Plan International recrute un responsable de la stratégie – Woking, UKM, GB
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 :
The Head of Strategy will provide oversight of strategy development, including the five-year strategy, portfolio management and alignment across the organisation, ensuring a strong understanding of the external environment to inform strategic choices.
Specifically, the post-holder will lead global strategy development and alignment for Plan International and lead the strategy development hub working with targeted country offices, providing expertise, tools, insight and partnering to develop country strategies. Engaging with networks and undertaking ongoing horizon scanning, you will look to improve strategy practice and ensure we are preparing for and adjusting to opportunities and threats.
In this role you will also be responsible for Global Country Portfolio and Merger & Acquisition (M&A) opportunities. This will involve maintaining a global dataset to enable effective decision-making; developing evidence-based recommendations and facilitating discussions at leadership and Board level for decision-making about the country portfolio and working with other functions to benchmark country office performance internally. You will also oversee maintenance and development of prototype country operating models through which Plan International operates across its country portfolio
The Individual :
Are you looking for an opportunity to use the skills you have gained in strategy consulting to make a difference and help us realise our ambition to transform the lives of 100 million girls?
We are seeking to appoint an ambitious and driven individual with significant experience of developing global strategies and strategic decision making, potentially gained from a strategy consultancy or strategy function of a leading management consultancy organisation.
To be successful in this role you will require well-developed skills in strategic and financial analysis and evaluation, portfolio management, project management and business/ process improvement.
In this role your ability to build trust and understanding amongst stakeholders will also be imperative; producing executive-level written and verbal presentations, facilitating, influencing and negotiating with senior executives and building relationships and understanding across a variety of cultures and contexts.
You will also require a high degree of problem solving skills and the ability to identify creative solutions ways of working.
Experience of working for an INGO is desirable but not essential.
As a global organisation, working across multiple countries around the world, diversity is at the heart of our values of working well together and being inclusive and empowering.
We are fully focused on equality and strongly encourage female leaders to join our team
We also welcome applications from all nationalities and backgrounds and for the right candidate would be happy to apply for sponsorship to appoint to this position.
For a detailed job description, please see : More details here
Location : Global Hub, Woking (25 minute train from London Waterloo)
Type of Rol e: Permanent
Reports to : Executive Director of Strategy and Business Insights
Salary : Competitive
Closing date : 28th July 2019
Please note that only applications and CVs written in English will be accepted.
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.
Plan International operates an equal opportunities policy and actively encourages diversity, welcoming applications from all areas of the international community.