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.
The Opportunity
Plan International started operating in Moldova in March 2022 to support the Government, the UN and humanitarian partners in responding to the arrival of refugees from Ukraine. Over 500,000 refugees have crossed into Moldova from Ukraine since the start of the conflict and around 100,000 have remained.
Plan International Moldova works exclusively through local civil society partners to support vulnerable children, young people, and their families to cope with the impact of the current humanitarian crisis and to increase their resilience.
Through our partners, we are implementing programmes across Moldova, with a focus on the Northern and Southern regions and the municipality of Chisinau.
We support the most vulnerable refugee children with food and hygiene products to address their basic needs. We also support them to access play, education, mental health support, legal services, and other social and emotional support services. All our work promotes childrenโs rights, mental health, and gender equality.
The Programme Quality & Implementation Manager will lead the work of Plan International Moldova Programme team. This role will oversee the management of all programme activities in country, ensuring activities are in line with, and contributes to, Plan International Ukraine Response Hub Strategy.
You will be responsible for providing oversight on the selection of local partner organisations alongside Partnership Manager, ensuring alignment with Plan Internationalโs approach and programming priorities for Moldova and directly manage programme technical specialists to ensure programmes are of high quality and have direct positive impact on children and adolescents, especially girls.
The Individual
You have a cultural understanding and proven significant experience of exercising leadership functions with increasing responsibility in an internationally connected environment related to humanitarian principled action and development or with diverse populations, cultures, and social or economic contexts.
You can demonstrate a track record of humanitarian management of effective and motivated teams, including distance management and delivering business planning, financial management, improvement programmes in line with organisational objectives.
You possess knowledge of programming in challenging environments including complex humanitarian conflict settings with good understanding and appreciation of the geopolitical factors affecting girls and child-poverty in Moldova, historical, security context, political, social, environment opportunities, economic, social/religious and humanitarian context in Moldova or a comparable environment.
You can demonstrate knowledge and experience in delivering disaster preparedness, humanitarian response, disaster risk reduction programmes and nexus programming.
Experience and understanding of the concepts of nexus programming, climate change adaptation, social cohesion building and participatory approaches and practices in humanitarian interventions and knowledge of the requirements of donor compliance and financial management
You speak excellent English written and verbal communication skills. You also possess a good understanding of Romanian language and/or Russian and the socio-economic status in Moldova and the East and Central European region.
Please click on this link to see the full role profile: Programme_Quality_Implementation_Manager Moldova.docx
Location: We will be recruiting globally for this role, however the role is based in Moldova, therefore support with relocation is available.
Type of Role: Fixed term contract
Reports to: Director Ukraine Crisis Response
Closing Date: 15 November 2023
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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