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 this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.

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.

We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 85 years, and are now active in more than 80 countries.

The Opportunity

The position holder will be responsible to support the implementation and realization of the PIE’s strategy by developing and leading the PIE Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) agenda in the Child Protection and Education in Emergencies thematic areas, responding to contextual challenges while ensuring alignment with the regional strategy and global M&E framework, policy, and strategy.

Plan International Ethiopia has designed a project entitled “Response to Survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Ethiopia (RSSGBV)” to be implemented in the selected districts of Amhara and Afar regions. The main aim of the project is to enable SGBV survivors access disability inclusive and lifesaving SRH services by essentially applying survivor-centred approaches through integrated response interventions. The project will be implemented by Plan International Ethiopia (PIE), in the selected districts/woredas of Amhara and Afar regions.

The main ambition of the project is improving inclusive access to services that address the needs of survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Afar and Amhara regions. The project intends to work in selected conflict-affected regions of Ethiopia by applying survivor cantered innovative approach of inclusive access to lifesaving SRH services that address the needs of survivors of SGBV in the project operation woredas of Amhara and Afar. To this end, the project works according to the Leave No One Behind principle, with actors and institutions which are responsible for the care of people affected by sexual violence and ensure direct provision of services. This project will contribute to strengthening the skills of social workers, staff members and service providers of OSCs (one stop centres),the employees of health care facilities including SRH and MHPSS service providers and support the facilities with prioritized medical consumables to better equip them. The project’s integrated, innovative and holistic approaches and interventions will address stigmata that prevent the use of services by the SGBV survivors. For instance, deferral of SRH services by SGBV survivors due to intersectional discrimination from community and unwelcoming faces of service providers due to lack of understanding, linking and provisioning of minimum SRH service packages for survivors in the health facilities are among serious problems.

The M&E Coordinator will be in charge of overall monitoring of the project under Plan International Ethiopia and collaborate with key Government sectors of health, women and social affairs, education, finance and economy et cetera and like-minded INGOs, multisectoral cluster coordination and TWGs, community structures and local CSOs operating in the regions mentioned above. This role will require administrative and managerial support from the Project Coordinator, technical guidance and support from SRHR Sector lead, closely working with Plan International Ethiopia’s Technical advisors on SGBV, Youth Economic Empowerment Specialist, Gender and inclusion specialist, SGBV specialist, SRHRiE specialist, corporate level MEARL team, program quality team, area managers, operations team who provide support to quality program delivery. The position will be based at the country office of Plan International Ethiopia.

Monitoring and Evaluation (also MEARL) are all vital to the ambition of PLAN International’s Global Strategy TO Support millions of girls to be able to learn, lead, decide and thrive. MERL underpins Plan International’s delivery of effective and accountable gender-transformative programmes and influencing including SRHR and SGBV projects.

The Individual

• University Degree, at least Bachelor’s degree in Development studies, Sociology, Social Work, Project Management, Psychology, SRH/Public Health, Demography, Economics or related fields.
• At least 5 years of work experience in M&E within the NGOs, development/humanitarian sector advising or managing M&E processes. Experience in Results-Based Monitoring is an asset.
• Experience in qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis. Experience in the use of Digital Data Collection tools or/and of data visualization software solutions is an asset.
• Experience in participatory facilitation and capacity development.
• Experience in working for an international organization and with local partners especially in SGBV and SRHR and/or protection from violence (PfV).
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken. In addition to Amharic, knowledge of Afarigna languages is an asset.

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Safeguarding Children and Young People (Safeguarding) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI)

• Understand and put into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GEIpolicies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC).
• Ensure 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.
• Ensure 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.

Location: Addis Ababa, Country Office

Type of Role: Definite term contract

Reports to: Project Coordinator

Grade: D1

Closing Date: October 29, 2023

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.

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