Towards an Empowering Future project Manager

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.

Plan started working in Egypt in 1981 and has a presence in ten of the 27 governorates in which the country including Cairo, Alexandria, Giza, Beheira, Kalyoubia, Damietta, Qena, Assuit and Sohag. Plan international Egypt implements programmes designed to enable communities to improve the lives of the most marginalised children and their families. Plan Egypt’s Country Strategy focuses on five strategic objectives.

Through a five-interconnected, gender transformative and context-fit country objectives, PIE intends along with the various stakeholders at all levels to continue delivering positive and transformative changes so that “Children, especially girls, and young people grow up in an enabling environment, realizing their rights and contributing in both development and humanitarian settings as active agents of change”.

Purpose

The purpose of the role is to manage the project, and to be responsible and ultimately accountable for the project’s strategic direction, quality programming and results achievement, financial management and compliance, team leadership, stakeholder and partner relations, and donor deliverables. S/he will demonstrate excellent project management and problem-solving skills, a very high degree of maturity, flexibility, organization and communication skills, and strategic thinking to meet the demands of a dynamic and sometimes unpredictable operating environment while ensuring Plan International’s systems and policies and donor requirements are adhered to, especially gender transformative programming and child and youth safeguarding. The Project Manager will provide effective and quality leadership to the projects’ implementation teams based in the field.

Background of the Project

“Towards an Empowering Future”, is a five-year project that takes a holistic approach to development in a gender-transformative manner. It targets all family members and their communities to ensure sustainable change in attitudes and better living conditions for girls and young women in Upper Egypt, in the governorates of Qena and Aswan.

Project Overall goal; Young women and men improve their economic self-reliance and are empowered agents of change capable of combating gender inequality in an increasingly protective and enabling environment.

The project aims to empower girls and young women in Upper Egypt by equipping them with economic skills and resources, along with social skills, to eliminate violence against them including harmful practices such as FGM/C (female genital mutilation and cutting), early marriage as well as to create opportunities for them to participate in decisions affecting their lives as equal and empowered citizens.

Through community awareness, community mobilization and girl-led activities, the project will engage parents, family members and community and religious leaders to change their perception of gender roles, challenge culturally rooted beliefs and attitudes, and support young women’s involvement in income-generating opportunities. It further encourages and equips youth to take leadership roles by being directly involved in project activities and gradually act as agents of change within their communities and families, and it equips them with practical tools and resources for economic empowerment through entrepreneurship.

The project takes a socio-ecological model approach for community development focused on empowerment and capacity building toward sustainability, moving from the individual to the family and forward to the community and supporting structures.

Scope

The post holder will report to Upper Egypt Area Manager, the Project Manager (PM) is entitled to plan, manage, and monitor Towards an Empowering Future” project that focus on  Girls Economic and Social Empowerment, Community engagement, Girls rights, and Youth Empowerment  through working closely with the local partners and CO technical advisors to ensure timely implementation of the project to achieve project’s objectives with the optimal quality.

Direct reports:  2 Field Officers

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Location: Aswan

Type of Role: One year fixed term contract.

Reports to: Upper Egypt Area Manager.

Closing Date:23/11/2024

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.

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