Gender & Inclusion Lead

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

Plan International is committed to ensuring gender equality is core to our humanitarian and development work. Central to this is ensuring our work is analysed through a gender lens.

The escalation of conflict in Ukraine lead to a major humanitarian crisis with over 3 million people having fled to neighbouring countries, and millions displaced within Ukraine. Plan International is responding to the crisis and working in partnership with civil society organisations in Ukraine and neighbouring Moldova, Romania, and Poland to meet the key needs of those affected by the crisis as well as host communities.

The Gender and Inclusion Lead will play a key role in supporting Plan International Ukraine Response in all 4 of its teams to ensure activities are gender responsive and transformative, provide technical support and guidance to Plan International teams and partners.

The Individual will have to-

• Technical lead on designing and producing gender-responsive knowledge generation with developing key recommendations for Plan International and the wider humanitarian sector.
• Map service provision in country and assess the quality and age- and gender-responsiveness of services, identifying areas where Plan International could provide additional support.
• Provide input to the development of ongoing programme strategies, plans and proposals, advise Programme Team on application of Plan’s gender transformative marker in projects.

Technical expertise, skills, and knowledge

• Demonstrated experience of supporting gender in emergencies programming and mainstreaming gender highly desirable.
• Knowledge of the international humanitarian sector and an understanding of humanitarian principles, standards and guidelines including SPHERE, IASC Gender in Humanitarian Action, GIE Minimum Standards.
• Experience in planning, design and implementation of integrated humanitarian programmes desirable.
• Excellent reporting skills, and inputting on funding submissions and donor reports.

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Location        : Romania, Poland, Moldova, Ukraine

Type of Role  : Fixed Term 

Reports to     : Head of Programme Quality & Implementation

Grade             : TBD

Closing Date  : 20 January 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.