Project Coordinator, IOM

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”.

Role Purpose

The purpose of the role is to manage the project, while ensuring a seamless integration and quality of deliverables in line with the Country Strategy and This role will work on…

• Contributing to Refugees children at risk receive protection-oriented assistance and necessary care coordinated and delivered by specialized partners.
• Improving capacity of refugees and vulnerable host community children, aged 8 to 14, to understand protection risks and violations, especially in relation child marriage and child labour
• Provision of psychosocial support services group and individual sessions for identified cases and children at risk

Background of the Project

The project is designed to be implemented over a period of 20 months to support and protect 2000 migrants, refugees and host communities from trafficking, exploitation and abuse 60%, 20%, 20% respectively.

The project's core strategy involves several activities that focus on protecting the target groups and enhance their resilience through case management, MHPSS, material assistance for food and clothes, legal counselling sessions, safe sheltering and referral of cases to medical, legal, sheltering and vocational training services. 

Thus, the project was designed with a main specific objective of Provision of specialized protection services to 2,000 beneficiaries from refugees, migrants, and host communities. (60% migrants, 20% refugees, and 20% host community), and a set of interrelated activities under 2 main program outputs:

Program Output 1: Enhanced community participation to create a resilient and inclusive environment for 2000 migrants, refugees and host communities in Alexandria and Greater cairo .

Program Output 2: Increased accessibility of 2000 beneficiaries to access essential services in Alexandria and Greater Cairo. 

SCOPE

The post holder will report to GC and Delta Program Area Manager  , the Project coordinator is entitled to plan, manage, and monitor the to address the critical protection needs of forcibly displaced and stateless children in Egypt by implementing a comprehensive set of activities that focus on community engagement, case management, mental health support, and capacity building.

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: Greater Cairo Program Area, Maadi. With frequest visits to Alex.

Type of Role:  Fixed term contract

Reports to: Greater Cairo and Delta Program Area Manager

Closing Date: 29/12/2025 

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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