The Opportunity

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.

The Deployable Education in Emergencies (EiE) Programme Specialist is a member of Plan International’s Global Education in Humanitarian action unit. While on deployment the specialist provides technical support to Plan International’s Country Offices (COs). This normally involves responding to medium and large-scale emergencies by developing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating EiE programmes.

This role will have a specific focus on the integration beween EiE and child protection in emergencies (CPiE) programming. When not on deployment the specialist contributes to Plan’s EiE workplan as agreed with the team. This may include continued follow up from a distance with deployment countries.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE, SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

Essential

· Significant experience in the planning, design and implementation of integrated, conflict sensitive, gender-aware (or better) education programmes in humanitarian settings, that link to contextually relevant, long-term development frameworks.

· Technical expertise should include:

o Excellent knowledge and understanding of key issues relevant to EiE and CPiE, including programming to address the unique needs of (adolescent) girls in all their diversity

o Knowledge of child safeguarding and prevention of sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment (PSEAH).

o Good knowledge of INEE Minimum Standards, Child Protection Minimum Standards (CPMS) and related resources, and other humanitarian standards including the Core Humanitarian Standard

· 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/adolescent/youth participation, with specific attention to girls.

· Experience with advocacy, particularly influencing around children, 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 diverse 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 relevant languages.

· Significant network with other organisations involved in this field.