Resilience and Climate Change Specialist

About the job

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organizational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls' rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organization, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International's Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

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ROLE PURPOSE

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 its 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 77 countries.

Plan international has opened an office in Somaliland and started programs that focus on child protection, education, and youth economic empowerment programming in both humanitarian and development settings, working with/through partners and providing technical support to INGOs, Somaliland NGOs, and the Government of Somaliland in Plan's areas of expertise.

Shocks and stresses continue to undermine development, worsen humanitarian crises and exacerbate gender inequality. In Plan International, we believe that Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation contribute to resilience strengthening. This role will support Plan International Somalia/Somaliland in having strong, ambitious and strategic programming and guidance on resilience and climate change. The role is expected to provide technical thought leadership on resilience and climate change both within the Plan Somalia/Somaliland and for external engagement.

This role will be part of the CO programme quality and development team and work closely with programme implementation team, MERL, Business development and other teams, departments and external actors to ensure that all Plan International's work contributes to strengthening resilience, including promoting the nexus between development and humanitarian programming.

The Resilience and climate change Specialist will also lead efforts to adapt Plan International CO programming to be more resilient and responsive to the impacts of climate change.

ROLE DIMENSIONS:

Responsible for leading Plan Somalia's technical work on resilience and climate change that include guidance, tools, monitoring and evaluation, knowledge management and training materials.
Providing high level guidance, capacity building & technical support in the development of quality programs that support and informing policy position.
Responsible for supporting Plan Somalia to incorporate resilience and climate change into development and humanitarian programs.
The post holder will be expected to coordinate with peer organizations' resilience practitioners and to coordinate the existing internal network on Resilience and Climate Change.
Responsible for strategic representation of Plan International Somalia/Somaliland in relevant external events and networks relate with Resilience and Climate Change. Support Plan International's engagement in strategic global conferences including bringing evidence from the field and technical expertise.
The post holder will ensure all work is developed and implemented in ways that improve gender equality and empower girls and women.

Level of contact with children

The position will be based in Hargeisa and frequent travel to the projects sites and the incumbent will give strategic direction on the program level of contact with children will be occasional.

Key result areas:

KRA 1: Quality Programming
- Identify, develop and disseminate tools, guidelines and standards for the implementation of effective resilience and climate change work within Plan International Somalia/Somaliland.
Ensure all DRR and CCA projects within Plan International Somalia/Somaliland are contributing to gender transformative programming.
Provide technical support in the development of stand-alone and cross-cutting resilience projects to the country office through close coordination with regional and GH DRMs.
Lead and support in developing and implementing monitoring and evaluation tools for measuring resilience, ensuring alignment with other thematic areas.
Support Plan International Somalia/Somaliland in assessing resilience needs ensuring a portfolio of high-quality resilience programming at the CO.
Support Plan International Somaliland/Somalia in implementing the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction in close coordination with the Regional DRMs as well as Resilience Network.
Coordinate and work with Plan International resilience and climate advisors at National Office, GH and Regional Office levels including with other staff to support integrated programming that strengthens resilience of Somali girls in development and humanitarian context, and in all sectors

KRA 2: Learning and Capacity Building
- Identify and disseminate lessons from Plan Somalia/Somaliland's work on resilience and climate change
Undertake capacity building, mentoring, training (with others) and support to Plan International Somalia/Somaliland staff and implementing Partners on resilience and climate change.
Identify and develop training manuals, guidance documents, and toolkits on key resilience issues, as required.
Engage with key technical groups within Plan International representing resilience

KRA 3: Research
- Identify research needs and utilize research to support quality and technically sound resilience and climate projects
Lead and/or support in conducting resilience and climate change research initiate by the Country Office and working with the research team at CO, RH and Global Hub.

KRA 4: Representation and Partnerships
- Represent Plan International Somalia/Somaliland at relevant and strategic resilience and climate change clusters, events and networks.
Network with relevant academics, UN agencies, multi-laterals, peer organizations to develop strategic partnerships and raising Plan International's profile in girls' rights
Identify opportunities and explore additional strategic partnerships related to resilience and climate change (i.e private sector, philanthropies, etc)

KRA 5: Resource Mobilization
- Work with Business Development unit to increase the portfolio of resilience and climate change programming and ensure all design are gender transformative
Support to strategic design and business development opportunities related to climate resilience and wider efforts to position Plan in this space.
Targeted support to Technical Units in adapting priority intervention approaches and providing intervention-specific guidance on how to promote climate resilience.
Work with regions and technical units to better understand and adapt to the projected impacts of climate induced disasters.
Build organizational resources to help to develop Plan's portfolio of climate resilient / responsive programs.

KRA 6: Safeguarding, Gender Equality & Inclusion

Ensures that Plan International's global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded by 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 by the appropriate procedures.

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.