Project Specialist, Youth Inclusion and Employment

Plan International is a rights-based development and humanitarian organization working for better lives for all children. We are independent of government and have no political or religious affiliation. Our purpose is to strive for a just world that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We have been building powerful partnerships for children for more than 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.

Our global strategy has a specific focus on girls, as they are often the most marginalized and most often left behind. We have committed ourselves to the ambitious target of reaching 100 million girls over 5 years, to ensure they can learn, lead, decide and thrive. This is our contribution to reaching the sustainable development goals, and in particular the goals on gender equality. Our organization is transforming itself to meet this enormous challenge everywhere we work. We need bold, forward-thinking and innovative individuals to lead our country operations, driving change and delivering results that will allow us to have Girls Standing Strong for Global Change.

Plan started working in Egypt in 1981 and has a presence in five of the 27 governorates in which the country including Greater Cairo, Alexandria, Damietta, Assuit and Aswan. 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.

The post holder reports to DAPP country expert and is responsible for providing top quality technical advice and program development approaches in the area of capturing and generating learning, private sector engagement and job placement towards youth inclusion and employment.

Role Purpose

The post holder reports to DAPP country expert and is responsible for providing top quality technical advice and program development approaches in the area of capturing and generating learning, private sector engagement and job placement towards youth inclusion and employment

Background of the Project

The project focuses on enabling young people to be inspired and included in economic life. Both burgeoning entrepreneurs and youth in search of employment are targeted. Upcoming entrepreneurs will be supported through the building of life skills and inclusion into relevant business ecosystems in order to establish themselves and make a living by bringing their ideas to life. Youth in search of employment will build technical skills to ensure that they have the qualifications needed in the labour market. All of this will aim at ensuring that their employability is enhanced at the same time as their own capacity to secure a job is enhanced.

The main outputs of the project are:

1. Inclusion: Inclusion of youth to engage productively in society.
2. Skills development: Technical skills development for increased capacity and employability.
3. Enabling entrepreneurs: Access to business development services and mentoring for entrepreneurs.
4. Access to Finance: Better access to finance for entrepreneurs.
5. Business environment: Improved business environment for entrepreneurs and SMEs.

   Management scope, reporting lines, key relationships

   Scope:

   The post holder reports to DAPP Senior country expert and is responsible for providing top quality technical advice and program development approaches in the area of capturing and generating learning, private sector engagement and job placement towards youth inclusion and employment.

   Direct reports: No

   Key relationships

   Internal

   • Program Implementation (High Contact)
   • Program Strategy team (high contact).
   • Support Services team (high contact).

     External

     • Respective project’s partners (CSOs and other stakeholders as relevant) to ensure their best engagement in the program implementation.
     • Respective National Office (DNO) for frequent support, coordination and follow up.
     • Respective donor’s representatives during field visits.

       Level of contact with children

       • Low level of contact with children

         Physical Environment

         • Typical Office environment with 30% field work.

           Accountabilities and main work activities

           Technical Role

           • Provide technical input and guidance to the project’s team to achieve the project’s targets.
           • Provide day to day Technical support to the team.

             Program Delivery

             • Support and facilitate work related to relationship management with the private sector companies, financial/non-financial institutions and other stakeholders.
             • Facilitate networking and partnership opportunities with different relevant stakeholders, including women’s networks, training institutions, business incubators as well as provide access to business development services.
             • Capture learnings and generate evidence (focusing on youth inclusion, life and technical skills, entrepreneurship, job fairs and financial assistance - grants/ loans - for entrepreneurs) to set the course of action and guide the project evolvement towards achieving the overall objective and outcomes.
             • Provide the project team with useful data and information on the socio-economic issues that affects youth inclusion and employment in Egypt.
             • Provide regular analysis of the economic environment in Egypt, identifying the implications on the project and providing suggested maneuvers/solutions for readjustment of the project interventions if feasible.
               • Support in identifying the opportunities for youth entrepreneurs to benefit from funds provided by different institutions and the private sector and other donors.
                 • In collaboration with and guidance of the Youth Economic Empowerment Advisor, support in the implementation of relevant impactful advocacy activities and campaigns with key stakeholders for supporting the realization the project goal.
                 • In collaboration with and guidance of the Youth Economic Empowerment Advisor and Gender Advisor, support the project team to build the capacity of partners for mainstreaming gender transformative approaches in their activities.
                   • Support the country expert in mobilization and assessment of the project target groups.