Project Officer, Strengthening Women's Entrepreneurship in Egypt - SWEET Project
Location: Cairo, Egypt The Organisation
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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 under the overall guidance and supervision of the project Manager, the role of the Project Officer is to follow up and monitor the project in manial shiha Location, while ensuring a seamless integration and quality of deliverables in line with the Country Strategy. monitor and report on progress of project activities in line with detailed implementation plan . The role is intended to sustain good working relationships with local partners to help providing quality delivery of the project. The role is the link between the target beneficiaries and all stakeholders critical to the project success .
Scope
The Project Officer will support the day-to-day implementation of the SWEET project, ensuring that activities are delivered on time, within scope, and in line with project goals. The role involves coordinating with field teams, monitoring project progress, and preparing reports for internal and external stakeholders.
The Project Officer will play a key role in supporting the implementation of the SWEET project. This includes coordinating project activities, monitoring progress, ensuring timely delivery of outputs, and maintaining effective communication with stakeholders. The Project Officer will work closely with the Project Manager and other team members to ensure the project achieves its objectives in a gender-sensitive and inclusive manner .
About the Project
SWEET (Strengthening Women’s Entrepreneurs in Egypt) project asserts that targeted gender-specific action is critical to empower women and girls to amplify their inherent individual and collective agency and create an enabling social and economic environment for them. The SWEET project is a five- year- project that will take a three-pronged, rights-based and gender-transformative approach for women and adolescent girls in the carpet industry in the Giza governorate of Egypt to: expand their knowledge and understanding of the sector, improve their social status, provide them a range of industry-relevant skills, and strengthen governance systems and business linkages to build a supportive social environment and an enabling institutional environment for women and adolescent girls.
Location: Greater Cairo Program Area, Maadi
Type of Role: a contract till 31/12/2025 Reports to: Project Manager, SWEET
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