Overview

Support project implementation in targeted communities, ensuring effective distribution and stakeholder engagement.

You have:

• Ability to perform field assignments and willingness to travel for long periods in difficult terrain, harsh and demanding conditions.
• Good command of oral and written English.
• Computer literacy is an added advantage.
• Experience working with children and community development.
• Knowledge of gender transformative projects and their management.
• Understanding of Child-Centred Community Development (CCCD) approach.
• Willingness to live and work in a very difficult environment.

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

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SUMMARY OF THE POSITION

Plan International strives for a just world that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We engage people and partners to:

• Empower children, young people and communities to make vital changes that tackle the root causes of discrimination against girls, exclusion and vulnerability.
• Drive change in practice and policy at local, national and global levels through our reach, experience and knowledge of the realities children face.
• Work with children and communities to prepare for and respond to crises and to overcome adversity.
• Support the safe and successful progression of children into adulthood

DIMENSIONS OF ROLE

Field Officer - ISFP reports to the District Coordinator. H/She will be charged with the responsibility of supporting the district Coordinator to fully implement the project in Moyamba, Kailahun and Port Loko Districts with respect to the targeted communities as the project requires. The Field Officer - ISFP will be actively involved in the implementation of the project, with direct contact with primary and secondary stakeholders within the targeted communities

ACCOUNTABILITIES

Key Deliverables

• Ensure that all commodities entrusted to Plan International arriving at schools are fully accounted for.
• Inspect all waybills for commodities arriving at the Schools.
• Ensure that the commodities are of the correct quantities and quality as manifested on the waybill.
• Immediately record all quantities delivered short (missing), quantities lost in transit and quantities damaged, if any. All observations must be recorded immediately.
• Commodities must be carefully counted during off-loading.
• At the school, commodities must be stacked in an organized manner, by commodity type, to facilitate easy release.
• Organize and supervise food and NFI distributions, and at the schools, commodities must be properly stacked on pallets.
• Responsible for ensuring that all necessary distribution equipment is available at the schools, including forms and measuring devices.
• Ensure that proper and approved ration sizes are being administered at the schools
• School attendance register must be filled and supervised. The register must be reconciled with the Daily attendance roll form
• Ensure that the Daily School Stores bin card, Daily Canteen Stores Requisition and Daily attendance School Feeding Roll are filled and filed properly.
• Ensure that the kitchen and stores are kept clean at all times
• Ensure that the community leaders and stakeholders understand Plan International’s work in the communities
• Ensure that the Child-Centred Community Development (CCCD) approach is evident in all School Feeding project activities at the community level to meet Plan International’s goals
• Ensure that there is a good working relationship with the school authorities and SMCs
• Identify capacity gaps in Children, Community Volunteers, Community-based organization (CBOs), Civil Society Organization (CSOs), Local Non-Governmental Organisation (LNGOs) and government partners and propose the appropriate interventions to address the gaps, especially in girls’ rights.
• Facilitate the preparation of gender transformative projects and manage them to meet set objectives
• Ensure gender is mainstreamed into all section development-related program activities in the district/chiefdom and maintains gender sensitivity towards staff and plan associates;
• Ensure Child protection is mainstreamed into all community development-related program activities in the district/chiefdom to meet Plan International’s goals;
• Perform any other duty that may be assigned from time to time.
• Ability to perform field assignments and willingness to travel for long periods of time in difficult terrain, harsh and demanding conditions.
• Candidates should also be willing to live and work in a very difficult environment
• Good command of oral and written English.
• Computer literacy is an added advantage.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures

Location: Moyamba, Port Loko & Kailahun

Type of Role: Field Officer

Reports to: District Coordinator

Grade: Level 10

Closing Date: 10th December 2025

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.

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