About Plan International
Plan International was founded over 75 years ago with a mission to promote and protect the rights of children. The organisation was set up by British journalist John Langdon-Davies and refugee worker Eric Muggeridge in 1937, with the original aim to provide food, accommodation and education to children whose lives had been disrupted by the Spanish Civil War. Langdon-Davies conceived the idea of a personal relationship between a child and a sponsor – a model that puts the child at the centre, and remains the core of what we do. Today, Plan International is a global organisation that is active in over 70 countries to advance children’s rights and equality for girls.
Experience
Location Nigeria
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.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified? Go to Plan International on jobs.plan-international.org to apply
