District Project Officer

We are looking for enthusiastic, dedicated development professionals interested in long term careers with a major international children’s NGO.

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children. Plan, one of the world’s largest children’s INGOs, works with children and poor communities in 50 countries.

Currently we work in Vientiane Capital, Bokeo, Oudomxay, Saravan, Luang Prabang and Vientiane Provinces, in basic education, early childhood development, health and nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene, adolescence and youth economic empowerment. Plan has no religious or political aims or affiliations. Visit www.plan-international.org for more information.

Plan is an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage applications from women, members of ethnic groups and people with disabilities and LGBTQA+ colleagues. Plan offers competitive salaries and long-term employment opportunities for all posts.

Plan International Laos is looking for a Lao National for the following position:

District Project Officer – Adolescent Program, 1 Position

(Based in Houn District, Oudomxay Province)

Duties and responsibilities:

• Support the planning, organisation and implementation of CSE curriculum and student club and school events with students.
• Support the planning, organisation and implementation of community events to promote gender equality and sexual reproductive health rights of adolescents in target villages.
• Support the facilitation of consultation activities with target groups in schools and communities.
• Works with CSO and government partners and beneficiaries to establish and maintain student club and girls’/youth clubs and networks within the project.
• Support and foster talents of young people and secondary student schools at remote areas and ethnic groups.
• Provides training and facilitates peer education activities with secondary school students.
• Support CSO partners to implement project activities in target schools and communities.
• Ensure monitoring data for indicators are collected according to the project M&E plans.
• Assist the MEL Coordinator in monitoring and internal reviews of the project.
• Support the preparation of monthly/quarterly/6 monthly and annual project reports, in particular with regards to the peer education activities and events.
• Prepare the monthly reports on the process to update direct and indirect on project beneficiaries.
• Assist project manager organize field visit for donors, government and other Plan staff as may be required.

Requirements:

• Diploma qualification in social sciences; development; teaching or other relevant field.
• Understanding of the secondary school education system in Lao PDR.
• Experience developing partnerships with local government.
• Experience of working with young people, ethnic minority groups and people with a disability or disabilities.
• A minimum one-year experience of working directly with communities and schools for community development projects in remote and rural areas.
• Excellent written and oral skills in Lao language.
• Good skills including Word, Excel, email/internet, PowerPoint.

FOR ALL PLAN POSITIONS:

• We strongly encourage equally qualified female candidates to apply;
• Strong commitment to the equal rights and participation of girls and women is essential;
• Strong commitment to the Rights of the Child is essential;
• Plan does not tolerate child abuse. All Plan staff are selected and employed in line with the conditions of Plan’s Child Protection Policy. These include appropriate reference and background checks;
• Applications will not be acknowledged. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. No correspondence or telephone calls will be entered into;
• Short listed candidates will be required to attend panel interviews and other selection procedures.

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS:   20th March 2024

TO APPLY FOR THIS POST:

Send your resume/CV, and cover letter. In the cover letter please state on a separate page your preferred start date, names and contact details of three referees and your salary expectations for each position, to Plan International Laos, Vientiane, Lao PDR, or to  PlanLaos.JobVacancies@plan-international.org

Please state in cover letter how you learned about the job – through emails, INGO Directory, 108 Jobs, or friends.