Plan International

Position: ER Project Coordinator

Job Time: Full-Time

Job Type: Contract

Place of Work: Tewledere and Were babu, Ethiopia

Posted date: 21 hours ago

Application Deadline: Feb, 22/2022 (4 days left)

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.

We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion, and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.

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

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.

We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.

Plan International is a rights-based development and humanitarian organization working for better lives for all children. We are independent of government and have no political or religious affiliation. Our purpose is to strive for a just world that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We have been building powerful partnerships for children for more than 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.

Our global strategy has a specific focus on girls, as they are often the most marginalized and most often left behind. We have committed ourselves to the ambitious target of reaching 100 million girls over 5 years, to ensure they can learn, lead, decide and thrive. This is our contribution to reaching the sustainable development goals and in particular the goals of gender equality. Our organization is transforming itself to meet this enormous challenge everywhere we work. We need bold, forward-thinking, and innovative individuals to lead our country's operations, driving change and delivering results that will allow us to reach our target of 100 million girls.

In Ethiopia, Plan has more than 25 years of experience in implementing its program. Currently, PIE mainly operates in seven geographical areas; Amhara, Oromia, SNNPR, Gambella, Benishangul Gumuz, Afar, and Addis Ababa City Administration on different projects funded by different donors including sponsorship.

Plan International Ethiopia's main purpose is to seek Gender Justice for Girls, Adolescent Girls, and Young Women. We aim to help create an enabling environment where girls, adolescent girls, and young women are safe, valued, equally cared for, and have equal opportunities. PIE will contribute to the global strategy by aiming to reach directly 2.1 million Girls, Adolescent Girls, and Young Women over the period of the strategy 2020-2024 and to reach an additional 6.3 million beneficiaries through its interventions.

The position holder will be responsible for all operational aspects of the humanitarian intervention and ensuring the quality and effectiveness of the Plan’s emergency response within his/her designated geographical area mainly related to three core areas: Emergency nutrition, Emergency Child Protection, and Emergency WASH-related projects including handling manpower and budgetary aspects of the projects.

Accountability and Main Work Activity

• Lead a multi-disciplinary professional emergency team consisting of (up to 15 staff) working in the project site
• Ensure emergency assessments are effectively undertaken and implement integrated emergency response, recovery, and exit strategies in close collaboration with major partners and stakeholders
• Ensure all team members clearly understand and carry out their duties in accordance with personal work plans, humanitarian principles, core values, the Code of Conduct, and SPHERE.
• Work collaboratively in close relation with the field, OPA, and concerned CO staffs
• Ensure existing human resources needs are fully assessed, identified, described, and communicated, in collaboration with the field and Country Office HR Officers.
• Promote a productive work environment respectful of the Code of Conduct with zero tolerance for verbal and physical abuse or discrimination against other persons on the grounds of race, colour, sex, or creed.
• Ensure all team members are fully briefed on all aspects of security, social and cultural norms, and local conditions and behavior.
• Led humanitarian and rehabilitation projects in the project site, implementing donor-funded projects in Food Security Livelihoods and WASH sectors, responsible for the successful implementation of projects valued up to $1,200,000 USD per project period.
• Coordinate effectively the development of all project implementation plans and budgets within the framework of the agreed emergency response program and strategy
• Ensure effective budget management at the field level, including correct coding of expenses and adherence to PIE financial management guidelines and donor requirements.
• Monitor periodically grant budgets with OPA and CO finance teams and are in compliance with donor regulations.
• Coordinate the designing/development of emergency response projects and ensure projects are effectively implemented, monitored/reviewed, evaluated and progress and final reports are timely compiled and shared with CO (Livelihoods and WASH Specialists) and OPA for review and then submission to donor
• Ensure adequate monitoring, reporting, and acquittal of emergency response activities in accordance with donor regulations, country and national office requests, international humanitarian accountability frameworks, and relevant SPHERE standards
• Provide continuous technical and organizational support and capacity building to field teams
• Make regular visits to emergency response field sites to provide field staff support and address programmatic challenges;
• Ensure the National Project Manager, ERR Lead/Deputy lead is kept informed about assessment progress, emergency response implementation and strategies, project plans, progress reports, and other significant developments;
• Assist and advise the National Project Manager and ERR Lead with securing donor funding for emergency projects.
• Establish and maintain constructive working relationships with other NGOs, UN agencies, local government, bilateral and multilateral donors, and other principle stakeholders including the military were present if necessary.
• Ensure that the Donor and Government reporting is done and submitted on time in accordance with their reporting template and within their reporting schedule.

Qualifications/Experience Essential:

• MSc/BSc in Rural Development, Agriculture, Economics, Development Studies, Public Health, Hydraulic Engineering, Sociology, or other related fields is required with a minimum of 7 years working experience.
• Good managerial experience, including managing budgets

Qualifications and experience desirable

• Equipped with sufficient level of awareness on Early warning concepts; Disaster risk management practice and knowhow; food security framework; good understanding of national government policies and agro-pastoralist awareness
• Knowledge of Plan policies and procedures, Sphere, and the Red Cross/ NGO Code of Conduct
• Knowledge of child rights programming
• Good knowledge of field level realities of humanitarian NGOs work;
• Experience of working in agro-pastoral context and speaking Afan Oromo;
• Knowledge of FSL, WASH, DRR, CTP, EWS, DRR, and DCM;
• Good understanding of the external operating environment including government policies, strategies, guidelines, and operating procedures in managing emergencies and disasters in the country Perform multiple, non-technical tasks with a potential need to upgrade skills in order to meet changing job conditions.

Languages required

• Fluency in the English language is essential
• Knowledge of local language is desirable

How to apply

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Equality, diversity, and inclusion are 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, 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 organizational 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 organization, 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.