Cluster Director South America, Lima, Peru

## Cluster Director South America, Lima, Peru - Organization:Plan International - Office:Plan International in Lima, Peru Company:Plan International 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 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries. Lead and support cluster countries in the design and delivery of country programmatic strategies including the scale-up of humanitarian aligned to Plan International's global strategy, and cluster functional capacity required to support delivery of programmatic impact in countries. - Lead Country Representatives in the development of ambitious and realistic Country Strategies, and their implementation. The strategies will be shaped using analysis of the country-specific gender power relations and child rights issues in each of the Cluster countries. The Country Strategies will provide clarity on country specific programme and influencing focused on gender transformation and equality for girls, along with required resources (development and humanitarian). Where Cluster countries have a shared context or shared cross-border issues, a broader Cluster Strategy may be developed replacing the need for individual Country Strategies. - Ensure alignment between ambitions of Country Strategies (or where appropriate Cluster Strategy) and resource availability of Cluster functional capacity to support their delivery to ensure targets are both ambitious and realistic. - Ensure our programme and influence approach isutilised effectively by Country Representatives and that they are achieving quality impact at scale by linking grassroots action to national level influencing. - Mobilise Cluster resources as required to rapidly respond to humanitarian crises in Cluster countries, coordinating rapid deployment of additional surge resources (funding, people and material), which reflects country level emergency preparedness analysis, risk reduction and resilience building. - Provide guidance and technical support for development and humanitarian integration in County Strategies, and support development of programmatic approaches and guidance. - Manage and report progress of programme and influencing delivery at a Cluster level, whilst holding Country Representatives to account for delivery of Country Strategies and compliance with PII policies and standards. - Support and approve country and multi-country Emergency Response Plans and emergency preparedness of countries - Support COs in documentation of lessons learned, from all significant disasters, including supporting real time reviews, evaluations and reflection workshops. Lead a high performing Cluster Management Team that is responsive and agile to the programmatic needs of Cluster countries - Lead a high performing Cluster Management Team, that is resourced and skilled in their area of expertise. - Be a role model in building a positive culture across the cluster, consciously embracing, and personifying the values-based leadership framework underpinned by feminist and anti-racism principles, holding self and others accountable for behaviours, drawing on strengths and reflecting on areas of self-development. Be aware of the impact and power, purposeful and visible about shaping the organisational culture and our internal power dynamics. - Support Country Representatives in the delivery of programmes in their countries, and ensure programmes comply with Plan's management standards and policies. - Lead Cluster Operational Heads, ensuring they are responsive to the needs of Country Representatives, National Organisations and donors. - Objectively analyse and prioritise use of Cluster resources where there are competing demands from Country Representatives. - Ensure Cluster staff numbers and structures are optimised at a level that is efficient and cost effective, in line with the apportion costs available in each of the Cluster countries. - Ensure that Cluster countries and support functions demonstrate adherence to Plan International's standards of quality and operate consistently within Plan International policies and procedures. Manage a Cluster operation based on accurate and timely country-level programme work plans, budgets and support costs that can be used to create impact and efficiency. - Overall corporate responsibility at Cluster level, including for impact and cost performance - Budget approval, based on accurate Cluster-level annual Plans and budgets by aligning and aggregating budgets across Cluster countries and support functions. - Ensure Country Representatives and Support function Heads create realistic annual budgets and budget forecasts. - Ensure emergency response budget is considered in high-risk countries. - Ensure Cluster Finance is fully compliant in financial management in the allocation/budgeting, disbursement and accounting for all resources. - Ensure that support costs are proportionately recovered from the different income sources that fund programmes in each country - Ensure proper use of systems and data quality in both the Cluster and countries to enable effective reporting and analysis of performance within the Cluster. - Ensure linkage with Shared Service Centers (SSC) in support of CO operations - Ensure that safeguarding and security elements are in place, and that the safeguarding and security representatives are consulted from the first moment of a project's life cycle, in the development of Country Strategies and that they are transversal to the entire operation. Ensure that Strategy and annual plans are funded and sustainable - Accountable for the development and implementation of an effective Business Development plan that enables Plan International to maximise its value in Cluster countries. - Oversee stakeholder mapping and analysis at subregional and country level - Manage cluster sustainability through identification and management of sustainability risks over a 5 year timeframe. - Support countries in engagement with National Organisations and national and international donor agencies and potential philanthropic donors - Attend multi-country conferences that might impact the positioning of the countries in the cluster (For instance: Quito Process collective HRP, multi country crisis, R4V meetings) - Establish sub-regional alliances with potential donors, peer organisations, consortia and UN Agencies. - Support and facilitate learning and sharing of development and humanitarian programming related resources/tools/experiences between countries in the ROA Region. Work collaboratively across Regional and National offices as required - Active member of the Regional Leadership Team. - Work with regional management and other Clusters in the continuous improvement of regional shared services that contribute to the efficiency and/ or impact of Plan International's work within the region. - Facilitate the sharing of lessons, programme models, good practices, etc. within the region and wider organisation for organisational learning. - Be an active contributor and volunteer to participate in global or regional initiatives where you believe your experience can add value or where your country can benefit from and contribute to such work. - Ensures that Plan Internati