Description
Application deadline: June 27, 2025.
To apply, please click the following link: https://jobs.plan-international.org/job-invite/52180/
Fill out the application form with the requested information, attach your CV, and submit both. Applications will be accepted via the application form provided.
The Organization
Plan International is an independent, non-profit development and humanitarian organization that promotes children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child, but we know they are often limited by poverty, violence, exclusion, and discrimination. And girls are the most affected.
In collaboration with children, youth, supporters, and partners, we strive for a just world by addressing the root causes of the problems faced by the most vulnerable children. We support children from birth to adulthood and empower them to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive change in practices and policies at the local, national, and global levels through our reach, experience, and expertise.
For over 85 years, we’ve brought together other determined optimists to transform the lives of all girls and boys in more than 80 countries.
We won’t stop until equality is achieved.
Purpose:
To lead the implementation of technical guidelines and organizational positioning related to Empowerment in all Plan programs and projects. The program is responsible for leading the design and supporting the implementation of Empowerment programs, projects, and actions within the development context defined in the Country Strategy. Provides support for the implementation of related organizational policies.
The person responsible for this role will work closely with the Country Representation and in coordination with the national program team.
General responsibilities
1. Strategic Planning (10%)
– Ensure that the focus on Empowerment is integrated, following institutional guidelines, throughout the entire strategic cycle (Country Strategy, Annual Planning, programs, and projects).
– Contribute technically to the design, implementation, and monitoring of the country’s Strategic Plan, ensuring the integration of the Empowerment thematic focus.
– Actively participate in the design of projects funded with sponsorship resources aligned with the Country Strategy, ensuring the correct implementation of the Empowerment thematic focus.
2. Resource Mobilization (10%)
– Participate in the active and intensive search for funding opportunities for programs.
– Contribute to the design of projects for managing donor funds (grants) in accordance with our new Global Strategy, Gender Approach, regional frameworks, and guidelines established in the Country Strategic Plan.
– Contribute to the identification of partners for co-managing programs and projects from the thematic approach of Empowerment through the required technical support and the maintenance of strategic relationships.
3. Accompaniment and technical support for programmatic implementation of the Program Units and the Country Office. (50%)
– Build and develop working relationships with the technical team of the projects, partners and facilitators of the Program Units focused on Empowerment
. – Develop programmatic intervention models applicable to the Program Units and partners, guaranteeing the quality and results of interventions aimed at developing the competencies of girls, boys, men and young women in skills to make autonomous and respectful decisions and establishing relationships based on gender equality and justice.
– Develop or lead the development of different tools necessary for programmatic implementation: training curricula, campaigns, methodologies, terms of reference for consultancies, etc.
– Participate in the different tables, spaces, and articulations for the implementation of the influence strategy on the issues.
– Accompany the application of the Gender Marker to projects in the design, implementation and review phases to ensure their gender transformative nature.
– Strengthen the capacities of program units and partners, parents, professionals, and other key stakeholders on gender-related issues.
– Ensure that all policy and strategy development processes include a proper gender analysis approach.
– Support the communications team in reviewing all external communications materials to ensure the topic is properly addressed.
– From a thematic perspective, ensure the development of gender, age, and inclusion analyses in the national context, as well as policy, power, and stakeholder analysis. Identify risks, barriers, and facilitators for the participation of children and young people with disabilities, as well as other excluded and vulnerable groups.
– Apply a series of evidence-based strategies and approaches to provide children, adolescents, and young people with access to their rights on the issue, and support positive dialogues between key impact groups and duty bearers.
4. Representation and advocacy in national and regional spaces (10%)
– Develop and sustain strategic relationships that bring Plan closer to potential partners and strengthen existing ones.
– Promote advocacy actions aligned with our strategic framework to influence national, departmental, and local policies.
– In coordination with the Country Representation: Participate, represent, and sustain technical leadership that gives Plan visibility in inter-institutional coordination spaces in accordance with the Country Strategic Plan agenda.
– Promote policy advocacy processes, best practices, and scaling up the implementation of the agenda in accordance with the international framework for Gender and Empowerment, human rights, particularly the rights of women, children, and excluded groups.
– Represent Plan before regional networks and initiatives of Plan International, so that the country’s best practices are known and replicated in the region, and also to recover successful experiences from other countries.
5. Monitoring, evaluation and accountability (10%)
– Monitor compliance with the guidelines, positions, and policies on the subject.
– Participate in information management, analysis, and learning within the institutional monitoring and evaluation system inherent to the Country Strategy cycle and the PMERL.
– Generate learning and knowledge through the systematization of good practices in their area of ​​intervention that can be replicated internally and externally by other actors with whom the Plan has strategic cooperation relationships, particularly with the State.
7. Capacity building (10%)
Key actions related to accountability:
– Develop and strengthen the technical capacity of Program Unit teams, partners, and the Country Office in gender, inclusion, and empowerment competencies.
– Facilitate continuous learning opportunities for the application of methodologies, tools, and instruments for operationalizing our gender-transformative approach and programmatic guides.
8. Administrative and Financial Management (when applicable)
Key actions related to accountability:
– Comply with administrative processes and procedures
– Contribute to compliance with global assurance recommendations and audits conducted in the country in relevant program areas, particularly in the area of ​​gender and inclusion.
9.Security Management and Organizational Risk Reduction (continuous)
Key actions related to responsibility:
– Ensure efficient management and prevention of organizational risk in their area of ​​intervention.
– Develop current analysis of national realities related to empowerment and the gender agenda, and propose mitigation strategies.
Safeguarding
Ensures that Plan International’s global safeguarding policy and PII policy to prevent sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse; and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully integrated in accordance with the policy principles and requirements, including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as appropriate to their area of ​​responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring that staff and partners are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and the Plan International Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of ​​work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with appropriate procedures.
Knowledge, skills, behaviors, and experience required to achieve the objectives of the position:
Previous experience and knowledge
– Bachelor’s degree or professional qualifications in fields related to the specific topic required.
– Postgraduate degree in Empowerment.
– Extensive experience in Empowerment from a gender perspective
. – At least 5 years of experience consulting on Empowerment-related topics.
Knowledge:
1. Knowledge of key concepts in Empowerment from a gender and inclusion perspective, and girls’ rights at the national and regional levels, including:
– Adopting an intersectional approach to gender, age, and inclusion.
– Concepts of social and gender norms, gender socialization, formative research, and behavior change communication.
– United Nations instruments on the human rights of girls and women and an understanding of the “invisibility” of girls’ rights in policymaking and data collection by governments and policymakers.
– Understand the links between protection and social and gender norms change theory, its relevance and application to harmful norms and practices, and its practical implications for our work with our core impact group.
2. Reasoning ability, understanding to influence others through logical arguments, as well as to lead change through motivation and inspiration.
3. Ability to propose solutions to different programmatic and contextual scenarios that guarantee quality programmatic implementation.
Skills:
– Ability to communicate theoretical concepts about empowerment in simple terms and apply them to practical solutions.
– High-level communication skills and the ability to interact with a range of stakeholders, including government representatives, CSO representatives, and community members.
– Negotiation and influencing skills to achieve collective agreements that impact expected results.
– Facilitation skills to lead a team through the full proposal development cycle.
– Ability to work effectively with diverse teams.
– Facilitation and training skills for adult and child and youth education.
– Excellent command of both spoken and written Spanish.
– Fluency in English is highly valued.
Job Location: Tegucigalpa
Function Type: Programmatic
Reports to: Country Representative
Closing Date: June 27, 2025
Plan International Values
We work to achieve lasting change.
We seek a meaningful and lasting impact on the lives of children and young people, ensuring equality for girls in particular. Our challenge is to remain bold, courageous, responsive, determined, and innovative.
We are open and accountable.
We create an environment of trust inside and outside the organization through inclusion, honesty, and transparency. We take responsibility for the decisions we make and our impact on others, and we deliver on our commitments.
Together, we do it well.
Our success lies in working effectively with others, both inside and outside the organization, including our funders and donors. We actively support our members and help them achieve their goals. At Plan International, we come together to create and deliver solutions for our teams, children, young people, communities, and partners.
We are inclusive and empowering.
We respect all people, value differences, and reject inequality in our programs and at our workplaces. We support children and young people to grow their confidence and transform their own lives. We empower our employees to achieve their best and develop their potential.
Early application is recommended, as we will review applications during the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advertisement early.
In accordance with Plan International’s “Safeguarding Children” and “Young People” policies, a series of pre-employment checks will be conducted.
As a child-focused international community development organization, Plan International is fully committed to promoting the realization of children’s rights, including their right to protection from violence and abuse. This means we have particular responsibilities toward the children 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 organization, do everything possible to keep children safe. We must not contribute in any way to harming or putting children at risk.
Plan International operates an equal opportunity policy and actively encourages diversity, welcoming applications from all areas of the international community.