CP/GBV case worker

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

 

The Opportunity

The position holder will be responsible to lead the strategic direction and implementation of end to end recruitment process, onboarding, capacity development, performance management, succession planning, and employee engagement. The role ensures Plan International Ethiopia attracts, retains, develops, and engages high-quality talent while aligning HR practices with organizational goals, values, and safeguarding principles.

 

Key Responsibilities Include

• Conduct structured identification of exercises and updates on the child protection and GBV situation in the designated project area relating to unaccompanied, separated children, other children at risk, GBV survivors, women and girls at risk.
• Ensure coordination and confidential information sharing with CP /GBV officer, implementing partner organisations and community-based child protection groups and networks, as well as relevant stakeholders at community level
• Identify missing children and children who need family tracing and reunification services
• Conduct the registration of unaccompanied and separated children and other children at risk establish a trusting, respectful working relationship with the child, family and community and record basic information about the child using the relevant forms.
• Conduct the assessment and documentation of unaccompanied, separated children. other vulnerable children GBV survivors, women and girls at risk.
• Work with the child, family and community network:
• Liaise with other thematic response areas in the camp such as health, education, gender protection to ensure coordinated multi-sectoral support for unaccompanied and separated children and other vulnerable children and their families, GBV survivors, women and girls at risk.
• Identify capacity building needs of relevant service providers on child protection/GBV and referral pathways.
• Share all information in timely and confidential manner.
• Organize community awareness sessions, child, Women led group discussions and closely work with child protection committees and women net work groups.
• Identify individual cases through regular presence in the community and accept referrals from other agencies and community partners.
• Facilitate peer-to-peer support groups where appropriate.
• Work with child Protection/GBV Officers to arrange case conferences for complex cases and ensure children receive multidisciplinary support.
• Children´s/ GBV survivors records, attendance sheets, case forms and other confidential data will be kept and shall not be shared to any external person, community member or to any organization/government line agencies without prior consent of the concerned child, CP/GBV officer and CPIE Manager.
• ICommitment to the Best Interest of the Child.
• Clear and effective communication and negotiation skills for a variety of different counterparts.
• Proactive, promotes team work and cooperation
• Ensure that data collection and storage respect data protection protocols and confidentiality principle.
• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Child Protection and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines
• The role holder will deal with children and GBV survivors, women and girls at risk.  with various levels of psychosocial distress and depression who passed through conflicts, abduction, abuse, recruitment, separation, etc. to mention a few.

All the above responsibilities oblige a post holder to develop high level of professional discipline and preparedness to investigate cases.

 

The Individual

• Bachelor’s Degree or diploma in Sociology, Psychology, Social work, law,community development or other related field of social science studies.
• 3 (three) years of relevant professional experience in a similar position experience of working with vulnerable children, including children outside of parental care.
• Experience in designing and facilitating of training and capacity building on child protection, counselling and/or case management technical areas with a variety of audiences.
• Experience in community mobilization and conducting outreach activities.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including presentation.
• Ability to analyse information and evaluate options including planning skills.
• Proficient in computer skills and use of relevant software and other applications.
• Child center development and Gender aware.
• Fluency in English languages
• Knowledge and skill of local languages is a plus
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to build relationships with colleagues.

 

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 Program Participants 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 safeguarding and GEI, including making sure that relevant reporting and data are submitted.

 

Location: Nyinenyang

Type of Role: Fixed Term – full time contract

Reports to: CPiE and GBV Officer

Grade: B1

Closing Date: November 15, 2026

 

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

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.