Chief Impact Officer

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 International is entering an inspiring new chapter in our journey. As part of our operating model review, we are evolving our Leadership Team structure to strengthen how we lead and deliver together. This transformation builds on a strong foundation and positions us to be more agile, cohesive, and impact-driven. Our new leadership model fosters faster decision-making, clearer accountability, and a culture of collaboration and empowerment across all levels.

If you are passionate about driving performance and shaping the future, this is your opportunity to make a real difference. We are deeply ambitious for our organisation—courageous in holding ourselves and others to account, yet humble in our approach.

Our vision is bold: to become the thought leader and the go-to for girls in crisis. In a sector facing unprecedented challenges, we need leaders who are strong, steady, and resilient—ready to navigate storms and emerge stronger. If you share this ambition and have the courage to lead with integrity and transform the lives of girls worldwide, join us to help shape the future of Plan International.

The Chief Impact Officer (CIO) drives Plan International’s global efforts by strengthening programming quality, country office capability, and portfolio performance to deliver measurable, credible, and transformative impact for children and girls across humanitarian, development, and sponsorship work.

This role ensures that our work is grounded in evidence, responsive to global shifts, and strategically connected to advocacy, communications, and partnerships.

The Chief Impact Officer (CIO) sets the organisation’s global impact agenda, providing strategic leadership across humanitarian response, global campaigns, performance and learning, and country portfolio management. This role ensures coherence between global strategy and local delivery by integrating our humanitarian, development, sponsorship, and influencing work. Through this alignment, we deliver measurable results for girls and children, guided by evidence and learning.

With the CEO, the CIO works alongside Regional Directors to strengthen strategic coherence and accountability across global, regional, and country-level delivery and impact. This partnership focuses on empowering country offices by simplifying systems and reducing operational complexity, enabling faster, locally led humanitarian responses. The CIO also coordinates performance reporting across the global portfolio to support learning, accountability, and informed decision-making.

As a member of the Leadership Team, the CIO will actively shape and champion the culture of collective responsibility of the overall strategic direction of Plan International Inc and consistently model Plan International’s values and behaviours, underpinned by our feminist leadership principles – as One Plan – Shared Values.

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