Plan International

Position: Child Protection in Emergency Officer

Job Time: Full-Time

Job Type: Contract

Place of Work: Oromia Region Liban & Gorodola Woreda, Ethiopia

Posted date: 18 hours ago

Application Deadline: Feb, 23/2022 (5 days left)

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 this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.

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.

We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.

Plan International is a rights-based development and humanitarian organization working for better lives for all children. We are independent of government and have no political or religious affiliation. Our purpose is to strive for a just world that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We have been building powerful partnerships for children for more than 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.

Our global strategy has a specific focus on girls, as they are often the most marginalized and most often left behind. We have committed ourselves to the ambitious target of reaching 100 million girls over 5 years, to ensure they can learn, lead, decide and thrive. This is our contribution to reaching the sustainable development goals and in particular the goals on gender equality. Our organization is transforming itself to meet this enormous challenge everywhere we work. We need bold, forward-thinking and innovative individuals to lead our country operations, driving change and delivering results that will allow us to reach our target of 100 million girls.

In Ethiopia, Plan has more than 25 years of experience in implementing its programme. Currently, PIE mainly operates in seven geographical areas; Amhara, Oromia, SNNPR, Gambella, Benishangul Gumuz, Afar, and Addis Ababa City Administration on different projects funded by different donors including sponsorship.

Plan International Ethiopia's main purpose is to seek Gender Justice for Girls, Adolescent Girls, and Young Women. We aim to help create an enabling environment where girls, adolescent girls, and young women are safe, valued, equally cared for, and have equal opportunities. PIE will contribute to the global strategy by aiming to reach directly 2.1 million Girls, Adolescent Girls and Young Women over the period of the strategy 2020-2024 and to reach an additional 6.3 million beneficiaries through its interventions.

The position holder is responsible to facilitate the implementation of child protection in the emergency projects in targeted woreda in close collaboration with district & kebele key stakeholders. He/she is expected to ensure that the project is implemented with Minimum Standard of Child Protection in Emergency and Plan International Child Protection in Emergency Policy and Guidelines

Accountabilities and Main Work Activities

Operationalization of activity plan, ToR development & execution (30%)

• Develop and submit a work plan for the employment period to the Guji field office.
• Develop a detailed implementation plan (DIP) and ToR for each agreed activity in line with the available budget & planned targets & facilitate timely implementation.
• Field level project monitoring, follow-up & quality assurance (30%)
• Conduct track records of project progress/status with a clear project follow-up checklist periodically.
• Provide technical and management support for the implementation, monitoring and reporting of child protection in emergency programmes and ensure that the following interventions included in the child protection priority focus areas are implemented, monitored and managed in a timely and effective manner.
• Based on needs assessment, support and facilitate capacity building of social workers and front line workers on violence, referral pathways, case management, community-based child protection systems, community mobilization, integration of child protection into other programmes (multi-sectoral programming); and psychosocial support as per capacity building plans.

Coordination & networking (20%)

• Provide technical support to stakeholders including the Women and Children Affairs Office in the implementation of emergency child protection response plan. This includes ensuring that the efforts are aligned with existing government mechanisms and services to strengthen the sustainability of efforts.
• Takes part in district-based coordination/task force, or network meetings & shares update reports with field office concerned person.

Reporting (20%)

• Prepare and submit periodic project reports (monthly, quarterly & end line) as per standard template & agreed time frame.
• Provide regular updates to the CPiE & GBV Coordinator and Field Emergency Response coordinator on progress, priorities and constraints.
• Deliver reports on the Case Management for Unaccompanied and Separated Children and Other Vulnerable Children as necessary/requested by the Child Protection in emergencies & GBV coordinator.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

Qualifications/Experience Essential:

• Minimum of Bachler’s degree,
• 3 (three) years of relevant professional experience in a similar position

Qualifications/Experience Desirable:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology, Psychology, Social work, Law, Political Science & International Relations, community development or other related fields of social science studies.
• Strong experience (3yrs) in the child protection sector and technical understanding of CP data management, policies, conventions…etc.
• Experience of working with vulnerable children, including children outside of parental care.
• Experience in designing and facilitating of training and capacity building on child protection, counselling and/or case management technical areas with a variety of audiences.
• Experience in community mobilization and conducting outreach activities.

Languages Required

• Proficiency in English & Amharic. Knowledge of the local language (Afan Oromo) is a requirement.

Location: Oromia Region Liban & Gorodola Woreda

Type of Role: Child Protection

Reports to: CPiE Coordinator

Grade: C1

How to Apply

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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 organizational 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 organization, 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.