Emergency Response Manager / Head of Programmes - Venezuela

Plan International; Caracas; Presencial; VES 53.860.000 - 80.790.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Plan International in Caracas seeks an Emergency Response Manager / Head of Programmes to provide strategic and operational leadership for humanitarian and recovery programming in Venezuela. The role focuses on delivering high-quality, donor-compliant activities through partner networks and robust monitoring.

The post holder will manage a diverse portfolio, engage donors, and coordinate across teams to ensure safeguarding and accountability.

Formación

• Substantial progressive experience in humanitarian and/or development programming, including significant humanitarian response experience.
• Proven experience in programme management or senior coordination in humanitarian settings.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex, multi-project and multi-donor portfolios.
• Strong experience across the full project cycle: design, implementation, monitoring, financial follow-up, reporting and close-out.
• Experience managing programmes implemented through local or national partners.
• Strong understanding of humanitarian principles, programme quality, safeguarding and accountability.
• Experience with grant management and donor compliance.
• Ability to coordinate technical, programme and operational functions.
• Experience working in volatile or operationally complex environments.
• Strong analytical, leadership, negotiation and communication skills.
• Willingness to travel regularly within Venezuela.
• Spanish: Advanced professional proficiency (C2).
• English: Advanced professional proficiency (C1).

Responsabilidades

• Provide strategic leadership and oversight for Plan International's humanitarian and recovery portfolio in Venezuela, ensuring programmes remain relevant, effective, and aligned with needs.
• Lead planning, implementation, monitoring, and delivery of humanitarian and recovery programmes with quality, timeliness, and donor compliance.
• Manage a diverse portfolio of projects, grants, budgets, partners, and technical sectors, identifying risks and driving corrective actions.
• Build and maintain relationships with partners, promoting localisation, safeguarding, and programme quality.
• Ensure effective monitoring, evaluation, learning, and accountability to affected populations across the portfolio.
• Oversee financial performance and grant management with high-quality reporting.
• Lead programme development, including needs assessments, proposals, donor engagement, and resource mobilisation.
• Represent Plan International with donors, UN agencies, NGOs, and authorities to strengthen partnerships.
• Provide leadership across multidisciplinary teams to foster collaboration, accountability, inclusion, and high performance.
• Ensure safeguarding, gender equality, inclusion, protection and risk management are integrated throughout design and implementation.

Conocimientos

Programme management

Humanitarian programming

Donor/grant management

Stakeholder coordination

Leadership

Spanish proficiency

English proficiency

Travel adaptability

Descripción del empleo

Role Purpose

The Emergency Response Manager / Head of Programmes - Venezuela provides overall strategic and operational leadership to Plan International's humanitarian and recovery programme portfolio in Venezuela. The postholder is accountable for ensuring that the portfolio is delivered on time, within approved budgets and in accordance with proposals, donor requirements, humanitarian standards and Plan International's commitments on programme quality, safeguarding, gender equality, inclusion and accountability to affected populations.

A central responsibility is to ensure that Plan's partner-led operating model translates into high-quality and accountable delivery at field level, supported by clear expectations, adequate technical accompaniment, effective monitoring and timely corrective action. This is a highly operational role requiring the ability to move confidently between strategic leadership and hands‑on programme troubleshooting.

Accountabilities

• Provide strategic leadership and oversight for Plan International's humanitarian and recovery portfolio in Venezuela, ensuring programmes remain relevant, effective, and aligned with evolving needs.
• Lead the planning, implementation, monitoring, and delivery of humanitarian and recovery programmes, ensuring quality, timely results, and compliance with donor and organisational requirements.
• Manage a diverse portfolio of projects, grants, budgets, partners, and technical sectors, identifying risks, challenges, and opportunities and driving corrective actions where needed.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with local and national partners, strengthening their capacity and promoting localisation, accountability, safeguarding, and programme quality.
• Ensure effective programme monitoring, evaluation, learning, accountability to affected populations, and evidence-based decision-making across the portfolio.
• Oversee financial performance and grant management, ensuring donor compliance, sound budget management, and high-quality reporting.
• Lead programme development efforts, including needs assessments, proposal development, donor engagement, and resource mobilisation.
• Represent Plan International with donors, UN agencies, NGOs, government authorities, and coordination platforms, strengthening partnerships and organisational positioning.
• Provide leadership and coordination across multidisciplinary teams, fostering collaboration, accountability, inclusion, and high performance.
• Ensure safeguarding, gender equality, inclusion, protection, security, access, and risk management considerations are integrated throughout programme design and implementation.

Technical expertise, skills and knowledge required

• Substantial progressive experiance in humanitarian and/or development programming, including significant humanitarian response experience.
• Proved experience in programme management or senior coordination experience in humanitarian settings.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex, multi-project and multi-donor portfolios.
• Strong experience across the full project cycle, including design, implementation, monitoring, financial follow-up, reporting and close‑out.
• Experience managing programmes implemented through local or national partners.
• Strong understanding of humanitarian principles, programme quality, safeguarding and accountability.
• Experience with grant management and institutional donor compliance.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate technical, programme and operational functions.
• Experience working in volatile, rapidly changing or operationally complex environments.
• Strong analytical, leadership, negotiation, coordination and communication skills.
• Ability and willingness to travel regularly within Venezuela.
• Spanish: Advanced professional proficiency, C2 or equivalent.
• English: Advanced professional proficiency, C1 or equivalent, including the ability to lead meetings, engage with donors, and draft or review high-quality technical and donor documentation

Location: Caracas - Venezuela

Type of Role: 3 Month Full time International or Local contract. It may be renewed subject to satisfactory performance, operational requirements and availability of funding.

Reports to: Head of Mission - Venezuela

Grade: Level 16

Closing Date: 13th November 2026 at 07:59 EAT

Early application is strongly encouraged. We review applications on a rolling basis and reserve the right to close the advert ahead of the advertised closing date.