Fight Against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Project Coordinator
Location: Assuit, Egypt The Organisation
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We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.
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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 Greater Cairo, Alexandria, Giza, Beheira, Kalyoubia, Damietta, Qena, Assuit, Aswan, 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”.
Driven by the overall purpose of PII and anchored on Plan International core values, bolder commitment to gender transformation and feminist leadership, program quality and influencing and a more vibrant and efficient operating model.
ROLE PURPOSE
The purpose of the role is to drive the project and maintain the accountability for ensuring timely and quality delivery and monitoring of the implementation of the project’s activities in addition to budget monitoring to ensure meeting both Plan and donor’s requirement. PC is expected to provide technical support and guidance to the project staff of the partners to ensure best level of performance to meet the project objectives.
DIMENSIONS OF THE ROLE
Reporting to the Program Unit Manager (PUM), the Project Coordinator (PC) is entitled to plan, oversee, monitor of “Fight against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Phase 2” project in Assiut program unit (PU). Through working closely with the PU and project team
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Location: Assuit Program Unit.
Type of Role: One year fixed term contract. Reports to: Assuit Program Unit Manager.
Grade: C2 Closing Date: 13th of March 2024.
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