The Organisation
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances childrenโs rights and equality for girls.
We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And itโs girls who are most affected.
Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.
We support childrenโs rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for โ and respond to โ crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.
We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 85 years, and are now active in more than 80 countries.
Over 820 million people around the world go to bed on an empty stomach. Today, the global hunger crisis is one of the biggest challenges threatening the humanity.
The Head of the Global Hunger Response and Resilience Unit will provide practise and thought leadership, lead a team of practitioners, ensure real time support for country offices, compliment and lead marketing and fund-raising efforts to scale up hunger response and resilience work , contribute to advocacy and influencing work and represent Plan International in strategic forums and platforms.
Responding to the causes, consequences and dynamics of hunger and bolstering the resilience of communities are key to address the global hunger crisis. Plan International's Global Hunger Response and Resilience Unit will play a leadership and catalyst's role to scale up food security, livelihoods, cash and voucher assistance, nutrition and climate smart solutions. Our current global strategy has an ambitious goal to scale up humanitarian. To make our work more relevant and fit for purpose and fit for the future, we have recently created four new global humanitarian units of capability. All four units (including the Global Hunger Response and Resilience Unit) are part of the Global Humanitarian Team.
Please follow this link for a full role profile and person specification; Head Hunger Response and Resilience Unit Role Profile July 2023.docx
Location: The location of this role can be flexible where Plan International has an office* that can employ on behalf of the Global Hub and you have the pre-existing right to work and live. Relocation to Kenya may also be considered.
Type of Role: Permanent or maximum fixed term contract
Reports to: Global Humanitarian Director
Closing Date: Monday 21st August
Interviews: w/c 28th August
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, girlsโ 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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