Deployable Education in Emergencies Specialist at Plan International

ROLE PURPOSE

• Plan International is an independent child rights and humanitarian organisation committed to children living a life free of poverty, violence and injustice.
• We actively unite children, communities and other people who share our mission to make positive lasting changes in children’s and young people’s lives. We support children to gain the skills, knowledge and confidence they need to claim their rights to a fulfilling life, today and in the future. We place a specific focus on children, especially girls and women, who are most often left behind. 
• We have been building powerful partnerships for children for more than 85 years and are now active in over 80 countries.
• Our new global strategy prioritises humanitarian scale up. 
• To respond to the growing unmet needs in emergencies and to strengthen the speed, quality, relevance and appropriateness of our emergency response and readiness work, we are investing in our humanitarian deployable capacity. 

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE, SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential

• Significant experience in the planning, design and implementation of integrated, conflict sensitive, gender-aware (or transformative) education programmes in humanitarian settings, that link to contextually relevant, long-term development frameworks. Technical expertise should include:
• Knowledge of child safeguarding, and prevention of sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment (PSEAH).
• Good knowledge of INEE Minimum Standards and related resources, and other humanitarian standards (including the Core Humanitarian Standard and Child Protection Minimum Standards)
• Experience of conducting education needs assessments and M&E activities and an understanding of Sex Age and Disability Disaggregated Data (SADDD), Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) and child/adolescents and youth participation, with specific attention to girls 
• Experience with advocacy, particularly influencing around children’s, adolescents and girls’ education, inclusion and education continuity in crisis contexts.
• Experience of working in a range of humanitarian contexts (e.g. refugee, conflict, rapid onset), including with the Education Cluster and cross-sectoral and education authority collaboration.
• Experience of capacity strengthening and mentoring on education technical areas with a variety of audiences, and the ability to work comfortably with a diverse range of colleagues in high pressure environments.
• Ability to secure funding from public and private funding streams; excellent skills in writing funding submissions and donor reports 
• Excellent negotiation and representation skills 
• Fluency in English, written and spoken. 
• Strong team management, staff capacity building and motivation skills in teamwork and networking.

Desirable

• Fluency in French, Spanish, Arabic or any other languages
• Significant network with other organisations involved in this field.