Humanitarian Needs Assessment Specialist

• Develop and maintain tools, guidance, and methodologies for rapid and multi-sectoral humanitarian needs assessments.
• Support Country Offices to design and implement high-quality assessments, ensuring gender, child protection, disability inclusion, and age considerations are central.
• Deliver training to build organizational capacity and represent Plan International in inter-agency coordination forums.
• Translate assessment data into compelling insights for fundraising, advocacy, and influencing.

This role ensures that humanitarian responses are evidence-based and prioritize the most vulnerable children and girls, enabling Plan International to design effective programmes and secure funding to address crises.

• Extensive experience leading or supporting humanitarian needs assessments across diverse emergency contexts, including rapid-onset crises.
• Strong expertise in gender analysis and integrating protection and inclusion into assessments.
• Experience developing and delivering training, and using digital tools for data collection and analysis.
• Familiarity with donor expectations and humanitarian standards (Sphere, CHS, CPMS, INEE).

Salary and benefits are set according to location and will be disclosed during the process. The role includes security training, wellbeing support, and pre-deployment briefings. This is a 2-year fixed term contract with significant global travel.

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls, working in over 80 countries to tackle the root causes of challenges faced by vulnerable children.