The Organisation
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 85 years, and are now active in more than 75 countries.
ROLE PURPOSE
As the Regional WASH in Emergencies Adviser in the Horn of Africa, you will ensure technical soundness of the WASH interventions in the Food Crisis response focusing on the four countries covered by the Plan International ‘red alert’ – Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya.
WASH interventions will cover both standalone water, sanitation and hygiene programming and, critically, also the integration of WASH within other elements of Plan’s Food Crisis response such as food distribution, feeding, nutrition, education and care in health facilities as a fundamental pre-requisite for maximising the effectiveness of these interventions.
In collaboration with Country Offices, regional management and National Organisations you will advise and support high performing country teams team to improve their WASH intervention approaches, strategy and practice, ensuring specific WASH/GEDSI developmental outcomes are included, and explore WASH and integrated programming related funding opportunities, ensuring accountability for meeting targets, and maintaining alignment with the Plan International global strategy.
You will have a demonstrable commitment to gender equality and be comfortable representing Plan International to the highest levels of government, civil society, and local, regional and international stakeholders and institutions.
You will understand and drive efforts to deliver positive change for girls through advocating, campaigning and communicating at a national and regional forum level. Equally, you will ensure Plan’s standalone and integrated WASH responses interventions in the Horn of Africa are fit for purpose, have the right funding to achieve our ambition, key business processes are in place and organisational values are embedded in everything we do.
You will lead by example in ensuring gender equality is evident in everything we do from staffing, to programming and influencing, to ways of working. You will work with Country Office teams to bring about the right culture that ensures we are champions for girls and gender equality.
Dimensions of the Role
Direct Reports – none
Key Stakeholders
Communications Required
External Representation
Reach of the Role
Accountabilities
The Regional WASH in Emergencies Adviser – Horn of Africa will operate within the context of a growing food crisis and therefore the accountabilities indicated below and the proportional time allocations should be understood to be estimates only and the role is expected to show a high degree of flexibility in terms of the tasks that are prioritised.
Project Management and Technical Support (75%)
Resource Mobilisation (25%)
Gender Equity and Child Safeguarding
Key relationships
The Regional WASH in Emergencies Advisor – Horn of Africa is directly line-managed by the MEESAH Regional Head of DRM and is supported and advised by the ANO WASH Advisor. A ‘contact group’ comprising the Regional Head of DRM, the ANO WASH Advisor and the DRM leads in the four food Crisis red alert Country Offices will provide guidance in regards to prioritisation of tasks and accountabilities.
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QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
Knowledge and Experience
Skills
Essential
Desirable
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