Emergency Response Specialist

Position: Emergency Response Specialist

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.

ROLE PURPOSE

Plan International is a development and humanitarian organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We strive for a just world, working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners in over 75 countries. Our programs are underpinned by a core of defined values, including transparency and accountability, team collaboration, inclusion and integration, as well as the overall ambition to empower girls and young women as legacy.

Plan International has been working in Nepal since 1978 and developed a strong reputation as a respected development and humanitarian actor helping marginalized children, their families and communities to access their rights to health, education, economic security and protection. Through the support of local partners, Plan International has worked in 42 districts in Nepal since 1978.

Plan International strives for a just world that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. Our ambition from now to 2027 is to see All Girls Standing Strong Creating Global Change.

Plan international Nepal seeks candidates who practice feminist leadership, promote diversity, actively seek innovative solutions for problems, courageously and respectfully share their opinions and ideas, break down barriers and engender cross-department collaboration, practice active.

Plan International’s global strategy applies a full spectrum approach where Disaster Risk Management (DRM) is an integral part of everything the organisation does for children and girls, especially in fragile settings. A new DRM vision was developed in 2018 highlighting Plan’s ambition of becoming a global leader and the NGO partner of choice for promoting gender equality and protecting girls’ rights in disaster and conflict settings, working at the nexus of development and humanitarian efforts.

Plan International has over the last 15 years developed a significant DRM portfolio and focused its efforts on both mainstreaming DRM within its long-term development programmes as well as building the necessary disaster preparedness and response capacity across the organization to ensure the delivery of timely and appropriate programmatic responses to crisis as per sector quality standards, The Core Humanitarian Standards, (CHS).

As Emergency Response Specialist you will be responsible for overseeing the Nepal Flash Flood Response in the field. You will required to support the emergency responses activities at the field level by capacitating Plan as well as Partner Staff for smooth implementation.

Dimensions of the Role

The post holder will ensure all work is developed and implemented in ways that improve gender equality and empowers girls and women.

The post holder will work with operational support departments (Finance, Logistics & Procurement, People & Culture, Fundraising, Security, IT, Systems) to support integration of emergency response in to standard tools, guidance and systems.

The role will represent Plan International in relevant external fora and inter-agency coordination groups at the implementation level.

Responsibility for upholding and implementing relevant aspects of all Plan policies and procedures, including the ‘Say Yes! To Keeping Children Safe’ Policy.

Accountabilities

• Ensure gender equality is core to all emergency operations, positioning Plan International as the “Go To” agency for gender responsive humanitarian action.
• Develop appropriate emergency preparedness and response tools and guidance notes in coordination with other stakeholders within Plan International.
• Acts as a point of contact for Response team on the ground for seeking support or advice on specific response issues.
• Works closely with operational support functions (HR, finance, IT, Logistics & Procurement, Safety & Security) to strengthen Country Office ability in these key areas.
• Support the development of new operational support systems, ensuring emergency response requirements are considered and addressed.
• Promotes the use of appropriate humanitarian standards in Plan International’s emergency response activities (Sphere, CHS, CPMS, etc)
• Represent Plan International in relevant external fora and interagency working groups
• Coordinate and work together with STA DRR/CCA and ERM to identify potential crises or worsening situations and communicating this effectively across the organisation.
• Together with Logistics & Procurement colleagues develop Plan International’s approach to pre-positioning of core stocks.
• Document and analyse lessons (on programmatic and technical issues) coming from emergency responses and translate these into changed process or practice and disseminate across the organisation.
• Ensure that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant implementation standards and guidelines as applicable to area of responsibility. Including, but not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC); relevance to area of work, and concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures

Key relationships

Internally:

• Works closely with Programmes, Partner Management and Impact, Programme Quality and Innovation, Business Development, Operations and Finance teams
• Senior Technical Advisor- Disaster RisK Management & Climate Change Adaptation and Humanitarian Response Manager at country office and Direct reports to Emergency Response Manager
• National Organisation disaster risk management network

Externally:

• Interagency working groups and coordination fora.

Technical expertise, skills and knowledge

• Master’s Degree in relevant field with minimum 5 years of proven experience working in a leading, advising or managing humanitarian/emergency response program portfolio;
• Demonstrable experience of developing and leading gender responsive humanitarian programming.
• Broad knowledge of the humanitarian sector
• Thorough knowledge of the programme and operations dimensions of implementing emergency responses;
• Must be fluent in English and Nepali
• Significant experience of leading emergency response operations.
• Demonstrable experience of humanitarian standards (Sphere, CHS etc)
• Creative approach to problem solving is central to the job.
• Experience of developing and conducting capacity building programmes.
• Flexibility to adapt plans to a changing environment
• Developing and maintaining collaborative relationships; managing self in a pressured and changing environment; motivating and influencing others
• Adherence to humanitarian values and standards
• Actively takes steps to uphold Plan International’s vision, values and behaviours and policies, including the Say Yes! To Keeping Children Safe Policy.

Plan International’s Values in Practice

We are open and accountable

We create a climate of trust inside and outside the organisation by being open, honest and transparent. We hold ourselves and others to account for the decisions we make and for our impact on others, while doing what we say we will do.

We strive for lasting impact
We strive to achieve significant and lasting impact on the lives of children and young people, and to secure equality for girls. We challenge ourselves to be bold, courageous, responsive, focused and innovative.

We work well together
We succeed by working effectively with others, inside and outside the organisation, including our sponsors and donors. We actively support our colleagues, helping them to achieve their goals. We come together to create and implement solutions in our teams, across Plan International, with children, girls, young people, communities and our partners.

We are inclusive and empowering
We respect all people, appreciate differences and challenge inequality in our programmes and our workplace. We support children, girls and young people to increase their confidence and to change their own lives. We empower our staff to give their best and develop their potential.

Physical Environment

The position holder will be based in Nuwakot/ Rasuwa

Level of contact with children

Mid contact: Occasional interaction with children

Location: Field Office- Nuwakot

Type of Role: Short-term (6 months)

Reports to: Emergency Response Manager

Grade: D1

Closing Date: 17 September 2026

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.

Please note that Plan International will never send unsolicited emails requesting payment from candidates.

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