The Organisation
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances childrenโs 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 itโs 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 childrenโs rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for โ and respond to โ 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.
ROLE PURPOSE
The Child protection in Emergency (CPiE) Coordinator is responsible to lead and coordinate implementation of child protection in emergencies project activities and services to emergency affected children in humanitarian crises.
The post holder, she / he will coordinate the programme at Zonal, Woreda or IDP site level and ensure that projects are implemented in target locations as per the agreement entered with government stakeholders and signatory offices. He/she will be providing guidance, support, mentoring and coaching to Child Protection in Emergency Officers, CPIMS Officers and Social Workers to smoothly run the implementation of child protection case management and provision of psychosocial support services and ensure quality of programs delivered to beneficiary children and their families. He/she will ensure periodic; regular and interim timely and quality reporting of response and child protection situation in intervention/target areas.
ACCOUNTABILITIES AND MAIN WORK ACTIVITIES
Project management, implementation and reporting
- Oversee implementation of child protection in emergency project activities ensuring that services are delivered on time, on budget and in compliance with donor regulations;
- Ensure that child protection partners and frontline staff understand the requirements and quality standards for implementation;
- Work with the Programme Area Manager to ensure child protection program is implemented in ways responsive to communities, stakeholders, and children in line with Plan International principles, values, procedures and strategic plan;
- Work with the Programme Area Manager to develop detailed implementation plans (DIP) including procurement, recruitment and distribution schedules of program supplies in line with program logistics/supply chain capacity;
- In coordination with the Programme Area Manager, work with the child protection team to develop work-plans and follow-up with team members regularly to ensure that activities are on track;
- Supervise CPiE Officers on their day-to-day work and provide them with hands-on technical support and guidance;
- Monitor project progress against both programmatic and budgetary targets, adjusting project implementation as necessary in consultation with the CO CPiE Technical team;
- Prepare timely and high-quality project and donor reports on project activities in compliance with internal plan International requirements and any relevant external donor requirements;
- Undertaking ongoing protection needs assessments, capacity assessments of local stakeholders and identify needs to be addressed as a matter of urgency;
- Provide timely coordination and guidance in the delivery of child protection in emergencies programs.
Partnership development and strengthening
- Periodically collect information about other organisations working within the region to avoid duplication and streamline CPiE response activities;
- Take advantage of opportunities for different kinds of partnership to ensure enhanced quality program implementation;
- Provide technical support and coaching to local government stakeholders on child protection in emergency thematic area as well as in their individual development and performance management;
Coordination and advocacy:
- Represent Plan International at cluster/coordination/working group meetings (protection, child protection, GBV, mental health etc) and other meetings and forums in the project area;
- Ensure that project interventions continue to be informed by and integrated with other core sectors of plan International, such as education, health & nutrition, WaSH, SRHR etc;
- Continuously identify and document child protection issues in the project area, and ensure that relevant stakeholder and duty bearers are informed;
- Identify and develop case studies for the purpose of reporting, advocacy and influencing efforts.
Monitoring, and Evaluation:
- Actively monitor child protection project activities at field level, ensuring quality of Plan Internationalโs project and flagging concerns ahead of time to the Programme Area Manager and others concerned;
- Input into the development of M&E and indicator tracking plans for all grants, and the development of additional M&E tools as necessary to monitor project progress led by MEAL team;
- Work with Programme Area Manager to ensure appropriate, timely and accurate data collection against agreed indicators to enable both internal and external reporting;
- Work with MEAL team to identify and incorporate project suitable accountability mechanisms;
- Lead discussions with government stakeholders, communities and beneficiaries on project progress review.
Safeguarding Children and Young People (Safeguarding) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI)
- Understands and puts into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GEI policies and Plan Internationalโs Code of Conduct (CoC), ensuring that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.
- Ensures that all staff signed safeguarding policies;
- Implement Plan Internationalโs global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in day to day work.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS