ROLE PURPOSE 

Plan International is an independent child rights and humanitarian organisation committed to children living a life free of poverty, violence and injustice. We actively unite children, communities and other people who share our mission to make positive lasting changes in children’s and young people’s lives.  We support children to gain the skills, knowledge and confidence they need to claim their rights to a fulfilling life, today and in the future. We place a specific focus on girls and women, who are most often left behind. We have been building powerful partnerships for children for more than 75 years and are now active in more than 70 countries. 

Plan International Sudan aims to respond effectively, rapidly, and at significant scale to the core humanitarian needs of children and their families affected by the conflict between the armed forces in Sudan. Specifically, Plan International Sudan aims to minimize disruption to formal and non-formal education systems and to restore formal education services; strengthen the proactive environment for children and their families including age and gender appropriate services during and after disasters; create opportunities for and build capacity of young people affected by the armed conflict to generate income and to improve their life skills; and to become recognized actor in both in linking related community based interventions to national coordination and interagency mechanisms where Plan International Sudan will gradually take on leadership functions. 

DIMENSIONS OF THE ROLE 

The Education cluster approach ensures clear leadership, predictability and accountability in international responses to humanitarian emergencies by clarifying the division of labour among organizations and better defining their roles and responsibilities within the different sectors of the response. It aims to make the international humanitarian community better organized and more accountable and professional, so that it can be a better partner for the affected people, host governments, local authorities, local civil society and resourcing partners.

The humanitarian response in Sudan is carried out through multiple response centers with their own coordination bodies. The National Education cluster coordination architecture is the body that is responsible for ensuring coherence and a principled education response across Sudan. This oversees the Education Sub-national (State Cluster Coordination mechanisms) clusters.  The post holder is the Education Sector State Cluster Co-Lead, who along with the UNICEF Education Sector Co-Lead supports a relevant, coordinated, timely and accountable education response In North Darfur state. The State Cluster Education Co-Lead (Coordinator) will support the coordination within North Darfur. 

ACCOUNTABILITIES 

Response Management and Implementation

The post holder has joint responsibility for the functioning of the Education Sector at sub-national level with the UNICEF- Co-Lead, by supporting the coordination mechanisms of the sub-national response areas in North Darfur landscape for the efficient management and functioning of a humanitarian education response, encompassing the following:

• Support, promote and maintain an appropriate humanitarian coordination mechanism
• Strengthen pre-existing sectoral coordination and response modalities through increased relevance, predictability and accountability
• Promote strategically and technically sound, evidence-based planning and responses that put the populations needs, preferences and priorities at the center of the response. Promote responses that are relevant to a protracted crisis emphasizing early recovery approaches that address humanitarian education needs while laying foundations for post-conflict recovery.
• At the sub-national level and be responsible for all facets of the humanitarian program cycle including production of the humanitarian needs overview, humanitarian response plan and related reporting; No Lost Generation workstreams; contingency, preparedness and emergency planning; and all related reporting.
• Provide ongoing technical support to the coordination units within North Darfur and provide gap-filling as needed.
• Facilitate evidence-based advocacy on safe access to education and the stopping attacks on education.
• Promote adequate resource mobilization and advocate for resources that enable quality education and continuity of services. Advocacy efforts target humanitarian and development actors including donors.
• Proactively work with other sectors to promote cross-sector collaboration.
• Foster effective cooperation, collaboration, communication, reporting, engagement and coordination between Education Sector and the sub-national response areas and between education and other sectors within the sub-national level.
• Effective and comprehensive integration of relevant cross-cutting issues, including equable access, age, gender and disability.
• Maintain flexibility within the humanitarian education response to respond to changes in the operating environment, evolving requirements, capacities and participation, changing needs and changing availability of funding.
• Effectively use and transfer information to, from and between Sub-national Clusters/Sector/Working-group
• Interact with other sectors, humanitarian, development and stabilization actors, government counterparts, and relevant authorities for operational planning, engagement and active contribution of operational members as represented by the coordination leadership at the sub-national response level.
• Monitor performance of the core sub-national cluster functions and support course correction, learning from lessons and the replication of successful practices.
• Provide brief updates and regular reports on sectoral activities/strategies to Plan International management 

Sudan Coordination

• Working closely with the Education Sector lead (Minister of Education) and Co-lead UNICEF and other education working-groups and information managers, to ensure a technically sound, strategic, coherent humanitarian education response at sub-national level of Syria response areas.
• In line with the INEE Minimum Standards, Sphere, and other relevant guidance, facilitate the use of best-practices and the harmonization of standards across North Darfur response; in collaboration with Education Sector lead and ensure rigorous needs and severity analysis.
• Facilitate weekly and ad hoc meetings across the assigned sub-national response areas 
• Work closely with Sector lead to develop key advocacy messages for key audiences including safe access to education, access to quality education, predictable and continuous access to education services, early recovery approaches to the humanitarian education response, aligning responses to the priorities and preference of the effected population,
• Facilitate and support the development of capacities and abilities and localization initiatives across the North Darfur sub-national response areas.

 Leadership

• Promote strategic, technically sound, evidence and needs based response planning across the assigned sub-national response areas, in coordination with Sector lead team.
• Work closely with Sector lead team to support the development of annual Humanitarian Needs Overviews (HNO) and Humanitarian Response Plans (HRP), ad hoc planning documents and related reporting.
• Provide briefings and informational packages to sub-national cluster members, Sector lead team, donors and others that promote evidence-based, technically appropriate and people-centered, planning and programming and need based funding.

Member capacity development:

• Support the conceptualization and actualization of Save the Children and UNICEF funding for developing the capacity of Cluster/Sector/Working-Group members and for promoting localization.
• Contribute towards developing related TORs and workplans, reviewing progress reports and upward reporting requirements.
• Promote awareness and understanding of affected populations, identifying appropriate service providers.
• Coordinate assessment of capacity gaps and needs and develop and implement a capacity building plan, including child protection minimum standards and tools and cross-cutting priority themes.
• Identify and promote opportunities to support NNGO capacity-building support to enable local partners to participate effectively in the sector.
• Coordinate and/or implement trainings and briefings of EiE to NGO and other key stakeholders.

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning

• Report regularly and as requested on implementing the child protection response against the Humanitarian Needs Response Plan (HNRP) results framework to track progress against targets.
• Coordinate sub-sector-related performance monitoring and recommend corrective action where and when needed.
• Participate in reviewing coordination mechanisms and global sector evaluations to ensure monitoring of the adaptiveness of the response and increased capacities of local actors. 

Advocacy 

• Undertake coordinated advocacy for the cluster, cluster members, and affected people.
• Draft situation updates to inform interventions and advocacy 
• Develop child protection key messages and talking points on the sector response, needs of affected persons, and critical issues to inform humanitarian decision-making. 
• Undertake coordinated advocacy for the cluster, cluster members, and affected people.

GENERAL ACCOUNTABILITY (Safeguarding and PSHEA)

Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for (Safeguarding Children and Young People), Prevention, Sexual Harassment, Exploitation and Abuse (PSHEA) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) are fully embedded in accordance with 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 in accordance with the appropriate procedures. Ensure staff understand Plan International’s commitment to driving a feminist agenda within the organisation and that the ambition for gender equality and gender transformative leadership is embedded in our value-based leadership framework.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS 

Internal: 

• Education in Emergencies Technical Specialist
• Education Project Managers and Coordinators in North Darfur

External: 

• National Education Cluster Coordinator, Sudan 
• All-Darfur Sub-national Cluster Coordinator
• Education Cluster Information Management Officer 

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE, SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

• Networking and representation: demonstrable experience of organisational representation and engagement with humanitarian donors
• Communication: Well-developed written and oral communication skills. This includes effective negotiation and representation skills.
• People management: Ability to work independently and as a team player who demonstrates leadership, can guide local and international staff, and can work with disaster-affected communities in a sensitive and participatory manner.
• Adaptability & flexibility: Ability to operate effectively in stressful working environments. 
• Work style: well organised even within a fluid working environment and has a capacity for initiative and decision-making with competent analytical and problem-solving skills. 
• Knowledge & skills: General knowledge and understanding of EiE, and INEE Minimum Standards, Core Humanitarian Standards, SPHERE, Red Cross/NGO Code of Conduct and other relevant international standards for humanitarian response.
• Experience in conducting EiE assessments in emergency contexts
• Experience in training/mentoring on EiE technical areas with various audiences.
• Previous work experience in the region (desirable) & emergency context (mandatory)
• Fluency in Arabic and English (business level)

PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT

• The holder of the position will be based in North Darfur, with about 20% travel to other locations within Darfur. 

LEVEL OF CONTACT WITH CHILDREN

• Medium contact: The State Cluster Coordinator will have some level of interaction with children

PLAN INTERNATIONAL’S VALUES IN PRACTICE 

We are open and accountable: - 

• Promotes a culture of openness and transparency, including with sponsors and donors.
• Holds self and others accountable to achieve the highest standards of integrity. 
• Consistent and fair in the treatment of people. 
• Open about mistakes and keen to learn from them. 
• Accountable for ensuring we are a safe organisation for all children, girls & young people 

We strive for lasting impact 

• Articulates a clear purpose for staff and sets high expectations. 
• Creates a climate of continuous improvement, open to challenge and new ideas. 
• Focuses resources to drive change and maximise long-term impact, responsive to changed priorities or crises. 
• Evidence-based and evaluates effectiveness. 

We work well together 

• Seeks constructive outcomes, listens to others, and is willing to compromise when appropriate. 
• Builds constructive relationships across Plan International to support our shared goals. 
• Develops trusting and ‘win-win’ relationships with funders, partners, and communities. 
• Engages and works well with others outside the organization to build a better world for girls and all children. 

We are inclusive and empowering 

• We empower our staff to give their best and develop their potential 
• We respect all people, appreciate differences, and challenge equality in our programs and our workplace 
• We support children, girls, and young people to increase their confidence and to change their own lives.  

Please use the link below to submit your application:

https://career5.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/jobreqcareerpvt?jobId=52488&company=PlanInt&st=AAEF75CE9E78BE4371B107EA5FC3F293D8FA64B7