Gender Equality Jobs at Plan International for 2024.
Are you passionate about promoting gender equality and ending female genital mutilation ? Here’s a chance for you to advance your career with an International organisation. Apply for Gender Equality Jobs at Plan International for 2024.
Background About Plan International
Plan International works together with children, young people, supporters and partners to strive for a just world, where all people are equal. To do that Plan International tackles the root causes of the challenges and inequalities that children and young girls face. Plan International is there for children from birth until adulthood and Plan International enables children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity.
- Title : Project Coordinator – Gender Equality and Inclusion
Brief Information and context of the Position
Plan International Kenya’s (PIK) strategic goal in the next five years is to end teenage pregnancies and end all forms of sexual and gender-based violence against adolescent girls and young women. We aim to help create an enabling environment where girls and young women are safe, valued, equally cared for, and have equal opportunities. PIK will contribute to the global strategy by aiming to reach directly approximately 2.75 million (children, including girls and young women over the period of the strategy 2022-2026 and to reach additional beneficiaries through its interventions.
THE PROJECT
Plan International’s Conservation and Sustainable Management of Coastal and Marine Ecosystems (COSME) project aims to significantly scale up Plan International Kenya’s current women-led, climate-resilient livelihoods and coastal management project in Kwale and Kilifi counties. It takes an ecosystems-based approach in partnership with Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) Canada, COSME will also capitalize on opportunities for South-South learning by working between Kenya/Tanzania cross-border communities within the same marine coastal and coastal forest eco-regions. The project will be instrumental in driving Nature Based Solutions (NbS) for climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation in the selected eco-regions: i) mangrove restoration and conservation; ii) sustainable seaweed farming; and iii) locally-led forest management and conservation. Small-scale conservation agriculture practices will also be deployed to build the resilience of women in selected communities. The ultimate project outcome is improved climate-resilient, equitable economies within communities relying on coastal and marine ecosystems.
THE ROLE
The role of the Project Coordinator – Gender Equality and Inclusion is to drive the project Gender Equality and Inclusion Strategy, and to ensure successful initiation, planning, implementation as well as monitoring and reporting of the specific project interventions and budget that are foundational to Gender Transformative Climate Adaptation and Resilience. The incumbent will be responsible of direct management of two implementation Project Officers and ensure effective establishment of key relationships with key stakeholders in the county and the project locations within the county. With support from the Project Manager, she/he will liaise with other project teams for synergy and integration of project interventions. She/he will be the technical resource within the project for Gender Transformative Climate Adaptation and Resilience in the broader scope of the COSME project.
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE, SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
Qualifications/ experience essential:
- Bachelor’s degree in Gender, Social Studies, or other related field preferred.
- Minimum of 4 years’ experience in guiding and implementing gender transformative projects
- Technical knowledge of Gender Equality and Inclusion in general, and as it relates to relevant sectors, especially Women’s Economic Empowerment
- Experience of integrating Gender transformative and Rights based Approaches into project design, implementation and M&E
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, networking and representation skills;
- Proven leadership qualities, problem-solving and negotiation skills, and evidence of successful team player.
Desirable
- Experience integrating gender into relevant sectors including natural resource management, Agriculture/Food security, climate change adaptation, disaster risk management and livelihoods is desirable
- Demonstrated involvement in the national, regional and international feminist movement, especially the ecological-feminist movement, is desirable.
- Master’s degree
- Analytical and report writing skills
- Good Interpersonal / Communication skills and team working
- Strategic planning skills
- Results oriented
- Relevant computer skills
- Budget and Cost Control
- Risk management
- Monitoring and Evaluation skills
- Community facilitation, networking, partnership development and management skills
- Good communication, negotiation and advocacy skills
- Conflict Management
Languages required
- High level of English oral and written communication skills, including representation and liaison skills. Knowledge of Kiswahili an added advantage
2. Title : Fight Against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Project Coordinator
Plan started working in Egypt in 1981 and has a presence in ten of the 27 governorates in which the country including Greater Cairo, Alexandria, Giza, Beheira, Kalyoubia, Damietta, Qena, Assuit, Aswan, and Sohag. Plan international Egypt implements programmes designed to enable communities to improve the lives of the most marginalised children and their families. Plan Egypt’s Country Strategy focuses on five strategic objectives.
Through a five-interconnected, gender transformative and context-fit country objectives, PIE intends along with the various stakeholders at all levels to continue delivering positive and transformative changes so that “Children, especially girls, and young people grow up in an enabling environment, realizing their rights and contributing in both development and humanitarian settings as active agents of change”.
Driven by the overall purpose of PII and anchored on Plan International core values, bolder commitment to gender transformation and feminist leadership, program quality and influencing and a more vibrant and efficient operating model.
ROLE PURPOSE
The purpose of the role is to drive the project and maintain the accountability for ensuring timely and quality delivery and monitoring of the implementation of the project’s activities in addition to budget monitoring to ensure meeting both Plan and donor’s requirement. PC is expected to provide technical support and guidance to the project staff of the partners to ensure best level of performance to meet the project objectives.
DIMENSIONS OF THE ROLE
Reporting to the Program Unit Manager (PUM), the Project Coordinator (PC) is entitled to plan, oversee, monitor of “Fight against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Phase 2” project in Assiut program unit (PU). Through working closely with the PU and project team
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