SWEET 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”.

About the Project

Strengthening Women’s Entrepreneurship in Egypt (SWEEt) is a six year (April 2020 – 31 December 2025) project funded by Global Affairs Canada (GAC) with the goal to improve the realization of rights to economic participation of women and girls in Giza.

The project targets women in the carpet and handicrafts industry in Dahshour and Manial Shiha communities. Using a three-pronged, rights-based, gender transformative approach, SWEEt seeks to;

 (1) Address unequal power relations between genders and improve the social status of women and adolescent girls by expanding their knowledge of the carpet and handicrafts sectors,

(2) Providing them with business and market-specific technical skills that enhance their economic empowerment

(3) Strengthening governance systems and the entrepreneurship environment to foster gender-responsive change.

The project will directly benefit 3,100 women over 19 years of age and 1,900 adolescent girls (ages 15-18). The project also targets 945 men and 1,500 boys through male engagement interventions to address gender-specific barriers to women’s entrepreneurship and create an enabling environment for women’s economic empowerment. The project is being implemented in partnership with two local Community Development Associations (CDAs) in Dahshour and Manial Shiha.

 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. The PM will design, implement, monitor and report on progress of project activities in line with detailed implementation plan. The PM is intended to manage partnerships as appropriate and sustain good working relationships with local partners to help providing quality delivery of the project. The PM is the link between the target beneficiaries and all stakeholders critical to the project success. The PM is the accountable for ensuring timely and quality delivery and monitoring the implementation of the project’s activities in addition to budget monitoring to ensure meeting both Plan and donor’s requirements

Scope

The post holder will report to Greater Cairo Area Manager, the Project Manager (PM) is entitled to plan, manage, and monitor SWEET project that focus on Entrepreneurship 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
• MERL Coordinator
• 2 Project Specialists

Accountabilities:

Leadership role

• Provide leadership and guidance to the project’s team to achieve the project’s targets.
• Provide day to day management support to the team.

Planning and Implementation

• Ensure timely and effective implementation of project according to approved project outlines and approved monthly activity and budget plans.
• Facilitate effective mobilization of program participants to effectively engage in the different components of the project.
• Defines, updates and shares clear project work plans, tracks progress and articulates changes in project activities clearly and in timely manner.
• Understands the project management cycle and utilizes tools (including detailed implementation plans) effectively to implement and achieve project’s results.
• Achieves project results, and monitors appropriate benchmarks, targets and performance indicators in collaboration with the MERL Coordinator.

• Produce well-documented, accurate, and quality narrative reports as per donor standards and guidelines with a focus on quality visual materials, including pictures, videos and success stories.

• Support the generation, documentation and dissemination of evidence on the benefits and lessons learned through the project’s M&E Framework
• Ensure the delivery of the project to meet the standards of Gender equality and inclusion, while applying the project gender marker at all stages of the project.
• Monitor the progress of project implementation and undertake corrective actions.
• Lead the start-up meetings for the new project to guarantee a joint understanding among stakeholders on project objectives and expectations.
• Coordinate with partners to effectively support the project to carry out all assessments including baseline, ongoing monitoring, evaluations, dissemination of promising practices etc.in accordance with established standards, policies and procedures.
• Identify and manage project’s risks.
• Promote compliance with Plan Egypt and donor requirements and regulations throughout project’s implementation
• Report possible project’s risks to respective team members in a timely and transparent manner.

Networking

• Coordinate field and partners’ efforts to create effective synergies that contribute to maximizing the project impact.
• Effectively network with other partners implementing similar programs in project locations to stay up to date and inform project members of relevant developments and possible synergies.
• Contribute to Plan efforts in influencing and advocacy and ensure mainstreaming of participatory approach within the project.

Budget management and asset management

• Set up of budget in the systems in collaboration with Finance team
• Manage, track, update and coordinate the implementation of project’s plans and budgets.
• Managed and monitor the expenditures to ensure efficient budget management and adherence to approved budget and donor compliance (i.e. the budget holder of the project)
• Ensure that Plan’s respective assets are being managed properly and are well-utilized.

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 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

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Location: Greater Cairo Office in Maadi.

Type of Role: the project ends by 31/12/2025.

Reports to: Greater Cairo Program Area Manager

Closing Date: 12/01/2025

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