Program Quality

**PLAN INTERNATIONAL**

Plan International is a rights-based development and humanitarian organization working for better lives for all children. We are independent of government and have no political or religious affiliation. Our purpose is to strive for a just world that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We have been building powerful partnerships for children for more than 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.

Our global strategy has a specific focus on girls, as they are often the most marginalized and most often left behind. We have committed ourselves to the ambitious target of reaching 100 million girls over 5 years, to ensure they can learn, lead, decide and thrive. This is our contribution to reaching the sustainable development goals, and in particular the goals on gender equality. Our organization is transforming itself to meet this enormous challenge everywhere we work. We need bold, forward-thinking and innovative individuals to lead our country operations, driving change and delivering results that will allow us to have Girls Standing Strong for Global Change.

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, Sohag and Aswan. 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**

**DIMENSION OF THE ROLE**

**ACCOUNTABILITIES AND MAIN WORK ACTIVITIES**

**1. Country Office Strategy Development and Technical Programming**:

- Provides leadership in strategy formulation, planning, execution, and monitoring to ensure alignment with global Plan international guidance, regional strategy, country context, priorities and requirements of donors and other Plan International frameworks.
- Develop and review technically sound sector approaches and strategies that will enable Plan International Egypt to respond to humanitarian emergency and sustainable development needs of the operational areas of Plan International.
- Leads Technical specialists in the development and implementation of technical approaches including; the Gender, SRHR, CP & GBV, SOYEE and Education
- Drive learning and Knowledge Management in close collaboration with relevant functions at Plan International Egypt as well as the Plan International’s Regional Hub in MEESA.

**2. Programme Design**:

- Lead on proposal drafting and submission with relevant PIE and NO staff including; identifying priority areas of intervention, identification of potential partnerships, and ensuring timely and quality submission to donors.
- Lead rapid and detailed education/ child protection/ SRHR/ GBV/ SOYEE and livelihood assessments in new target areas; determine priorities and immediate activities and required resources.
- In close collaboration with the MEESA regional specialists, define objectives and key outcomes of Plan International’s overall programmatic response in Egypt in line with national strategies.
- Develop an evidence-based Programme plan including programmatic, research and advocacy priorities, closely linked to other sector programmes.
- Ensure that programmes are in line with global and international Minimum Standards; such as the MS for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, INEE, and gender
- and conflict-sensitive.

**3. Quality Management and Implementation**:

- Ensure that a robust monitoring, evaluation, research and learning (MERL) system is in place, and that the country office engages in the collection and use of evidence and that this is shared across the global organization, and that reliable data is used for decision-making.
- One key aspect of the department is ensuring continuous positive engagement of its technical specialists including (Education, CP GBV, Livelihoods, and SRHR Advisors) with the project teams
- Support program quality in line with global standards and key performance indicators, informing the future project’s design and delivery, and set up joint action plans for common vision of success.
- Work closely with Plan International Egypt implementing partners to ensure that activities are implemented and monitored in