Emergency Project Coordinator – ECHO-funded Project

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 

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership and overall management of the ECHO project, ensuring the effective delivery of programme objectives, quality standards, and donor commitments.
• Lead project planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, learning, and reporting activities to ensure timely and high-quality programme outcomes.
• Oversee project performance tracking, data management, assessments, and evidence generation to support informed decision-making and continuous programme improvement.
• Manage project budgets, work plans, financial performance, and resource allocation in compliance with donor requirements and organisational policies.
• Lead and support multidisciplinary teams, fostering a high-performance culture, accountability, collaboration, and staff development.
• Coordinate emergency preparedness, needs assessments, response interventions, and proposal development to strengthen programme impact and resource mobilisation.
• Ensure the integrated implementation of multi-sectoral interventions, including WASH, Child Protection, Education, GBV, Shelter, and NFI programming.
• Build and maintain strong partnerships with government authorities, donors, UN agencies, NGOs, and other key stakeholders to enhance coordination and programme effectiveness.
• Promote knowledge management, documentation of best practices, organisational learning, and capacity strengthening across project teams and partners.
• Ensure full compliance with donor regulations, humanitarian standards, safeguarding commitments, and organisational policies throughout project implementation.

The Individual 

Technical expertise, skills and knowledge

Qualifications/ Education/experience essential:

• Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, Psychology, Social Work, Law, Political Science & International Relations, Community Development, Disaster Risk Management, Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience, including at least 3 years in a senior-level role.
• Extensive experience in humanitarian emergencies, including conflict, displacement, and natural disaster contexts.
• Proven experience managing multi-sectoral humanitarian programmes, particularly in Child Protection, Education, WASH, Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL), social inclusion, gender equality, and IDP response.
• Strong background in project, budget, team, and people management.
• Experience leading assessments, evaluations, research, monitoring, and learning activities using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience in developing tracking systems and preparing donor, internal, DRM, HRP, and RRP reports.
• Strong understanding of humanitarian principles, disaster resilience, climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, conflict mitigation, and preparedness planning.
• Sound knowledge of donor compliance requirements, preferably EU/ECHO, and humanitarian standards such as Sphere and CHS.
• Strong skills in data collection, analysis, monitoring tools, surveys, evidence generation, and adaptive programming.

Location: Afar Program Area 

Type of Role: Fixed-term contract, with the possibility of extension based on satisfactory performance and project requirements.

Reports to: Consortium Manager – ECHO 

Closing Date: Nov 15, 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.