Country Director - Zimbabwe
Strategic Management Jobs
- Plan International Zimbabwe
- Expires 15 Oct 2021
- Bulawayo
- Full Time
Job Description
Country Director - Zimbabwe
Location: Harare, Zimbabwe
Company: Plan International
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 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.
Duties and Responsibilities
As a Country Director, you will drive Plan International’s programme and influencing work, setting overall direction, leading a high performing team, ensuring accountability for meeting demanding targets and maintaining alignment with the global strategy.
You will be deeply comfortable with leading transformative change, have a demonstrable commitment to gender equality and relish the prospect of representing Plan International to the highest levels of government, civil society, the media and international media.
You will understand and drive efforts to deliver positive change for girls through advocating, campaigning and communicating at a national level. Equally, you will ensure the country-operating model is fit for purpose, we have the right funding mix to achieve our ambition, key business processes are in place and organisational values are embedded in everything we do.
You will lead by example in ensuring gender equality is evident in everything we do from staffing, to programing and influencing, to ways of working. You will work with your team to bring about the right culture that ensures we are champions for girls and gender equality.
You will lead a motivated team, ensure legal compliance, and be ready and able to respond to emergency and development needs of the most marginalised children, especially girls.
Qualifications and Experience
. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND COMPETENCIES
Knowledge and Skills
• Master’s Degree in development studies, social sciences, business administration or related field, preferred or equivalent experience
• Cultural understand and proven significant experience of exercising leadership functions with increasing responsibility in an international environment related to development or with diverse populations, cultures, and social or economic contexts.
• A track record of development and management of effective and motivated teams, including distance management and delivering business planning, financial management, improvement programmes in line with organisational objectives
• Knowledge of programming in challenging environments including complex humanitarian settings with good understanding and appreciation of the geopolitical factors affecting girls and child-poverty in the country, historical, security context, political, social, environment opportunities, economic, social/religious and humanitarian context in Zimbabwe or a comparable environment.
• Knowledge and experience in delivering disaster preparedness, humanitarian response, disaster risk reduction programmes and nexus programming.
• Effective working with and through partners (Government, Local NGO, INGO, private entities, etc.) and proven networking and negotiation skills with governmental and non-governmental actors
• 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 Goals (SDGs).
• Experience and understanding of the concepts of sustainable community development, nexus programming, climate change adaptation and participatory approaches and practices in development interventions.
• Knowledge of the requirements of donor compliance and financial management
• Excellent English and Portuguese written and verbal communication skills.
Strategic Leadership Competencies
• Drive progress in the area of responsibility by setting and communicating an ambitious but realistic strategy, aligned with Plan International's short and longer-term priorities and appropriately resourced.
• Use own behaviour to role model the culture change we need, upholding our values and accelerating progress towards gender equality inside Plan International, with our partners and in wider society.
• Ensure effective delivery by leading through others, working closely with our support functions, keeping abreast of what is going on in the own business unit or function and responding quickly if problems arise.
• Make timely decisions, even in uncertainty and when information is imperfect. Manage opportunities and risks and adjust actions as situations unfold and we learn more.
• Grow the professional and leadership capabilities we will need in future by developing the skills and potential of our workforce and coach teams to act in turn as developers of other people.
• Communicate clearly and persuasively with large and diverse groups of people, giving them the understanding and motivation to succeed and involving all staff in reflection, innovation and improvement.
• Build strategic relationships with key leaders, experts and stakeholders across the Plan International federation and externally, navigating political and power interests and negotiating positive outcomes.
Business and management competencies:
• Organisational understanding - Purpose, priorities, values and approaches
• Business processes, policies, practices and standards
• Managing resources and finance
• Formal people management
• Managing risk
• Managing technology and digital working
• Project management
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