Project Specialist, Gender

**The Organisation**

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

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”.**

**Scope**

The Gender & Women Economic Empowerment Specialist will play a pivotal role in providing high-level strategic and technical guidance to the implementation of the SWEET (Strengthening Women Entrepreneurs in Egypt) project. This role focuses on advancing gender-transformative approaches to empower women in the carpet and handmade crafts industries in Giza, Egypt. The specialist will conduct thorough analysis of the socio-economic environment, design and monitor gender-informed interventions, and ensure the project aligns with women’s economic empowerment goals. Key responsibilities include providing technical advisory support, developing capacity-building initiatives, enhancing the partnerships with stakeholders, and advocating for gender equality. The specialist will also ensure gender mainstreaming across all project activities, support resource mobilization, and contribute to policy innovation to create an enabling environment for women entrepreneurs. This role requires a strong commitment to gender equality, child protection, and inclusion, with a focus on achieving lasting impact for women and girls in the target community.

**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.

The Gender & Women Economic Empowerment Specialist will be responsible for providing high strategic technical input to the implementation of SWEET project.

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**Location: Greater Cairo Program Area, Maadi**

**Type of Role: a contract till 31/12/2025**

**Reports to: Project Manager, SWEET**

**Closing Date: 10/02/2025 - Rolling Interviews.**
- Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for._- Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas._
- We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion._
- Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk._