Community Programme Officer

**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, 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.

**DIMENSION OF THE ROLE**

The position holder will be responsible to handle communications between sponsored children, families and Plan Egypt’s Sponsorship Unit; supporting medical referral arrangements for sponsored children; supporting visits to the communities by sponsors and serving as Plan’s focal person for both sponsorship and program implementation at the grassroots level. Responsible for building Plan’s relationship with the community, children, families, SCs and partner organizations; facilitating and handling community mobilization activities and program/ project implementation. Cascade consultation with communities and identification of community priority areas for program implementation.

**ACCOUNTABILITIES AND MAIN WORK ACTIVITIES**

Responsible to handle communications between sponsored children, families and sponsorship unit to meet organizational standards including timeliness, content and quality

- **Capacity Building**
- Train CBOs/ CVs by providing continuous performance feedback
- Participate in sponsorship program operational planning.
- Conduct sponsorship awareness meetings on a quarterly basis with children, families and community members on sponsorship business and Plan’s program
- **Child data system management**
- Review, and re-name SC photos and attached them with questionnaires - Control Sheet
- Update SCs' and their family’s profiles via questionnaires
- Collect and submit communication items timely such as data, photos, sponsor gift/letter response, and welcome greeting communication for processing and dispatching. The data collection could be in hard copy or digital.
- Responsible for verification of relocated children and completion of SCCDR (sponsored child communication delay report) form and submission to office.
- Respond to the NOI as received request from DEC
- Handle other sponsorship-related activities as requested by the immediate supervisor
- Notify Sponsored Children’s death within 24 hours and submit the report to the PA office.
- Enroll new eligible children as per sponsorship enrolment criteria
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Communication management**
- Ensure 100% quality checks and timely submission/processing of communications
- Dispatch of communications to sponsored children and their families via the respective community volunteer
- Track and record the SC beneficiary who participated in program and file appropriately
- Ensure the delivery of gifts to SC/families against signature and ensure that SC/family write their own response letters to the sponsor if they are able to write
- **Data privacy and SCs’ archive management**
- Ensure SC profiles and communications are kept safely in files at PA/community offices in line with the safeguarding children & young people policy
- Ensure SC’s file is secured and contains