Plan International was founded over 75 years ago with a mission to promote and protect the rights of children. The organisation was set up by British journalist John Langdon-Davies and refugee worker Eric Muggeridge in 1937, with the original aim to provide food, accommodation and education to children whose lives had been disrupted by the Spanish Civil War. Langdon-Davies conceived the idea of a personal relationship between a child and a sponsor – a model that puts the child at the centre, and remains the core of what we do. Today, Plan International is a global organisation that is active in over 70 countries to advance children’s rights and equality for girls. Who We Are We work with communities around the world to end the cycle of poverty for children. We work with communities around the world to end the cycle of poverty for children. Founded over 70 years ago, Plan is a nearly $800 million organization often ranked among the top 10 international development agencies by reputation, size and scope. We work side-by-side with communities in 50 developing countries to end the cycle of poverty for children, developing solutions to ensure long-term sustainability. Our level of community engagement, long-term outlook and constant focus on the needs and priorities of children is unique among international development organizations. Our solutions are designed up-front to be owned by communities for generations to come and range from clean water and health care programs, to education projects and child protection initiatives. Community by community, Plan works to promise futures that are worthy of all children’s potential. Our Vision Our vision is of a world in which all children realize their full potential in societies that respect people’s rights and dignity. Our Mission Plan strives to achieve lasting improvements in the quality of life of vulnerable children in developing countries by: Enabling children, their families and their communities to meet basic needs and to increase their ability to participate in and benefit from their societies; Fostering relationships to increase understanding and unity among peoples of different cultures and countries; and Promoting the rights and interests of the world’s children.
- Job Type: Full Time
- Qualification: BA/BSc/HND
- Location: Not specified
- Job Field: NGO/Non-Profit
The Opportunity
As the Safeguarding and PSHEA Culture Advisor, you will work closely with the Global Safeguarding/PSHEA Technical Advisors, to support the strengthening of Safeguarding and PSHEA Culture throughout the organisation, ensuring the strengthening of our inclusive safeguarding approaches applied with an intersectional lens.
Your focus will be on the supporting and/or taking on the delivery of our safeguarding culture workshops, these include: Power, Privilege and Bias, Anti Racism, Masculinities for PSHEA, Exploring the Power Within, Honouring the Call of the Self.
You will be required to have strong linkages with our Gender and Inclusion and People & Culture colleagues.
The Individual
- You will need to previous experience of delivering internal workshops/sessions on areas such as power,privilege/bias/anti-Racism or have a background in coaching/counselling, psychotherapy to staff.
- With strong interpersonal and communication skills in English and preferably French. You will have the ability to inspire and influence, while taking into account cultural and language differences.
- You will need knowledge of safeguarding, PSHEA, Code of Conduct, gender, and inclusion policies and strategies, including tools, procedures, and guidance in relation to safeguarding and PSHEA.
- Understanding as well as passion for Plan International’s values and commitment to promoting safeguarding, PSHEA and equality, including gender and race equality, inclusion and girls’ empowerment extends to associates and external partners.
- With good problem-solving skills with demonstrated ability to analyse information and develop innovative solutions that will enable changes in organisational culture
- Ability to distinguish and describe key gender equality and inclusion concepts (including equity, discrimination, inclusion, exclusion, gender, social and gender norms, root causes and transformation).
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE, SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- In-depth knowledge of organisation’s own safeguarding, PSHEA, CoC, gender and inclusion policies strategy, tools, procedures and other strategic guidance in relation to safeguarding and PSHEA.
- Understanding of Plan International’s values and commitment to promote safeguarding, PSHEA and equality, including gender and race equality, inclusion and girls’ empowerment extends to associates and external partners.
- Relevant qualifications or experience in culture change management– particularly as it relates to ensuring it is underpinned by intersectionality/intersectional feminist principles
- Relevant qualifications and/or experience in coaching and/or counselling/psychotherapy
- Ability to distinguish and describe key gender equality and inclusion concepts (including equity, discrimination, inclusion, exclusion, gender, social and gender norms, root causes and transformation).
- Solid experience in understand and working with the concepts of organisational cultures – particularly as it relates to intersectionality/intersectional feminist principles
- Solid experience of working in an international context on Gender Based Violence and PSHEA. Safeguarding and Child Safeguarding/Protection is also desirable.
- Solid experience in safe participation and engagement of young people
- Have good problem-solving skills with demonstrated ability to analyse information and develop innovative solutions that will enable changes in organisational culture
- In-depth understanding of how gender, age, race and other socio-cultural factors intersect to effect access to rights.
- Understands ways in which and reasons why culture and mindset changes are resisted at various levels and particularly within organisations.
- Understanding of models of behaviour change.
- Good interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate, negotiate and influence at all levels, taking into account cultural and language difficulties.
- Ability to use effective approaches to prevent, challenge overt and subtle forms of inequality, exclusion and/or discrimination in the programming and influencing work, interventions.
- Ability to have difficult conversations, challenge thinking and current norms within the workplace.
- Passionate about safeguarding and PSHEA
- Excellent interpersonal skills and collaborative style
- Diplomatic, culturally and politically sensitive
- Ability to establish credibility and be decisive
- Ability to look at situations from several points of view.
- Holds self and others to account to deliver on agreed goals and standards of behaviour
- Fluent in English and skills in Spanish and/or French highly desirable.
Desirable
- Experience of working within the development or humanitarian sector and/or complex global organisations.
- International work experience, in relation to human resources.
- Ability to identify diverse, relevant external actors to work with and understand the purpose and implications of working with them.
