Child Protection in Emergencies (CPiE) Officer

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 Child Protection in Emergency (CPiE) Officer contributes to creating lasting change for children by implementing high-quality, lifesaving child protection interventions in humanitarian and emergency settings.

In this role, your aim is to prevent and respond to child protection risks including abuse, neglect, exploitation, violence, separation, and harmful practices through the delivery of psychosocial support, quality case management, and the strengthening of community-based child protection mechanisms, in line with Plan International policies and the Child Protection Minimum Standards (CPMS).

Specifically, you will:

• Implement child protection activities under an ECHO-funded humanitarian project in Menchum and Ngoketunjia Divisions of the North West Region.
• Works directly with crisis-affected children, adolescents, caregivers, and community structures across multiple hard-to-reach communities.
• Provides technical support and supervision to Social/Case Workers and community-based child protection actors.
• Contributes to project planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting, including donor reporting requirements.
• Engages with local authorities, community leaders, humanitarian partners, and coordination mechanisms (e.g. Protection Cluster).
• Requires regular field travel in insecure and volatile contexts, with responsibility for ensuring safe and ethical programme delivery.

The Individual

We are looking for someone with a bachelor degree in Human Rights, Psychology, Social Work, or a related field. As Child Protection in Emergency (CPiE) Officer, have an experience in Child Protection, with at least 2 years in humanitarian or emergency contexts. You need to have a strong knowledge of Child Protection in Emergencies and Child Protection Minimum Standards (CPMS), a proven experience in child protection case management, including handling high-risk and sensitive cases, an experience working with Community-Based Child Protection Mechanisms.

As Child Protection in Emergency (CPiE) Officer, you need to have an excellent ability to work in insecure, stressful, and volatile environments and be fluency in English (written and spoken), knowing pidgin is an asset. Knowledge of local languages is desirable.

Please follow this link for a full role profile: Job description - Template.CPiE oFF ECHO - JANV 2026.pdf

Location: Bamenda

Type of Role: Fixed Term Contract

Reports to: Project Coordinator

Hay Level: 12

Closing Date:14th January 2026

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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