Humanitarian Response Project Manager At Plan International

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Plan International is an independent humanitarian and development organization that promotes children’s rights and girls’ equality.

We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often stifled by poverty, violence, exclusion, and discrimination. And girls are the most affected.

Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we fight for a just world, addressing the root causes of the challenges faced by girls and all vulnerable children.

We support children’s rights from birth to adulthood. We empower children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive change in practice and policy at the local, national, and global levels, leveraging our reach, experience, and expertise.

We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 85 years and are now active in more than 80 countries.

PURPOSE OF THE ROL:

The Humanitarian Response Project Management team focuses on ensuring quality, accountability, effectiveness, and efficiency in the management of humanitarian response projects in the areas of Food Security, WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene), and Protection, guided by humanitarian principles, human rights, safeguards, and gender considerations. It will be responsible for managing the team and assigned resources, as well as coordinating and collaborating with other humanitarian actors to ensure the achievement of objectives, donor requirements, and the implementation of the project’s programmatic and operational framework.

ROLE DIMENSIONS:

  • REPRESENTATION AND RELATIONSHIP RESPONSIBILITY: Will represent Plan International at tables, networks, spaces, related to the project he/she manages, to ensure coordination and complementarity with other humanitarian actors and the donor.
  • MEDIA: At the request of the Country Representation, you may be designated as spokesperson to the media on issues related to your project.
  • RESPONSIBILITY FOR PROJECT PLANNING, IMPLEMENTATION, AND MONITORING: This role will be fundamental in formulating the Project Implementation Strategy, the Detailed Implementation Plan, the Monitoring and Accountability Plan, the Communications and Visibility Plan, the Procurement and Contracting Plan, and the Risk Analysis. Additionally, the incumbent must ensure compliance with donor and institutional requirements regarding programmatic and financial reporting.
  • RESPONSIBILITY IN MANAGING THE PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION STAFF: will be responsible for ensuring the channels and lines of communication for project governance, as well as the management of the performance of each of the positions, the professional development of the technical team linked to the project and compliance with the safeguarding policies and code of conduct.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  1. Strategic Planning
  • Leads and ensures the strategic planning of the project in coordination with other humanitarian response projects in the territory.
  • Ensure coordinated and harmonious planning with the territorial coordination of the project
  1. Project implementation, monitoring, and accountability
  • Development of a Detailed Implementation Plan (DIP)
  • Detailed planning of activities and methodologies for implementation
  • Prepare a procurement plan (purchases and contracts)
  • Identify and manage project risks (safeguard, security, operational)
  • Establish and monitor the cash flow for project implementation
  • Planning and monitoring the implementation of the project in the corporate systems
  • Ensure the entry of financial information into SAP and PMERL
  • Development of the monitoring and accountability plan
  • Lead the development of the project kickoff plan
  • Ensure the definition of the project monitoring framework
  • Ensure the implementation of an accountability mechanism to affected communities (AAP), including a feedback mechanism
  • Ensure a system for collecting information and managing data for monitoring beneficiaries and ensuring accountability.
  • Monitoring compliance with results and programmatic quality.
  • Responsible for the timely delivery of all reports.
  • Responsible for internal and external relations and coordination
  • He leads the project’s steering committee and technical committee.
  • Represents PLAN in the coordination spaces of the Country Humanitarian Team and clusters
  • Ensure proper project closure
  • Responsible for closure plan
  • Ensures the implementation of closure activities
  • Evaluation and audits
  • Knowledge management products.
  • Final reports
  • Closure in systems
  1. Administrative and Financial Management
  • Comply with the organization’s and donor’s administrative processes and procedures
  • operational management of the project
  • Responsible for ensuring operational efficiency for the implementation of all activities.
  • Approval of all expenses charged to the project budget based on the agreed delegation of authority
  • Project budget management, monitoring, and adjustments.
  • Responsible for reviewing and approving financial reports
  1. Security Management and Organizational Risk Reduction (continued)
  • Ensure efficient management and prevention of organizational risk in your area of ​​intervention.
  • Develop situational analyses on national realities in social issues that directly or indirectly affect children and adolescents, as well as propose risk mitigation strategies for children and adolescents at risk and/or survivors of gender-based violence.
  1. Personnel Management (continued)
  • Responsible for establishing the project’s governance structure.
  • Responsible for the recruitment and staffing plan
  • Capacity building
  • Develop and strengthen the management capacity of the implementing team
  • Facilitate spaces for continuous learning for the application of methodologies, tools and instruments for the operationalization of our transformative gender approach.
  • Responsible for managing the performance of the project team
  1. Safeguard (continued)
  • Ensure that Plan International’s global safeguarding policy and PII’s policy to prevent harassment, exploitation, and sexual abuse, and to promote gender equality and inclusion, are fully integrated in accordance with the policy principles and requirements, including the relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to your area of ​​responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring that staff and partners are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of ​​work, and that concerns are reported and addressed in accordance with appropriate procedures.

EXPERIENCE, TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES AND ABILITIES:

Experience and prior knowledge

  • Bachelor’s and postgraduate degrees in areas related to Project Management, Humanitarian Action and Disaster Risk Management.
  • Knowledge and experience in implementation, monitoring and accountability of humanitarian action projects and emergency and disaster response.
  • Technical experience and managerial skills for the implementation of humanitarian projects in the Food Security and Nutrition, WASH and Protection sectors (especially child protection).
  • Understanding the context and humanitarian scenarios of the Northern Triangle of Central America (Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador), related to the shocks of social violence, displacement, migration and food insecurity.
  • At least 10 years of experience in managing emergency response plans and implementing humanitarian projects, including experience in implementing humanitarian projects under a consortium model.

Knowledge:

  • Skills for planning, organization and managerial integration.
  • Knowledge of humanitarian architecture at the country level and experience participating in coordination and complementarity mechanisms and spaces.
  • Knowledge of humanitarian principles and national and international mechanisms relating to the comprehensive protection of children and adolescents at risk of protection and high vulnerability.
  • Skills for changing behaviors, leading, motivating and inspiring through logical arguments.
  • Skills for making decisions autonomously to achieve the expected results.
  • Skills for relating to donors and implementing partners in the humanitarian sector.

Skills:

  • High-level communication skills and the ability to interact with a range of stakeholders, including government representatives, CSO representatives, and community members.
  • Negotiation and influence skills for achieving collective agreements that impact expected results.
  • Facilitation skills to guide a team through the complete proposal development cycle.
  • Skills for managing and integrating diverse teams.
  • Ability to find solutions to complex situations.

Location: Guatemala City

Role type: Project Coordination and Management Staff

Reports to: Country Representative

Closing date: May 12, 2026

Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of everything Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to all regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil union, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusion and we strive to create a work environment that ensures that every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts and ideas.

We foster an organizational 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 organization, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities towards the children we come into contact with and must not contribute in any way to harming or putting children at risk.

A series of pre-employment checks will be carried out in accordance with Plan International’s Child and Youth Protection Policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. Under this scheme, we will request information from applicants’ previous employers regarding any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation after the applicant left employment.

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How to apply

To apply, please send your resume to the following link:

https://jobs.plan-international.org/job-invite/53678