Closing Date: 17 September 2025
Plan International is recruiting for an Education Technical Advisor: Apply Now
The Organisation
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. Plan International believes 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, Plan International strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. Plan International support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. Plan International drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using its reach, experience and knowledge.
Role Purpose
The Education Technical Advisor position is pivotal in advancing the mission and country strategy of Plan International Liberia by enhancing the skills, tools, and capacities of the organization’s offices and personnel engaged in the implementation of the education program. It operates in concert with the three other programs and cross-cutting initiatives, while also facilitating the monitoring of progress toward the objectives of the Education Program. The Education Technical Advisor role is essential for providing leadership in the execution of the program within the country, ensuring compliance with the educational standards established in Plan International’s education strategy and adherence to national policies.
The Education Advisor is tasked with managing the strategic direction of the education program, ensuring its alignment with national policies and strategies. This responsibility necessitates close collaboration with the PIIA managers, unit heads, project managers, and partners at all levels.
Dimensions of the Education Advisor Role
- The individual supervises and coordinates activities within the field of education, serving as a liaison between Plan and the Ministry of Education, as well as with tertiary institutions and stakeholders. Responsibilities include providing technical support for the implementation of the education program at the national level in collaboration with the PIIA teams and relevant partners.
- Additionally, this Education Advisor role entails overseeing program implementation, ensuring program compliance, and managing information systems and processes. The individual fosters partnerships and networking with various stakeholders at the PIIA level, including government agencies, civil society organizations, local non-governmental organizations, and the private sector.
- Capacity building on the program’s key interventions is a critical function, encompassing staff and partner development. The role also involves active participation in resource mobilization efforts at both local and international levels. Participation in meetings of the Extended Country Management Team (ECLT) is required, along with close collaboration with advisors from other national areas and programs. Furthermore, the individual represents PIL at national and PIIA-level meetings.
Technical expertise, skills and knowledge
Qualification and experience
- A master’s degree in higher education, community development and social sciences or similar fields
- Have at least five (05) years of experience in implementing and supervising projects and program activities at the community level, especially in the area of the holistic SIP approach;
- Experience in the field of human rights, especially for children;
- Understanding of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other instruments relating to the rights of the child, especially the defence of children’s rights.
Knowledge
- Good knowledge of the SIP approach, instruments and technical implementation methodology;
- see a good knowledge of the Guinean education system;
- Have a good knowledge of children’s rights, the CRC and other rights instruments;
- Good knowledge of school governance methodology and other related technical approaches;
- Knowledge and understanding of the links between gender equality, children’s rights and quality of education;
- Computer proficiency and use of relevant software and other applications, e.g. word processing, spreadsheet, database, internet.
Skills
- Ability to undertake rights-based programming based on sound analysis, policy and program practice;
- Good training and presentation skills;
- Have skills in monitoring and evaluation of development programs;
- Have technical and research skills in the field of education with a focus on the SIP scheme and approach;
- Ability to meet tight deadlines;
- Ability to provide guidance on SIP development and promote school governance;
- Ability to provide research and policy advice;
- Good knowledge of French, written and oral;
Knowledge of English is an asset.
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