Climate & Economic Empowerment Lead

About you

• 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
  

• 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 (including disability, migration, indigeneity and poverty)
  
• 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