Project Manager, UNHCR - Livelihood

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 UNHCR Livelihood Project Manager is responsible for providing overall strategic leadership, management, and accountability for UNHCR-funded livelihood projects. The role ensures the effective, timely, and compliant implementation of project activities in line with approved proposals, workplans, budgets, and donor requirements, while contributing to Plan International Egypt’s Country Strategy.

The Project Manager provides direct supervision and guidance to the project team, including the UNHCR Livelihood Project Coordinator and other project staff, ensuring high-quality delivery, adaptive management, risk mitigation, and strong stakeholder engagement. The role also serves as a key interface with UNHCR, government counterparts, and implementing partners

BACKGROUND OF THE PROJECT

The project adopts a comprehensive approach to enhance access to sustainable livelihood opportunities for refugees and host community members through self-employment and wage employment pathways. Interventions include market-oriented skills development, vocational training, coaching and mentorship, seed funding, and linkages to employers and markets, while fostering social cohesion and peaceful coexistence in targeted areas.

Key Responsibilities

The post holder has overall accountability for the delivery, performance, compliance, and impact of the livelihood project(s). The Project Manager provides strategic direction, approves operational decisions, oversees partner performance, and ensures alignment with donor and organizational standards.

About you

• Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, Development Studies, or a related field (Master’s preferred).
• Minimum 5–7 years of progressively responsible experience in project or programme management, preferably within an INGO or humanitarian context.
• Demonstrated experience in livelihoods programming (wage and self-employment).
• Experience working with refugees and host communities.
• Strong experience in donor-funded project management, budgeting, monitoring, and reporting.
• 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
• Advanced knowledge of the rationale and practical implications of being rights-based, gender transformative, participatory, working in partnership; evidence-based and working to strengthen civil society.
• Knowledge of development issues, trends, challenges, opportunities and implications to community development.

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. With frequent visits to the project locations in Alexandria, Damietta & Aswan

Type of Role: Fixed term contract.

Reports to: Greater Cairo and Delta Program Area Manager.

Closing Date: 05/01/2026.

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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