Project Officer, 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 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 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.

About the Project

Enhancing economic stability and social cohesion between refugees and host communities in Egypt to promote long term conflict prevention and local peacebuilding through 5 CBOS in Damietta and capacity building the CBOs in Damietta

Main Outcome:

Enhanced livelihoods and social cohesion among refugees and host communities in low-income areas through CBOS in Damietta

•  Output 1. Monitor the livelihood proposal / activities ( Self-employment and wage employment )  through 5 CBOs in Damietta
• Output 2. Capacity building for 5 CBOs in Damietta

Scope

Under the overall guidance and supervision of the project coordinator, the Project Officer is tasked with the overall programmatic supervision of the project with 5 CBOs in Damietta, in terms of coordination and implementation, provision of support to the monitoring and evaluation of the project interventions.

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Location: Damietta

Type of Role: a contract till 31/12/2025

Reports to: Project Coordinator, UNHCR Livelihood  

Closing Date: 12/02/2025 – Rolling Interviews.

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