Protection Specialist

The Opportunity    The Protection Specialist will provide strategic leadership, technical expertise, and overall coordination for stand alone, integrated and mainstreamed protection programming, with a particular focus on Child Protection (CP) and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in both humanitarian and development contexts. The position will play a critical role in strengthening the organization’s protection portfolio by ensuring that programs effectively prevent, mitigate, and respond to protection risks faced by children, adolescents, women, and other vulnerable populations, including internally displaced persons (IDPs), refugees, returnees, and host communities. The role will be responsible for deg, guiding, and ensuring the quality implementation of protection interventions that align with international standards and best practices, including the Child Protection Minimum Standards (CPMS), Inter-Agency GBV Minimum Standards, humanitarian protection principles, safeguarding policies, and gender equality and inclusion frameworks. The Protection Specialist will ensure that protection programs are evidence-based, rights-based, survivor-centered, and child-sensitive, and that they address both immediate protection needs and the underlying factors that increase vulnerability to abuse, exploitation, neglect, and violence.   Please click here Full Job Description   Safeguarding Children and Program Participants (Safeguarding) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) Understands and puts into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GEI policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), ensuring that concerns are reported and managed per the appropriate procedures. Ensures that all staff in the unit/function/department are properly inducted on and understand their role in upholding Plan International’s safeguarding and GEI policies; Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in day-to-day work. Ensures that Plan Ethiopia contributes to Plan International’s global efforts to ensure safe guarding and GEI, including making sure that relevant reporting and data are submitted.