Climate & Economic Empowerment Lead

Lead Plan International's global Climate & Economic Empowerment agenda to advance climate justice and strengthen livelihoods for girls, young people, and marginalized communities. This high-impact leadership role focuses on integrating climate resilience with gender-transformative and youth-led approaches across development and humanitarian contexts.

Responsibilities

• Set and drive the global vision, ambition, and value proposition for Climate & Economic Empowerment, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities and programmatic standards
• Establish and maintain a strong strategic narrative grounded in climate resilience, community-driven livelihoods, youth economic empowerment, and intersectional, gender-transformative approaches
• Shape and strengthen resource mobilisation, including donor positioning, partnerships, and climate finance opportunities
• Provide technical leadership and thought leadership in global climate and livelihoods spaces
• Represent Plan International externally, contributing to sector dialogue, partnerships, and influencing efforts
• Champion integrated programming linking climate resilience with livelihoods, education, protection, and youth opportunity
• Translate evidence, research, and field learning into compelling narratives, advocacy, and programme design
• Strengthen cross-organisational alignment across global, regional, and country teams in a matrixed structure
• Enable knowledge sharing, innovation, and continuous learning, amplifying insights from climate-affected communities

Requirements

• Strong expertise in climate change, resilience, and economic empowerment
• Experience working in resource-constrained, fragile, or climate-affected contexts
• Strong understanding of gender-transformative and youth-led approaches, particularly in climate settings
• Experience engaging with climate funding mechanisms, partnerships, or global donors
• Proven ability to translate evidence into strategy, advocacy, and funding opportunities
• Strong track record in external representation, influencing, and partnership development
• Skilled at working across complex, global, matrixed organisations and leading through influence
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to bring clarity to complexity

Skills

• Climate Change Expertise
• Resilience Building
• Economic Empowerment
• Gender Transformative Approaches
• Youth-led Approaches
• Climate Funding Mechanisms
• Partnership Development
• Advocacy Strategies
• External Representation
• Strategic Thinking
• Facilitation Skills
• Working in Fragile Contexts
• Translating Evidence into Strategy
• Influencing in Matrix Organizations