Education Specialist At Plan International

What can you bring?

As an Education Specialist, you will provide a key understanding of the current Polish context and framework, supporting and advising education, early childhood and disability inclusive projects, ensuring quality intervention in these areas and contributing to the development of the sectorial strategy. Moreover, you will support the implementation of programming in Poland, ensuring the continuity and further scale up of the Education interventions in Poland (including inclusive education and early child development), supporting the organization and the partner organisations’ programme planning, implementation and monitoring.

You’ll be:

• Scoping education partners, tracking meetings, keeping detailed notes, and working closely with partnership teams to secure national partnerships
• Development of concept notes and proposals, independently and with local partners
• Supporting partners with capacity-strengthening training and co-learning opportunities
• Coordinating with education working group led by UNICEF and any forums/working groups set up by national partners for the education response
• Engaging with MoES and local education authorities, wherever possible
• Supporting needs assessment (joint or multi-sectoral) as required
• Developing links with UNICEF and UNHCR country and regional teams
• Liaising with Child Protection and other sectoral specialists as required
• Collaborating with Plan International’s teams in the region and GH EiE technical lead to ensure an organized and coordinated regional response.
• Supporting the development of Plan International’s regional response plan
• Visiting partners, schools, non-formal education programmes, early learning centres and intervention sites
• Providing support to policy and influencing activities at national, regional, and global level in close collaboration with Plan International and in-country teams
• Inputting into SitReps on a regular basis and developing activity reports as required
• Any other activities as identified by team leads

You’ll have:

• University degree in one of the disciplines relevant to the following areas: Education, Economics, Social Sciences, or a field(s) relevant to international development assistance or humanitarian work.
• Knowledge and experience working in Special Education or Disability-inclusive settings (required)
• Knowledge and experience working in Early Childhood Education (highly preferred)
• Experience in multi country travel and setup.
• Experience of, and well-developed skills in, staff management, supervision and capacity building.
• Experience with working in an INGO at Field and/or Country Office level

Why join Plan International?

A career with Plan International offers interesting and varied international experience, with plenty of opportunities for growth and development through our internal Plan Academy framework.

Our shared values and behaviours are our guiding principles for how we work and interact with others. They help to foster a culture of openness, accountability and transparency which allows innovation, experimentation and continuous learning.

It’s an exciting time to join as we shape our longer-term strategy and presence within each of the response countries. You’ll have a direct impact on children, especially girls, affected by the conflict in Ukraine.

Please note, interviews will take place on a rolling basis and we reserve the right to close this advert once sufficient applications are received. During our emergency response, there may be a delay in hearing from us; at Plan International we appreciate the time invested in application processes and aim to respond to every candidate in due course.

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 organisation, 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.

Please note that Plan International will never send unsolicited emails requesting payment from candidates.

*This is a national position open for Polish nationals only**