Education in Emergencies Specialist

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Plan International

Remote (global)
  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Humanitarian
  • Experience level: Other (specified in job description)
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Remote (global)
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: Remuneration not disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 27/10/2023
  • Location: Central Africa
Education Child protection/ Children’s rights Youth
Your role:  

As an EiE Specialist, your responsibilities will include:  
  • Providing technical expertise in EiE for project planning, design, monitoring and evaluation. 
  • Supporting integrated response, especially between child protection, gender & EiE. 
  • Ensuring compliance with INEE minimum standards and other global and context specific guidelines.  
  • Supporting data collection, analysis, monitoring, and donor reporting of ongoing EiE projects.  
  • Leading EiE needs assessments and supporting analysis of assessment data. 
  • Developing training materials, guidance documents, and toolkits for EiE.  
  • Creating capacity building plans and providing training, and mentorship to program staff and partners. 
  • Engaging in institutional fundraising, proposal development, and donor engagement (e.g. Finnish MFA, ECHO and UN agencies).  
  • Representing Plan International Finland in EiE coordination mechanisms and forums.  
  • Promoting knowledge sharing and best practices in Inclusive and Quality Education programming, with focus on emergencies.  

The position requires extensive travel and readiness to be deployed up to 40 % of your work time, sometimes to hazardous environments and at short notice. There will be periods of intense work which will require extended working hours. 

Apply between 9 October 2023 and 27 October 2023 23:59 (Europe/Helsinki)
Employment type: Two-year fixed term contract with a possibility of extension

What we are looking for
  • University degree or equivalent in education or related field
  • Extensive experience in planning, designing and implementing of integrated humanitarian programmes.
  • Significant experience in working in a range of humanitarian contexts (e.g., refugee, conflict, rapid onset), preferably at least partly in field-based roles.
  • Proven ability to provide technical support and oversight for EiE programs.
  • Strong knowledge of and experience in INEE Minimum Standards and Education Cluster coordination.
  • Strong analytical skills.
  • Experience in education needs assessments, including rapid needs/MIRA assessments.
  • Competence in designing and delivering trainings on EiE.
  • Experience in programme design, and proposal development.
  • Experience in gender-sensitive programming and working with gender and age marker. Experience in disability inclusion in education is an asset.
  • Familiarity with integrated programming, especially in CPiE and EiE.
  • Fluency in English, both written and spoken. Portuguese is an asset.
  • Excellent negotiation and representation skills.
  • Experience and the ability to work comfortably with an ethnically diverse staff in a sensitive environment.

Location: 

The position is based in Helsinki, Finland or in a location where Plan International has an office* that can employ on behalf of Plan Internation Finland, and you have the pre-existing right to work and live. Employment terms will be as per local conditions. 
*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, France, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Jordan, Kenya, South- Korea, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Uganda, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Zambia and Zimbabwe.  

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