Deployable Education in Emergencies Specialist (Integration with CVA modalities) at Plan International

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian non-profit organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood, and enable children to prepare for - and respond to - crises and adversity. We believe in the power and potential of every child, but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Deployable Education in Emergencies Specialist (Integration with CVA modalities)

Location: Nigeria
Type of Role: 12 month fixed term contract

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) 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 of CVA modalities in Education in Emergencies. 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.

Accountabilities
Programme Design and Assessment (15%):

• Ensure all EIE work has a strong child protection, gender and inclusion focus, in line with Plan International’s Global Strategy.
• Support and Lead on multi-sectoral needs assessments including joint, rapid education assessements that include feasibility of cash and voucher assistance to support education access in collaboration with Plan International’s Cash and voucher assistance team, Child protection, Food Security, the Education Cluster/working group, education authorities, teachers and community members including children and adolscents in all their diversity, ensuring assessment findings are documented and disseminated.
• Cooordinate with CVA team to carry out CVA response analysis that will inform programme design and implementation
• Support CO’s in designing response plans based on based on identified needs and priorities and, where possible, through a process of community participation.
• Provide technical assistance to CO’s in the design of gender-aware (and where possible, gender-transformative) EiE programme strategies, plans and proposals that include Cash and voucher assistance modalities, preparedness, anticipatory action and/or response, in collaboration with key education stakeholders, communities, children and adolescents in all their diversity
• Ensure that EiE interventions are in line with Humanitarian response plans and linked to longer-term programming and national education plans and systems.

Programme Implementation (35%):

• The post holder will deploy to CO’s to provide technical support and leadership on safe, inclusive and quality education programmes including integration of CVA modalities during humanitarian crises.
• Coordinate with education, early childhood development (ECD), child protection, gender advisors and CVA team staff to ensure coherence with Plan International’s Inclusive Quality Education framework and to build synergy with existing skills and training.
• Work with other sector teams, including but not limited to CPiE, gender in emergencies, Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) and Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) teams to support integrated EiE programming that prevents and mitigates child protection risks and addresses multi-dimensional, age- and gender-specific barriers to education for children and adolescents.
• Ensure alignment of Plan International’s EiE work with key cross cutting priorities (for example, child protection, gender and inclusion) whilst also ensuring innovation is central to Plan International approach.
• Ensure effective programming for out of school children including children associated with armed forced and armed groups (CAFAAG), child survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) and children on the move. This programming includes but is not limited to actions to support immediate access to and retention in education, transition through different levels of accredited formal and non-formal education including integration of CVA modalities , and referral to multi-sectoral services.
• Contribute to the development of gender-balanced staffing plans to implement EiE programme activities and work with the Human Resources (HR) team to recruit in line with approved grants.
• Ensure that EiE interventions are aligned with the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies Minimum Standards (INEE MS) and Global Education Cluster’s CVA for
• Education in Emergencies guidance and tools, and other global humanitarian standards, guidelines and tools.
• Identify EiE/ CVA programme supply needs and coordinate with the logistics team to ensure timely procurement and delivery.

Representation and Partnership (10%):

• Work with country office colleagues to represent Plan International at relevant clusters, working groups, and in other fora related to EiE and facilitate coordination across sectors including with the Cash working group
• Participate in the development of the Education Cluster/Working Group response strategies, including the Humanitarian Response Plan, Humanitarian Needs Overview and Rapid Response Plan processes, ensuring a focus on gender and inclusion.
• Support the integration of CVA modalities in coordinated approaches to preparedness, anticipatory action and rapid response in education in collaboration with the Education Cluster and other agencies on the ground
• Participate in and contribute to the the Global Education Cluster CVA community of practice
• Identify opportunities and establish dialogue for partnerships and collaboration with other humanitarian agencies and education stakeholders , particularly local partners, representatives of people living with disabilities (DPOs), women’s and youth groups, education authorities, vocational and tertiary education institutions and teaching unions.
• Support the development of Plan International’s profile in EiE programming, particularly in regard to girls in all their diversity.

Resource Mobilization (10%):

• Build and maintain relationships with relevant government departments, UN agencies and NGOs.
• Establish and maintain new and existing relationships with key donors.
• Support Plan International’s CO’s to build a diversified portfolio of funding for EiE.
• Support development and submission of quality proposals in response to identified opportunities at CO level and in collaboration with local partners.

Programme Monitoring and Evaluation, Reporting and Accountability (10%):

• Work closely with the Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) team in COs to analyse assessments and develop an EiE M&E framework that appropriately monitors the evolving needs of learners and teachers capture the contribution of CVA to education outcomes and aligns with the Education Cluster/working group response strategies.
• Build capacity of EiE and M&E staff to collect and analyse quantitative and qualitative data, ensuring all data is disaggregated by sex, age and disability.
• Document and disseminate key learning from EiE responses and use assessments, evaluations and lessons learned to redefine response strategies and EiE interventions, in coordination with the Education Cluster/working group, education authorities, teachers and communities , including children and adolescents in all their diversity.
• Prepare timely reports on EiE projects in compliance with internal and donor requirements.

Provide input for regular CO sitreps:

• Ensure accountability activities effectively and efficiently support community members, including teachers and children and young people in all their diversity and that feedback from all relevant stakeholders is considered throughout all phases of the response.

Learning and Capacity Building (10%):

• Develop capacity building plans and tools for CO colleagues, or support the implementation of existing plans.
• In collaboration with the CVA team, organize orientation sessions and dissemination of existing tools and guidance developed by the GEC Cash teak team
• Support the provision of training, coaching and mentorship to programme colleagues, partners and other key stakeholders on CVA for Education in Emergencies jointly with the CVA team and related issues such as gender equality and inclusion Identify and if necessary adapt or develop training manuals, guidance documents, and toolkits on key education and ECD in emergencies issues including by integrating CVA modalities , as required.
• Promote best practices in EiE, including on CVA modalities for education outcomes both internally and externally.

Research, Policy and Advocacy (10%):

• Drive learning, knowledge management and policy impact by authoring, commissioning and contributing to publications, policy documents, briefing notes and other resource materials, ensuring that Plan International has distinct knowledge and evidence on gender dimesion in education in emergencies. Support COs to develop case studies and reports of programme innovation and successes in particular on the integration of CVA in Education in Emergencies interventions and the contribution of CVA to education outcomes.
• Engage with key technical groups within Plan International, representing EiE and Cash and Voucher Assistance .
• Contribute to relevant global advocacy and policy objectives with documented learning and evidence.
• Work with the Education Cluster/working group to develop advocacy strategies informed by contextually relevant evidence and analysis to influence national-level plans, programmes and policies.

Key Relationships:
Internal:

• Global Hub Hmanitarian Team, EiE Team, CVA team, Research and MEAL teams, Plan International networks including longer-term development programming
• CO programme and operational support staff
• Regional Humanitarian team, Plan International National Organisations, particularly Humanitarian units.

External:

• EiE coordination mechanisms relevant in country fora such as the Education Cluster and associated working groups
• Peer NGO agencies
• Implementing partners

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:
  • Knowledge of child safeguarding 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, adolscents and youth participation with specific attention to girls
  • Experience with advocacy, particularly influencing around children’s, adolscents’ 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 languages
• Significant network with other organisations involved in this field.
• Previous experience on implementing EIE interventions with integration of Cash and vouchers assistance modalities for education outcomes.

Application Closing Date
10th November, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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