Plan International was founded over 75 years ago with a mission to promote and protect the rights of children. The organisation was set up by British journalist John Langdon-Davies and refugee worker Eric Muggeridge in 1937, with the original aim to provide food, accommodation and education to children whose lives had been disrupted by the Spanish Civil War. Langdon-Davies conceived the idea of a personal relationship between a child and a sponsor – a model that puts the child at the centre, and remains the core of what we do. Today, Plan International is a global organisation that is active in over 70 countries to advance children’s rights and equality for girls. Who We Are We work with communities around the world to end the cycle of poverty for children. We work with communities around the world to end the cycle of poverty for children. Founded over 70 years ago, Plan is a nearly $800 million organization often ranked among the top 10 international development agencies by reputation, size and scope. We work side-by-side with communities in 50 developing countries to end the cycle of poverty for children, developing solutions to ensure long-term sustainability. Our level of community engagement, long-term outlook and constant focus on the needs and priorities of children is unique among international development organizations. Our solutions are designed up-front to be owned by communities for generations to come and range from clean water and health care programs, to education projects and child protection initiatives. Community by community, Plan works to promise futures that are worthy of all children’s potential. Our Vision Our vision is of a world in which all children realize their full potential in societies that respect people’s rights and dignity. Our Mission Plan strives to achieve lasting improvements in the quality of life of vulnerable children in developing countries by: Enabling children, their families and their communities to meet basic needs and to increase their ability to participate in and benefit from their societies; Fostering relationships to increase understanding and unity among peoples of different cultures and countries; and Promoting the rights and interests of the world’s children.
- Job Type: Full Time
- Qualification: BA/BSc/HND
- Location: Not specified
- Job Field: NGO/Non-Profit
The Opportunity
The Humanitarian Needs Assessment specialist will support country offices to conduct strong needs assessments in real time to improve principled humanitarian action, design relevant programmes, and help position Plan International for funding, ensuring we are able to meet the needs of the most at-risk children. The post holder will ensure user-friendly tools and guidelines are in place to support Country Offices conducting strong needs assessments and deliver high-quality needs assessment reports in real time. The post holder will be expected to travel regularly to support Country Offices design and implement needs assessments, Travel may be at short notice.
The Person
- The ideal candidate will have experience in humanitarian disaster relief management in a global organisation and driving innovations or improvements.
- Active extensive experience in humanitarian crisis relief across multiple organizations and countries.
- Significant experience in developing and implementing humanitarian emergency needs assessments in a broad range of humanitarian contexts including rapid-onset disasters.
- Proven experience in integrating gender lens to needs assessments. Demonstrable experience in the design and implementation of training activities.
ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Develop user friendly tools and guidance for use by Country Office staff globally for both rapid needs assessments and (multisectoral) needs assessments.
- Ensures gender is a core component of all needs assessments so that specific needs and risks for girls, boys, women and men are identified.
- Ensures all needs assessments capture sex, age, disability disaggregated data as per Sphere standards.
- Ensure our approach to needs assessments aligns with the Core Humanitarian Standard and sector specific guidelines and standards.
- Ensures a child friendly complaints and feedback mechanism is integrated into all needs assessment activities.
- Develops needs assessment training support for Country Offices to help build organisational capacity.
- Support global technical leads develop sector specific needs assessments formats, tools and guidelines.
- Engages with IASC and other interagency networks focussing on needs assessments approaches positioning Plan International as a key humanitarian agency.
- Together with the MERL Teams ensure Plan Internationals needs assessments are done where possible through digital tools.
- Together with MERL team work to ensure alignment of needs assessments with monitoring and evaluation approaches.
- Deploy at short notice to support Country Office to develop and implement a needs assessment.
- In collaboration with the European Union Liaison Office and European National Organisations strengthen our submissions to ECHO during the HIP season.
- Maintains contact with humanitarian specialists in National Organisations to remain aware of specific donor requirements for needs assessments.
- Support country offices develop their needs assessments in to documents that can be shared externally with donors, clusters, and peer agencies.
- Annually provide a snapshot of all needs assessments conducted and key trends identified.
- Collaborates with the Global Fundraising Hub to provide information from needs assessments that supports marketing activities and fundraising.
- Close coordination with policy and influencing colleagues to ensure data from needs assessments are integrated into policy and influencing talking point