Title: Project Assistant TEAM/PROGRAMME: Refugees and Migrants Program POST TYPE: FTA Grade: G5 LOCATION: Greater Cairo, Egypt

Contract Duration: Until end of 2024

Child Safeguarding

Level 3: the role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work in country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Health Project assistant will work in have a role in coordinating, implementing, reporting and monitoring of the project, under the health program with Save the Children International (SCI) in the UNHCR referral care project.

S/he will have significant responsibility for delivery of timely results and for coordination with governmental, partner and community stakeholders to ensure a coherent project model is established on the ground.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Project Manager

Dimensions: Save the Children International works in 13 regions in Egypt with a current staff complement of approximately 350+ staff and current expenditure of approximately US $13-15 million each year.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Operations Planning and Implementation

• Ensure that activities are implemented in accordance to the work plan and in timely manner and in line to project budget and with Project manager guidance.

• Responsible for organizing trainings, workshops.

• Supporting project team with administrative and logistical services;

• Prepare payments, advances and supervising the settlement of open advances.

• Prepare and follow up on all the procurement requests.

• Support in coordinating meetings with stakeholders.

Hub related tasks

• Regular reporting to the Health Project Manager.

• Draft concise, useful and analytical reports, case studies, and other documents as needed on a monthly Basis

• Collect and document the project Data.

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving results together with children and role modelling Save the Children values

• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved

• Creates a managerial environment in-country to lead, enable and maintain our culture of child safeguarding

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for self and team, takes responsibility for own personal development and encourages team to do the same

• Widely shares personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others  Future oriented, thinks strategically and on a global scale Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with own team, colleagues, members, donors and partners

• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength

• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions  Willing to take disciplined risks Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency

• Always acts in the best interests of children

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent preferred

• Minimum of 3-4 years of administrative/program support experience in an international agency.

• Familiarity/experience in international development, especially maternal, newborn, and child health, strongly preferred.

• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office software including Word, Excel and PowerPoint

• Good knowledge and familiarity of reporting mechanisms and styles.

• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing and negotiation.

• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office software including Word, Excel and PowerPoint

• Report writing skills in English required.

• Commitment to Save the Children International values.

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.

JD written by: SCI Date: 2021 Updated By: Omar El.

Noman Date: 2024