Job Vacancies at Plan International

The Opportunity

Our new global strategy prioritises humanitarian scale up.

To respond to the growing unmet needs in emergencies and to strengthen the speed, quality, relevance and appropriateness of our emergency response and readiness work, we are investing in our humanitarian deployable capacity.

The Deployable Education in Emergencies (EiE) Specialist is a member of Plan International’s Global Education in Humanitarian Action Unit . While on deployment the specialist provides technical support to Plan International’s Country Offices (COs). This normally involves responding to medium and large-scale emergencies by developing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating EiE programmes.

This role will have a specific focus on the integration of CVA modalities in Education in Emergencies. When not on deployment the specialist contributes to Plan’s EiE workplan as agreed with the team. This may include continued follow up from a distance with deployment countries.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

Accountabilities described apply during deployed and non-deployed time

Programme Design and Assessment (15%)

• Ensure all EIE work has a strong child protection, gender and inclusion focus, in line with Plan International’s Global Strategy.
• Support and Lead on multi-sectoral needs assessments including joint, rapid education assessements that include feasibility of cash and voucher assistance to support education access in collaboration with Plan International’s Cash and voucher assistance team, Child protection, Food Security, the Education Cluster/working group, education authorities, teachers and community members including children and adolscents in all their diversity, ensuring assessment findings are documented and disseminated.
• Cooordinate with CVA team to carry out CVA response analysis that will inform programme design and implementation
• Support CO’s in designing response plans based on based on identified needs and priorities and, where possible, through a process of community participation.
• Provide technical assistance to CO’s in the design of gender-aware (and where possible, gender-transformative) EiE programme strategies, plans and proposals that include Cash and voucher assistance modalities, preparedness, anticipatory action and/or response, in collaboration with key education stakeholders, communities, children and adolescents in all their diversity
• Ensure that EiE interventions are in line with Humanitarian response plans and linked to longer-term programming and national education plans and systems.

Programme Implementation (35%)

• The post holder will deploy to CO’s to provide technical support and leadership on safe, inclusive and quality education programmes including integration of CVA modalities during humanitarian crises.
• Coordinate with education, early childhood development (ECD), child protection, gender advisors and CVA team staff to ensure coherence with Plan International’s Inclusive Quality Education framework and to build synergy with existing skills and training.
• Work with other sector teams, including but not limited to CPiE, gender in emergencies, Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) and Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) teams to support integrated EiE programming that prevents and mitigates child protection risks and addresses multi-dimensional, age- and gender-specific barriers to education for children and adolescents.
• Ensure alignment of Plan International’s EiE work with key cross cutting priorities (for example, child protection, gender and inclusion) whilst also ensuring innovation is central to Plan International approach.
• Ensure effective programming for out of school children including children associated with armed forced and armed groups (CAFAAG), child survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) and children on the move. This programming includes but is not limited to actions to support immediate access to and retention in education, transition through different levels of accredited formal and non-formal education including integration of CVA modalities , and referral to multi-sectoral services.
• Contribute to the development of gender-balanced staffing plans to implement EiE programme activities and work with the Human Resources (HR) team to recruit in line with approved grants.
• Ensure that EiE interventions are aligned with the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies Minimum Standards (INEE MS) and Global Education Cluster’s CVA for
• Education in Emergencies guidance and tools, and other global humanitarian standards, guidelines and tools.
• Identify EiE/ CVA programme supply needs and coordinate with the logistics team to ensure timely procurement and delivery.

Representation and Partnership (10%)

• Work with country office colleagues to represent Plan International at relevant clusters, working groups, and in other fora related to EiE and facilitate coordination across sectors including with the Cash working group
• Participate in the development of the Education Cluster/Working Group response strategies, including the Humanitarian Response Plan, Humanitarian Needs Overview and Rapid Response Plan processes, ensuring a focus on gender and inclusion.
• Support the integration of CVA modalities in coordinated approaches to preparedness, anticipatory action and rapid response in education in collaboration with the Education Cluster and other agencies on the ground
• Participate in and contribute to the the Global Education Cluster CVA community of practice
• Identify opportunities and establish dialogue for partnerships and collaboration with other humanitarian agencies and education stakeholders , particularly local partners, representatives of people living with disabilities (DPOs), women’s and youth groups, education authorities, vocational and tertiary education institutions and teaching unions.
• Support the development of Plan International’s profile in EiE programming, particularly in regard to girls in all their diversity.

Resource Mobilization (10%)

• Build and maintain relationships with relevant government departments, UN agencies and NGOs.
• Establish and maintain new and existing relationships with key donors.
• Support Plan International’s CO’s to build a diversified portfolio of funding for EiE.
• Support development and submission of quality proposals in response to identified opportunities at CO level and in collaboration with local partners.

Programme Monitoring and Evaluation, Reporting and Accountability (10%)

• Work closely with the Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) team in COs to analyse assessments and develop an EiE M&E framework that appropriately monitors the evolving needs of learners and teachers capture the contribution of CVA to education outcomes and aligns with the Education Cluster/working group response strategies.
• Build capacity of EiE and M&E staff to collect and analyse quantitative and qualitative data, ensuring all data is disaggregated by sex, age and disability.
• Document and disseminate key learning from EiE responses and use assessments, evaluations and lessons learned to redefine response strategies and EiE interventions, in coordination with the Education Cluster/working group, education authorities, teachers and communities , including children and adolescents in all their diversity.
• Prepare timely reports on EiE projects in compliance with internal and donor requirements.

Provide input for regular CO sitreps.

• Ensure accountability activities effectively and efficiently support community members, including teachers and children and young people in all their diversity and that feedback from all relevant stakeholders is considered throughout all phases of the response.

Learning and Capacity Building (10%)

• Develop capacity building plans and tools for CO colleagues, or support the implementation of existing plans.
• In collaboration with the CVA team, organize orientation sessions and dissemination of existing tools and guidance developed by the GEC Cash teak team
• Support the provision of training, coaching and mentorship to programme colleagues, partners and other key stakeholders on CVA for Education in Emergencies jointly with the CVA team and related issues such as gender equality and inclusion Identify and if necessary adapt or develop training manuals, guidance documents, and toolkits on key education and ECD in emergencies issues including by integrating CVA modalities , as required.
• Promote best practices in EiE, including on CVA modalities for education outcomes both internally and externally.

Research, Policy and Advocacy (10%)

• Drive learning, knowledge management and policy impact by authoring, commissioning and contributing to publications, policy documents, briefing notes and other resource materials, ensuring that Plan International has distinct knowledge and evidence on gender dimesion in education in emergencies. Support COs to develop case studies and reports of programme innovation and successes in particular on the integration of CVA in Education in Emergencies interventions and the contribution of CVA to education outcomes.
• Engage with key technical groups within Plan International, representing EiE and Cash and Voucher Assistance .
• Contribute to relevant global advocacy and policy objectives with documented learning and evidence.
• Work with the Education Cluster/working group to develop advocacy strategies informed by contextually relevant evidence and analysis to influence national-level plans, programmes and policies

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The Opportunity

Our new global strategy prioritises humanitarian scale up.

To respond to the growing unmet needs in emergencies and to strengthen the speed, quality, relevance and appropriateness of our emergency response and readiness work, we are investing in our humanitarian deployable capacity.

The Deployable Education in Emergencies (EiE) Programme Specialist is a member of Plan International’s Global Education in Humanitarian action unit. While on deployment the specialist provides technical support to Plan International’s Country Offices (COs). This normally involves responding to medium and large-scale emergencies by developing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating EiE programmes.

This role will have a specific focus on the integration beween EiE and child protection in emergencies (CPiE) programming. When not on deployment the specialist contributes to Plan’s EiE workplan as agreed with the team. This may include continued follow up from a distance with deployment countries.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

Accountabilities described apply during deployed and non-deployed time

Programme Design and Assessment (15%)

• Ensure all EiE work has a strong child protection, gender and inclusion focus, in line with Plan International’s Global Strategy.
• Support and lead on multi-sectoral needs assessments including joint, rapid education/ child protection needs assessments in collaboration with Plan International’s EiE and CPiE programmatic areas, the Education Cluster / Child protection sub-cluster/working group, community members, children and adolescents in all their diversity, including documentation and dissemination of assessment findings.
• Support Plan International’s COs in designing integrated EiE and CPiE response plans, based on identified needs and priorities and -where possible- through a process of community participation.
• Contribute to a portfolio of high-quality, conflict-sensitive EiE/ CPIE integrated programming globally.
• Provide technical assistance to COs in the design of gender-aware (and where possible, gender-transformative) integrated EiE-CPiE programme strategies, plans and proposals for emergency preparedness, anticipatory action and/or response, in collaboration with key education and child protection stakeholders, communities, children and adolescents in all their diversity.
• Ensure that EiE and integrated EiE-CPiE interventions are in line with humanitarian response plans and linked to longer-term programming and national education/child protection plans and systems.

Programme Implementation (35%)

• The post holder will deploy to COs to provide technical support and leadership on Education and Child protection integrated programmes including preparedness, anticipatory action and rapid response in humanitarian crisis settings.
• Work with other sector teams, including but not limited to CPiE, gender in emergencies, Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) and Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) teams to support integrated EiE programming that prevents and mitigates child protection risks and addresses multi-dimensional, age- and gender-specific barriers to education for children and adolescents.
• Work with other sector teams, including CPiE, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and climate change and resilience, to strengthen safe learning environments that promote social and emotional learning and psychosocial support and supporting the wellbeing of children and adolescents in all their diversity.
• Ensure alignment of Plan International’s EiE work with child protection, gender and inclusion priorities whilst also ensuring innovation is central to Plan International’s approach.
• Ensure the effective planning, implementation and coordination of EiE-CPiE integrated programming for out of school children including children associated with armed forced and armed groups (CAFAAG), child survivors of gender-based violence (GBV), children on the move. This programming includes but is not limited to actions to support immediate access to and retention in education and child protection services, transition through different levels of accredited formal and non-formal education, and referral to multi-sectoral services.
• Ensure that EiE interventions are aligned with the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies Minimum Standards (INEE MS), Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS) and other global humanitarian standards, guidelines and tools.
• Identify integrated EiE-CPiE programme supply needs and coordinate with the logistics team to ensure timely procurement and delivery.

Representation and Partnership (10%)

• Work with CO colleagues to represent Plan International at relevant clusters, working groups, and in other fora related to EiE and CPiE.
• Participate in the development of the Education Cluster/Working Group response strategies, including the Humanitarian Response Plan, Humanitarian Needs Overview and Rapid Response Plan processes, ensuring a focus on gender and inclusion.
• Support the integration of EiE and CPiE responses in preparedness, anticipatory action and rapid response planning between the Education Cluster, CP AoR/working group and other agencies.
• Support COs to identify opportunities and establish dialogue for partnerships and collaboration with other humanitarian agencies and education stakeholders, particularly local partners, representatives of people living with disabilities (DPOs), women’s and youth groups, education authorities, vocational and tertiary education institutions and teaching unions.
• Support the development of Plan International’s profile in EiE and CPiE integrated programming particularly in regards to girls in all their diversity.

Resource Mobilization (10%)

• Build and maintain relationships with relevant government departments, UN agencies and NGOs.
• Establish/maintain new/existing relationships with key donors.
• Support Plan International’s COs to build a diversified portfolio of funding for EiE and EiE-CPiE integrated programming.
• Support development and submission of quality proposals in response to identified opportunities at CO level and in collaboration with local partners.

Programme Monitoring and Evaluation, Reporting and Accountability (10%)

• Work closely with the Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) team in COs to develop an integrated EiE-CPIE M&E framework that appropriately monitors the evolving needs of most vulnerable children including CAAFAG and child survivors of GBV in line with the Education Cluster and CP AoR response strategies.
• Strengthen the capacity of EiE, CPiE and M&E staff to collect and analyse quantitative and qualitative data related to EiE-CPiE programming, ensuring all data is disaggregated by sex, age and disability.
• Document and disseminate key learning from EiE-CPIE integrated programme responses and use assessments, evaluations and lessons learned to redefine response strategies and EiE interventions, in coordination with the Education Cluster/child protection AoR/working group, authorities, teachers, caregivers and communities, including children and adolescents in all their diversity.
• Prepare timely reports on EiE projects in compliance with internal and donor requirements.
• Provide input for regular CO sitreps.
• Ensure accountability activities effectively and efficiently support community members, including teachers and children and young people in all their diversity and that feedback from all relevant stakeholders is considered throughout all phases of the response.

Learning and Capacity Development (10%)

• Provide training, coaching and mentorship to programme staff, partners and other key stakeholders on EiE-CPiE integrated programming and related issues such as gender equality and inclusion. Identify and if necessary adapt/develop resources related to priority EiE-CPiE topics, as required.
• Promote best practices on EiE-CPiE integrated programming internally and externally.

Research, Policy and Advocacy (10%)

• Drive learning, knowledge management and policy impact by authoring, commissioning and contributing to publications, policy documents, briefing notes and other resource materials ensuring that Plan International has distinct knowledge and evidence on EiE-CPiE programming.
• Support COs to develop case studies and reports of programme innovation and successes.
• Engage with key technical groups within Plan International, representing EiE and CPIE .
• Contribute to relevant global advocacy and policy objectives with documented learning and evidence.
• Work with the Education Cluster/child protection AoR/working group to develop advocacy strategies informed by contextually relevant evidence and analysis to influence national-level plans, programmes and policies.

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The Opportunity

The Deployable Child Protection in Emergencies (CPiE) - Sexual Violence specialist is part of the global Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPHA) unit and is deployable for up to 75% of time. As such, the CPiE-Sexual Violence specialist will have both global responsibilities and in-country responsibilities during deployments.

At a global level, the Deployable CPiE-Sexual Violence Specialist will be responsible for the global roll-out of Plan International’s humanitarian sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) programming framework and other key resources across global, regional, country and national offices. The Specialist will represent Plan International in relevant global fora related to child protection and gender-based violence (GBV).

The Deployable CPiE-Sexual Violence Specialist will deploy to priority emergencies (Orange 2 and Red level) to lead the CPiE response programmes and ensure that approaches to address SGBV against children and adolescents are embedded in Plan International’s humanitarian response.The Deployable CPiE-Sexual Violence Specialist is expected to lead resource mobilisation for CPiE including GBV funding, and provide hands-on technical support to child protection and other sector teams as well as implementing partners in the country they will be deployed to.

The Deployable CPiE-Sexual Violence Specialist is responsible for ensuring quality SGBV emergency programmes, including prevention and comprehensive response services for child survivors of SGBV, with simultaneous consideration of medium- to longer-term scenarios. The Specialist will need to take a very active role in technical coordination, support and advocacy with the country-specific child protection and GBV coordination groups and other stakeholders and technical agencies relevant to the sector.

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The Opportunity

Our new global strategy prioritises humanitarian scale up.

To respond to the growing unmet needs in emergencies and to strengthen the speed, quality, relevance and appropriateness of our emergency response and readiness work, we are investing in our  humanitarian deployable capacity.

The Deployable Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Programme Specialist is a member of Plan International’s Global Education in Humanitarian action unit. While on deployment, the specialist provides technical support to Plan International’s Country Offices (COs). This normally involves responding to medium and large-scale emergencies to develop, implement, monitor and evaluate humanitarian MHPSS programmes. This includes providing technical leadership and support on programme strategy, strengthening the capacity of staff and partners on MHPSS, and ensuring the overall technical quality of Plan’s MHPSS programming in line with humanitarian standards. Plan International’s MHPSS programming focuses on group activities for child and adolescent well-being, focused psychosocial care and support, including for parents and caregivers, and strengthening access to specialised mental health services. Plan International implements MHPSS programmes directly as well as with implementing partners and service providers.

This role will have a specific focus on MHPSS programming, with key interventions firmly embedded within or linked to humanitarian response programmes for child protection in emergencies (CPiE), education in emergencies (EiE), food security and nutrition (FSN) and other life-saving assistance. When not on deployment, the specialist contributes to Plan’s global humanitarian workplans for CPiE and EiE as agreed with both global units. This may include continued support and follow up from a distance with COs after a deployment.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

Accountabilities described apply during deployed and non-deployed time.

Programme Design and Assessment (15%)

• Integrate MHPSS into sector-specific and/or multi-sectoral needs assessments and support the data collection, analysis, documentation and dissemination of findings.
• Collaborate with Plan and partner staff, relevant inter-agency actors and community members, including children and adolescents, in designing and implementing MHPSS needs assessments.
• Support Plan International’s COs in designing response plans that address the identified needs and priorities for the MHPSS of children, adolescents, young people, parents/caregivers and people working closely with them such as teachers.
• Contribute to a global portfolio of high-quality, conflict-sensitive MHPSS programming for children and adolescents, covering priority emergency responses.
• Provide technical assistance to COs in the design of age-appropriate and gender-sensitive MHPSS programme strategies, plans and proposals for emergency preparedness and response, in collaboration with key sector teams (EiE, CPiE, FSN and other sectors), inter-agency stakeholders, communities, children and adolescents in all their diversity.
• Ensure that MHPSS interventions are in line with MHPSS and other sector humanitarian response plans and linked to longer-term programming and national plans and systems where possible.
• Ensure all MHPSS work has a strong gender and inclusion focus, in line with Plan International’s Global Strategy.

Programme Implementation (35%)

• Lead the roll-out of Plan International’s MHPSS programme framework in priority emergency responses, in close collaboration with other humanitarian teams (CPiE, EiE, GiE, and FSN teams).
• Support the development, roll-out and scaling of relevant programme models to support MHPSS of children and adolescents, including but not limited to life skills and parenting models.
• Deploy to COs to provide technical support and leadership on humanitarian MHPSS programming for children and adolescents, including preparedness and response.
• Work with other sector teams, including but not limited to CPiE, EiE, gender in emergencies (GiE), Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) and FSN teams to implement sector-specific MHPSS actions that contribute to the mental health and psychosocial well-being of children and adolescents.
• Ensure that MHPSS interventions are aligned with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Guidelines on MHPSS in emergency settings, the MHPSS Minimum Service Package and the Operational Guidelines for Community-based MHPSS in humanitarian settings, as well as INEE Minimum Standards and the Child Protection Minimum Standards.

Representation and Partnership (10%)

• Work with CO colleagues to represent Plan International in relevant working groups and other fora/initiatives related to MHPSS.
• Participate in the development of the MHPSS working group or task force response strategy, including the Humanitarian Response Plan, Humanitarian Needs Overview and Rapid Response Plan processes.
• Support the integration of MHPSS considerations in other sector resonse plans, specifically CPiE and EiE, in collaboration with other sector technical specialists and inter-agency coordination groups.
• Support COs to identify relevant partnerships related to MHPSS including local and community-based organisations, youth groups and local authorities.
• Support the development of Plan International’s profile in MHPSS programming, particularly in regards to adolescent girls in all their diversity.

Resource Mobilization (10%)

• Build and maintain relationships with relevant government departments, UN agencies and NGOs.
• Establish/maintain new/existing relationships with key donors.
• Support Plan International’s COs to build a diversified portfolio of funding for MHPSS programming, both stand-alone and as part of integrated programming.
• Support development and submission of quality proposals in response to identified opportunities at CO level and in collaboration with local partners.

Programme Monitoring and Evaluation, Reporting and Accountability (10%)

• Work closely with the Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) team in COs to integrate MHPSS indicators in (multi-) sectoral M&E framework, in line with humanitarian response plans.
• Strengthen the capacity of programme (MHPSS, CPiE and EiE, among others) and M&E staff to collect and analyse quantitative and qualitative data related to MHPSS, ensuring all data is disaggregated by sex, age and disability.
• Document and disseminate key learning from MHPSS programming, in coordination with sector teams, coordination groups, and communities, including children and adolescents in all their diversity.
• Prepare timely reports on MHPSS projects and interventions, in compliance with internal reporting and external reporting and donor requirements.
• Provide input for regular CO sitreps.
• Ensure accountability activities effectively and efficiently support community members, including children and adolescents in all their diversity and that feedback from all relevant stakeholders is considered and addressed throughout all phases of the response.

Learning and Capacity Development (10%)

• Provide training, coaching and mentorship to programme staff, partners and other key stakeholders on MHPSS programming framework. If necessary, adapt/develop programme resources related to priority MHPSS topics.
• Promote best practices on MHPSS and integrated programming, both internally and externally.

Research, Policy and Advocacy (10%)

• Drive learning, knowledge management and policy impact by authoring, commissioning and contributing to publications, policy documents, briefing notes and other resource materials ensuring that Plan International has distinct knowledge and evidence on MHPSS programming.
• Support COs to develop case studies and reports of MHPSS programme innovation and successes.
• Engage with key technical groups within Plan International, representing MHPSS programming with linkages to EiE and CPiE.
• Contribute to relevant global advocacy and policy objectives with documented learning and evidence.
• Work with relevant inter-agency coordination groups, including MHPSS, EiE and CPiE relevant fora, to develop MHPSS advocacy strategies informed by contextually relevant evidence and analysis.

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The Opportunity

Our new global strategy prioritises humanitarian scale up.

To respond to the growing unmet needs in emergencies and to strengthen the speed, quality, relevance and appropriateness of our emergency response and readiness work, we have recently created four new global humanitarian capability units, including the new Hunger Response and Resilience Unit, under which the food security and livelihoods portfolio is located.

The WASH Specialist will be part of the Global Rapid Response Unit in the Global Humanitarian Team. The post holder will work with technical teams within the other four units, other teams, departments, Country Offices, National Offices within the organisation to ensure that all Plan International’s work contributes to strengthening live saving interventions through WASH in addition to Food security, nutrition, livelihood, child protection, education in emergencies in an integrated manner.

The WASH Specialist will be required to be deployed to Plan International Country Offices for 75% of the time for a period of up to three months continuously, sometimes into hostile/crisis settings at short notice to provide  technical assistance to country offices.

This position demands technical knowledge, training experience, and work experience in a wide range of humanitarian contexts. 

As WASH Specialist you will ensure technical soundness of the WASH interventions in the Hunger and other humanitarian Crisis response covered by the Plan International.

WASH interventions will cover both standalone water, sanitation and hygiene programming and, critically, also the integration of WASH within other elements of Plan’s life-saving intervention including Food Crisis response such as food distribution, school feeding, nutrition, in addition to education and child protection  and care in health facilities as a fundamental pre-requisite for maximising the effectiveness of these interventions.

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The Opportunity

We are recruiting for a Deployable Child Protection in Emergencies (CPiE) Specialist to provide technical support to Plan International’s country offices and partners responding to medium and large-scale emergencies, developeing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating child protection programmes.The Deployable Child Protection in Emergencies (CPiE) Specialist provides technical support to Plan International’s country offices and partners responding to medium and large-scale emergencies to develop, implement, monitor and evaluate child protection programmes.

DIMENSIONS OF THE ROLE

• The post holder will deploy, sometimes at short notice, to support Plan International’s country offices and partners to respond to specific humanitarian crises for a minimum of 4 up to 12 weeks.
• During deployments up to five staff may report to the post holder and a number of indirect reports.
• Between deployments the post-holder will work on specific desk-based tasks for Global Hub contributing to the global Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPHA) Unit Work plan.
• The post holder is expected to foster relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders including CPiE Specialists and Humanitarian Team members in Plan International National and Country Offices. In particular it is expected to support the coordination and be an active member of inter-agency Child Protection coordination mechanisms and the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action.
• In all deployments, the post holder will play a key role in strengthening capacity at field level, and in the effective scale up and management of child protection and integrated programmes to increase impact for children and adolescent