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.
- 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