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Job Title: Education in Emergencies Specialist
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Type of Role: 13 Months fixed-term contract
Reports to: Emergency Response Manager
The Opportunity
- Plan International Nigeria is implementing several projects which aim to minimize disruption to formal and non-formal education systems in north-east Nigeria, undermined by the armed insurgency, and to restore formal education services; strengthen the protective environment for children and their families, including age and gender appropriate education services; create opportunities for young people affected by the armed conflict to generate income and to improve their life skills.
- The EiE Specialist role is designed to provide strategic and technical leadership, through a blend of effective external representation, networking, conceptualising, and designing appropriate education intervention to the needs of the children affected by a dynamic context, as well as ensuring that the technical standards during project implementation are adhered to.
- The role also ensures synergy between Plan Nigeria’s EiE interventions and the Minimum Standards enshrined in the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE).
Requirements
- Demonstrable experience working in a broad range of humanitarian crises in a number of different contexts
- Significant experience in planning, design and implementation of integrated, conflict sensitive, gender-aware (or better) education programmes in humanitarian settings
- Demonstrable knowledge of key issues relevant to education, particularly in emergency contexts: resilience, Disaster Risk Reduction, the Sustainable Development Goals and related development frameworks, diversity, gender equality and rights-based approaches.
- Demonstrable knowledge of child protection principles, child safeguarding, and familiarity with referral systems.
- 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
- Experience with advocacy, particularly influencing around girls’ education, inclusion and education continuity in crisis contexts.
- Experience of capacity building and mentoring on education technical areas with a variety of audiences, and the ability to work comfortably with ethnically diverse colleagues in sensitive environments.
- Ability to secure funding from public and private funding streams
- Strong analytical, presentation and report-writing skills.
- Fluency in English
- Committed to actively upholding Plan International’s vision, values and behaviours and policies, including the Say Yes! To Keeping Children Safe Policy.
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Note
- We will be recruiting globally for this role, but the individual must be based in Northeast Nigeria, and therefore support with relocation is available.
- Please note that Plan International will never send unsolicited emails requesting payment from candidates.
Deadline: May 15, 2023
Job Features
Job Category | Education / Teaching / Training |