Community Programme Officer

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 serve as Plan International Egypt’s focal person for both sponsorship and program implementation at the umbrella partner and grassroots level. You will be responsible for building Plan International relationship with the community, children, families, sponsored children (SCs), and partner organizations; facilitating and handling community mobilization activities and program/project implementation; and cascading consultations with communities to identify priority areas for program implementation.

In addition, you will ensure systematic documentation and communication of activities, capturing progress, lessons learned, and success stories to inform stakeholders and strengthen visibility. Also, you will be accountable for financial review and settlement of project activities, ensuring strict compliance with Plan International’s policies and procedures, and supporting partner organizations in meeting financial management standards.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build and maintain strong relationships with communities, children, families, sponsored children, and partner organizations.
• Facilitate community mobilization, consultations, and implementation of programs/projects based on identified community priorities.
• Document activities, lessons learned, success stories, and provide timely progress updates to stakeholders.
• Coordinate media visibility efforts while ensuring compliance with safeguarding, gender equality, and inclusion standards.
• Ensure financial compliance, support partner financial management, and strengthen organizational capacity.
• Deliver capacity-building initiatives, sponsorship awareness sessions, and continuous partner performance support.
• Conduct field monitoring visits, reflection sessions, and collect data to support learning, reporting, and program improvement.
• Coordinate with partners, consultants, service providers, government stakeholders, and internal teams for integrated program delivery.
• Support livelihoods and social entrepreneurship programs within target communities.
• Ensure compliance with safeguarding, PII/PSEAH, data privacy, and confidentiality requirements.
• Facilitate implementation of Plan projects in sponsored child (SC) communities in collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Undertake additional responsibilities as assigned by the supervisor to meet organizational needs.
• 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 bachelor's degree in Social Sciences, Development Studies or similar field.
• Should have at least 3 years sponsorship or development experience with a proven record of success at a similar level preferably in an INGO sector.
• Should be experienced in planning and facilitating trainings/workshops.
• Should be experienced in data management systems.
• Someone experienced in both translation and data entry.

Technical Competencies

Knowledge:

• Someone knowledgeable on development issues, trends, challenges, opportunities and implications to community development

Skills

• Able to provide support to sponsorship communications team members when needed.
• Interpreting and contextualising data, assesses results and draws conclusions to inform initiatives and clearly communicating the results of evaluation and lessons learned as appropriate.
• Ability to communicate effectively.
• Ability to interact and work effectively with others at all levels.
• Good analytical and administrative skills.
• Strong skills in facilitation, negotiation, and problem-solving.
• Team player
• Good in communication in English both verbal and written.
• Report writing skills.
• Time management

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 Sohag, Upper Egypt

Reports to: Community Programme Coordinator

Job Grade: Hay Level 12

Vacancy advert closing Date: 20th July 2026

This vacancy is open to Internal applicants only and they should be Egypt nationals.

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.