Great Lakes Youth and Women Economic Empowerment
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Plan International
Remote (global)- Job type: Consultancy
- Experience level: 10+ years
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: Remote (global)
- Right to work requirements: International contract
- Remuneration: Remuneration not disclosed
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 15/07/2026
- Location: Remote (global)
Background
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organization advancing children’s rights and equality for girls. The Middle East, East and Southern Africa (MEESA) Regional Hub provides strategic leadership, technical support, research, and influencing across more than 15 countries.
The MEESA region is marked by conflict (e.g., eastern DRC, South Sudan, Ethiopia), recurrent humanitarian crises, economic marginalization of youth especially girls and young women, and entrenched gender inequalities and harmful social norms. Plan International MEESA drives regional priorities in Girls’ economic empowerment and employability, Gender-transformative programming and influencing, Youth leadership and feminist movement through strengthening youth and women-led organizations, and Humanitarian preparedness, response and resilience building.
Plan International aims to reinforce its regional programming across the Great Lakes by addressing shared regional challenges that disproportionately impact children, adolescents, and youth, particularly girls. The region continues to face complex, interlinked issues including large scale displacement, heightened protection risks, child marriage, teenage pregnancy, limited livelihood opportunities, climate-induced vulnerabilities, and persistent barriers to quality education and child protection services. These challenges transcend national borders and require harmonized, multi-country solutions.
Purpose of the Consultancy
The primary purpose of this consultancy is to lead the design and formulation of a comprehensive, multi-year regional programme proposal focused on youth and women’s economic empowerment through inclusive and resilient value-chain development across the five focus countries. The assignment will articulate a coherent regional approach that diagnoses shared structural barriers and defines clear, scalable pathways for young people and women to access dignified livelihoods, productive assets, markets, finance, skills, and decision-making power within priority value chains.
Essential Qualifications and Experience
• A minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in designing complex development and/or humanitarian programmes, including regional or multi-country initiatives, for international NGOs, UN agencies, or similar organizations.
• Demonstrated success in developing high-quality, funded multi-country or regional programme proposals, including experience aligning programme design with institutional donor priorities and funding requirements.
• Strong technical expertise in youth and women’s economic empowerment, employment and employability, livelihoods and market systems programming, or closely related thematic areas. Experience integrating these approaches across both agricultural and non-agricultural sectors are essential.
• Proven ability to apply a strong gender equality and inclusion lens in programme design, including gender transformative approaches, safeguarding, and the meaningful participation of young people, particularly young women.
• Experience leading remote and hybrid multi-country design processes, including facilitation of virtual workshops, coordination with dispersed teams, and synthesis of inputs from multiple country contexts.
• Excellent analytical, facilitation, and writing skills, with a demonstrated ability to synthesize complex contextual and programme information into clear theories of change, results frameworks, and donor ready narrative documents.
• Solid understanding of development, humanitarian, and fragility dynamics in the Great Lakes and East Africa regions, including conflict sensitivity, displacement, climate risks, and regional economic interlinkages affecting youth and women’s livelihoods.
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organization advancing children’s rights and equality for girls. The Middle East, East and Southern Africa (MEESA) Regional Hub provides strategic leadership, technical support, research, and influencing across more than 15 countries.
The MEESA region is marked by conflict (e.g., eastern DRC, South Sudan, Ethiopia), recurrent humanitarian crises, economic marginalization of youth especially girls and young women, and entrenched gender inequalities and harmful social norms. Plan International MEESA drives regional priorities in Girls’ economic empowerment and employability, Gender-transformative programming and influencing, Youth leadership and feminist movement through strengthening youth and women-led organizations, and Humanitarian preparedness, response and resilience building.
Plan International aims to reinforce its regional programming across the Great Lakes by addressing shared regional challenges that disproportionately impact children, adolescents, and youth, particularly girls. The region continues to face complex, interlinked issues including large scale displacement, heightened protection risks, child marriage, teenage pregnancy, limited livelihood opportunities, climate-induced vulnerabilities, and persistent barriers to quality education and child protection services. These challenges transcend national borders and require harmonized, multi-country solutions.
Purpose of the Consultancy
The primary purpose of this consultancy is to lead the design and formulation of a comprehensive, multi-year regional programme proposal focused on youth and women’s economic empowerment through inclusive and resilient value-chain development across the five focus countries. The assignment will articulate a coherent regional approach that diagnoses shared structural barriers and defines clear, scalable pathways for young people and women to access dignified livelihoods, productive assets, markets, finance, skills, and decision-making power within priority value chains.
Essential Qualifications and Experience
• A minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in designing complex development and/or humanitarian programmes, including regional or multi-country initiatives, for international NGOs, UN agencies, or similar organizations.
• Demonstrated success in developing high-quality, funded multi-country or regional programme proposals, including experience aligning programme design with institutional donor priorities and funding requirements.
• Strong technical expertise in youth and women’s economic empowerment, employment and employability, livelihoods and market systems programming, or closely related thematic areas. Experience integrating these approaches across both agricultural and non-agricultural sectors are essential.
• Proven ability to apply a strong gender equality and inclusion lens in programme design, including gender transformative approaches, safeguarding, and the meaningful participation of young people, particularly young women.
• Experience leading remote and hybrid multi-country design processes, including facilitation of virtual workshops, coordination with dispersed teams, and synthesis of inputs from multiple country contexts.
• Excellent analytical, facilitation, and writing skills, with a demonstrated ability to synthesize complex contextual and programme information into clear theories of change, results frameworks, and donor ready narrative documents.
• Solid understanding of development, humanitarian, and fragility dynamics in the Great Lakes and East Africa regions, including conflict sensitivity, displacement, climate risks, and regional economic interlinkages affecting youth and women’s livelihoods.
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