Experience Needed : More than 7 years
Education Level: At least a B.Sc. /BA level preferably masters in relevant field.
Contract LENGTH : 33 Months
Location : Based in Aswan Office with periodic travel
About Life Makers Foundation
Life Makers Foundation (LMF) is an Egyptian youth-led, voluntary, and non-governmental umbrella organization. It was established in 2011 to foster youth engagement in addressing emerging challenges at the local and global levels. Since its establishment, LMF has worked closely with community-based organizations to build youth capacities and support their efforts to develop their societies and respond to humanitarian needs and disasters. LMF operates in 24 governorates through a nonformal network of partner youth-led organizations and registered offices across Egypt, with a broad portfolio of projects and local initiatives in the sectors of Health, Education, Livelihoods, Humanitarian Assistance, Environment, and Youth Participation.
LMF adopts the core principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence in its operations to ensure the provision of assistance with no discrimination towards differences in ethnicity, religion, race, or any other consideration. LMF provides development and humanitarian interventions for the most vulnerable while preserving their dignity and ensuring their participation.
Life Makers is a voluntary, non-governmental, non-religious, non-political, and non-partisan movement that was launched in 2003 to mobilize the best of the human spirit to alleviate human suffering and protect human life and human rights.
About Plan Foundation
Plan International is an independent global child rights organization striving to a just world that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. For over 76 years, we have supported girls and boys and their communities around the world to gain the skills, knowledge and confidence they need to claim their rights, free themselves from poverty and live positive fulfilling lives. And this is represented herein with Second Party through its office located in Egypt.
About the Project
This project aims at strengthening the resilience and self-reliance of vulnerable refugees and host communities in Aswan Governorate and promote integration and peaceful coexistence among the target groups. Targeting 70% refugees and 30% members of the host community, with specific focus on female heads of households, the project adopts a comprehensive and integrated approach to address needs and gaps in services identified in the needs assessment conducted in early 2024, specifically in relation to the absence of socio-economic interventions for the target groups. The project will work closely with existing interventions from Plan International and other key actors in Aswan, ensuring that beneficiaries can access a range of services in a coordinated manner. By leveraging existing partnerships, the project will create stronger linkages between livelihood, protection, and social services, maximizing the impact of the interventions.
Job Purpose
Under the supervision of the Portfolio Manager, the Project Senior Officer will be based in the Aswan office, with regular travel to the head office in Cairo and the sub-office in Sohag. S/he will be responsible for planning, managing, and monitoring the project’s activities to ensure successful realization of the project’s outcomes and objectives. Within the scope of his/her mandate, the Project Senior Officer will oversee the progress of the project against plans, ensure efficient management of the team members and implementing partner, and provide mentoring and technical support to the team. S/he should maintain effective communication with key actors. The Project Senior Officer will work closely with service providers and relevant support functions at Life Makers Foundation to ensure smooth implementation and efficient delivery of the project’s activities, as well as ensuring proper management of the project’s budget, including planning, authorization of expenses, and reporting.
Job Key Accountability Areas
Program Support
· Provides day-to-day leadership and high-quality delivery of the project: field operations, administration, logistics and procurement;
· Oversee a successful implementation of the project’s activities ensuring timely delivery of project’s activities within the agreed timescale, M&E plan, and budget.
· Provide technical support for the project team, including facilitation of meetings, trainings, and one-to-one mentoring sessions.
· Liaising with different internal departments to ensure the timely administrative, logistics and financial support to the project and engaged partners.
· Undertake field visits as required.
· Ensure regular, good-quality reporting of the project’s progress reports and contribute to regular and on-demand situational reports of the department.
· Supervise quality implementation of all services and consultancies delivered by third parties
· Ensure efficient management of the project’s resources including budget forecasting, financial reporting and accurate authorization of expenses.
· Finalization of the project’s M&E plan as aligned with its logical framework.
· Conclude participatory assessments, focus groups and surveys based on identified success indicators and M&E plan.
Capacity Building
· Identify learning and training opportunities for the project’s team and implementing partners.
· Work as a mentor and role model for less experienced staff.
· Manage and motivate the project’s team to perform highly in their respective roles and responsibilities. This will include leading on staffing structure, recruitment, performance management and implementing staff welfare policy.
Partner Management
· Support the establishment, maintaining effective and regular working relationships with key stakeholders, including local organizations, relevant government authorities, and relevant actors.
· Ensure appropriate partners are engaged.
· Support the project team and target beneficiaries to establish communication with relevant actors at the community level (private sectors, service providers, NGOs, and local government partners) to support the project related interventions.
Core Competencies and Skills
Achievement focused:
- Follow Results-based management (RBM) in achieving planned goals and objectives.
Working Smart:
- Achieve more in less time.
- Balances between work life and personal life to ensure the sustainability of high-quality performance.
- Able to contribute and create a participatory, enjoyable, fulfilling, and rewarding work environment.
Accountability:
- Holds self-accountable to making decisions and managing resources efficiently.
- 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.
Ambition:
- Sets ambitious and challenging goals for himself/herself (and the team), takes responsibility for self-development and encourages others to do the same
- Widely shares their vision, engages, and motivates others to contribute to the bigger vision of LMF.
- Future orientated and thinks strategically.
- Thinks globally and acts locally.
Collaboration:
- Builds and maintains effective relationships with project team, colleagues and external partners.
- Values diversity as a source of competitive strength.
- Approachable, good listener and easy to communicate with.
Creativity:
- Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.
- Willing to take disciplined risks.
Integrity:
- Honest and encourages openness and transparency
Requirements
· At least a B.Sc. /BA level preferably masters in relevant field.
· More than 7 years of successful experience in project management and implementation with NGO .
· Proficient and experienced in planning, monitoring, budgeting and reporting.
· Excellent computer skills.
· Good command of English, both spoken and written.
· Flexibility in time and ability to work under stress.
· Ability to travel on a regular basis to Cairo.
· Excellent reporting skills with good understanding of M&E principles.
· Good personal relationship skills and ability to work with groups from different backgrounds