MHPSS Officer, UNHCR - Protection

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 five of the 27 governorates in which the country including Greater Cairo, Alexandria, and Upper Egypt, Plan started working in Egypt in 1981 and has a presence in ten of the 27 governorates in which the country including Greater Cairo, Alexandria, Damietta, Aswan and Assuit. 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”.

About the Role

The purpose of the role is to under the overall guidance and supervision of the project coordinator, the role of the Project Officer is to follow up and monitor the project in Damietta Location, while ensuring a seamless integration and quality of deliverables in line with the Country Strategy. The role will design, implement, monitor and report on progress of project activities in line with detailed implementation plan. The role is intended to manage partnerships / CBOS in Damietta as appropriate and sustain good working relationships with local partners to help providing quality delivery of the project. The role is the link between the target beneficiaries and all stakeholders critical to the project success.

Project’s Brief:

In response to the ongoing emergency in Sudan and continued regional conflict, which have led to increasing arrivals in Egypt, Plan International Egypt (PIE) continues its collaboration with UNHCR to strengthen protection for asylum-seeking and refugee children. The project aims to reduce child protection risks while supporting children and caregivers to build resilience, recover, and respond effectively to protection challenges.

Aligned with Plan International’s Protection from Violence global strategy, the project adopts a holistic approach targeting children, adolescents, parents, and caregivers. Interventions integrate Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) alongside child protection services to address protection risks comprehensively.

Key Responsibilities

• Guide and supervise two psychologists, providing clinical oversight, case review support, and technical guidance on MHPSS interventions.
• Ensure psychologists deliver high-quality individual and group psychosocial support to children and caregivers.
• Conduct assessments as needed and support psychologists in identifying and responding to protection and mental health risks.
• Coordinate with CP Case Management Supervisor to integrate MHPSS into case plans and ensure timely referrals for complex cases.
• Maintain partnerships with external mental health providers, UNHCR and NGOs to support comprehensive care.
• Provide ongoing mentoring, capacity building, and support to psychologists.
• Ensure accurate documentation, monitoring, and reporting of MHPSS activities delivered by psychologists.
• Uphold child safeguarding, PSEA, Do No Harm, confidentiality, and ethical standards in all frontline MHPSS activities.
• Support urgent and high-risk cases by guiding psychologists and coordinating specialized referrals when necessary.
• Actively participate in the Child Protection working group with UNHCR and Partner NGOs
• Ensure proper data management and data protection of all the beneficiaries’ data.
• Ensure Plan policies and procedures are being adhered to improve programme operational efficiency;
• Ensure accurate monitoring & evaluation and indicator tracking plans for all the activities with support of Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning team;
• Ensure developing timely and quality technical reports as per the project donor’s requirements against the agreed indicators;
• Compile concise quantitative and qualitative reports on a monthly, and quarterly basis;
• Be prepared to support Plan interventions in response to emergencies and show needed flexibility

About you

• Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, Social Work, Mental Health, Clinical Psychology, or a related field.
• 3-5 years of experience with a proven record of success.
• Proven experiences and ability to coordinate and collaborate with different stakeholders.
• Experience in planning, conducting, and facilitating trainings/workshops
• Advanced understanding of the development needs and their vulnerability of our Primary Impact Groups from birth to adulthood, the root causes of the issues affecting them, and the key actors most relevant to their interests and therefore to our work
• • Knowledge on gender transformative approaches, working in partnership, evidence- based approaches, and working to strengthen civil society.
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Safeguarding Children and Young People 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 in accordance with the appropriate procedures.
• Ensures that Humanitarian Program staff are properly inducted on and understands their role in upholding Plan International’s safeguarding and GEI policies;
• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in project design, during implementation and as principles applied in day-to-day work of Programme team;
• Ensures that Plan Egypt contributes to Plan International’s global efforts to ensure safeguarding and GEI, including making sure that relevant reporting and data are submitted.

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Location: Plan International Egypt Greater Cairo Office, Maadi.

Type of Role: Fixed term contract.

Reports to: Project Coordinator, UNHCR - Protection.

Closing Date: 07/01/2026.

This role requires 100% working from the office and the vacancy is open to Egyptian Nationals only

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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