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 85 years, and are now active in more than 75 countries.
Role Purpose
Plan International is an independent child rights and humanitarian organisation committed to children living a life free of poverty, violence and injustice.
We actively unite children, communities and other people who share our mission to make positive lasting changes in children’s and young people’s lives. We support children to gain the skills, knowledge and confidence they need to claim their rights to a fulfilling life, today and in the future. We place a specific focus on girls and women, who are most often left behind.
We have been building powerful partnerships for children for more than 75 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.
The purpose of the role is to oversee the implementation and management of the protection and distribution projects under refugee humanitarian response.
Dimensions of the Role
This role will ensure the overall management of all the projects (child protection, gender-based violence, human rights, food and non-food items distribution) in the refugee settings. Donor and stakeholder management, including donor reporting both narrative and financial reporting as well as donor engagement from time to time. The manager is also responsible for managing a project team of at least twenty-three project staff with eight direct reports.
Budget management of about 1,400,000 USD per year which includes GIK value for core relief items.
Accountabilities
Project coordination at Country level
Proposal writing and submission to prospective donors
Develops and reviews project intervention targeting the youth, vulnerable children and people with specific needs in the camps and urban refugee settlement areas
Develops and submits annual and quarterly work plans and budget for submission to donors, national offices and internally within Plan.
Prepares and submits all scheduled corporate and regular reports on time as outlined to donors, National Offices and Malawi government
Prepares and submits refunding applications, and other written materials required by donors and management for release of funds instalments
Provides functional support to the project team and the refugee community
Undertakes capacity building for program staff and stakeholders to ensure quality delivery of work and alignment to key humanitarian standards and packages for protection work.
Facilitate roll out of key humanitarian packages such CPiE, Parenting, Life skills and any other packages deemed necessary in the refugee response
Works closely with the project team, District and National Coordination teams, other actors at district and national level to ensure effective project implementation and monitoring.
Reviews best interest assessments reports for vulnerable children for submission to UNHCR
Liaises with key non-governmental organizations (NGOs), national, local government, and external donors, as necessary for effective coordination
Participates in joint agency assessments, task-force teams and workshops, technical committee meetings, coordinating and working cooperatively with other team members to guide agency management and growth
Ensures effective engagement of communities using appropriate human rights approaches that will include Equity and Inclusion
Promotes innovative community mobilization approaches and adoption of new attitudes and practices by frontline staff that do not regard communities as mere beneficiaries but also partners with valuable contribution to their own development
Develops strategies and guidelines on mainstreaming child protection, youth empowerment, human rights and SGBV in the project while being kept informed about refugee and immigrant issues, and services available to refugees
Coordinates prison monitoring to follow up on POCs in detention and manage their welfare
Manages project audits and responds to project audit queries as necessary
Undertake program monitoring and evaluation including among other things ensuring that the project is aligned to the Plan PMERL system.
Document good practice for dissemination with Plan International regional and global forums and other external platforms as deemed necessary.
Ensure that safeguarding and PSEA standards are being adhered to in the operation of the project including timely reporting of safe guarding issues among PIM staff and POCs and vice versa.
Management of the project in SAP system to ensure budgets are inputted correctly and frequently monitored to avoid over expenditures and manage under expenditures.
Participate in regional and global learning forums for learning and profiling Plan International Malawi’s work in the response.
Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Child Protection (CPP) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility.
Key Relationships
Internal
Program Area Manager
Country Management Team
Extended Country Management Team
Project Officers
Community Development Coordinators
Drivers
Office Assistant
This vacancy is archived.