Education in Emergencies Specialist (EiE) - Deployment Roster at Plan International

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 this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.

We are recruiting to fill the vacant position below:

Job Title: Education in Emergencies Specialist (EiE) - Deployment Roster

Req ID: 22361
Location: Nigeria
Reports to: Emergency Response Manager

Purpose of Role

• The Education in Emergencies Specialist (EiE) will deploy, often at short notice, to support a Country Office (CO) respond to a particular emergency.
• Under the supervision of the Emergency Response Manager (ERM), the EiE Specialist will ensure overall efficiency and effectiveness of the programme management, delivery and accomplishment of project goals and objectives.
• The EiE Specialist will also assist the ERM in developing quality and successful EiE funding proposals for donors as per donors’ requirement and support grants coordinators and M&E in producing the donor reports.

Key Tasks

• Ensure all education interventions have a clear focus on addressing the specific needs of young girls, adolescent girls and young women.
• Conduct assessments as required, in line with Plan International’s standard tools.
• Provide support in designing EiE proposals (including logframes and programmatic budgets and staffing plans) based on the outcomes of assessments and the context
• Provide support to develop education program plans.
• Actively represent Plan International at Education Cluster and Working Group meetings, inputting in to the 3Ws on a regular basis. 
• Represent Plan to governmental and non-governmental stakeholders as agreed with the ERM
• Train EiE staff in key aspects of EiE programmes and relevant aspects of INEE
• Conduct onsite visits, periodical reporting, on-going documentation and dissemination of experiences about Plan International EiE & ECCD interventions
• Contribute in documenting Plan’s experience, lessons learnt and case studies
• Conduct regular meetings with EiE Team for follow up of activities and programme planning together with CP and Youth teams for effective coordination and integration
• Ensure a Child Centred Community Development Approach ensuring gender equity and social inclusion in all aspects of basic education and learning programmes

Emergency Roster

• The Emergency Roster is a database of pre-selected deployable internal and external candidates who have the appropriate skills and experience to support emergency preparedness and response. It also stores information on these candidates.
• The purpose of the roster is to ensure that we have the right people in the right place and the right time with the right skills.
• Roster Members are expected to deploy to an emergency response within 72 hours or once an entry visa is received.
• A Roster Member is selected from the Emergency Roster as and when a roster request is received from one of our country offices.

Knowledge & Experience

• Previous experience of applying relevant interagency humanitarian frameworks and standards in EiE & ECCD in emergencies (for example INEE Minimum Standards)
• Experience of implementing EiE and ECCD in emergencies programs at pre-primary, primary and secondary school level
• Broad knowledge and understanding of the Humanitarian Programme Cycle, including experience with Humanitarian Response Planning and/or Humanitarian Needs
• Proven experience in conducting Education needs assessments
• Proven experience in the design, proposal writing, implementation and evaluation of EiE programmes
• Experience of and demonstrated ability to effectively network with a diverse range of organizations and relevant government departments at the district level

Skills:

• Good knowledge of and experience in Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies (INEE), Education Cluster Handbook and ECCD standard guidelines.
• Strong team management, staff capacity building and motivation skills in teamwork and networking.
• Knowledge on tackling inequality and exclusion
• Excellent skills in donor proposal / report writing
• Experience in conducting Education needs assessments
• External representation and communication skills, including ability to facilitate and lead group meetings and working groups
• May be required, to work during late hours, weekends and holidays in order to ensure timely delivery of programmes.
• Language skills desirable ( for example English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic)

Application Closing Date
23rd August, 2018.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online