Job Opportunity : Child Protection in Emergencies Specialist

JOB VACANCY at PLAN International Cameroon – NGO,  : Regional Child Protection in Emergencies Specialist

Regional Child Protection in Emergencies Specialist
Date: 14 Dec 2023

Location: waca, Burkina Faso

Company: Plan International

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.

Plan International is operation in 15 countries across West and Central Africa helping poor children to access their rights to health, education. protection and livelihood. Plan works to bring long lasting improvements to children’s lives. Plan’s main goal is that children grow well in a healthy envirolnment, children participate in the development process, adults, particularly women, acquire literacy and life skills, and communities are well organized.

The Opportunity

The Regional CPiE Specialist will provide strategic humanitarian leadership related to Child Protection across the West and Central Africa region, especially in the countries affected by the crises. The post holder supports affected country Offices ensuring child protection interventions are of high quality and position Plan International as a leading agency working on child protection in emergencies with specific recognition of our girls’ focus.

The position will develop strong relations with regional networks (CPiE and SGBV regional networks), regional UN and donor offices. There will be more attention on Plan International’s engagement which focuses on influencing and ensuring the specific needs of girls.

The Regional CPiE specialist will provide support to CPiE specialists or focal persons in the country offices and will ensure that Country Offices have the right technical capability for Child Protection in Emergency by supporting the professional development of Plan’s staff across the region.  Furthermore, the Specialist will focus on the provision of technical assistance to

ensure that CPiE interventions are aligned with the Child Protection Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Action and other existing global guidelines and tools for CPiE and to create synergies between our CPiE and GBV programming and
to ensure that our CPiE interventions are linked into longer term programming.
to support the technical coordination and implementation of the Emergency Response Programs of Plan International across WACAH region.

The post holder will not have direct staff supervision but will support Regional ERM to have indirect oversight of a significant CPiE budget managed by individual Country offices. The post holder is expected to deploy (sometimes at short notice) as Child Protection in Emergency to support Country Offices in the region to respond to new crises.

Please note that fluency (business-level proficiency) in French and English is mandatory for this role. Kindly provide evidence of this in your application.

Please follow this link for a full role profile; Regional CPIE Specialist WACA.docx

Please note that your application should in a comprehensive cover letter, a clear and comprehensive CV and the contact of four (4) of your professional referees, one of whom should be your current employer.

Location: In any of the West and Central African countries where Plan International is established namely Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. Support with relocation is available if required.

All applications must be submitted ONLINE at  : 

https://jobs.plan-international.org/search/?createNewAlert=false&q=cameroon

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