Team Leader / Programme Manager

The Organisation

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 know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. 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.

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

This position is contingent upon the successful securing of project funding. Please note that any offer of employment will be contingent on the successful award and receipt of funding.

Role Purpose

The Team Leader / Programme Manager will provide overall leadership and management of the RETRAP Agro Incubator Mentorship and Incubation Programme. This flagship initiative enhances the skills and employability of TVET youth through agribusiness incubation, delivered under the Ministry of Agriculture’s RETRAP project. The role is accountable for delivering all contractual outcomes, including screening up to 200 youth, selecting and supporting 30 gender-balanced agro-enterprises, delivering a six-month bootcamp and six-month coaching phase, and ensuring seed funding, business plans, and access-to-finance linkages.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead programme design, planning, and delivery, ensuring all contractual deliverables are achieved to time, budget, and quality.
• Oversee incubation framework, curriculum, and evaluation aligned with national TVET and RETRAP value chains.
• Manage a multi-disciplinary team and mentor network, setting work plans and assuring quality across bootcamp and coaching phases.
• Engage and report to government, donors, and private sector stakeholders, including quarterly progress reports.
• Ensure compliance with World Bank procurement, fiduciary, and safeguarding standards, including seed-fund disbursement controls.
• Chair enterprise selection, ensuring transparency and 50/50 gender balance.
• Lead programme close-out, including impact reporting, knowledge products, sustainability, and handover to RETRAP.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Agribusiness, Entrepreneurship, International Development, or related field.
• Minimum 8 years of progressive professional experience in business incubation/acceleration, preferably in agriculture or rural development.
• Proven expertise in programme design, strategic planning, team leadership, and stakeholder engagement with government, donors, and private sector.
• Strong knowledge of agricultural value chains, TVET-sector MSME development, and entrepreneurship ecosystems.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects, oversee budgets, and ensure compliance with donor regulations (e.g., World Bank).
• Excellent leadership, communication, negotiation, and reporting skills.

Competencies

• Strategic planning and decision-making under tight timelines.
• Relationship management with senior government, donor, and private-sector stakeholders.
• Integrity, transparency, and accountability, fostering inclusion and psychological safety within the team.

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Location: Country Office, Monrovia

Type of Role: Fixed Term

Reports to: Head of Program

Grade: 17

Closing Date: 24th July 2026

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International's Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

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