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Deployable Child Protection in Emergencies Specialist - Roster Recruitment

Plan International
Nairobi, Kenya Posted Oct 14, 2026
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About this role

Plan International

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.

Deployable Child Protection in Emergencies Specialist - Roster Recruitment

  • Job Type Full Time
  • Qualification BA/BSc/HND
  • Experience
  • Location Nairobi
  • Job Field Project and Program Management

About You

The Child Protection in Emergencies specialist provides oversight and leadership to Plan International's child protection response in a specific crisis. You will be responsible for assessment, response analysis, design, coordination, capacity strengthening, implementation and monitoring and evaluation of child protection in emergency programmes as part of our broader emergency response. You will ensure that gender equality is core to our child protection in emergencies response and that our intervention meets the child protection and gender-based violence minimum standards.

Successful applicants require:

  • Solid work experience in international humanitarian settings with progressively responsible roles in designing, leading and/or coordinating Child Protection in Humanitarian Action programme responses.
  • Expertise in working with child survivors of sexual and gender based violence (SGBV).
  • Alongside proficiency in English, we require that you can comfortably work in Spanish to be considered for the roster at this time.
  • Commitment to ensuring safeguarding and Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment. (PSEAH) is core to our ways of working

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