The Opportunity 

The project will help Ethiopia protect education gains to date, and to level up regions with poor education outcomes and educational inequity. This will be achieved through a focus on equity, including girls, targeting other marginalised groups, and developing regions; and a focus on improving learning outcomes, particularly foundational learning, and the transition to secondary school. It will boost results under other programmes in Ethiopia, on health, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH), that also focus on gender issues such as maternal health, early pregnancy, and menstrual health management.

The intended impact and outcomes for the project are:

• Impact: High quality inclusive education for children across all regions of Ethiopia

• Outcomes:

  • Increased access to education for girls and other marginalised children;

  • Improved teaching quality and learning outcomes.

The Technical Lead – Gender/Social Development Specialist will represent Plan International as part of a “Core Team” of technical experts, who will be responsible for providing technical assistance for the project. The “Core Team” will lead delivery across all programme outcomes. The Technical Lead – Gender/Social Development Specialist will provide technical leadership on Girls’ Education, Disability Inclusion and Child Protection. Ensuring gender and social development is mainstreamed across all programme activities. Fostering safe and inclusive environments for children to ensure they’re protected from violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation. The immediate recipients of the technical assistance will be the Government of Ethiopia and wider units of the Education Sector. The secondary beneficiaries will be learners at pre-primary, primary and secondary level of the education system, who will have equitable access to quality education.

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Safeguarding Children and Young People (Safeguarding) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI)

• Understands and puts into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GEI policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), ensuring that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.

• Ensures that all staff in the unit/function/department are properly inducted on and understands their role in upholding Plan International’s safeguarding and GEI policies;

• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in day to day work.

• Ensures that Plan Ethiopia contributes to Plan International’s global efforts to ensure safeguarding and GEI, including making sure that relevant reporting and data are submitted

Job Requirement

• BA/Master’s degree in a relevant field, for example, Gender Studies, Gender and Development, Gender and Education, Development Studies, or Sociology

• At least 7 years of relevant experience which at least 3 years in managerial position with NGOs in leading programs/ projects or demonstrated equivalent combination.

• Extensive technical knowledge in the thematic areas of girls’ education (including knowledge of current trends in gender norms in Ethiopia), disability inclusion and child protection.

• Knowledge of various strategies and interventions to support girls’ access, retention, progression and learning is essential

• Experience in implementing community-level interventions to promote positive gender norms and girls’ education, child protection and/ or acting as a technical advisor to such programmes

• Understanding and experience of applying an intersectional approach to girls’ education and inclusion

• Strong analytical skills to inbuild safeguarding protocols within education, child protection and gender programming including considerations on consent, information sharing and monitoring.and programming

• Experience in conducting gender analysis with an intersectional lens, to inform evidence-based gender interventions

• Strong passion and commitment to championing girls’ right to education, child protection and to challenging harmful gender and social norms and behaviours

Required Skills

• Project management

• Teamwork

How to Apply

The closing date for the application is December 04, 2024. Qualified candidates should submit their application with THIS LINK

This position is only open to Ethiopian Nationals, who must be eligible to live and work in Ethiopia.

Please note that: 

• Role Starting date: Depending on the Funding approval

• Reports to: Technical Assistant Lead

• Grade: D2

• Only Shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

• We are not accepting CVs that are not sent through the indicated links.

• Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert early.

Female candidates are highly encouraged to Apply

More information about Plan International can be found on http://plan-international.org