Country Director for Plan International Inc.
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| For : | Cambodian Only |
| Categories : | Business Administration, Exec. / Management |
| Schedule : | Full time job |
| Sex : | Male, Female |
| Language : | Khmer, English |
| Location : | Phnom Penh |
| Hiring : | 1 Position |
| Closing Date : | 12th April 2026 |
| Salary : |
Negotiable
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| Experience : | Yes |
| Degree : | Bachelor |
Job Description
“Our policies and procedures always ensure that the welfare of children comes first”
Plan International is a rights-based development and humanitarian organisation working for better lives for all children. We are independent of government and have no political or religious affiliation.
Our purpose is to strive for a just world that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.
We have been building powerful partnerships for children for more than 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.
Our global strategy has a specific focus on girls, as they are often the most marginalised and most often left behind. We have committed ourselves to the ambitious target of reaching 100 million girls over 5 years, to ensure they can learn, lead, decide and thrive. This is our contribution to reaching the sustainable development goals, and in particular the goals on gender equality.
Our organisation is transforming itself to meet this enormous challenge everywhere we work.
We need bold, forward-thinking and innovative individuals to lead our country operations, driving change and delivering results that will allow us to reach our target of 100 million girls. Plan International is seeking an experienced, values-driven and strategic leader to serve as the position below:
Job Responsibilities & Duties
- Plan International’s work in Cambodia will be focused on gender transformation and will be relevant to the needs of the most vulnerable children, particularly girls
- Develop and implement an ambitious Country Strategy, based on a thorough analysis of gender power relations and child rights issues ensuring programme and influencing work and projects are focused on gender transformation and equality for girls. This should include the participation and consultation of key stakeholders for child rights in the country, including children and young people themselves
- Ensure our programme and influence approach is effectively utilised and that we are achieving impact at scale by linking grassroots action to national level influencing
- Ensure effective and swift emergency preparedness analysis, risk reduction and resilience building is part of all our programme and influencing work in country.
- Work with and lead the country management team to ensure Plan International is ready to respond to emergencies–predictable and sudden onset–in a timely and professional manner and show consideration for gender equality.
- The location of programme work is regularly reviewed to ensure alignment of sponsorship and grant funding, that existing sponsorship communities receive regular benefits as per the Sponsorship Commitments and that phase in and out of communities are managed appropriately.
- Country leadership and staff are well aware of the country security situation and protocols, and Standard Operating Procedures are developed and implemented giving due consideration to security and safety of staff and visitors.
- Plan International’s work will be delivered by a motivated and efficient team, skilled in their area of expertise and compliant with the expectation Plan International has of all staff
- The Country Office meets performance against organisations management standards at all times.
- Develop and manage a high performing team that delivers excellent technical work, using child-centred, participatory and gender-sensitive approaches in line with Global and Country Strategies
- Manage individuals across the team to ensure full development of potential through induction, mentoring/ coaching, and performance management, ensuring compliance in all core policy and business areas, including Gender and Child protection
- Ensure staff numbers and structures will be designed and kept at a level that is efficient and cost effective, in line with the available country budget
- Manage work environments to reduce risk from health and safety and security hazards
- Generate solutions for identifying and supporting high performing staff to deliver country objectives.
- Ensure that Plan’s portfolio of work is registered with the relevant authorities and compliant with local law, including having the relevant MoUs with concerned ministries that give due recognition to Plan International and its work.
- Plan International’s work will be guided by accurate and timely work plans and budgets that can be used to create impact and efficiency
- Deliver accurate and timely Annual Plans and Budgets
- Develop work plans from Country Strategy documents, ensuring the context and environment at any point in time is considered
- Create realistic phased budgets for all programme and influence work and projects
- Ensure efficient and fully compliant financial management in the allocation/budgeting, disbursement and accounting for all resources
- Ensure proper use of systems in country as well as data quality to enable reporting and analysis
- Deliver grant and sponsorship work on time with clear measurable impact on children and in full compliance with donor requirements and Plan International’s policies and procedures ensuring that effective monitoring and evaluation systems are in place to measure outcomes and stimulate learning within and beyond the organization.
- Plan International’s work will be well funded ensuring sustainability as required
- Develop and Implement an effective Resource Mobilisation strategy that enables Plan International to maximise its value in country, meet its strategic ambition and has the greatest impact for children.
- Represent Plan International to donor agencies locally and track potentialfunding sources to ensure timely knowledge of funding opportunities in a coordinated manner
- Explore local funding opportunities and support proposal development in partnership with Plan International’s National Organisations and in line with the agreed strategy.
- Ensure sound proposal development and budgeting, maximising opportunities to cost recover
- Plan International’s work will aim at influencing key decisions of local, national and international institutions to advance the rights of children, particularly girls
- Develop, implement and maintain strategies, capabilities and structures to maximize the impact of Plan International’s influencing work on key decisions with respect to gender equality and girl’s rights.
- Lead representation of Plan International’s work and positions on priority issues to all key stakeholders within the country, including media and the highest levels of government.
- Initiate and engage in extensive collaboration with local and central authorities, INGOs, national NGOs and local communities.
- Ensure timely and engaging external communications that keeps Plan International at the forefront of the issues affecting children and equality for girls.
Job Requirements
Languages:
- English - Fluent
- Bachelor's Degree in development, social science, business administration or related field
- Proven experience of exercising leadership functions with increasing responsibilityin an international environment related to development.
- 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 and participatory approaches and practice in development interventions.
- Knowledge of the requirements of donor compliance and financial management
- Knowledge of programming in challenging environments with good understanding and appreciation of the historical, security context, political environment, economic, social/religious and humanitarian context in Cambodia or a comparable environment.
- Proven skills in the development and management of effective and motivated teams, including distance management.
- Experience in leading organisational change and development
- Excellent English written and verbal communication skills.
- Proven networking and negotiation skills with governmental and non-governmental actors
- Strong diplomatic and communication skills, including through mass-media in order to influence decision-makers and key stakeholders.
- Knowledge of the geopolitical factors affecting child-poverty in the country and the political, social and environmental opportunities for change is an advantage
- Working knowledge of Khmer would be an asset.
How to Apply?
For the Interested candidates, please go this link to apply Country Director - Cambodia Job Details | Plan International. Only applications that meet the qualifications will be considered.
Cambodian Candidates are encouraged to apply and are preferred for this role.
Early applications are encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert early.
“As an international child-centred development organization, we do not tolerate child abuse”
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| Organization : | Plan International Inc. |
| Address : | #GIA Tower, 13rd floor, Room G1309-1312, Street Sopheak Mongkul, Phum 14, Sangkat Tonle Basak, Khan Chamkar Mon, Phnom Penh, Cambodia |
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