Gender & Inclusion Lead – Ukraine Refugee Crisis Response

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 80 countries.

The Opportunity

Plan International is committed to ensuring gender equality is core to our humanitarian and development work. Central to this is ensuring our work is analysed through a gender lens.

The escalation of conflict in Ukraine lead to a major humanitarian crisis with over 3 million people having fled to neighbouring countries, and millions displaced within Ukraine. Plan International is responding to the crisis and working in partnership with civil society organisations in Ukraine and neighbouring Moldova, Romania, and Poland to meet the key needs of those affected by the crisis as well as host communities.

The Gender and Inclusion Lead will play a key role in supporting Plan International Ukraine Response in all 4 of its teams to ensure activities are gender responsive and transformative, provide technical support and guidance to Plan International teams and partners.

The Individual will have to-

• Technical lead on designing and producing gender-responsive knowledge generation with developing key recommendations for Plan International and the wider humanitarian sector.
• Map service provision in country and assess the quality and age- and gender-responsiveness of services, identifying areas where Plan International could provide additional support.
• Provide input to the development of ongoing programme strategies, plans and proposals, advise Programme Team on application of Plan’s gender transformative marker in projects.

Technical expertise, skills, and knowledge

• Demonstrated experience of supporting gender in emergencies programming and mainstreaming gender highly desirable.
• Knowledge of the international humanitarian sector and an understanding of humanitarian principles, standards and guidelines including SPHERE, IASC Gender in Humanitarian Action, GIE Minimum Standards.
• Experience in planning, design and implementation of integrated humanitarian programmes desirable.
• Excellent reporting skills, and inputting on funding submissions and donor reports.