Child Marriage in Humanitarian Settings Technical Lead

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 Opportunity

Plan International is seeking a senior level, dynamic Child Marriage in Humanitarian Settings Technical Lead to strengthen and expand Plan's Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPHA) programming around GBV, with a focus on adolescent girls, particularly on the issue of child marriage.

The Technical Lead will be responsible for a global initiative to scale-up programming targeting adolescents, with a special focus on child marriage, in collaboration with UNHCR. You will be accountable for developing and disseminating global-level resources and tools in order to strengthen child protection programming to address child marriages in humanitarian settings and for driving a learning and development agenda to create more capacity strengthening opportunities for inter-agency staff to advance their professional development around child marriage, child and adolescent survivors of GBV and adolescent girls.

As the portfolio lead for child marriage in humanitarian settings, you will source and diversify funding opportunities for programming, advocacy and coordination related to this area and provide thought leadership on the research and policy agenda to plug gaps in evidence and knowledge that avoids duplication and remains relevant to country level programming.

The post-holder is expected to lead on external positioning of Plan International within the humanitarian coordination system and among UN agencies and donors to support the uptake and implementation of programming and advocacy to tackle GBV affecting adolescents, with focus on girls, particularly on the issue of child marriage.

Please follow this link for a full role profile; Child Marriage Technical Lead.docx 

Location: The location of this role can be flexible where Plan International has an office* that can employ on behalf of the Global Hub and you have the pre-existing right to work and live.

Type of Role: One year fixed term contract commencing Feb 2025

Reports to: Head of Global Child Protection in Humanitarian Action Unit

Closing Date: Monday 3rd February. Interviews will take place w/c 3rd Feb. 

*Applicable locations include: Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, China, Colombia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Finland, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Korea, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

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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.

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We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

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