Child Protection And Inclusion Programme Advisor

The Organization

• Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organization 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.

The Opportunity:

• Reporting to the Strategic Partnerships and Advocacy Manager, the Child Protection, and Inclusion Programme Advisor will be responsible for operationalizing Plan’s country and global strategies and policies related to protection including child Protection. This will include developing innovative programme designs, representation of Plan in relevant forums, providing technical guidance to programme implementation teams & documentation of processes and approaches that Plan uses.

Responsibilities include:

Program Design

• Lead the design of innovative projects and programs to address community issues in relation to the Protection of Child and women rights in collaboration with Programme Unit/Area (PU/PA) offices and relevant departments at the Country Office in line with the Plan Egypt Country Strategy Paper. This will include but not be limited to developing logical frameworks and concept notes.
• Lead design of child protection program packages, guidelines, and manuals that are aligned with Plan Egypt country strategic plans and facilitate operationalization of Plan Egypt’s strategic objectives.
• To work with the Business Development unit to raise funds for projects.
• Ensure the mainstreaming of Sponsorship commitments, child protection standards and any other relevant corporate guidelines in the design of project proposals.
• To act as a resource person in the organization for Protection and keep oneself up to date with developments happening in this field both nationally and internationally.

Strategic Partnership & Policy Advocacy

• Develop strategic partnerships with key constituencies to elicit support for and maximize the impact of Plan’s work.
• Develop and implement policy advocacy plan which includes partnership mainstreaming in collaboration with PU/PA and Programme Quality and Design Unit (PQ&D) to ensure active, meaningful and continuous relationship.
• Develop and implement policy advocacy action plan related to Child Protection using all relevant tools and techniques. This will include, but not be limited to, developing policy briefs, advocacy messages, organizing conferences and seminars, etc.
• To routinely develop and submit progress reports, status updates, and briefs on emerging issues to relevant team members.
• Lead in formulating country-specific policies, strategies, and objectives on accountability and inclusive accountability for quality programming.
• To represent the organization at different national and regional forums & platforms.

Technical support

• Build the capacity of Plan staff, and strategic partners to promote the equal protection of child and women rights.
• Provide technical recommendations to improve the design of any project or program to ensure that they meet the quality standards.
• Provide demand-driven technical support to PQ&D unit and Program Units/Areas and ensure high-quality programme implementation. This will include designing, conducting and coordinating training programmes, technical field visits, development and dissemination of guidance material, etc.

Program Reporting and Documentation