Local Emergency Response Manager (LERM)

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 know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. 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.

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

The Opportunity

The Local Emergency Response Manager (LERM) for the Far North region will assist the Country Emergency Response Manager (ERM) to lead and manage the Emergency Response Team (ERT) in the region and associated emergency programs and be the interface between the Emergency Response Team and ERM based in the Country Office. The LERM will support ERM to ensure the quality and effectiveness of Plan's emergency response in Maroua PIIA. As Loval ERM, you will be the leader of the Maroua PIIA Team, responsible, and accountable for developing, coordinating and managing all emergency activities. You will have an overall responsibility for the security and wellbeing of staff in or outside of the region, is expected to support CERM by providing strategic leadership in all areas of emergency programming and strengthen the sub office's overall capacity to respond to emergencies in accordance with accepted principles and practices, as well as strategically integrate emergency programming within the overall program approach. As a member of the Country Leadership Team, the LERM is also expected to actively contribute to the overall governance of the country office, and delivery of its strategic and annual operating plan.

The Individual

We are looking to recruit a qualified candidate, with a Master's Degree or equivalent in management, socials sciences or related fields, a strong experience in complex humanitarian contexts. As Local ERM, you will converse with international humanitarian architecture, particularly related to coordination and funding, a demonstrated prior experience engaging with the humanitarian coordination system and local, regional, and global levels. As Local ERM, you will have an excellent analytical, problem solving and strategic planning skills, an experienced in project design, planning, proposal writing and project reporting and an excellent teamwork skill and the ability build good relations both internally and externally. The Local ERM will have an experience in staff management, training and support, an excellent verbal and written communications skills in French and English.

Please follow this link for a full role profile: JD Local ERM Maroua 2025.pdf

Location: Maroua

Type of Role: Fixed Term Contract

Reports to: Country Emergency Response Manager

Hay Level: 17

Closing Date:09th March 2025

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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