Gender, Equality & Inclusion Specialist
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Plan International
- Career category: Advocacy/ Policy, Programme/ Project design & management
- Job type: Job
- Experience level: 5-10 years
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: No
- Right to work requirements: Not specified
- Remuneration: Remuneration not disclosed
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 11/10/2026
- Location: Ethiopia
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.
The Opportunity
The position holder will be responsible to support the implementation of the PIE’s strategy by developing & ensuring the mainstreaming and promotion of gender equality and inclusion in all programs and strengthen specific programs/projects for the empowerment for 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 includes; to ensure gender transformative approaches are used in all projects, participate and ensure gender and inclusion activities and indicators are included in projects while proposal design and development, provide capacity building training for plan International and partners’ staff, strengthen networking and resource mobilization, strengthen partnership with organizations and NGOs that have similar visions, missions and goals on Gender and Inclus
The Individual
Technical expertise, skills, and knowledge
Qualifications/ Experience/Skills Essential:
- Bachelor degree in Gender studies, social work and other related disciplines.
- Minimum 5 years substantial experience in gender and development programs/projects
- Good knowledge on Gender Mainstreaming, budgeting, analysis,
- Experience in gender programs and experience at community level projects
- Experience in gender advocacy and networking
- Experience in designing & facilitating training for staff and partners.
- Experience in participatory methodologies
- Knowledge of current international development trends and thinking on program effectiveness and in Child Rights programming.
- Extensive knowledge of mainstreaming Gender & inclusion and gender transformative approaches in all programs and projects
- Understanding of integrated development issues.
Languages required:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
Safeguarding Children and Program Participants (Safeguarding) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI)
- Understands and puts into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GEI policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), ensuring that concerns are reported and managed per the appropriate procedures.
- Ensures that all staff in the unit/function/department are properly inducted on and understand their role in upholding Plan International’s safeguarding and GEI policies
- Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in day-to-day work.
- Ensures that Plan Ethiopia contributes to Plan International’s global efforts to ensure safeguarding and GEI, including making sure that relevant reporting and data are submitted.
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