Deployable Child Protection in Emergencies – Sexual Violence Specialist

The Organisation

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

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

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

The Opportunity

The Deployable Child Protection in Emergencies (CPiE) – Sexual Violence specialist is part of the global Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPHA) unit and is deployable for up to 75% of time. As such, the CPiE-Sexual Violence specialist will have both global responsibilities and in-country responsibilities during deployments.

At a global level, the Deployable CPiE-Sexual Violence Specialist will be responsible for the global roll-out of Plan International’s humanitarian sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) programming framework and other key resources across global, regional, country and national offices. The Specialist will represent Plan International in relevant global fora related to child protection and gender-based violence (GBV).

The Deployable CPiE-Sexual Violence Specialist will deploy to priority emergencies (Orange 2 and Red level) to lead the CPiE response programmes and ensure that approaches to address SGBV against children and adolescents are embedded in Plan International’s humanitarian response.The Deployable CPiE-Sexual Violence Specialist is expected to lead resource mobilisation for CPiE including GBV funding, and provide hands-on technical support to child protection and other sector teams as well as implementing partners in the country they will be deployed to.

The Deployable CPiE-Sexual Violence Specialist is responsible for ensuring quality SGBV emergency programmes, including prevention and comprehensive response services for child survivors of SGBV, with simultaneous consideration of medium- to longer-term scenarios. The Specialist will need to take a very active role in technical coordination, support and advocacy with the country-specific child protection and GBV coordination groups and other stakeholders and technical agencies relevant to the sector.

Please follow this link for a full role profile; Deployable CPiE Sexual Violence Specialist.docx

Location: The location of this role can be flexible where Plan International has an office* that can employ on behalf of the Global Hub and you have the pre-existing right to work and live. Locations closest to Plan’s point of impact are preferred.

Type of Role: 12 month fixed term contract

Closing Date: 10th November 2024 at 23.59pm UK

Interviews will take place week commencing 25th November 

*Applicable locations include: Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, China, Colombia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Finland, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Korea, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International’s Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

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