About You

The Child Protection in Emergencies specialist provides oversight and leadership to Plan International's child protection response in a specific crisis. You will be responsible for assessment, response analysis, design, coordination, capacity strengthening, implementation and monitoring and evaluation of child protection in emergency programmes as part of our broader emergency response. You will ensure that gender equality is core to our child protection in emergencies response and that our intervention meets the child protection and gender-based violence minimum standards.

Successful applicants require:

• Solid work experience in international humanitarian settings with progressively responsible roles in designing, leading and/or coordinating Child Protection in Humanitarian Action programme responses.
• Expertise in working with child survivors of sexual and gender based violence (SGBV).
• Alongside proficiency in English, we require that you can comfortably work in one additional language: French, Spanish or Arabic (Level B2 minimum).
• Commitment to ensuring safeguarding and Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment. (PSEAH) is core to our ways of working.

• Assessment
• Response analysis
• Design of child protection in emergency programmes
• Coordination of child protection in emergency programmes
• Capacity strengthening for child protection in emergency programmes
• Implementation of child protection in emergency programmes
• Monitoring and evaluation of child protection in emergency programmes
• Ensuring gender equality is core to child protection in emergencies response
• Ensuring interventions meet child protection and gender-based violence minimum standards

• Expertise in working with child survivors of sexual and gender based violence (SGBV).
• Proficiency in English
• Comfortable working in French, Spanish or Arabic (Level B2 minimum).
• Commitment to ensuring safeguarding and Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (PSEAH).

• Solid work experience in international humanitarian settings with progressively responsible roles in designing, leading and/or coordinating Child Protection in Humanitarian Action programme responses.