Plan International
(Vietnamese Candidates encouraged to apply) **
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.
The Opportunity
This is an exciting time for Plan International as we implement our global strategy for 2021-2024. Our global strategy defines who we are, why we exist, the change we want to see in the world and how we will contribute to making change happen. It underpins everything we do, guiding all our work in all parts of the federation.
To achieve greater change in children’s lives we are dramatically transforming how we operate, and we need bold, forward-thinking and innovative individuals to steer our country operations, driving change and delivering results that will allow us to transform the lives of 100 million girls globally.
Plan International began operating in Vietnam in 1954 and after a temporary withdrawal returned in 1993 with the mission to advance children’s rights and equality for girls. We recognize the important progress made in social and economic development in Vietnam over recent years, in a country experiencing rapid change. Significant challenges remain for remote, ethnic minority communities and especially for young women and girls further acerbated by the covid19 pandemic. We work in the most remote and hard to reach districts of the country, with local government and other partners.
The Country Strategy of Plan International Vietnam has three main program and influencing objectives that are focused on the rights of adolescent girls. These programs are:
1) Gender-responsive parenting (Early Childhood Development -ECD)
2) Gender-based violence prevention
3) Girls build life and vocational skills (Skill Opportunity Youth Economic Empowerment – SOYEE)
Plan International Vietnam’s country office is in Hanoi, and it’s programming portfolio extends to six provinces (Ha Giang, Lai Chau, Kontum, Quang Tri, Quang Binh) throughout Vietnam, working together with national, provincial, district and local level government partners, civil society organizations and development partners. At present the country office has an annual budget of approximately 9 million Euro, with a good balance of grants from bilateral, multilateral donors, corporate donors and individual and philanthropic donors. Whilst the majority of the programming has been development focused, Plan International Vietnam has also been heavily involved in responding to local district level disasters, and the recent large scale humanitarian response to the severe flooding in Central Vietnam in October 2020.
The Country Director is accountable for the management and leadership of a team of approximately 130 staff with a Country Management Team of 6 members.
Do you have what it takes?
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**
For a detailed job description, please click on this link
Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
Type of Role: 5 Year Fixed Term Contract
Reports to: Director of South East Asia and the Pacific
Closing Date: 29 April 2022
How to apply
Please apply at the following link: https://jobs.plan-international.org/job-invite/43087/
If selected candidate is currently a citizen and/or a resident of Vietnam, a competitive salary and benefit package based on local terms and conditions is available
Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert early.
A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International’s Safeguarding Children and Young People policy.
As an international child centred community development organisation, Plan International is fully committed to promoting the realisation of children’s rights including their right to protection from violence and abuse. That means we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with.
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. We must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.
Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for. Our organisation 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 will provide equality of opportunity and will not tolerate discrimination on any grounds. We foster an organisational culture that embraces and exemplifies our commitment to gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion while supporting staff to adopt good practice, positive attitudes and principles of gender equality and inclusion.