Program Portfolio Manager - Humanitarian Action

The Organisation

Plan International Pilipinas is a girl-centered community-focused non-government organization, serving the Philippines for the last 64 years.

We are a newly locally registered Foundation, connected to 80+ Plan International offices worldwide.

We work with around 7,000 partner communities or barangays across the country, delivering programs on (PIER) Protection from Violence, Inclusive Health, Education to Economic Empowerment, and Resilience and Humanitarian.

We have 30,000 sponsored children and 2.5 million program participants, co-creating lasting impact especially for girls.

About the Role

The Program Portfolio Manager (PPM) for Humanitarian Action is a senior leadership role responsible for the strategic oversight, quality, and performance of Plan International Pilipinas’ humanitarian and emergency response portfolio.

The role leads the design and delivery of high‑quality, gender‑responsive humanitarian action, including anticipatory action and emergency response, aligned with Plan International’s humanitarian standards and commitments. The PPM ensures strong coordination across program teams, optimizes resources, strengthens partnerships, and embeds learning and accountability across the portfolio.

This role works closely with program areas; the country office; regional and global teams; as well as government agencies, donors, alliances, local governments, civil society organizations, and community partners.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership and oversight of the humanitarian and emergency response portfolio, ensuring delivery of high‑quality, inclusive, and gender‑responsive programs aligned with Core Humanitarian Standards.
• Lead portfolio planning, resourcing, and performance management to ensure efficient use of funds, timely delivery, and measurable impact.
• Drive business development and resource mobilization, leading the design of gender‑transformative emergency response proposals and positioning the portfolio for institutional, regional, and local funding opportunities.
• Strengthen partnerships and stakeholder engagement with government, donors, civil society, and community partners, ensuring compliance, accountability, and capacity strengthening.
• Champion program quality, evidence‑based practice, and organizational learning, maximizing MERL systems to improve humanitarian outcomes.
• Provide senior leadership and people management, mentoring project teams and fostering inclusive, collaborative, and high‑performing ways of working.

Requirements & Qualifications

Education

• Preferably a Master’s degree, with 5–7 years of progressive experience in development and/or humanitarian work, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Experience & Skills

• Proven experience in humanitarian program or portfolio management, including planning, budgeting, and oversight of large or complex projects (including consortiums).
• Strong background in emergency response, including work in remote or high‑risk settings.
• Demonstrated experience managing partners, community organizations, and volunteers.
• Track record in proposal development, donor engagement, and resource mobilization.
• Excellent written and spoken English, strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to build effective working relationships across diverse stakeholders.
• Willingness to be deployed at short notice for emergency response.

Core Competencies

• Strategic and results‑oriented mindset, with the ability to translate strategy into impact
• Strong stakeholder engagement and negotiation skills
• Creativity and initiative in identifying innovative funding and partnership opportunities

Why Join Us

This is an opportunity to lead high‑impact humanitarian action in a disaster‑prone context, contribute to gender‑transformative change, and work with committed teams and partners advancing children’s rights and equality for girls.

Location: Makati City (with field work as needed)

Type of Role: Fixed-term (one year), with possibility of extension

Reports to: Program Director

Flexible working arrangements

Competitive compensation package (local T&C)

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.

Please note that Plan International will never send unsolicited emails requesting payment from candidates.