Education Specialist - National Position

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.

Role Purpose

The Education Specialist will be responsible and ultimately accountable for implementing the project’s programme of activity under the sub-component related to girls’ access, retention and completion of schooling, and its interface with other programme interventions. This will be an area of the programme supporting behavioural change, and the schools readiness to keep girls in school with activities to include:

• Sensitization of local of target communities and counties on the project objective and identification of school-communities enthusiastic and willing to engage in piloting the proposed initiative.
• Conduct analytical work in relation to the constraints face by girls to reduce secondary school attendance, including the impact of climate crisis on girls and adolescents completing education. Finding from the study shall be disseminated and appropriate recommendation and methodologies incorporated in the two pilots proposed below.
• Based on SASA! approach (phases, strategies and circles of influence, ‘core concepts’/curriculum and training) and the outcomes from the various analysis outlined above, the Service Provider will implement a pilot program promoting community engagement to empower girls, schools, and communities to access, be retained within and complete their education.

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Location:                    Country Office, Monrovia, Liberia

Type of Role:              Fixed Term

Reports to:                 Lead Service Provider

Grade:                         14

Closing Date:             30th October 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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