Child Protection in Emergencies Specialist (CPiE)

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Plan International

Hybrid
  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Humanitarian
  • Experience level: 0-5 years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Hybrid
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: €3,150 EUR-€3,900 EUR / monthly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 10/08/2023
  • Location: Belgium
Child protection/ Children’s rights Gender-based violence (GBV)
Main Result Areas Of the function
Technical expertise:The CPiE Specialist takes the lead in strengthening the knowledge and expertise on child protection in emergencies for the whole organisation and on behalf of the whole organisation. The Specialist supports effort in capacity-strengthening of stakeholders. This involves actively participating in strategic forums on behalf of Plan International Belgium and on humanitarian advocacy.
  • Be the go-to person for anyone in Plan International Belgium regarding CPiE, including key cross-cutting thematic (e.g. SGBV, worst forms of child marriage, prevention, case-management); actively engages teams on the topics and create discussion spaces to foster interest in the subject;

Support to programmes: The Specialist contributes to the design of humanitarian programmes and provides support to the existing international programme portfolio. They serve as the technical lead in programme steering committees, ensuring that our programmes are technically sound and impactful.
  • Programme design: participates in the design of CPiE programmes and project, funded by DG ECHO, DGD Humanitaire and UN Agencies; designs logical frameworks; develops innovative and impactful programmatic approaches;

Knowledge: As a technical lead, the Specialist leads or contributes to generating evidence on what works to protect girls, empower girls and promote protective environments in humanitarian contexts.
  • Represents Plan International Belgium in research technical committees and/or takes the lead in designing research projects focusing on protection in humanitarian settings;
  • Provide technical support to research initiatives and impact studies that contribute to evidence-based CPiE programming;

Link with Global Hub/Federation and deployment: As part of a large network of Child Protection and GBV Specialists in the Plan International Federation, the Specialist establishes and maintains strong relationships and supports the CPiE work through deployments on Plan International technical roster
  • Be deployed for Plan International Global Hub 50% of their time; this can be decided on short notice to support emergencies and protracted crises;
  • Liaison with the CPiE Global network, to support the revision of global tools, frameworks, and to identify priorities in collaboration and strengthening capacity of Country Office teams;

Required Profile
The candidate must already have a Belgian national registration number and a work permit for Belgium. This function is carried out from Belgium.
Education, experience, knowledge and talents

LEVEL OF EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE
  • Master's degree or equivalent in development, international relations, social sciences, social work
  • Minimum 3 years of work experience in child protection, child protection in emergencies, with progressively responsible experience with international organisations focusing on CPiE
  • Experience in working on institutional donors-funded projects and programmes;

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