Education in Emergencies Specialist at Plan International

The Opportunity

• Plan International Nigeria is implementing several projects which aim to minimize disruption to formal and non-formal education systems in north-east Nigeria, undermined by the armed insurgency, and to restore formal education services; strengthen the protective environment for children and their families, including age and gender appropriate education services; create opportunities for young people affected by the armed conflict to generate income and to improve their life skills.
• The EiE Specialist role is designed to provide strategic and technical leadership, through a blend of effective external representation, networking, conceptualising, and designing appropriate education intervention to the needs of the children affected by a dynamic context, as well as ensuring that the technical standards during project implementation are adhered to.
• The role also ensures synergy between Plan Nigeria’s EiE interventions and the Minimum Standards enshrined in the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE).

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience working in a broad range of humanitarian crises in a number of different contexts
• Significant experience in planning, design and implementation of integrated, conflict sensitive, gender-aware (or better) education programmes in humanitarian settings
• Demonstrable knowledge of key issues relevant to education, particularly in emergency contexts: resilience, Disaster Risk Reduction, the Sustainable Development Goals and related development frameworks, diversity, gender equality and rights-based approaches.
• Demonstrable knowledge of child protection principles, child safeguarding, and familiarity with referral systems.
• Good knowledge of INEE Minimum Standards and related resources, and other humanitarian standards (including the Core Humanitarian Standard and Child Protection Minimum Standards)
• Experience of conducting education needs assessments
• Experience with advocacy, particularly influencing around girls’ education, inclusion and education continuity in crisis contexts.
• Experience of capacity building and mentoring on education technical areas with a variety of audiences, and the ability to work comfortably with ethnically diverse colleagues in sensitive environments.
• Ability to secure funding from public and private funding streams
• Strong analytical, presentation and report-writing skills.
• Fluency in English
• Committed to actively upholding Plan International's vision, values and behaviours and policies, including the Say Yes! To Keeping Children Safe Policy.