Technical Lead - Gender/Social Development

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 

The Transforming Education in Ethiopia (TREE) programme 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 marginalised 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 programmes 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 marginalised 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 programme. The “Core Team” will lead delivery across all programme 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 programme 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 level of the education system, who will have equitable access to quality education.

The Individual

• 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 which at least 3 years in 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 programmes
• Understanding and experience of applying an intersectional approach to girls’ education and inclusion
• Strong analytical skills to inbuild 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, child protection and to challenging harmful gender and social norms and behaviours

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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 all staff in the unit/function/department 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: Addis Ababa, Country Office

Role Starting date: Depending on the Funding approval 

Reports to: Technical Assistant Lead

Grade: D2

Closing Date: November 04, 2024

Note that: Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert early.

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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