The Organization
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We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.
Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.
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PURPOSE
SWEET (Strengthening Women Entrepreneurs in Egypt) project asserts that targeted gender-specific action is critical to empower women and girls to amplify their inherent individual and collective agency and create an enabling social and economic environment for them. The SWEET project is a five- year- project that will take a three-pronged, rights-based and gender-transformative approach for women and adolescent girls in the carpet industry in the Giza governorate of Egypt to: expand their knowledge and understanding of the sector, improve their social status, provide them a range of industry-relevant skills, and strengthen governance systems and business linkages to build a supportive social environment and an enabling institutional environment for women and adolescent girls.
The Project Officer will provide daily support to this project, working with the project team of two partners, the project Manager and Plan Egypt staff based in GC PU. Reporting to SWEET Project Manager, he/she will be closely coordinating the project activities with the relevant government departments, community-based implementing partners in Giza, in line with Plan Egypt’s policies and procedures.
Dimensions of the Role
Under the overall guidance and supervision of SWEET Project Manager, the Project Officer is tasked with the overall programmatic supervision of the project with one of the partners in Giza in terms of coordination and implementation, provision of support to the monitoring and evaluation of the project interventions.
Typical Responsibilities:
- Oversee the project implementation, provide overall leadership and liaison with relevant government bodies representatives in Giza.
- Provide supervision, technical support and guidance to the project staff of the collaborative partner in Giza. He/she will also be responsible for facilitating the development of project implementation plans and ensure effective coordination and team work.
- Produce project progress reports on quarterly basis for Plan international Egypt (PIE). And as needed per contractual commitments and obligations as enshrined in the project Partnership Agreement, tracking and monitoring activity progress, ensure activity implementation abides with the set indicators, provide accurate and timely status reports and support the project manager to develop the external donor reports.
- Facilitate regular collaborative partner and other staff reflection and coordination meetings in Giza and to ensure effective implementation of project activities in Giza as per the set timelines and follow up on mechanism for implementation plan review and modification to achieve the set objectives.
- Oversee the partner budget, monitoring expenditures, generating funds forecasts, tracking partner expenditures and maintaining all necessary information for the timely development of financial reports.
- Ensure that Plan Egypt’s relevant policies on gender, child protection, child and youth safeguarding, monitoring and evaluation and team security management are embedded into the project implementation plans.
- Implement the project activities related to implementation of women’s economic rights and strategies, engendering the economic development process and entrepreneurship initiatives in Giza.
- Ensure quality and timely implementation of the agreed activities with government stakeholders and partners and provide the needed support to them.
- Be on top of the project budget and issuing the partner advances and ensure that budget expenditures are in accordance with the agreed plans.
- Ensure that the budget planning and implementation of the relevant Project Outlines (POs) are done with the maximum level of quality and in tandem with the project objectives.
- Develop the project’s PO/s in SAP system, ensuring their alignment with the projects’ approved budget and donor’s guidelines.
- Liaison with the Finance Department to generate the required financial reports that inform the Project Manager and other PIE team members on the progress of expenditure.
- Collaborate with the Field Officers of other projects in the same thematic area within Giza in developing synergies, fostering cross learning and sharing knowledge resources.
- Supporting foster relationships with local level government departments/officials and collaborating partners for efficient project implementation.
- Ensure that Plan International’s global policies for Child Protection (CPP) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.
Accountabilities
- Gives immediate technical support to the partners during implementation.
- Supervises the field activities implemented and ensuring their accordance with Plan and the donor regulations and policies.
- Issues partner advances and settlements with close follow-up on expenditure.
- Ensures quality and timely implementation of the agreed activities with the relevant stakeholders.
- Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Child Protection (CPP) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.
Key Relationships
Internal:
- PU members including PUM, Areas Supervisor and field officers to coordinate on major decisions related to project implementation
- Regular contact with the project M&E Coordinator to ensure M&E actions are carried on with the needed technical inputs.
- Project Manager based at Country Office to coordinate the implementation and monitoring of project activities in the respective locations
External:
- Partners and beneficiaries in Giza to assess progress and agree on the appropriated mitigation strategies.
- Government representatives at district and governorate level to share best practices and to identify/implement opportunities for collaboration e.g. influencing, sharing of learning scale up and replication.
Technical expertise, skills and knowledge
Qualifications and Experience
- University degree in Social Sciences, Development Studies or related discipline,
- Minimum 5 years of monitoring project activities with local partners at a similar level preferably in an NGO environment is desirable.
- Prior experience of working on women economic empowerment.
- Good understanding and experience on women’s economic empowerment, enterprise development, or employment creation for women and promoting gender in governance and administration.
- Experience in planning, budgeting, work plans development, , projects implementation, monitoring, reporting and evaluation;
- Experience in planning and facilitating training/workshops.
- Fluent written and spoken English and Arabic language skills required.
- Demonstrated report writing skills.
- Experience in working with children and understanding their special needs.
- Proven analytical skills in result-oriented task prioritization and problem solving.
- Capacity to take initiatives and work both independently and as part of a team.
- Strong communication, planning and organizational skills.
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills and team work abilities.
- Understanding of and commitment to the promotion of gender equality, child protection and inclusion of the most vulnerable.
- Ability to work under stress and pressure and to meet multiple deadlines and targets.
- Involves others in setting and achieving goals
- Creates strong sense of ownership within one part of the business to different stakeholders.
- An open communicator and team player.
- Knowledge and understanding of the local context and of interaction with local development actors and communities.
(Plan International’s Values in Practice)
We are open and accountable
-Promotes a culture of openness and transparency, including with sponsors and donors.
-Holds self and others accountable to achieve the highest standards of integrity.
-Consistent and fair in the treatment of people.
-Open about mistakes and keen to learn from them.
-Accountable for ensuring we are a safe organisation for all children, girls & young people.
We strive for lasting impact
-Articulates a clear purpose for staff and sets high expectations.
-Creates a climate of continuous improvement, open to challenge and new ideas.
-Focuses resources to drive change and maximise long-term impact, responsive to changed priorities or crises.
-Evidence-based and evaluates effectiveness.
We work well together
-Seeks constructive outcomes, listens to others, willing to compromise when appropriate.
-Builds constructive relationships across Plan International to support our shared goals.
-Develops trusting and ‘win-win’ relationships with funders, partners and communities.
-Engages and works well with others outside the organization to build a better world for girls and all children.
We are inclusive and empowering
Seeks constructive outcomes, listens to others, willing to compromise when appropriate.
-Builds constructive relationships across Plan International to support our shared goals.
-Develops trusting and ‘win-win’ relationships with funders, partners and communities.
-Engages and works well with others outside the organization to build a better world for girls and all children.
Level of Contact with Children:
- High level: Heavy Contact with children.
More Information
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