Project Officer- Skills & Opportunities for Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship

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 Project Officer will report to the Humanitarian Team Lead will work alongside with Community based trainers to ensure quality deliver of the project and will assist the Team Lead in facilitating effective implementation of the project activities to ensure project results are delivered in time and line with project proposal. The Officer provides technical support to the project volunteers (CBTs) and shall ensure:-

• Excellent relationships with all stakeholders involved in the project implementation especially implementing and other operating Partners including UNHCR, OPM and DLG, will ensure
• Proper mapping of value chain actors, map potential market out lets, prepare trainings for increased production.
• Capacity of institutions and Community Based Trainers are well built to lead to successful project deliverables for the refugees and host communities.
• Proper profiling of the key financial service provision point for the adolescents and women in refuge and host communities with special focus on the village savings and loan associations (VSLAs).
• Increase on the mass production of handcrafts and also access to financial services for adolescents and women. 

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Location: Kyangwali Refugee Settlement

Type of Role: Fixed Term

Reports to: Humanitatiam Team Lead

Grade: Level 13

Closing Date: 17 November, 2024

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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