The Head of Programme Development and Quality (PDQ) oversees Plan International Sierra Leone’s Programme Development and Quality department to ensure alignment with Plan International Inc. Global Ambition – All Girls Standing Strong Making Global Change and the Global Strategy and maintain internal and external standards of the organization. This role provides strategic leadership for designing, evaluating, and influencing gender transformative and sponsorship programmes and initiatives that advance children’s and youth’s rights and equality for girls in Sierra Leone.

Dimensions of the role

•  Ensures that PISL gender transformative programme, and influencing initiatives fully align to key global purpose, theory of change, strategies, country context, and other agreed standards.
•  Supervises and coordinates all Technical Managers and Specialists including the Partnerships. eBAbyLW C0zk13
•  Lead and coordinate the idea and designing stage of the proposal development as a core aspect of fundraising for PISL sustainability.
•  Maintains horizontal working links with all PISL Strategic Departments
•  Works with and maintains sound and credible (win-win) partnerships that promote girl-friendly and youth-focused policy and practice,
•  Promote a culture of learning/knowledge management, use of research-based evidence and capacity building to improve programme quality
•  The impact of this role is significant internally and externally to Plan International

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

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 organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International’s Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.