Overview
Provide strategic leadership and technical oversight for emergency preparedness, humanitarian response, and resilience programming. Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the humanitarian portfolio, ensuring timely and effective responses to emergencies.
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.
- Work closely with the Localization Advisor to support the process of local partners’ selection for emergency response.
- Work closely with respective Technical Advisors to ensure ER programming are of high quality.
- Ensure the preparation of quality reports and updates for different Plan Entities and external factors.
- Establish and maintain constructive working relationships with other NGOs, 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.
- Ensure appropriate programme quality standards are used, particularly SPHERE and its companion guides.
- Monitor and analyze humanitarian situations and emerging risks, support preparedness planning, and lead the design and implementation of emergency response programs.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Required Experience
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. Proven experiences and ability to coordinate and collaborate with different organizations including the government and demonstrable working experience in development programme.
Qualifications
Master's degree in Disaster Risk Management, humanitarian studies, development studies, development economics, agricultural economics, sociology, human rights, political science, international development.
