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• Provide sectoral leadership and expertise in the assessment of child
  protection and gender equality issues in project sites, with specific
  consideration of gender and age specific needs
• Conduct initial rapid assessment of current situation in
  collaboration with cluster actors and affected population; determine
  priorities, immediate activities and resources needed, including material,
  financial, and human resources
• Review, assess and update the child protection situation in areas
  affected by emergency (including, but not limited to children who
  experience sexual and gender-based violence, children associated with
  armed forces and armed groups, unaccompanied and separated children, child
  trafficking and other relevant circumstances affecting child vulnerability
  to violence, exploitation and abuse)
• Highlight protection issues requiring a response – both immediate
  (less than 2 months) and medium term and make recommendations on specific
  Plan International actions required. Ensure core commitments to children
  are taken into consideration.
• Identify potential partnerships to implement recommendations, assess
  potential partners where available or make recommendations on how to fill
  gaps.

• Work in close collaboration with Plan International staff and key
  stakeholders, define aims and objectives of the overall child protection
  in emergencies programme (including advocacy activities) based on evidence
  from assessments, evaluations, and global best practice.
• Ensure that issues of gender equality, education, DBR and conflict
  sensitivity are factored into the programme design.
• Ensure Plan International guidelines and UN Child Protection cluster
  standards are considered and any departures documented.
• Work in close collaboration with other programmes specialists,
  particularly gender and WASH, to ensure that emergency interventions build
  upon each other and link in to longer term programming.
• Support development of concept papers and proposals in respect of
  the above.

• Work closely with the relevant implementation team (officers, case
  workers, social workers) to ensure that the implementation of relevant
  activities are planned and implemented in a phased and prioritized manner
  in full consultation and co-ordination with all relevant agencies both
  governmental and non – governmental.
• Provide technical guidance to Plan International Uganda for
  effective planning, implementation and monitoring of agreed child protection
  plans related to community-based CP mechanisms, case management, child
  friendly spaces, and alternative care.
• Make frequent field visits to all affected response areas to monitor
  implementation of activities, identify opportunities and constraints and
  any adjustments needed including additional staffing or staff training or
  other.
• Ensure early and rigorous implementation of a feedback and
  complaints mechanism and respond to collected feedback and complaints in a
  timely and appropriate manner
• With support of the CO Child and Youth Safeguarding Focal Point,
  conduct a safeguarding risk analysis of the project and identify
  mitigation actions

• Regularly monitor the implementation of Plan International Child
  Protection activities and draft recommendations for improved programme
  implementation
• Support the Monitoring & Evaluation Coordinator in data
  collection and analysis of CPiE activities
• Draft child protection intervention reports and briefs to serve as
  standalone deliverables or to be included in larger emergency response for
  both donor and internal purposes.
• Support human rights monitoring and reporting of child protection
  and other child rights violations to relevant UN reporting mechanisms and
  other instruments.

• Provide regular updates to Emergency Response Manager and emergency
  team on progress, priorities and constraints – verbally and in writing on
  an agreed frequency.
• Engage and follow up with relevant implementation manager(s)
• Represent Plan International Uganda in the CP sub-cluster and other
  strategic and coordination meetings as needed and agreed with the team
  leader. With the CP sub-cluster, map current institutional response
  capacities – including conducting a child protection specific 3Ws.

• Coordinate and/or implement capacity-building, including training,
  coaching, and briefing, of Plan International Uganda staff, partners and
  other key stakeholders on child protection and/or related issues
• Supervise Gender Coordinator and Child Protection Officers and
  provide regular performance feedback
• Provide direct technical guidance and capacity-building to case
  workers and social workers both in Arua and Yumbe
• Hold regular coordination meetings with all CPiE project staff to
  review technical quality of CPiE activities, identify challenges, and
  discuss lessons learned.

• The applicant for the Plan International Child Protection in
  Emergency Coordinator job opportunity must hold a Bachelor’s
  degree in Law, International Law, Social Sciences, Development Studies or
  a related field with good knowledge of International Refugee, Human Rights
  and Humanitarian Law.
• At least five years (of which at least 3 in the field) of
  progressively responsible professional experience in child protection,
  humanitarian affairs, human rights and related fields.
• Experience working with communities, families, parents, youth,
  adolescents, and children, including child survivors of GBV and
  unaccompanied and separated children in humanitarian contexts
• Experience with participatory approaches to protection, emergency
  preparedness, crisis/emergency relief management or other related areas.
  Experience in the country of assignment is an asset.
• Good knowledge and understanding of DO NO HARM principles and
  established international child protection standards, particularly related
  to case management, alternative care, child friendly spaces, psychosocial
  support, and community-based child protection mechanisms.

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