About You**

You are an experienced humanitarian professional who thrives in complex and fast-moving environments. You bring both technical expertise and a collaborative, capacity-building mindset.

Essential experience and skills:****

• 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.

• Familiarity with donor expectations and humanitarian standards (Sphere, CHS, CPMS, INEE).

• Experience using digital tools for data collection and analysis.

• Strong analytical, coordination and report-writing skills.

• Ability and willingness to deploy at short notice and work in challenging environments.

Desirable:**

• Experience contributing to funding proposals or donor submissions.

• Experience developing advocacy or influencing messaging from assessment findings.

• Experience working with partner organisations.

• Fluency in English; French, Spanish or Arabic is an asset.

• Develop and maintain user-friendly tools, guidance and methodologies for rapid and multi-sectoral needs assessments.

• Ensure gender, child protection, disability inclusion and age considerations are central to all assessments, in line with Sphere and Core Humanitarian Standard requirements.

• Support Country Offices to deliver high-quality assessment reports suitable for donors, clusters and peer agencies.

• Design and deliver needs assessment training to build organisational capacity.

• Work closely with MERL and Digital teams to promote the use of digital data collection tools and alignment with monitoring and evaluation systems.

• Deploy to Country Offices (up to 4 months at a time) to directly support assessment design and implementation.

• Represent Plan International in inter-agency coordination forums, including IASC-related networks.

• Support fundraising, advocacy and influencing teams by translating assessment data into compelling insights and products.

• Strengthen alignment with donor requirements, including ECHO submissions during HIP cycles.

• Produce an annual global overview of assessments and emerging humanitarian trends.

• Ensure safeguarding, child protection, and gender equality policies are fully embedded in all areas of work.