Mexico Country Representative

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 85 years, and are now active in more than 80 countries.

ROLE PURPOSE

As a Country Representative, you will be Plan’s legal representative in the country and drive gender transformative programmes and influencing work at the country level, reflecting Plan International’s dual mandate, focusing on the needs of the most vulnerable children, particularly girls.

As a member of the Cluster Management Team, you will be accountable for the delivery of the country strategy and have direct leadership of country programmatic resources. You will work collaboratively with the Cluster Management Team who have leadership over operational support resources.

You will lead a high performing country team, ensuring accountability for meeting targets and maintaining alignment with the Global Strategy. You will ensure that your team is ready and able to respond to emergency and development needs of the most marginalised children and young people, especially girls.

You will be actively engaged in representing the organisation to the national and international donors, and National Organisations.

You will be the organisation's representative within the country, and its main spokesperson to the media and government, and responsible of the Plan's positioning and official communication within the country.

You will understand and drive efforts to deliver positive change for girls through advocating, campaigning and communicating at a national level.

Plan’s Global Strategy emphasizes the need for greater localization, and as Country Representative you will support this through the strengthening of local actors and community engagement in all programmes.

Dimensions of the Role

• Legal representative and key spokesperson of Plan International in the country.

• Management and approvals of security risk levels in the country and ensuring the adherence to Security Management Standards and Security Key Performance Indicators

• Line Management of CO Management team

• Representation of the organisation to key stakeholders, including local authorities, institutions, key account donors, and media.

• Funding portfolio in the country

  Accountabilities

  Lead Plan International’s programmatic and influencing work in Mexico, including development and scale up of humanitarian action, ensuring it is focused on gender transformation and is relevant to the needs of the most vulnerable children, particularly girls.

  • Support the development of a country strategy through the input of country analysis based on a thorough country assessment of gender power relations and child rights issues, and identification of the unique value the Plan can add through programmes and influencing 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. Lead on influencing at a national level with government and civil society stakeholders.

  • Ensure alignment between the country strategy (or where appropriate the Cluster Strategy) and the resource availability of Cluster functional capacity to support the delivery of development objectives and the ability to respond to humanitarian challenges and ensure that targets are both ambitious and realistic.

  • Ensure effective and swift emergency preparedness analysis, risk reduction and resilience building, and mobilise Cluster resources as required to respond to humanitarian crises.

    📚 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗮 𝗝𝗼𝗯 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗡 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯! 🌍🤝 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗡 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗨𝗡𝗛𝗖𝗥, 𝗪𝗙𝗣, 𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗖𝗘𝗙, 𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗦𝗦, 𝗨𝗡𝗙𝗣𝗔, 𝗜𝗢𝗠 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀! 🌐

    ⚠️ 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐰: 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐚 𝐣𝐨𝐛 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐍𝐎𝐖!

  • Be responsible for leading and ensuring the implementation of security strategies within the country. This includes making informed decisions in coordination and under the guidance of the National Security Focal Point and the Security Coordinator of the Cluster/Regional Security Advisor.

    As Country Representative you will be a member of the Cluster Management Team

    • As a member of the Cluster Management team, drive effective, efficient and impactful programmes across cluster countries.

    • Lead programmes and influence in the country. Collaborate with peer members of the Cluster Management Team to ensure the required level of operational support, capacity and capability in delivering and influencing programmes.

    • Act as legal representative in the country approving decisions associated with local funding, programs, security, and people management,

    • Liaise with the local board if the Plan is registered locally in the country.

    • Share the reflections, programme models, and good practices, within the cluster and the region for broader organisational learning.

      Country programmes and projects will be well funded and sustainable

      Represent Plan International to national and international donor agencies in the country. Track potential funding sources in alignment with the Business Development Plan.

      • Ensure the Plan is represented in key coordination bodies/spaces where the organizational profile can be built with local donors. Build brand recognition in the country.

      • Identify and explore local funding opportunities that are in line with the agreed strategy.

        Work with Cluster Business Development by contributing to proposal development and budgeting, maximising cost recovery opportunities while ensuring donor compliance and financial management. Coordinate the operational support procedures and standards in line with the Cluster standards.

        • Ensure that sponsorship commitments are fulfilled in the country.

          Plan emergency response budget in high-risk countries.

          Country programmatic and influencing work is guided by accurate and timely work plans and budgets and creates impact and efficiency.

          Develop program work plans based on the country’s strategy and cluster resource availability, incorporating the context and environment.

          • Ensure Project Managers effectively manage projects throughout the entire lifecycle, including partner/community engagement during design and implementation, and that projects have accurate financial, procurement and resourcing plans.

          • Ensure Project managers work with Cluster operational teams to ensure realistic phased budgets for all programme and influence activities.

          • Deliver country level 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.

            Influence key decisions of local, national and international institutions to advance children’s rights, particularly girls.

            • Demonstrate commitment to gender equity and represent Plan International to the highest levels of government, civil society, the media.

            • Lead representation of Plan International’s work and positions on priority issues with key stakeholders at national level within the country, including media and the highest levels of government.