Child Protection in Emergency and Safeguarding 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

Under the supervision of the Project Manager. As Child protection in Emergency and safeguarding Coordinatoris responsible for strengthening inclusion and child safeguarding awareness and implementation in the READ project implemented in the Far North of Cameroon; including the management, and implementation child protection policies, systems, and procedures to ensure that safeguarding and feminist principles are at the heart of the READ project.

The Child protection in Emergency and safeguarding Coordinator will also lead the implementation of Child Protection and Safeguarding activities of READ project. As Child Protection in Emergency and Safeguarding Coordinator will provide technical support to project staffs and implementing partners to ensure that child protection and safeguarding concerns and needs are being addressed.

As Child Protection in Emergency and Safeguarding Coordinator, you will furthermore support the implementing team in their daily work to ensure that affected population, vulnerable children and youth refugees, particularly girls, IDP and other receive safe, inclusive and quality humanitarian assistance.

As Child Protection in Emergency and Safeguarding Coordinator, you will ensure the Plan International’s gender transformative and inclusive approach is imbedded in all project activities, and that we generate and use learning.

You will be responsible identifying and implementing training packages for partners, and in collaboration and coordination with the Child Protection specialist in Yaoundé and will ensure that a gender equality and inclusion lens is applied to all capacity development modules and project resources.

This position requires dynamism, initiative and managerial ability to implement strategies and action plans to ensure that the READ project is gender transformative and risk-sensitive. 

The Individual

We are looking to recruit a qualified candidate, that will be a gender equality and child protection in emergencies professional with relevant degree in social studies discipline, human rights, development studies – specializing on development or social development related discipline with an experience in project management cycle in emergency contexts. As Child Protection in Emergency and Safeguarding Coordinator you will have a good knowledge of project cycle management and reporting, also the feedback mechanism and technical qualifications in child protection, PSEA relevant safeguarding specialization.

Please follow this link for a full role profile: JD - CPiE and Safeguarding Coordinator - READ - Dec 2024.pdf

Location: Maroua

Type of Role: Fixed term contract

Reports to: Project Manager

Hay level: 13

Closing Date: 31st December 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.

Please note that Plan International will never send unsolicited emails requesting payment from candidates.