VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

Disaster Risk Management Coordinator

Plan International is a rights-based development and humanitarian organisation working for better lives for all children. We are independent of government and have no political or religious affiliation. Our purpose is to strive for a just world that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We have been building powerful partnerships for children for more than 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries. Plan International began working in the Pacific in 2012 and has offices and staff in Solomon Islands (SI) and PNG, in Bougainville and has an established regional office in Suva, Fiji.

Plan International PNG Office is seeking to hire a full time Disaster Risk Management Coordinator. The role will monitor and provide capacity-building support to the program and partner organisations to ensure quality processes and outcomes, with a particular focus on striving for best practice in child rights, gender equality and inclusion. The role reports to Country Programme Manager based in PIPNG

Do you have what it takes to be successful in this role?

Essential

• Understanding of development and aid issues and trends in the PNG context, particularly in Bougainville.
• Experience working on disaster risk & resilience and/or disaster response programming in Papua New Guinea
• Ability to deliver results while working autonomously with limited supervision.
• Demonstrated experience in capacity-building of local NGO and/or CBO partners in Papua New Guinea.
• Experience managing stakeholder relationships and partnerships to produce results.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to produce succinct written reports.
• Understanding of and ability to develop strong partnership relationships with government and civil society organizations
• Understanding of, and/or experience in, rights-based approaches and previous international experience with child rights issue

Desirable

• Attention to detail
• Awareness and appreciation of building and nurturing stakeholders and partnerships
• Naturally passionate about the development sector in PNG
• Natural initiative and self-motivated
• Ability to work on your own with little supervision
• Strong development and DRM project management skills and experience, including the ability to adjust work plans and drive implementation of activities

Location: Buka, PNG

Type of Role: Disaster Risk Management Coordinator

Reports to: Country Programme Manager

Grade: D1

Closing Date: 9 August 2024

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.

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