Emergency Response Manager – Agency

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 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.

The Opportunity

Plan International Nigeria aims to respond effectively, rapidly, and at significant scale to the core humanitarian needs of children and their families affected by the Boko Haram crisis in the North Eastern Nigeria. Specifically, Plan International Nigeria aims to minimize disruption to formal and non-formal education systems and to restore formal education services; strengthen the proactive environment for children and their families including age and gender appropriate services during and after disasters; create opportunities for and build capacity of young people affected by the armed conflict to generate income and to improve their life skills; and to become recognized actor in both in linking related community based interventions to national coordination and interagency mechanisms where Plan International Nigeria will gradually take on leadership functions.

The Emergency Response Manager is the overall line manager for the whole emergency response team which is spread across three locations (Abuja, Maiduguri and Mubi), responsible for the quality and effectiveness of Plan International Nigeria?s emergency response Programme. Overseeing the development and implementation of the Emergency Response Plan (including project implementation of different projects with various institutional donors and National Offices), maintaining the emergency master budget, ensuring the regular development of situational reports, representing the organisation externally with other humanitarian actors at various clusters and working groups and internally, including the Regional Hub and Lake Chad Basin Unit.

About You

You bring significant humanitarian aid experience in complex and natural disasters and the highest level of expertise in representation and negotiation with governments and donors.

A strong understanding of the humanitarian emergency operating context, including Sphere, the humanitarian system, donors, security, civil military liaison and program management.

Experience leading large multi-disciplinary, multi-national teams across different geographical locations is essential in this role.

Please follow this link for a full role profile; ERM Nigeria Role Profile

Location: Maiduguri, Nigeria

Type of Role: Two year fixed term contract with potential for extension. This is an unaccompanied post.

Reports to: Country Director

Grade: E

Closing Date: 2nd May 2022

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.