Gender, Safeguarding and Participation Coordinator

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.

The purpose of this position, is to provide technical leadership and guidance in the following 3 fields:

Gender & Inclusion: Gender equality and inclusion are central to the Joining Forces for Food Security & Child Protection in Emergencies project’s approach and processes. The Consortium strives to implement a minimum gender aware programme. The role holder will be responsible for providing technical support and guidance in rolling out the Gender & Inclusion minimum standards of the Joining Forces Consortia. This includes but is not limited to following up on the Gender Action Plan, Rapid Gender Analyses and findings and ensuring that the Gender& Inclusion standards are put in place.

Safeguarding: The role holder will play a key role in the support to the Joining Forces for Food Security & Child Protection in Emergencies project by providing technical support and guidance to implementing partners teams and local partners. A priority focus will be to support partners with the DO NO HARM principle related to children, program participants and affected community members that we serve. This will be done through supporting the integration and mainstreaming of safeguarding and prevention of sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse (PSHEA) minimum standards in the JF-FS&CPiE project interventions, ensuring that our contact, interventions and operations do not harm or put those that we serve at risk of being harmed.

Child Participation: Central to each humanitarian intervention is accountability towards children and ensuring their active participation. The role holder will be responsible for providing technical support in rolling out the consortium minimum standards of the Joining Forces Consortium. This includes adapting and implementing robust child participation mechanisms and systems to uphold effective accountability towards children standards, facilitate technical support, monitor activities, and share learnings within the organization. She will enhance the capacity of partners on children‘s participation throughout the project cycle in line with the Consortium Minimum Standards. Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

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Location: PIR Country Office

Type of Role: Fixed term Contract

Reports to: Global Project Manager

Grade: Level 13

Closing Date: 25 July 2024

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.