Deployable Education in Emergencies Specialist
Date: 26 May 2026
Location: Flexible, Flexible
Company: Plan International
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
📍 Flexible global location (must have right to work where Plan operates)
✈️ Up to 75% travel (including deployments up to 3 months)
🚨 About the Role
As a Deployable EiE Specialist, you will play a critical role in leading and supporting high-quality education responses in humanitarian contexts. You will deploy to crisis-affected countries—often at short notice—to design, implement and strengthen education programmes that ensure children, especially girls, continue learning during emergencies.
When not deployed, you will contribute to global EiE strategy, technical guidance, and capacity strengthening across Plan International.
🎯 Key Responsibilities
Emergency Response & Programme Delivery
1. Lead and support safe, inclusive, and quality education programmes in crisis settings
2. Ensure education interventions address the needs of:
3. Girls and marginalised children
4. Out-of-school children
5. Survivors of violence
6. Children on the move and those affected by conflict
7. Integrate education with other sectors including child protection, gender, cash assistance, and nutrition
Programme Design & Technical Leadership
8. Conduct rapid needs assessments and contribute to response planning
9. Design gender-responsive and inclusive EiE strategies and proposals
10. Ensure alignment with national systems and long-term development goals
Coordination & Representation
11. Represent Plan International in Education Clusters and coordination forums
12. Collaborate with NGOs, UN agencies, governments and local partners
13. Strengthen Plan’s external visibility and influence in EiE
Resource Mobilisation
14. Support the development of high-quality funding proposals
15. Build and maintain relationships with donors and partners
16. Contribute to growing a strong EiE funding portfolio
Monitoring, Evaluation & Accountability
17. Develop and support robust M&E frameworks (including sex, age and disability disaggregated data)
18. Ensure accountability to affected populations
19. Produce high-quality reports and capture learning for continuous improvement
Capacity Building & Knowledge Sharing
20. Mentor and train staff and partners on EiE and related themes
21. Develop tools, guidance and training materials
22. Promote best practice and innovation in education in emergencies
✅ About You
We are looking for a highly experienced and adaptable humanitarian professional with:
23. Proven experience designing and delivering Education in Emergencies programmes in complex humanitarian settings
24. Strong knowledge of:
25. INEE Minimum Standards
26. Child protection and safeguarding
27. Gender equality and inclusion
28. Experience working with Education Clusters and multi-sector coordination mechanisms
29. Demonstrated ability to conduct needs assessments, M&E, and programme design
30. Strong track record in proposal writing and donor reporting
31. Excellent communication, negotiation and representation skills
32. Experience mentoring and building capacity of diverse teams
33. Fluency in English (additional languages such as French, Spanish or Arabic are an advantage)
Location: The location of this role can be flexible where Plan International has an office* that can employ on behalf of the Global Hub and you have the pre-existing right to work and live. This is not an international position.
Up to 75% travel required: implementing country-based for emergency response, in periods of up to 3 months at a time (Country/Regional Offices)
Type of Role: Permanent or maximum fixed term contract as per employing office’s standard terms and conditions.
Salary: We will be happy to disclose the salary and applicable benefits to applicants as part of this process, however, please kindly note that the salary and employment benefits will be set according to your location and therefore it is not possible to include full details here. Please note this is NOT an International/expat position.
Reports to: Head of Education in Humanitarian Action Unit
Closing Date: 7th June (UK midnight)
Anticipated 1st round interviews: Week commencing 15th June
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 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.