Chief Impact Officer at Plan International

Nigeria

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian non-profit organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood, and enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We believe in the power and potential of every child, but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Chief Impact Officer

Location: Nigeria
Reports to: Chief Executive Officer

The Opportunity

  • The Chief Impact Officer (CIO) drives Plan International’s global efforts by strengthening programming quality, country office capability, and portfolio performance to deliver measurable, credible, and transformative impact for children and girls across humanitarian, development, and sponsorship work.
  • This role ensures that our work is grounded in evidence, responsive to global shifts, and strategically connected to advocacy, communications, and partnerships.
  • The Chief Impact Officer (CIO) sets the organisation’s global impact agenda, providing strategic leadership across humanitarian response, global campaigns, performance and learning, and country portfolio management.
  • This role ensures coherence between global strategy and local delivery by integrating our humanitarian, development, sponsorship, and influencing work. Through this alignment, we deliver measurable results for girls and children, guided by evidence and learning.
  • With the CEO, the CIO works alongside Regional Directors to strengthen strategic coherence and accountability across global, regional, and country-level delivery and impact.
  • This partnership focuses on empowering country offices by simplifying systems and reducing operational complexity, enabling faster, locally led humanitarian responses.
  • The CIO also coordinates performance reporting across the global portfolio to support learning, accountability, and informed decision-making.
  • As a member of the Leadership Team, the CIO will actively shape and champion the culture of collective responsibility of the overall strategic direction of Plan International Inc and consistently model Plan International’s values and behaviours, underpinned by our feminist leadership principles – as One Plan – Shared Values.

Application Closing Date
28th November, 2025.

Interview Date

  • First round interviews are planned to take place on the 4th and 5th December.
  • Second round interviews are planned for the 15th and 17th December.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:

Go to Chief Impact Officer at Plan International to apply