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 follow up and monitor the project at the Program Area level (Delta), while ensuring a seamless integration and quality of deliverables in line with the Country Strategy. The post holder will design, implement, monitor and report on progress of project activities in line with detailed implementation plan. He/she will work with various stakeholders and partners.

Project’s Brief:

The project is designed to address the critical protection needs of forcibly displaced and stateless children in Egypt by implementing a comprehensive set of activities that focus on community engagement, case management, mental health support, and capacity building. The methodology and approach are rooted in UNHCR’s community-based protection and rightsbased frameworks, ensuring that all actions are aligned with global standards and best practices. Some main activities as follow :

• Community Outreach and Child Protection Mechanisms: The project begins with extensive community outreach, focusing on the timely identification of children at risk.
• Structured community-based activities to strengthen child protection mechanisms and children’s resilience
• Best Interest Assessment and Determination:
• Case Management and Support Services
• Provision of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
• Provision of Alternative Care for children at risk including UASC
• Provision of vocational and technical training targeting UASC transitioning to adulthood, followed by apprenticeship

The project will operate in Greater Cairo and Damietta to reach the refugee children who face multiple protection risks. Key outcomes as aligned with the call include:

• Child protection risks are reduced for refugee and asylum-seeking children, and the children and communities, they are in are supported to enhance child protection mechanisms and resilience. UASC with heightened risks and other children at risk are supported to achieve child protection solutions including durable solutions through best interest procedures.

• Children exposed to risks are identified in a timely manner in their communities and adequately referred.

• UASC have their needs and overall situation assessed through best interest procedures, are provided with appropriate case management/monitoring/and/or mentorship services, as well as adapted mental health and psychosocial response, and are referred as needed based on their individual protection profile in a timely manner to the relevant service providers following the agreed referral pathway.

• Monitoring, guidance, and structured support through a rights-based and community-based approach for children in supervised independent living arrangements are strengthened.

• Integrated Child Protection and Livelihoods activities for unaccompanied and separated children transitioning to adulthood.

Accountabilities:

• Contributing to Refugees children at risk receive protection-oriented assistance and necessary care by application of best interest assessments (BIAs) conducted with children at risk and provision of case management services to identified cases.
• Improving capacity of refugees, aged 8 to 14, to understand protection risks and violations, especially UASC through dissemination of the related manuals sessions for project target group.
• Implement activities as per set quality standards.
• Supervision of caseworkers
• Facilitate and establish harmonious working relationships between Plan, Stake holders and community leadership.
• Participate in beneficiary selection processes, including to facilitate and ensure the inclusion of children with disabilities and girls/women.
• Responsible for facilitating and supervising field visits to targeted children as planned and ensuring they are done properly at the community level.
• Undertake and ensure situational assessments, data collection, compiling and analysing as per the required standard. data management and analysis.
• Undertakes primary responsibility for the implementation and follow-up of child activities and referral pathways, case management mechanisms, psychosocial support interventions and community-based support for at-risk children including unaccompanied/separated children.
• Facilitate and take a lead role in ensuring that case management services are of high quality including arranging family-based care system or other appropriate care system for unaccompanied and separated children and children without appropriate parental care.
• Prepare and submit weekly, monthly, quarterly high-quality reports
• Establishes and maintains documentation system for all program activities including, minutes of technical meetings.
• Document project learning, success stories, case studies, and learning briefs
• Allocate cases to Case workers
• Handle the most complicated cases, cases going through various process, cases requiring community or inter-professional coordination and advocacy.
• Lead case management training sessions.
• Provide initial induction and ongoing training to foster caregivers.
• 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: 2 supervisors will be assigned one for Cairo and another one for Damietta.

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