Overview
This role leads and supports high-quality education responses in humanitarian contexts, designing and implementing programmes to ensure children continue learning during emergencies. When not deployed, the role contributes to global strategy, technical guidance, and capacity strengthening.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and support safe, inclusive, and quality education programmes in crisis settings.
- Ensure education interventions address the needs of girls and marginalised children, out-of-school children, survivors of violence, and children on the move or affected by conflict.
- Integrate education with other sectors including child protection, gender, cash assistance, and nutrition.
- Conduct rapid needs assessments and contribute to response planning.
- Design gender-responsive and inclusive EiE strategies and proposals.
- Ensure alignment with national systems and long-term development goals.
- Represent Plan International in Education Clusters and coordination forums.
- Collaborate with NGOs, UN agencies, governments and local partners.
- Strengthen Plan’s external visibility and influence in EiE.
- Support the development of high-quality funding proposals.
- Build and maintain relationships with donors and partners.
- Contribute to growing a strong EiE funding portfolio.
- Develop and support robust M&E frameworks (including sex, age and disability disaggregated data).
- Ensure accountability to affected populations.
- Produce high-quality reports and capture learning for continuous improvement.
- Mentor and train staff and partners on EiE and related themes.
- Develop tools, guidance and training materials.
- Promote best practice and innovation in education in emergencies.
Required Experience
- Proven experience designing and delivering Education in Emergencies programmes in complex humanitarian settings.
- Strong knowledge of INEE Minimum Standards, Child protection and safeguarding, and Gender equality and inclusion.
- Experience working with Education Clusters and multi-sector coordination mechanisms.
- Demonstrated ability to conduct needs assessments, M&E, and programme design.
- Strong track record in proposal writing and donor reporting.
- Excellent communication, negotiation and representation skills.
- Experience mentoring and building capacity of diverse teams.
