Summary
Date Posted: Monday, July 06, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s 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 it’s 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 children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – 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 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries. Project Tittle: Girls’ Education in Crisis: Increasing access, retention and completion of quality and inclusive primary and secondary education for adolescent girls and boys in West Nile, Uganda .

ROLE PURPOSE
Plan International is an independent child rights and humanitarian organization committed to children living a life free of poverty, violence and injustice. We actively unite children, communities and other people who share our mission to make positive lasting changes in children’s and young people’s lives. We support children to gain the skills, knowledge and confidence they need to claim their rights to a fulfilling life, today and in the future. We place a specific focus on girls and women, who are most often left behind. We have been building powerful partnerships for children for more than 75 years and are now active in more than 70 countries.
Plan International Uganda is looking for a Gender Coordinator to support the project team ensure that gender transformative approaches are fully integrated and mainstreamed into the implementation of its 3 Years project “Girls Education in Crisis” in Adjumani, Arua and Madi Okollo Districts, West Nile Region. The overall responsibility of this position is to ensure that the project team and partners including district Officials, schools management, parents, communities, and children are supported to understand and apply gender transformative approaches to challenge negative norms and behaviors that affect the ability of refugee and host community girls to access, inclusive, child-friendly, gender-responsive and quality education and thrive at school. The Gender Coordinator will ensure that equal value, rights and agency of girls are reinforced through all project activities.
Dimensions of the Role
The Gender Coordinator will be responsible for planning and implementing gender related activities and interventions in the project in collaboration with the rest of the project team. She/he will manage the associated budget, do procurement planning, develop activity reports both financial and narrative and ensure value for money. S/He will work in collaboration with MEAL teams to lead gender analysis that will inform and enhance gender transformative implementation of the project. S/he will develop and lead the implementation of training and coaching programs aimed at developing the capacities of team members, partners and main stakeholders for gender transformative programing and the quality delivery of gender equality related activities. She/he will plan and support advocacy and influencing activities working closely with the project team and the Advocacy and Influencing Manager. She/he will work closely with child protection staff to feed into protection risk assessment and to develop effective safeguarding measures and referral mechanisms for the project.
Accountabilities
• Ensure a gender transformative approach to the implementation of the Dubai Cares- Girls in Crisis project.
• Support preparation and management of annual plans and alignment of project budgets to support the gender transformative aims of the project
• Support the project team to plan and conduct project studies, including, project Baselines, gender analysis, monitoring and evaluation, any surveys, as well as mid and end line evaluations and knowledge management. Develop capacities, through training and on the job coaching, of the project team to deliver gender transformative interventions that support achievement of the project objectives.
• Support development of gender responsive and inclusive tools that support project planning, implementation and M&E in line with the project objectives.
• Support schools targeted by the project create a gender responsive and inclusive environment that supports girls to enroll, stay and thrive in school.
s. communities and other key education stakeholders identify, dialogue and address the root causes of gender inequality and discrimination and the effect these have on girls’ access, transitioning and completion of education.
t. communities, traditional and religious institutions to change social/gender norms attitude and practices that negatively impact on especially girls’ realization of their education rights, with an emphasis on the right to education.
u. and share best practices and lessons learned on gender transformative programming throughout project implementation.
• Represent Plan International Uganda at coordination meetings and other fora (gender equality, education, child protection)
Key relationships
• The Gender Coordinator will be a member of the gender task force and will work in close collaboration with Education stakeholders at District and Sub- district levels, School and community level. S/He will specifically maintain regular day to day working relationship with education stakeholders at district and school levels in all the targeted communities. S/He will also maintain regular working relationship with other partners implementing similar interventions in the assigned districts to ensure harmonized programming and implementation of project interventions at district and School level.
Job Skills: Not Specified

Technical expertise, Education, skills and knowledge
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Social Sciences, Gender or Development Studies
• At least 3 years’ experience managing gender equality and/or women and girl’s protection and empowerment programs in a reputable organization
• Understanding of the aims of gender transformative programming, experience of implementation is highly sought.
• Experience in carrying out all aspects of qualitative research (development and piloting of tools, data collection, analysis, writing). Experience of feminist-informed research methodology is desired.
• Demonstrated experience of capacity building and mentoring staff
• Sound knowledge and experience of integrating gender equality and social inclusion in education
• Sound understanding of child and youth safeguarding approaches and child protection.
• Experience working with Education or Child protection programmes in a humanitarian context will be considered a strong advantage.
Plan International’s Values in Practice
We are open and accountable
• Promotes a culture of openness and transparency, including sponsors and donors.
• Holds self and others accountable to achieve the highest standards of integrity.
• Consistent and fair in the treatment of people.
• Open about mistakes and keen to learn from them.
• Accountable for ensuring we are a safe organisation for all children, girls & young people
We strive for lasting impact
• Articulates a clear purpose for staff and sets high expectations.
• Creates a climate of continuous improvement, open to challenge and new ideas.
• Focuses resources to drive change and maximise long-term impact, responsive to changed priorities or crises.
• Evidence-based and evaluates effectiveness.
We work well together
• Seeks constructive outcomes, listens to others, willing to compromise when appropriate.
• Builds constructive relationships across Plan International to support our shared goals.
• Develops trusting and ‘win-win’ relationships with funders, partners and communities.
• Engages and works well with others outside the organization to build a better world for girls and all children.
We are inclusive and empowering
• Seeks constructive outcomes, listens to others, willing to compromise when appropriate.
• Builds constructive relationships across Plan International to support our shared goals.
• Develops trusting and ‘win-win’ relationships with funders, partners and communities.
• Engages and works well with others outside the organization to build a better world for girls and all children.
As a Child Centred Development organisation, Plan International Uganda strives to ensure that children are kept safe in all the areas we operate. The organisation further has a Safeguarding Children and Young People Policy that every staff is required to sign. As a result, this position comes with additional responsibilities for safeguarding children and young people:
Additional Responsibilities:
Safe guarding children and Young people’s Policy (mandatory for all staff)
• Adhere to the Child Protection Policy, Code of Conduct and reporting any CPP issues.
• Responsible for the implementation of the CPP standards as they apply to the area of responsibility plus the development of actions to address identified gaps and monitoring their effectiveness.
• Ensure that all Plan International partners, visitors, and associates in his/her area of responsibility are provided with, are made aware of and have signed and returned a copy of the child protection policy. Inform the partners, visitors, and associates that they must comply with the policy in all contacts and communications with children during their visit.
• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Child Protection (CPP) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.
Physical Environment
• The Gender Project Coordinator will be based in Adjumani district with frequent travel to other project districts.
Level of contact with children
Mid contact: Occasional interaction with children especially whenever in the field
Job Education: Not Specified

Job Experience: Not Specified

Work Hours: 8

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