SDC Project 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 Opportunity

With Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) funding, Plan International Ethiopia initiated the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Prevention and Response project in Ethiopia's Somali region to strengthen the ecosystem to address GBV among at-risk vulnerable groups and survivors, mainly girls and young women where there is highest of concerns in forced, early and child marriage, child marriage, sexual assault, and sexual exploitation, are common and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Moreover, the target areas are frequently affected by climate change-induced and human-made disasters that exacerbate vulnerability to GBV on top of compromising the limited availability of health, economic and basic social services. The envisaged ecosystem would include social norms, building solidarity with survivors, and establishing referral linkages for survivors to One-Stop Crisis Centres, building the capacity of local women-led organisations (WLOs) and networks active around the One-Stop Crisis Centres to support the establishment of a comprehensive and sustainable ecosystem. The project’s intermediate outcomes are women, men, girls, and boys increasingly recognise, prevent, report and address GBV risks, and governments, formal and informal Women-Led organizations (WLOs) and local implementing partners at national and local levels deliver quality GBV prevention and responses.

The Project Coordinator will be in charge of overall coordination of the project under Plan International Ethiopia and collaborate with key government sectors of health, women and social affairs, education, finance and economy, like-minded INGOs, multisectoral cluster coordination and TWGs, community structures and Women-Led Organizations (WLOs) and other local CSOs operating in the regions mentioned above. The role will require technical guidance and support from CP/GBV and SRHR Sector Leads, closely working with Plan International Ethiopia’s technical advisors on CP and GBV, SRHR and GBV Capacity Development Specialist, Gender and Social Inclusion Specialist, MERL Socialist, Program quality team, Operations Teams who provide support to the quality program delivery.

The Project Coordinator (PC) will be responsible and accountable for the overall project management and coordination, quality programming and results achievement, financial management and compliance, project team management, stakeholder and partner relations, and donor deliverables. Feminist principles of collaboration, participation, transparency and respect for the agency of women’s organizations will be integrated in all aspects of this role.

The Individual

• MA/MSC or BA/BSc Degree in Sociology, Social Work, Public Health, Gender Studies, Project Management, or other Social Sciences related fields.
• Minimum of 5 years of substantial experience in which 3 years broad experience in project management in development and humanitarian settings under INGO environment. 
• Experience of managing donors funded complex and large project budgets (> €1mil).
• Experience in developing and implementing Child Protection (CP), Gender Based Violence (GBV), and Sexual and Reproductive Health related projects.
• Expertise in Gender-Based Violence, Gender, Women’s Rights and Human Rights
• Minimum of 3 years of expertise in building and strengthening capacity of local CSOs and Women-Led Organizations, and key government stakeholders and engagements and working with traditional and religious leaders technical working groups and networks and managing and developing a multi-disciplinary team including local implementing partners.
• Good knowledge and understanding of development and humanitarian principles and established international child protection and CP/GBV and SRHR policies, strategies, programs and priorities, and NGO Code of Conduct.

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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 in accordance with the appropriate procedures.
• Ensures that the team members under supervision are properly inducted on and understands 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: Jigjiga

Type of Role: SDC Project

Reports to: Project Lead

Grade: D1

Closing Date: June 26, 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.

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