Regional External Relations Director

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International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)

  • Career category: Advocacy/ Policy, Partnership
  • Job type: Job
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Not Specified
  • Right to work requirements: Not specified
  • Remuneration: Remuneration not disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 03/07/2026
  • Location: India 
GBV / VAWG Health PSEA/ Safeguarding
About us
IPPF is a global movement delivering sexual and reproductive health services and rights. We are a diverse, feminist, and values-driven workplace - multi-national, multi-cultural, multi-racial, multi-lingual, and intergenerational.

Context of Role
  • Works as part of the Regional Senior Leadership Team to promote, position, develop and amplify the work of the Federation across all Pillars.
  • Positions IPPF as a proactive sector leader, responsive to the most critical and urgent issues impacting SRHRJ. Works as part of the Global Secretariat External Relations team to deliver Strategy 2028, ensuring IPPF stands up and speaks out on issues impacting the most marginalised and vulnerable.
  • Leads on nurturing and maintaining strategic partnerships in the region that will ensure IPPF is well connected and resonant Connects all the External facing work within a Region and builds optimal engagement of Member Associations/Partners in regional level activities.
  • Supports MAs to develop and cultivate strategic partnership at the country level, enabling meaningful engagement and strategic partnerships.
  • Pushes on advocacy at all levels, supporting global, regional and country level efforts to influence policy change, legislation, as well as influencing decisions in multi-governmental spaces, together with and in support of efforts made by MAs.
  • Ensures adequate resourcing. Leads on research mobilization/business development at the regional level, including the search for opportunities, cultivating relationships with regional donors, overseeing proposal development and supporting MAs in the process.
  • Is an active part of the change that IPPF is shepherding through, actively challenging IPPF to be more courageous and relevant. Ensures IPPF works to an intersectional and feminist agenda; with youth voices better represented in its external positioning.
  • With the Regional Director, represents IPPF on political advocacy and external forums.
  • Adhere to the safeguarding reporting and monitoring requirements of this role.

Essential Skills
  • Has led policy/legislative change, campaigns and communication strategies at a regional level across multiple stakeholders and coalitions, including marginalised groups.
  • Evidence of the ability to flex style in a diverse and multi-cultural environment to build positive relationships, combining drive with diplomacy.
  • Exceptional communication and presentation skills – Excellent English (written/verbal) and at least one other language (French, Spanish, Arabic).
  • Evidence of being open to and enabling new and leading-edge ideas to build engagement and impact.
  • Excellent team manager, leader and developer with strong planning, organizing and knowledge sharing skills.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding in a local and international context.
  • Demonstrate a willingness to sign and adhere to IPPF’s Code of Conduct and Safeguarding Policy.
  • Demonstrates ability and willingness to work in a diverse, multicultural, multilingual and intergenerational environment that is anti-racist and respectful of others.
  • An intersectional (pro) feminist passionate about sexual reproductive health care rights + justice, including safe abortion.
  • Supportive of people’s rights regardless of sexuality or gender identity/expression and supportive of worker’s rights and access to health care in sex work.

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