Project Management Specialist

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 Greater Cairo, Alexandria, Giza, Beheira, Kalyoubia, Damietta, Qena, Assuit, Aswan, 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”.

Driven by the overall purpose of PII and anchored on Plan International core values, bolder commitment to gender transformation and feminist leadership, program quality and influencing and a more vibrant and efficient operating model.

ROLE PURPOSE

The purpose of the role is to support the Project Manager within the following tasks:

• Create project schedules.
• Record important decisions made in meetings.
• Prepare progress reports.
• Create progress presentations for senior management.
• Make sure that team members meet deadlines.
• Maintain a sense of urgency, facilitate problem-solving sessions and meetings to address obstacles, and hold team members accountable to program commitments. .

  Scope

  • The project management specialist will provide specialized technical support to the project team at partners’ level in terms of project cycle management aiming to enhance the quality of the delivery, advise on effective monitoring methods and ensure cascading the project cycle management know how within respective partners’ structures.

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    Location: Sohag and Assuit

    Type of Role: One-year fixed term contract

    Reports to: Program Unit Manager

    Grade: C2

    Closing Date: 03/06/2024

    Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.