Chief Operating Officer (COO)

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian non-profit organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood, and enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We believe in the power and potential of every child, but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination.

Reports to: Chief Executive Officer

The Opportunity

• The Chief Operating Officer (COO) ensures Plan International is resilient, well governed, and future ready.
• As a strategic enterprise leader, the COO shapes the Leadership Team agenda and sets the organisation’s enterprise approach to how Plan International operates, governs itself, and evolves to deliver impact at scale.
• The role fosters inclusive decision making and collective leadership, while ensuring that strategy is translated into delivery through strong systems, accountable leadership, and efficient, risk-aware operations across regions and country programmes.
• The COO provides strategic oversight of the organisation’s enterprise enabling environment and global services, ensuring coherence between global standards and country-level realities.
• Through this enterprise leadership, the role strengthens organisational effectiveness, performance, and accountability, and enables impact and growth in a complex and changing sector.
• The COO holds strategic accountability for organisational integrity and performance culture, embedding global values and behaviours and ensuring operational excellence supports Plan International’s mission and strategic priorities.
• The role brings enterprise foresight and adaptive capacity, enabling the organisation to evolve its operating model over time while remaining robust, compliant, and values led.
• As a member of the Leadership Team, the COO actively shapes and champions a culture of collective responsibility for the overall strategic direction of Plan International Inc, consistently modelling Plan International’s values and behaviours, underpinned by feminist leadership principles, as One Plan, shared values.

How to Apply

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