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 this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s 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 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.

We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 85 years, and are now active in more than 80 countries.

Summary of the position 

The Programme Support Manager leads Plan International Sierra Leone’s Youth Engagement and Disaster Risk Management (DRM) and innovation activities in the Country Programme. The purpose of this position is to ensure a quality programme and accountability through supporting and implementing high-quality emergency and youth-related programs and projects and promote innovation and youth participation in all operations of Plan International Sierra Leone in programme designing, planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation

The Programme Support Manager is a member of ECLT and manages the Youth and DRM aspects of the Country Strategy 2019 to 2021. This role oversees all DRM and Youth-related components in the application and implementation of the Programme Quality and Influencing Procedures (PQIP). The position is crucial to Plan International’s programme quality and effectiveness.

Ensures that Plan International’s Global Policy on DRM and Youth Engagement are fully incorporated into our Programmes and operations by principles and requirements of the policies

Ensures that Plan International Sierra Leone is disaster-aware and responsive and has updated DPPs in place

Coordinates staff capacity development in DRM, and Youth capacity development to lead in influencing.

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.

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