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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.

 

Plan international has opened an office in Somaliland/Somalia and started programs that focus on child protection, education, and youth economic empowerment programming in both humanitarian and development settings, working with/through partners and providing technical support to INGOs, and the Government in Plan’s areas of expertise.

The position holder will be responsible to support the implementation of Plan International strategy by developing & ensuring the mainstreaming and promotion of gender equality, safeguarding, and inclusion in all programs and strengthening specific programs/projects for the empowerment of girls, women, and persons with disabilities to close gender gaps and help overcome gender-based inequality and discrimination. This would be demonstrated in undertaking responsibilities which include; ensuring gender transformative approaches are used in all projects, participating and ensuring gender, safeguarding, and inclusion activities and indicators are included in projects while proposal design and development, providing capacity-building training for plan International and partners’ staff, strengthening networking and resource mobilization, strengthening partnership with organizations and NGOs that have similar visions, missions, and goals on Gender, Safeguarding, and Inclusion work and to monitor gender, safeguarding, and Inclusion activities are progressed well as planned.

ROLE DIMENSIONS:

The Gender, Inclusion, and Safeguarding Specialist will work to further improve the quality of our projects' design and delivery and mainstream gender equality, safeguarding, and inclusion in projects, operations, and human resources staff procedures. The post holder will work closely with the program, human resources, and operation teams to support the implementation and tracking of gender equality, safeguarding, and gender-transformative standardized guidelines, tools, procedures, gender marker, GEISA, GIR, and other standards and assessment actions.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS:
Bachelor's degree in Gender studies, social work, human rights and other related disciplines.
At least six years of substantial experience in gender on Humanitarian and development programs/projects (designing, implementing and assessment/evaluation).
Practical experiences on gender need assessment, gender analysis, GAMs and other gender tools at field and office levels for humanitarian settings
Extensive knowledge and experience of mainstreaming gender & inclusion and gender transformative approaches in all programs and projects