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 post holder is responsible for designing and implementing of all MHPSS group and individual sessions, the overall programmatic supervision of the project with partners in Damietta in terms of coordination and implementation, provision of support to the monitoring and evaluation of the project interventions.

Project’s Brief:

In continuation of collaboration between UNHCR and PIE to improve the protection status refugee children at risk through the provision of multiple protection activities and MHPSS (Mental Health and Psychosocial Support) in Egypt.

In response to the emergency in Sudan and in light of the increasing numbers of arrivals into Egypt, the project will expand its influence and services to reach the at-risk refugee children in greater Cairo to receive protection-oriented assistance and necessary care. The project aligns with UNHCR refugee response protection priorities.

PIE aims to use collaboration with UNHCR to build the foundation protection from violence approach, Following PFV PI strategy to works on 3 levels; “CAY, Parents and caregivers and community”.

This phase will focus on CAY and parents to build a good rapport with community in the target areas which prepare for new phase which can work on the three levels together to provide holistic protection services.

The new phase of the project will operate in greater Cairo and delta to reach the refugee children who face multiple protection risks- particularly child labor and child marriage which will focus on the following areas:

• Case management.
• MHPSS.
• Relevant training

Accountabilities:

• Responsible for designing and implementation of all MHPSS group and individual sessions at local level using participatory and community-based approaches.
• Responsible to provide surge technical support and guidance at local level to project staff
• Responsible for compiling progress reports and documentation and sharing of best practices and lessons learnt in Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Activities (MHPSS).
• Provide guidance, mentoring and coaching to case workers to enhance the quality of case management and provision of psychosocial support services.
• Ensure a periodic and timely reporting of project activities as per donor and PIE’s internal reporting requirements.
• Facilitate the development of project implementation plans and ensure effective coordination and teamwork.
• Ensure correct identification and Selection of children with minor to sever mental problem to individual and group therapy based the established screening criteria
• Ensure correct identification of cases with GBV and disability provide appropriate psychosocial support
• Follow-up and track participants attendance and document Beneficiaries and project progress to asses MHPSS efficacy
• Use established protocols to refer participants in need of clinical treatment
• Maintain confidentiality in all matters relating to group/ individual sessions, consistent with organizational policies and laws
• Collect key Beneficiaries data and prepare reports on progress made, together with observations, challenges faced, and lessons learned
• Work closely with project technical staff in ensuring coordination and integration across all activities.

• Ensure that Plan Egypt’s relevant policies on gender equality and inclusion, child and youth safeguarding, monitoring and evaluation and team security management are embedded into the project implementation plans.
• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Child Protection (CPP) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) are fully embedded per 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 per the appropriate procedures

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Location: Damietta, Delta Program Area

Type of Role: a contract till 31/12/2025.

Reports to: UNHCR Protection Project Coordinator

Closing Date: 22/12/2024

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.

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: No requirements