Head of Gender & Inclusion at Plan International

The Opportunity

Plan International has put gender equality and inclusion at the heart of our organizational purpose. We believe that adopting a gender transformative approach ensures that our work results in positive changes and sustainable outcomes for girls and young women, and for society more broadly.

Our commitment to gender transformative change goes beyond addressing “symptoms” to explicitly tackle the root causes of gender inequality and exclusion, particularly unequal power relations, discriminatory social norms and systems, structures, policies and practices.

The Head of Gender Equality and Inclusion provides global strategic leadership to Plan International’s work on gender equality, inclusion and girls’ rights across all areas of our workplaces and programming. The position ensures that Plan International’s programme and influencing work around the world effectively integrates gender equality and inclusion as a core part of our strategy.  Likewise, the post also ensures that gender equality, inclusion, and girls’ rights are effectively integrated across Plan International’s internal organisational structure and culture.

Key Deliverables

• Leading Plan International’s global community of practice on gender equality, intersectionality, and feminist leadership to provide bold, innovative and inspirational thought leadership on gender equality, intersectionality, girls’ rights and feminist principles, while influencing internal policies, processes, structures, and people to embrace Plan International’s gender transformative agenda. 
• Building Plan International’s global reputation as a thought and practice leader on gender equality, inclusion, and girls’ rights in different contexts and under a changing global environment due to COVID-19 you will role model and embrace feminist approaches to leadership and organisational culture.
• Working closely with Plan International offices and departments to provide global strategic and passionate leadership for integrating the cross-cutting work of gender equality and inclusion across all of Plan International’s programmatic and influencing work, and across our offices and staff. 
• Contributing to global leadership on Plan International’s wider priorities, processes & systems to support high quality work, and to ensure a meaningful and relevant focus on gender equality and inclusion you will ensure gender equality and inclusion are recognised by Plan International staff as mutually re-enforcing and interconnected across core areas of Plan International’s work.
• Working with Plan International’s programme leadership and global technical advisors’ team, to provide global leadership on the integration of gender equality and inclusion across Plan International ’s programme and influencing work you will also work with Plan International’s executive team and HROD department to provide leadership on mainstreaming gender equality and inclusion across Plan International’s internal organisational processes and workplaces.
• Collaborating with Programme Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (PMERL) Girls and Youth Power and Action (GYPA) and Strategy & Collaboration teams, and others to drive development of evidence-based, innovative, scalable and gender-transformative programme models and flagship programmes in the context of COVD-19.
• Leading a small, high performing team of global technical staff, located in different parts of the world, and coordinating closely with the regional gender and inclusion specialists and core members of the Global Gender and Inclusion Group (GIG) is a key part of this role. You will also contribute to the overall leadership of the Gender Transformative Policy and Practice team, driving delivery of the value proposition and continuous improvements in people management and ways of working.