Project coordinator - Youth Inclusion and Employment

THE ORGANISATION

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation/charity/non-profit 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 International 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 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”.

THE OPPORTUNITY

You will be responsible and ultimately accountable for the project’s quality programming and results achievement, financial management and compliance, team leadership, stakeholder and partner relations, and donor deliverables. Further, you will demonstrate excellent project management and problem-solving skills, a very high degree of maturity, flexibility, organization and communication skills, and strategic thinking to meet the demands of a dynamic and sometimes unpredictable operating environment while ensuring Plan International’s systems and policies and donor requirements are adhered to, especially gender transformative programming and child and youth safeguarding. You will provide effective and quality leadership to the projects’ implementation teams based in the field. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Coordinate effective project implementation by engaging stakeholders, achieving quality targets, integrating gender equality and youth inclusion, strengthening community participation, managing work plans and budgets, ensuring compliance with organizational procedures, and advancing youth rights through gender-transformative interventions.  
• Facilitate community mobilization and engagement, maintain effective communication with communities to support project delivery, and raise awareness among stakeholders and partners on organizational policies, strategies, procedures, values, and expected behaviours.  
• Ensure timely and quality project implementation, monitor progress and address gaps, promote evidence-based programming, strengthen learning and knowledge management, maintain beneficiary tracking systems, prepare timely donor-compliant reports, and document and share best practices for learning and sustainability.  
• Develop and update project plans and budgets, monitor expenditures to ensure budget compliance, promote adherence to donor requirements and agreements, and prepare accurate and timely financial reports in line with donor regulations.  
• Strengthen project delivery by identifying and building the capacity of partners, fostering a positive team environment, supporting partner staff performance and development, and promoting continuous learning and improvement at both institutional and community levels.
• Identify, monitor, and manage project risks, ensure compliance with organizational and donor requirements during project implementation, and promptly communicate emerging risks to relevant stakeholders for timely action. 
• Ensure compliance with Plan International’s Child Protection and Gender Equality policies, including staff awareness and reporting procedures. 
• You will be trusted to take on additional assignments within the scope of work as assigned by your supervisor on need basis.

What we are looking for:

• Someone with relevant university degree (development studies, project management, economic empowerment, social sciences, M&E, or any other relevant qualification). Master's degree is desirable.
• Someone with proven leadership, inter-personal and cross-cultural skills, and ability to build and motivate multi-disciplinary teams.
• You should demonstrate experience working collaboratively managing projects with skills in effective partnership management, financial/budget management.
• Someone with ability to communicate clearly and professionally in person and with remote teams.
• Someone with strong understanding of gender responsive programming and meaningful child participation in programs.
• You should knowledgeable on effective participatory Monitoring, Evaluation and Research systems and processes.
• Someone able to work independently and as a team player who demonstrates leadership.
• Someone experienced in engaging with the international donor community and developing donor reports for grants.
• You should be experienced in adolescents/youth programming especially economic empowerment program is considered a strong asset.
• You should have excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to work in a matrix environment.
• Someone with excellent written and oral communication skills, including presentation and public speaking.
• Someone with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• You should have excellent organizational skills and the ability to multitask while working on projects with varying activities, objectives, and deliverables.
• Someone with good negotiation and influencing skills.
• Ability to create a strong sense of purpose within the portfolio and with stakeholders.
• Someone with sound judgment and decision-making in complex situations.
• Someone aware of the impact on others and adjusting own behavior accordingly.
• You should be conversant with Microsoft office suite, especially Word and Excel .
• You should have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Please respond to the requirements of this role in your cover letter.
Only applications in English language will be accepted.  

Location: On site working and the role is based at Cairo

Reports to: DAPP Country Expert

Job Grade: Hay Level 13

Vacancy advert closing Date: 23rd July 2026 

This vacancy is open to Egypt nationals only.

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

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.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International's Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Disclaimer: Plan International is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate applicants on any basis. We also do not charge Job seekers any fees at any point of the recruitment process.