Technical Lead – Gender/Social Development Full Time

The Opportunity 

The Transforming Education in Ethiopia (TREE) programme will help Ethiopia protect education gains to date, and to level up regions with poor education outcomes and educational inequity. This will be achieved through a focus on equity, including girls, targeting other marginalised groups, and developing regions; and a focus on improving learning outcomes, particularly foundational learning, and the transition to secondary school. It will boost results under other programmes in Ethiopia, on health, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH), that also focus on gender issues such as maternal health, early pregnancy, and menstrual health management.

The intended impact and outcomes for TREE are:

• Impact: High quality inclusive education for children across all regions of Ethiopia
• Outcomes:
  • Increased access to education for girls and other marginalised children;
  • Improved teaching quality and learning outcomes.

The Technical Lead – Gender/Social Development Specialist will represent Plan International as part of a “Core Team” of technical experts, who will be responsible for providing technical assistance for the TREE programme. The “Core Team” will lead delivery across all programme outcomes. The Technical Lead – Gender/Social Development Specialist will provide technical leadership on Girls’ Education, Disability Inclusion and Child Protection. Ensuring gender and social development is mainstreamed across all programme activities. Fostering safe and inclusive environments for children to ensure they’re protected from violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation. The immediate recipients of the technical assistance will be the Government of Ethiopia and wider units of the Education Sector. The secondary beneficiaries will be learners at pre-primary, primary and secondary level of the education system, who will have equitable access to quality education.

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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 International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), ensuring that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.
• Ensures that all staff in the unit/function/department are properly inducted on and understands their role in upholding Plan International’s safeguarding and GEI policies;
• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in day to day work.
• Ensures that Plan Ethiopia contributes to Plan International’s global efforts to ensure safeguarding and GEI, including making sure that relevant reporting and data are submitted