JOB ADVERT: Gender in Emergency Specialist Lake Chad

Location: Maroua, EN, CM

Company: Plan International

Plan International Cameroon is a Child Centered Community Development Organization with no religious, political or governmental affiliation working in Cameroon since 1996. Plan International is a children’s organization with primary concerns on children’s rights, safety and well-being and has in its interest to create safe environments for children with more attention paid to child protection. All employees are therefore expected to comply with our Child Protection Policy. Plan International also promotes equal opportunity employment and pays special consideration to female candidates.

Plan’s Internationals’ Global Strategic Goal (2011-2015) is to reach as many children as possible, particularly those who are excluded or marginalized, with high-quality programmes that deliver long-lasting benefits. Plan aims to achieve this goal by working in partnership with others and through high performing teams whose behaviours reflect the corporate values.

Under the general guidance of the Lake Chad Program Coordinator, the Gender in Emergencies Specialist will:

• position Plan International as NGO partner of choice for promoting gender equality and protecting girls’ rights in the Lake Chad Basin through programming and evidence-based influencing work addressing the needs of girls, adolescent girls in particular, within the Lake Chad Basin
• Internal: Leadership within the Lake Chad Programme on Gender programming, developing clear and realistic conceptual thinking, guidance, tools and build capacities. In addition, provide technical advice to our Country Offices in Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria and the whole Lake Chad programme in ensuring Gender is incorporated in a meaningful way in to the design, implementation and monitoring of all our projects.
• Provide gender expertise within the LC Programme for strategical analysis, gender assessments, capacity building, proposal development as well as gender-sensitive monitoring and evaluation.
• Contributing to shape the programme vision for the Lake Chad Programme focusing on girls’ rights and gender equality in line with 100 Million reasons
• Use the results of the Research on “Adolescent Girls in the Lake Chad Crisis” to develop programmatic guidance and to strengthen our influencing work around adolescent girls
• providing learning for the organisation on who to operate on the humanitarian-development nexus, achieving our purpose of advancing children’s rights and equality for girls

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Programming (70%)

• Support the Lake Chad Programme and the country offices in Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria in the development of projects that are consistently gender aware and show a strong contribution to gender transformative programming and girls’ rights.
• Engage actively in the Gender in Emergencies working group to strengthen Plan Internationals ability to implement gender transformative programmes and ability to identify and address the needs and rights of girls in emergencies.
• Support the Lake Chad Programme to develop gender transformative indicators its Results Framework.
• Support technical specialists to conduct gender analysis in their sector specific needs assessments.
• Undertake gender assessments and analysis
• Support country responses to ensure Gender is considered in all aspects of their work.
• In collaboration with sector leads develop programme models and case studies on gender transformative programmes to support the Lake Chad Programme replicate and scale-up good practice
• Provide technical assistance to COs and NOs to develop high quality gender transformative project proposals and provide strategic leadership on advancing gender equality across the humanitarian  and development portfolio.
• Be deployed as a technical advisor within the Lake Chad region to support the design and integration of gender equality targeted actions, to lead on gender mainstreaming throughout the humanitarian response as well as build staff and partner capacity.

Learning and Capacity Building (10%)

• Support the capacity building of staff to understand and use the concepts around gender equality who can then create, deliver and monitor programmes that contribute to gender transformative work.
• Provide coaching and mentorship to program staff and partners to ensure gender is integrated in program strategies and plans.
• Support the development and implementation of skills development workshops ensuring gender is core to the modules developed.
• Document lessons learned from projects to support the Lake Chad Programme continuously learn from its programmes.

Research, policy and Advocacy (10%)

• Support learning, knowledge management and policy impact by authoring, commissioning and contributing to publications, policy documents, briefing notes and other resource materials ensuring that the Lake Chad Programme has distinct knowledge and evidence on gender transformative programming

Representation and Partnership (10%)

• Represent Plan International at relevant clusters, working groups, and other events related to gender
• Identify opportunities and establish dialogue towards partnerships with other agencies
• Support the development of the Lake Chad Programme’s profile in gender equality programming in particularly in regards to girls

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE, SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

Essential

• University degree or appropriate work experience in a field relevant to the position
• Significant experience in planning, design and implementation of integrated humanitarian programmes
• Significant experience in vulnerability and gender analysis and tackling gender inequality and exclusion
• Significant experience of working in a range of humanitarian contexts (in particular in protracted crisis)
• Proven experience of leading gender programming and mainstreaming gender
• Experience in working with children and girls’ rights
• Experience on capacity building of staff on gender
• Knowledge of international humanitarian standards and codes of conduct
• Strong analytical skills: secondary/primary data analysis
• Advocacy, influencing and negotiating skills, experienced in gaining commitment from a wide range of people, bringing about change and providing support from a distance
• External representation and communication skills
• Strong English and French language skills
• Flexibility to travel within the Lake Chad region, within security limitations set by Plan International
• Experience conducting humanitarian assessments - including gender analysis through the use of participatory methodologies - and revising monitoring and evaluation tools to capture gender equality considerations for different sectors

Desirable

Experience in implementing GBV programmes
Strong team player, staff capacity building and motivation skills in teamwork and networking
Excellent skills in writing funding submissions and donor reports
Be up to date on relevant global policy and programming relating to gender equality

NEXT STEP:

To apply for this job, kindly click on "Apply". Your application should include:

• A cover letter
• A comprehensive CV including details of two referees, one of whom should be your current of most recent supervisor

Location: Maroua – CAMEROON

Closing date: September 15th, 2018

Plan international operates in an equal opportunity environment and actively encourage diversity. Only applications received in French or English will be treated and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Plan International has a Child Protection and a gender equality policies that are integral part of the recruitment process.