Greater Cairo Field Officer
Facilitate and monitor sponsorship and grants activities for children in need.
Overview
Facilitate and monitor sponsorship and grants activities for children in need.
You have:
- Experience in project management within humanitarian or development contexts.
- Strong understanding of child rights and gender equality issues.
- Ability to engage and work with diverse stakeholders effectively.
- Excellent communication skills in both verbal and written forms.
- Experience in monitoring and evaluation of project outcomes.
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 facilitate and monitor the implementation of the sponsorship and grants activities in the respective area in alignment with the approved annual plans to ensure timely and quality delivery of and monitoring of the implementation of the activities and ensure that they are significantly contributing to lasting and positive changes in the lives of the deprived children and communities
Management Scope, Reporting Lines& Key Relationships
SCOPE
The purpose of the role is to facilitate and monitor the implementation of the sponsorship and grants activities in the respective area in alignment with the approved annual plans to ensure timely and quality delivery of and monitoring of the implementation of the activities and ensure that they are significantly contributing to lasting and positive changes in the lives of the deprived children and communities
Direct reports: NA
Key relationships
Internal
- Program Area team (High Contact).
- Area support services team (High Contact).
External
- Local partners to assess progress and agree on the appropriated mitigation strategies (High contact).
- Local respective stakeholders to ensure their engagement in the project as appropriate.
- Sponsored Children and families
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Location: Greater Cairo office , Maadi.
Type of Role: One year fixed term contract.
Reports to: GC Sponsorship Coordinator
Closing Date: 13/01/2025
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.
Please note that Plan International will never send unsolicited emails requesting payment from candidates.
Potential interview questions
| Can you describe a difficult project you managed and how you handled it? | This question assesses your problem-solving skills and resilience in project management. | Provide a brief overview of the project, the challenges faced, and the steps you took to manage the situation. |
| How do you ensure stakeholder buy-in for your projects? | This question evaluates your engagement and communication strategies with stakeholders. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| What methods do you use to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of your projects? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| Can you give an example of how you advocated for children's rights in your previous role? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| Describe how you handle conflicts within a team setting. | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |