Emergence Response Manager
Role Summary
Join Plan International as the Emergence Response Manager to lead humanitarian response efforts in Egypt, focusing on children's rights and community resilience.
About the Organisation
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation/charity/non-profit 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!
Plan International started working in Egypt in 1981 and has a presence in ten of the 27 governorates in which the country including Greater Cairo, Alexandria, Giza, Beheira, Kalyoubia, Damietta, Qena, Assuit and Sohag. Plan international Egypt implements programmes designed to enable communities to improve the lives of the most marginalised children and their families. Plan Egypt’s Country Strategy focuses on five strategic objectives.
Through a five-interconnected, gender transformative and context-fit country objectives, PIE intends along with the various stakeholders at all levels to continue delivering positive and transformative changes so that “Children, especially girls, and young people grow up in an enabling environment, realizing their rights and contributing in both development and humanitarian settings as active agents of change”.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead humanitarian and resilience programming by developing response strategies, coordinating stakeholders, overseeing emergency interventions, and ensuring child and girl-focused programming. Conduct rapid needs assessments, support emergency preparedness planning, and provide timely reports and recommendations to guide effective humanitarian action.
- Work closely with the Localization Advisor to support the process of local partners’ selection for the emergency response purpose, ensuring alignment with Plan International’s approach and programming priorities in humanitarian crises.
- Work closely with respective Technical Advisors to ensure ER programming are of high quality and have direct positive impact on children affected by crises.
- Ensure the preparation of quality reports and updates for different Plan Entities and external factors such as donors.
- Establish and maintain constructive working relationships, with other NGO’s, UN agencies, bilateral and multilateral donors.
- Support the Head of Programs and the Country Director represent and build the profile of Plan Egypt on emergency work and maintain adequate accountability and transparency in our work.
- Ensure appropriate programme quality standards are used, particularly SPHERE and its companion guides (such as Child Protection Minimum Standards and Minimum Standards for Education Preparedness, Response and Recovery (INEE) and the Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS).
- Monitor and analyze humanitarian situations and emerging risks, support preparedness planning aligned with country and global DRM strategies, provide timely humanitarian situation reports, and lead the design and implementation of emergency response programs in line with international humanitarian principles.
- Support the strengthening of humanitarian and resilience programming through project design, budget management, quality implementation, and reporting. Lead humanitarian-development nexus initiatives, identify funding opportunities, and coordinate the development of high-quality proposals and resource mobilization strategies. Build and maintain partnerships with donors, UN agencies, government counterparts, and other stakeholders, while representing the organization in coordination forums and monitoring funding trends to inform strategic programming and sustainable growth.
- Represent Plan International Egypt in humanitarian coordination forums and strengthen partnerships with key humanitarian stakeholders. Coordinate information sharing, support multi-agency assessments, and collaborate with MERL and Communications teams to document, communicate, and promote humanitarian responses, impacts, and best practices to advance the organization's influencing agenda.
- Manage humanitarian project budgets and grants, ensuring timely implementation, budget compliance, and accurate financial oversight. Coordinate grant start-up and close-out processes, oversee SAP PO creation and grant closure, and lead budget monitoring, forecasting, and reallocation to ensure effective use of resources.
- Ensure adherence to safeguarding, gender equality, anti-fraud, safety, security, and other organizational risk and compliance standards.
- Ensure compliance with Plan International’s Child Protection and Gender Equality policies, including staff awareness and reporting procedures.
- You will be trusted to take on additional assignments within the scope of work as assigned by your supervisor on need basis.
Minimum Requirements
- Someone with Master's degree in Disaster Risk Management, humanitarian studies, development studies, development economics, agricultural economics, sociology, human rights, political science, international development
- Should have 7 years of progressive experience in similar organizations at management level and five years managerial/supervisory experience required working in a very protracted and complex humanitarian setup
- Someone with proven experiences and ability to coordinate and collaborate with different organizations including the government and demonstrable working experience in development programme.
- Someone with excellent written and verbal communication skills in Arabic and English languages.
Eligibility Criteria
The job is open to applicants but does not specify eligibility criteria for international candidates.
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