Gender in Emergencies Officer - 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 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.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Gender in Emergencies Officer - Deployment Roster

Req ID: 22704
Location: Nigeria
Reports to: Emergency Response Manager

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.

Key Tasks
Programming:

• Conduct rapid situational analysis on how the crisis has impacted on girls, boys, women and men, highlighting in-country gender roles & responsibilities and key gender issues (ensuring issues related to GBV and SRH are included in the analysis).
• Support inclusion of Sex and Age Disaggregated Data (SADD) in all assessment work and subsequent analysis of the data, ensuring that such data helps inform the design of programme interventions.
• Support programme staff with participatory methodologies with girls, boys, women and men and that consultations are held at times and places most convenient and suitable for the participants.
• Support the development of funding submissions ensuring proposals receive a Gender Marker code of at least 2a
• Support the ongoing monitoring and evaluation activities, ensuring that issues are highlighted and addressed.
• Support the development of appropriate accountability / feedback mechanisms ensuring girls, boys, women and men have a voice.

Coordination & Representation:

• Represent Plan International at strategic interagency gender related working groups, ensuring specific issues affecting girls and boys are raised and addressed.
• Identify relevant stakeholders (including government departments, UN agencies and partner organisations), developing and maintaining relations ensuring visibility and profile of Plan International’s gender focused programming.
• Ensure regular coordination with other Gender in Emergencies colleagues in peer agencies as well as any GenCap staff deployed to the crisis.
• Support technical specialists with representation on gender related issues in technical clusters and or working groups.

Policy, Advocacy & Communications:

• Supports the Information Management Officer to ensure that sitreps have a clear focus on the impact of the crisis on girls, boys, women and men, and that industry standards are followed (for example SADD)
• Works with comms and media staff to develop material with a specific focus on the impact of the crisis on girls and boys, highlighting priority issues of concern.
• Develop policy and influencing documents focusing on how the crisis has impacted on girls, boys, women and men.
• Liaise with policy and advocacy colleagues to ensure gender related issues are clearly articulated in any advocacy materials and positions produced.

Capacity Building:

• Provide relevant training to staff and partners on gender related issues (eg SADD, SGBV, Safeguarding)
• Mentor staff in conducting consultations with girls, boys, women and men, as well as any vulnerable groups as part of the programme design and monitoring phases
• Acts as a reference/contact point for Plan staff and external stakeholders for support on Gender in Emergencies issues
• Ensure a replacement or way of finding a replacement for post holder is identified prior to departure, to ensure work continues.

Knowledge, Skills, Behaviours, and Experience Required to Achieve Role’s Objectives
Knowledge:

• Significant field experience of gender programming in a number of humanitarian crises.
• Demonstrated experience of key practice and standards for humanitarian response such as SPHERE and CHS.
• Conversant with the international humanitarian architecture, particularly related to coordination and funding.
• Experience of designing and delivering training
• Able to work in English. It is desirable to be able to work in at least one other international language, for example French, Spanish, Portuguese or Arabic
• Knowledge of Plan policies and procedures, Sphere and the Red Cross/ NGO Code of Conduct
• Proficiency in information technology/ computer skills.

Skills:

• Training and facilitation
• Networking skills
• Ability to analyse data and provide a specific focus on girls in emergencies.

Attitudes:

• Committed to Plan International’s core values;
• Strives for lasting impact
• Open and accountable
• Works well with others
• Inclusive and empowering
• Communicator and influencer.
• Experienced with working with senior management.
• Team player and relationship builder.
• Able to work calmly under extreme pressure and at unpredictable hours during emergency response.
  

Application Closing Date
23rd August, 2018.

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