• Employer: Plan International

• Job Time: Full-Time

• Job Type: Contract

• Place of Work: Addis Ababa, Addis Abeba - Ethiopia

• Deadline: November, 04/2024

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organization 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 Opportunity

The Transforming Education in Ethiopia (TREE) program will help Ethiopia protect education gains to date, and to level up regions with poor education outcomes and educational inequity. This will be achieved through a focus on equity, including girls, targeting other marginalized groups, and developing regions; and a focus on improving learning outcomes, particularly foundational learning, and the transition to secondary school. It will boost results under other programs in Ethiopia, on health, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH), that also focus on gender issues such as maternal health, early pregnancy, and menstrual health management.

The intended impact and outcomes for TREE are:

• Impact: High-quality inclusive education for children across all regions of Ethiopia

• Outcomes:

• Increased access to education for girls and other marginalized children;

• Improved teaching quality and learning outcomes.

The Technical Lead – Gender/Social Development Specialist will represent Plan International as part of a “Core Team” of technical experts, who will be responsible for providing technical assistance for the TREE program. The “Core Team” will lead delivery across all program outcomes. The Technical Lead – Gender/Social Development Specialist will provide technical leadership on Girls’ Education, Disability Inclusion, and Child Protection. Ensuring gender and social development is mainstreamed across all program activities. Fostering safe and inclusive environments for children to ensure they’re protected from violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation. The immediate recipients of the technical assistance will be the Government of Ethiopia and wider units of the Education Sector. The secondary beneficiaries will be learners at pre-primary, primary, and secondary levels of the education system, who will have equitable access to quality education.

Job Requirements

• BA/Master’s degree in a relevant field, for example, Gender Studies, Gender and Development, Gender and Education, Development Studies, or Sociology

• At least 7 years of relevant experience with at least 3 years in a managerial position with NGOs in leading programs/ projects or demonstrated equivalent combination.

• Extensive technical knowledge in the thematic areas of girls’ education (including knowledge of current trends in gender norms in Ethiopia), disability inclusion, and child protection.

• Knowledge of various strategies and interventions to support girls’ access, retention, progression and learning is essential

• Experience in implementing community-level interventions to promote positive gender norms and girls’ education, child protection, and/ or acting as a technical advisor to such programs

• Understanding and experience in applying an intersectional approach to girls’ education and inclusion

• Strong analytical skills to build safeguarding protocols within education, child protection, and gender programming including considerations on consent, information sharing, and monitoring. and programming

• Experience in conducting gender analysis with an intersectional lens, to inform evidence-based gender interventions

• Strong passion and commitment to championing girls’ right to education, and child protection and to challenging harmful gender and social norms and behaviors

Safeguarding Children and Young People (Safeguarding) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI)

• Understands and puts into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GEI policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), ensuring that concerns are reported and managed per the appropriate procedures.

• Ensures that all staff in the unit/function/department are properly inducted and understand their role in upholding Plan International’s safeguarding and GEI policies;

• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in day-to-day work.

• Ensures that Plan Ethiopia contributes to Plan International’s global efforts to ensure safeguarding and GEI, including making sure that relevant reporting and data are submitted

Location: Addis Ababa, Country Office

Role Starting date: Depending on the Funding approval

Reports to: Technical Assistant Lead

Grade: D2

How to Apply

Interested and qualified applicants can apply using THIS LINK