil for their compliance, in close collaboration with relevant stakeholders like regional hubs, etc.
• Help identify investment solutions for local fundraising and establish access to them.
• Integrate local fundraising performance monitoring & evaluation into “standard” monitoring cycle of Plan International, including the global fundraising dashboard, quarterly reporting cycles and management standards.

The Requirements

• Significant proven fundraising experience in emerging markets
• Interpersonal skills and the ability to inspire confidence and trust in senior management and cooperation among staff colleagues
• Demonstrated tact, integrity and diplomacy with a professional presence and manner; capable of exercising independent judgment and flexibility
• Strong business acumen, capable of developing sound business cases and building scenarios;
• Excellent organisational, research and project management skills with a high level of attention to detail and accuracy
• Communication skills – written, oral and presentation including well developed networking ability
• Demonstrated resourcefulness and independence, but comfortable working within the framework of an integrated development program and team-oriented environment
• Fluency in English.  Fluency in Spanish or Portuguese a preference

Please follow this link for a full role profile; Global Project Lead Local & New Market Fundraising.docx

Location: The location of this role can be flexible where Plan International has an office* that can employ on behalf of the Global Hub and you have the pre-existing right to work and live. 

Type of Role: Permanent or maximum fixed term contract

Salary: We will be happy to disclose the salary and applicable benefits to applicants as part of this process, however, please kindly note that the salary and employment benefits will be set according to your location and therefore it is not possible to include full details here. 

Reports to: Head of Global Fundraising Hub

Closing Date: Monday 12th December

*Applicable locations include: Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, China, Colombia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Finland, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Korea, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

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.

Please note that Plan International will never send unsolicited emails requesting payment from candidates.