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 purpose of the role is to manage the project and maintain the accountability for ensuring timely and quality delivery and monitoring the implementation of the project’s activities in addition to budget monitoring to ensure meeting both Plan and donor’s requirements. PC is expected to provide technical support and guidance to the project’s staff at the partner to ensure best level of performance to meet the project’s objectives.

Project’s Brief:

The project aims to empower girls and young women in Upper Egypt by equipping them with key social skills and awareness to eliminate violence against them including harmful practices such as FGM (female genital mutilation), as well as create opportunities for them to participate in decisions affecting their lives. Through community awareness, community mobilization and youth-led activities, the project will engage parents, family members, community and religious leaders as well as medical staff to change their perception on gender roles, challenge culturally deep-rooted beliefs and attitudes through raising their awareness on and enhancing their commitment to play a leading role in protecting and promoting the rights and empowerment of girls.

The project also promotes the ownership of the local civil society organization and groups, accountability of the medical staff, as well as community leaders to play a more responsive role in combating gender-based violence, challenging deeply rooted gender stereotypes and power dynamics that hinder girls and women from exercising their agency. This will include capacitating them in gender related issues to engage in a more gender transformative and inclusive environment aiming at reducing gender inequalities, enhancing girls’ status, and contributing to a reduction of harmful practices such as FMG.

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Location: Aswan

Type of Role: One-year fixed term contract.

Reports to: Upper Egypt Area Program Lead

Closing Date: 11th of Sep. 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.

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