VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

Plan Cameroon is an international Child Centered Community Development Organization with no religious, political or governmental affiliation working in Cameroon since 1996. We promote equal opportunity employment and pay special consideration to female candidates.

Plan is an children's organization with primary concerns on children rights, safety and well being and has in its interest to create safe environments for children with more attention paid to child protection. All employees are therefore expected to comply with  our Child protection policy.

Plan Cameroon is looking for a suitable candidate for the position of Disaster Risk Management Advisor(DRM) to be based in its Country Office, Yaoundé. The contract is for one year renewable. It will be governed by Cameroon Labour Law.

Main responsibilities - Key End Results of the Position

The incumbent will among many other task perform the following:

• Responsible for overall coordination of al disasters related projects/activities to align them with the DRM strategy-preparedness and emergency response.
• Ensure that DRM section is including in Plan Cameroon Country Strategic Plan(CSP) and Country Programmes(CP) so that new funding opportunities as appropriate.
• Implementation of Plan Cameroon DRM program Support Programme Units(PUs) in the event of emergency to give proper responses
• Advises CMT(Country Management Team) and PUs on emergency response and preparedness programming(health, education, protection, etc...)
• Develops partnership with relevant Ministries, UN agencies and NGOs on disaster response
• Supports disasters related internal evaluation and programme development
• Build unity in-house through information sharing and participation to ensure that Plan Cameroon adheres, and contributes to best practice in programme and policy development.
• Monitors risk register to update it accordingly.
• Assists in the production of the result chain and Plans
• Supports production of council and community child centered disaster plan
• Ensures that Plan's Child Protection Policy and related procedures are adhered to in all aspects of work
• Complies with Plan's Child Protection Policy at all times to safeguard and protect children from all forms of abuse.
• Ensure the region of IH are timely informed about any disaster management issues in the country, via sitrep
• Support the recruitment of any staff for disaster related activities, response or risk reduction
• Build capacities of the country team, communities' members and relevant partners in DRM and ensure that all new staff recruited for DRM activities is timely and efficiently oriented: code of conduct, Sphere, INEE etc.
• Ensure DRM program and activities as monitored and implemented the best way in regards of Plan relevant policies and systems in place: PPM, CPPR, APPR, etc.
• Ensure the quality of DRM projects abide international rules in that field.

Qualification and Experience

• At least a university degree or equivalent
• Familiarity with disaster/emergency response/risk management.
• Three years of working experience in programme/project planning, monitoring and evaluation; and demonstrated research competence

Demonstrated behaviors needed by the post holder to successfully perform the role:

• Promotes innovation and learning
• Communicates clearly and effectively
• ability to facilitate participative process that aim to decision making and agreement
• Strong competencies to plan, prioritise, and execute
• autonomously with strategic approach
• Ability to deliver to tight deadlines and budgets
• Capacity to prioritize subjects based on an adequate reading of local reality
• Creativity and innovation

Knowledge

• Good knowledge of disaster and risk management
• Project Management
• Child Rights/Child Protection
• Excellent writing, editing and reviewing skills
• Fluent in the English, and/or French language
• Knowledgeable in working with local and international partners on disaster related activities in a national and regional environment.
• Knowledge in building individual and organizational capacity in disaster and risk management skills

Skills Specific to the post needed to put knowledge into practice

• Strong negotiation, facilitating and influencing skills
• Ability to understand different cultural contexts and marketing
• realities related development issues would be an advantage
• Able "to put in practice" concepts and strategic thinking
• Excellent writing, editing and reviewing skills
• Strong team building and motivational skills

Travel requirements

This position entails 30% travelling to the field to support communities, staff and partners in the Program Units as well as travels to the regional office.

Application procedure

All applications should include:

1. Cover letter;
2. Comprehensive CV;

Interested applicants should submit their applications no later than May 31st, 2014 at 17 o'clock preferably in soft copies and by e-mail to the address: Plan-Cameroon.jobvacancies@plan-international.org with a subject title: Application for Disaster Risk Management Advisor.

Female candidates are particularly encouraged to apply.

Only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted. The candidate finally selected should comply with the Child Protection Policy applied in the Organization.

N.B: No application shall be admitted after the closing hour mentionned before.