Gender in Emergencies (GiE) Specialist at Plan 138 views0 applications


The Role

The Gender in Emergencies Specialist will work with response teams across the three countries, the CO gender specialists and the RO gender advisor to ensure all response programmes are gender aware, gender sensitive, and where required, are also gender transformative. Working with Emergency Response Managers who are responsible for providing strategic and operational oversight to emergency responses in respective countries, the gender in emergencies specialist will have the mandate to deliver on the objectives as per the terms of reference. The position will report to the regional Head of Disaster Risk Management.

The Person

The incumbent should have a demonstrable minimum of 7 years work experience in gender in emergency, have good communications and facilitation skills, excellent proposal review and writing, the ability to travel at a short notice as well as willing to spend 50% of the time in the three countries.

How to apply:

Please note that only applications and CVs written in English will be accepted. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. The position title should be clearly indicated within the email subject.

Applications should be sent to: [email protected]

For more information on Terms of reference, follow the link;https://plan-international.org/sites/files/plan/tor_-_gender_in_emergenc…

 

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Plan International is an international organisation or development which works in 51 countries across Africa, the Americas, and Asia to promote the safeguarding of children.It is a nonprofit organisation and is one of the world's largest organisations based on children, it works in 58,000 communities with the help of volunteers to improve how 56 million children live. The charity also has 21 national organisations who have been given the responsibility to oversee the raising of funds and awareness in their individual countries.

The organisation puts an emphasis on communities working together in order to address the needs of children around the world. The NGO focuses on child participation, education, economic security, emergencies, health, protection, sexual health (including HIV), and water and sanitation. It provides training in disaster preparedness, response and recovery, and has worked on relief efforts in countries including Haiti, Colombia and Japan.

Plan International also sponsors the Because I Am a Girl campaign, which has published many stories focusing on the struggle of young women in the developing world.

Plan International was founded during the Spanish Civil War by British journalist John Langdon-Davies and aid worker Eric Muggeridge. When they witnessed the conflict change the lives of children, they founded ‘Foster Parents Plan for Children in Spain’, which would later change its name to Plan International. Set up in 1937, the organisation provided food, shelter and clothing to children whose lives had been destroyed by the war.

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0 USD Nairobi CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week Plan International The RoleThe Gender in Emergencies Specialist will work with response teams across the three countries, the CO gender specialists and the RO gender advisor to ensure all response programmes are gender aware, gender sensitive, and where required, are also gender transformative. Working with Emergency Response Managers who are responsible for providing strategic and operational oversight to emergency responses in respective countries, the gender in emergencies specialist will have the mandate to deliver on the objectives as per the terms of reference. The position will report to the regional Head of Disaster Risk Management.The PersonThe incumbent should have a demonstrable minimum of 7 years work experience in gender in emergency, have good communications and facilitation skills, excellent proposal review and writing, the ability to travel at a short notice as well as willing to spend 50% of the time in the three countries.How to apply:Please note that only applications and CVs written in English will be accepted. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. The position title should be clearly indicated within the email subject.Applications should be sent to: [email protected]For more information on Terms of reference, follow the link;https://plan-international.org/sites/files/plan/tor_-_gender_in_emergenc...  2017-06-03

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