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.

Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge. For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries. We won’t stop until we are all equal.

The CPiE officer provides administrative support to the project team in the Programme Area and shall;

• Ensure excellent relationships with all stakeholders involved in the project especially implementing and other operating Partners within the Programme Area including UNHCR, OPM and YDLG.
• Build protective environments for refugee and host communities in which children and adolescents affected by the crisis thrive, safe from all forms of violence, including SGBV as well as have access to appropriate age and gender responsive protective services.
• Ensure capacity of institutional and community-based child protection mechanisms to identify, prevent and respond to child protection risks (in particular SGBV) is strengthened in both refugee settlements and host communities
• Support the Project Manager in strengthening the community-based child protection systems and ensures adequate and quality CP services for children, including case management services, Psychosocial Support (PSS) are provided in refugee and host communities.
• Ensure children and adolescents in refugee settlements and host communities have access to information and services to build their self-protection capacity and resilience against any form of violence, particularly SGBV
• Ensure UASC and other most vulnerable children and adolescents at risk have access to protection services that provide age and gender responsive support at family, community and institutional level
• Ensure most vulnerable children and adolescent girls have access to safe, quality and inclusive primary and secondary education

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Location: Yumbe

Type of Role: Fixed Term

Reports to: CPiE Coordinator

Grade: Level 13

No. of positions: 1

Closing Date: 16/10/2024

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for. We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas. We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk. A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International’s Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

• Please note that Plan International will never send unsolicited emails requesting payment from candidates.
• Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.