Regional External Relations Director

Location: Bawāna

Final date to receive applications

03-07-2026

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.

Management reporting or areas of responsibility:

Communications, Voice & Media.
Winning Narratives & Campaigns.
Opposition.
Political advocacy.
Strategic Partnerships and Community Networks.

Role Purpose

To  Move the Sexuality Agenda  and build  Solidarity for Change  by shifting norms, ground advocacy, building strategic partnerships and supporting social movements, in support and together with IPPF Member Associations (MAs) which fall under Pillar 2 and 3 of the Strategic Framework  (Strategy 2028). To amplify the work of IPPF and the MAs, and lead on IPPFs commitment to be bold and courageous in speaking up as defined in Strategy 2028.

Deliverables

Develops and implements a progressive regional plan to deliver on Straategy
2028, ensuring it complements global and regional plans, with a clear understanding of the support to be provided to MAs.
Leads the necessary change, ensuring IPPF visibly transforms and evolves as part of its commitments defined within Strategy 2028.
Ensures a strategic eye across business development/resource mobilisation and strategic engagements along with other regional colleagues to support regional and country level fundraising.
Builds an evolving network of stakeholders, influencers, trends and opposition to inform, strengthen, and prioritise action.
Measures and tracks key result areas, impacts and change to adapt/respond with agility. Distils IPPF's identity and voice to speak to key stakeholders; develops positions and key messages on strategic and emerging themes.
Gathers intelligence and commissions research, leveraged through the global External Relations team, to deepen understanding and strengthen positioning/influencing/delivery.
Prioritise and focus on engagement of key strategic bodies to maintain presence and influence and carefully selects roles to take in Regional forums/networks that will deliver tangible benefits.
Creates an environment that nurtures and leverages disruptive partnerships and strategic community networks
Prioritise, connect and amplify campaigns placing MA's voices at the forefront to advocate for the Federation
Oversee the framing, activation and mobilisation of high impact media and social media activity that builds on the work of MAs and acts with youth. Ensuring stories/impacts are captured and narrated in engaging/impactful ways.
Crisis management…