UNHCR Protection Project Coordinator - Subject to Funding

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, 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

About the Project

The project is designed 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. The methodology and approach are rooted in UNHCR's community-based protection and rightsbased frameworks, ensuring that all actions are aligned with global standards and best practices. Some main activities as follow :

•  Community Outreach and Child Protection Mechanisms: The project begins with extensive community outreach, focusing on the timely identification of children at risk.
•  Structured community-based activities to strengthen child protection mechanisms and children’s resilience
•  Best Interest Assessment and Determination:
•  Case Management and Support Services
• Provision of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
• Provision of Alternative Care for children at risk including UASC
•  Provision of vocational and technical training targeting UASC transitioning to adulthood, followed by apprenticeship

The project will operate in Greater Cairo and Damietta to reach the refugee children who face multiple protection risks. Key outcomes as aligned with the call include:

• Child protection risks are reduced for refugee and asylum-seeking children, and the children and communities, they are in are supported to enhance child protection mechanisms and resilience. UASC with heightened risks and other children at risk are supported to achieve child protection solutions including durable solutions through best interest procedures.

• Children exposed to risks are identified in a timely manner in their communities and adequately referred.

• UASC have their needs and overall situation assessed through best interest procedures, are provided with appropriate case management/monitoring/and/or mentorship services, as well as adapted mental health and psychosocial response, and are referred as needed based on their individual protection profile in a timely manner to the relevant service providers following the agreed referral pathway.

• Monitoring, guidance, and structured support through a rights-based and community-based approach for children in supervised independent living arrangements are strengthened.
• Integrated Child Protection and Livelihoods activities for unaccompanied and separated children transitioning to adulthood.

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.
• Support the area

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Location: Cairo Program Area

Type of Role: the Project ends by 31/12/2025

Reports to: Greater Cairo Program Area Lead

Closing Date: 30/12/2024 - Rolling interviews.

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