Title: Humanitarian Response Manager

Functional Area: Program, Partnership and Impact (PPI)

Reports to: Director of Program Partnership and Impact

Location: Country Office, Kathmandu

Travel required: Districts with emergency response projects

Grade: D2

Type: Fixed-term employment of 2 years from date of employment; based in Country Office.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Master’s degree in Disaster Risk Management/Risk Reduction, Humanitarian Degree, and/or International Development or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience including grants management for humanitarian projects.
• Experience in project planning, implementation, partnership management, government engagement, designing / managing of integrated humanitarian projects.
• Sufficient knowledge on disaster risk management (DRM) and humanitarian response/recovery
• Proven track record of leading for implementation of Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) programming for any humanitarian programs.
• Knowledge of disaster recovery including digital Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) programming with Nepalese context.
• Proven knowledge of budget tracking and management especially in humanitarian context.
• Knowledge of MERL, and procurement for humanitarian projects.
• Understanding of Nepal’s national disaster management structure, systems, plans and priorities including sectoral emergency preparedness and response mechanisms.
• Extensive experience and expertise in humanitarian models and methods of training, facilitation and capacity building, project management and organizational development for staffs and communities.
• Experience in networking/engaging with key actors.
• Good knowledge of written and spoken English.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with colleagues, a variety of team members and external contacts, through good written and spoken communication skills.

Desirable:

• Good understanding of the processes by which you achieve policy change and of how to conduct power and political analysis.
• Ability to plan work and meet deadlines when working under pressure on a number of projects.
• Commitment to Plan’s values including the rights and needs of children. 
• Experience of working for an international organisation.

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