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Seeks an international, requiring a Master’s Degree and English fluency. The role involves on-site work, building teams, securing funding, and managing crises. Applicants must have local work authorization.
Last checked: 2 hours ago
Closing date: Wednesday, 1 July 2026
Country: Lao People's Democratic Republic
Duty station: Laos, Lao People's Democratic Republic
Contract type: Professional
Grade: Not specified
Applicant eligibility: Not explicit in source
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Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for a Country Director, Laos to join our Country Office in Laos.
Team and Role Purpose
Save The Children works across 12 urban and rural provinces across a range of thematic areas including Health & Nutrition Education, Child protection and Child Rights Governance. Activities are mostly implemented through or in conjunction with local authorities, and to lesser degree UN agencies, INGOs and CSOs. The organization has built up its programming over the last couple of years in a challenging environment. Long term sustainability is dependent on delivering quality interventions through a cost-effective model and sustaining a context-relevant and innovative programming portfolio by and maintaining a strong NBD unit.
Economic and climate challenges together are negatively impacting children on a greater scale than we have seen in decades. To counter these forces, during the 2025-27 strategy period Save the Children will transform our impact for children with renewed urgency. We will globally drive four strategic goals that are mutually reinforcing in a child’s life – ensuring a healthy and nutritious start, a safe return to school and learning, a life free from violence, and a resilient family with resources to support them. We will change how we work as one global diverse organisation, more strategically with partners, and in alliance with children and local actors, so we can accelerate impact – leveraging advocacy and campaigning, digital and data, and improving our efficiency and return on resources.
Role Purpose
As a member of the Asia Senior Leadership team, you will have shared accountability for Save the Children’s international development and emergency programming in Asia region of approximately $300-350 million each year through an organisation of nearly 5,500 people. To achieve our ambitious goals and breakthroughs for children, the leadership team globally, in collaboration with Save the Children Members and in conjunction with the other regional organisations, aims to drive our organizational goals.
The Country Director in Laos will have accountability for Save the Children’s international development and emergency programming in the country. Country Director will continue to build impact and program quality to new standards, whilst also delivering Save the Children’s strategy within the country through delivering quality programmes, including advocacy and campaigning; ensuring world class stewardship of resources from Members and their donors and driving new business development (NBD).
Principal Accountabilities
As a member of the Regional Senior Leadership Team, contribute to:
Deliver transformational change in-country, including:
Be accountable, and develop the capacity of, mentor and hold staff accountable for:
Be accountable, and develop the capacity of, mentor and hold the Senior Management Team accountable for:
Experience and Skills
Essential
Education and Qualifications
Essential
Working at Save the Children International
Save the Children is the world's leading organisation for children, employing ~25,000 staff. We save children's lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. Through our work in 116 countries, we put the most deprived and marginalised children first.
We know that great people make a great organisation, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
The work here is challenging but is also immensely rewarding. At Save the Children, you will be in good company, working with talented, like-minded individuals who are determined to ensure that all children survive, learn, and are protected. Your contribution will help ensure children's voices are heard at the highest levels, and that we achieve our global strategy, Ambition for Children 2030, and reach every last child.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Equal Opportunities
DEI is core to our vision, values and global strategy. Save the Children is committed to creating a truly diverse, equitable and inclusive organisation, and one which will support us in our vision to ensure every child attains the right to survival, protection, development, and participation.
We are committed to equal employment opportunities, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, disability, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, caring or parental responsibilities, age, or beliefs and religion. We are committed to diversifying our staff to better represent the communities we serve and actively welcome underrepresented groups to apply.
Reasonable adjustments will be made should any candidate invited to interview require this.
Application Information
Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application. A full copy of the role profile can be found at SCI Careers. It is recommended that you save a copy of the role profile as it will no longer be available after the advert closes.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the job advert may be closed earlier than advertised subject to the volume of suitable applicants. Please submit your application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Candidates who are successfully shortlisted should expect to hear from us within 2 weeks of the advert deadline.
Our Recruitment Process
We need to keep children and adults safe so our selection process includes rigorous background checks and reflects our commitment to the protection of children and adults from abuse. All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our Code of Conduct and all policies and procedures relating to Anti-Harassment, Health and Safety, Safeguarding, and DEI and Equal Opportunities.
Save the Children does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.
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