Post Name
Humanitarian, DRR & CC Programme Manager
Publish Date: 12-Dec-2019
Location: Dhaka, 3, BD
Company: Plan International
Application Closing Date
31 December, 2019
The People Who Join Our Team Are a Special Bunch.
They’re leaders, and they take responsibility every
day to act on our core values and
advance our organizational purpose- Advancing
Children’s Rights and Equality for Girls. They exhibit discipline in
their work and in their relationships. To every challenge, project and
interaction, they apply a balance of head and heart.
Our people are smart. They’re rigorous thinkers. They
relish challenges and work with others to come up with creative solutions to
the toughest challenges that children and young people face. They are confident
and curious, always open to learning. That’s how - in a fast-changing world –
our team consistently comes up with great programmes.
Diversity is powerful. To achieve transformational
change, we seek out team members with different backgrounds and ways of
thinking. Diversity helps us unlock complexity.
Our people are proud to represent Plan International
Bangladesh, and conscious that they do so not just in the workplace, but
wherever they go.
Plan International Bangladesh is looking for a
Humanitarian, DRR and CC Programme Manager who will help to Plan International
Bangladesh to achieve Plan International’s Disaster Risk Management Global
Vision 2020 commits to promoting gender equality and protecting girls’ rights
in disaster and conflict settings. It commits that by 2020, Plan’s all DRM
programmes will promote gender equality and especially strengthen girl’s and
women’s leadership, and the position (social status) of the adolescent girl as
she is doubly made vulnerable because of her age and gender. It also states
that even in the most acute emergencies all DRM programmes will be at least
gender aware, and gender transformative in protracted and slow onset crises.
The Role
The Humanitarian, DRR and CC Programme Manager will
closely work with the programme technical team to ensure disaster risk
reduction and climate change are addressed at the design and development phase
of Plan’s development programme and projects; provide technical support to the
implementation teams at divisional offices and at Cox’s Bazar on DRR and CC.
He/she will lead Plan’s response initiatives in
emergencies in a timely, efficient, effective and accountable manner covering
initial deployment of ERT, needs assessment, proposal writing and design and
development of response programme considering different phases of the
emergencies.
One of the major responsibilities of the position
holder is to build organizational capacity on Gender in Emergencies and ensure
that all emergency response initiatives of Plan are either gender aware or
gender transformative. S/he works with the influencing team of Plan
International Bangladesh to identify influencing agenda related to DRM/CC at
local and national level and strategies the same towards making impact at
scale.
What We’re Looking For
We are looking for a competent and committed
professional, holding a Master’s in any discipline preferably in Disaster
Management from a reputed university. Having sound knowledge about gender
issues and able to conduct gender analysis in humanitarian programme for
supporting gender aware/transformative project implementation and evidence
gathering; Significant field experience in developing and managing DRR,
CCA and humanitarian response programmes. Demonstrated
experience of key practice and standards for humanitarian response e.g. CHS/
Red Cross/NGO Code of Conduct, SPHERE and its companion guides (Child
Protection Minimum Standards and Minimum Standards for Education Preparedness,
Response and Recovery and the CHS; Significant
knowledge in promoting gender equality and protecting girls’ rights in
disaster, working at the nexus of development and humanitarian efforts.
Needed to be conversant with the international
humanitarian architecture, particularly related to coordination and funding; demonstrated prior experience of engaging with the
humanitarian coordination system at the national level. It is also required to
have general finance, administration, information management and
telecommunication skills and proficiency in information technology/computer
skills with proficiency in English, computer application and internet (MS
Word, Excel, Power Point, Adobe, internet browsing), as well
as telecommunication.
About Plan International
Plan International is an
independent development and humanitarian organization that advances children’s
rights and equality for girls. Plan
International envisages a world in which all children and young people realise
their full potential, a vision now shared by the 193 Heads of State and
Government who adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in September
2015.
We believe in the power and
potential of every child. This is often suppressed by poverty, violence,
exclusion and discrimination. Its girls who are most affected. Plan International’s new Global Strategy aims to
transform the lives of 100 million girls by implementing an integrated
programme and influence approach.
Location: Bangladesh Country Office
Duration of contract: 3 years
Closing date: 31 December 2019
ü Only Bangladeshi nationals are eligible to apply
ü Please note that only applications and CVs written in English will be
accepted.
ü A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with
Plan International's Safeguarding Children and Young People policy.
ü As an international child centered community development organization,
Plan International is fully committed to promoting the realization of
children's rights including their right to protection from violence and abuse.
That means we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into
contact with.
ü 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. We must not contribute in any way to
harming or placing children at risk.
ü Plan International operates an equal opportunities policy and
actively encourages diversity, welcoming applications from all areas of the
international community.
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