Business Development Manager At Plan International

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 know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. 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.

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

The Opportunity

Plan Chad is one of the fifteen Plan International’s countries of operational presence in West and Central Africa. The organisation has been registered in Chad since October 2021 and started operations in the country in July 2023 within the backdrop of the Sudanese Refugee Crisis in the East. Since then Plan Chad has led projects in different sectors, including on Education in Emergencies, Child Protection in Emergencies, Nutrition, Cash Programming, WASH and Sexual & Reproductive Health and has become one of the prominent child’s rights organisations in the country.

Plan International Chad is scaling up its programmatic and influencing footprint in the country to respond to gender and inclusive lifesaving immediate needs and addressing vulnerabilities and protenction risks faced by children and their families in the country, particularly those affected by the Sudanese crisis in Eastern Chad.

The Business Development Manager (BDM) will support emergency response activities to develop a funding strategy in line with the Emergency Response Plan as Plan International Chad scales up their response to Sudanese refugees and those entering Chad in the East to escape conflict.

The Business Development Manager will work in close collaboration with the BDM in Sudan to secure funding to support the cross-border response to the crisis.

The role coordinates all proposal development. The BDM will write proposals that speak to the overall strengths and capabilities of the country response while coordinating and incorporating the inputs from technical advisors, programme units, MEAL, finance, People & Culture, Supply Chain Management, partnerships, and security.

The BDM is expected to stay closely informed and updated on current donor strategies and interests in the humanitarian space. They will liaise closely with the Global Humanitarian Team and Programme Delivery and Resources (PDR) department, and with the different National Organisations (NOs), in-country donor representatives and other stakeholders (NGO partners) to identify funding opportunities.

The role maintains and develops relations with in-country donors and Plan International National Organisations.