Job Summary
You will manage and provide technical oversight of the development and implementation of CRS Egypt Country Program’s livelihoods portfolio, advancing Catholic Relief Services’ mission to serve the poor and vulnerable. Your management skills and knowledge will ensure that the CP delivers high-quality programming and continuously works towards improving the impact of its programming. You will be responsible for the planning, implementation and monitoring of CRS Egypt’s livelihoods portfolio. You will also provide technical support to project teams and partners, to ensure high quality design and implementation of CRS Egypt’s livelihoods projects. You will represent the project in a variety of contexts and with a variety of stakeholders, including government, donors, and NGOs. You will also provide support for growth opportunities within the sector, including new business and partnership opportunities. This will include identifying potential partners, donor scoping/mapping, intel gathering and leading proposal development.
Roles and Key Responsibilities
Program Quality and Program Management
- Provide management oversight, including financial management, of the CRS Egypt livelihoods portfolio throughout relevant project cycles - project design, start-up, implementation and close-out - to ensure efficient and effective implementation in line with CRS program quality principles and standards, donor requirements, and good practices. Ensure project team use the appropriate systems and tools.
- Coordinate and monitor financial and material resources relevant to livelihoods project needs. Through planning and oversight ensure timely and appropriate project expenditures in line with financial plans and efficient use and stewardship of project material sources.
- Lead in project design and proposal development in the livelihoods and economic empowerment programming area, proactively seeking strategic growth opportunities; contribute to and lead certain sections of CP-wide strategic planning.
- Oversee technical assistance and capacity strengthening activities in livelihoods for staff and partner organizations, including design or training materials, oversight of needs assessments, input into the design of interventions and monitoring and evaluation (MEAL) indicators and systems, to enhance program quality and impact.
- Lead reporting efforts for projects under the livelihoods portfolio, ensuring products are of high quality and utilize CRS tools and best practices.
- Promote cross-learning among project teams through joint participation in project workshops.
- Champion learning with project staff and partner teams. Analyze and evaluate project performance data following MEAL policy. Proactively identify issues and concerns and use participatory processes to overcome implementation obstacles.
- Ensure the Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct is followed by program partners, staff and volunteers in the field and the way they carry out their work does not do any harm to children, vulnerable adults or other staff, or put them at (further) risk of any type of abuse or exploitation.
Staff Supervision and Development
- Effectively manage talent and supervise. Manage team dynamics and staff well-being. Provide coaching, strategically tailor individual development plans, contribute to the recruitment process of project staff, and complete performance management for direct reports.
- Identify and share with CRS Egypt livelihoods staff information and updates on livelihood programming.
- Builds the technical capacity of staff. Leads and guides the team in the design and management of complex projects, providing technical guidance and overseeing the identification of human, financial, and material resource requirements.
Growth and Representation
- Represent the program to community members and relevant stakeholders, such as government, donors and peer organizations.
- Take an active role in growing CRS Egypt’s portfolio of livelihood programming and scaling up existing programs through positioning, donor cultivation, networking, partner engagement, and proposal development and reviews.
- Actively seek new opportunities for support of CRS Egypt livelihood projects.
- Write and review concept notes and proposals for new project opportunities in livelihood strengthening.
- Help identify, assess and strengthen potential partnerships relevant to the livelihoods’ portfolio, link project partners to other CRS Egypt program areas for potential collaboration, applying appropriate application of partnership concepts, tools and approaches.
- Contribute to raising the profile of CRS as a leader in livelihoods support programming through the publication of best practices, sharing results from CRS assessments and program activities, dissemination of project progress and evaluation reports, and participation in conferences and seminars.
Required Languages: Fluency in English and Arabic required.
Travel: Travel required to field activities and community-based organizations across Egypt is estimated at 20%.
Supervisory Responsibilities: Yes
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in international development, International Relations, Economics, Business Administration, or in a related field. Additional experience may substitute for some education.
- Minimum of five years of experience in coordinating or managing moderate to complex projects required, preferably with an international NGO.
- Project management experience in livelihoods and/or economic empowerment is required.
- Experience in managing moderately complex projects
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in international development, International Relations, Economics, Business Administration, or in a related field.
- Experience in an international NGO an advantage.
- Experience working in the MENA region is desirable
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- MEAL skills and experience required.
- Staff management experience and abilities that are conducive to a learning environment.
- Good experience in project grants management, including project design, preferably for grants from multiple public donors, including USAID.
- Demonstrated ability to write high quality technical proposals.
- Experience engaging with partner organizations
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with ability to make sound judgment and decisions and offer innovative solutions
- Strong relationship management skills with the ability to work effectively with culturally diverse groups and relate to people at all levels internally and externally. Strategic in how you approach each relationship.
- Good presentation and facilitation skills
- Proactive, resourceful, solutions-oriented and results-oriented
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to write reports.
- Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, information management systems.
Agency Competencies (for all CRS Staff):
- Personal Accountability – Consistently takes responsibility for one’s own actions.
- Acts with Integrity - Consistently models values aligned with CRS Guiding Principles and mission. Is considered honest.
- Builds and Maintains Trust - Shows consistency between words and actions.
- Collaborates with Others – Works effectively in intercultural and diverse teams.
- Open to Learn – Seeks out experiences that may change perspective or provide an opportunity to learn new things.
Agency Leadership Competencies:
- Lead Change – Continually looks for ways to improve the agency through a culture of agility, openness, and innovation.
- Develops and Recognizes Others – Builds the capacity of staff to reach their full potential and enhance team and agency performance.
- Strategic Mindset – Understands role in translating, communicating, and implementing agency strategy and team priorities.
What we offer
CRS offers U.S. based staff a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, life insurance, vision, and a generous retirement savings plan. Benefits packages for successful candidates employed outside the U.S. are based on the country of employment/in-country office where the candidate will perform the role. CRS´ work culture is a collaborative, mission-driven culture committed to improving the lives of the poor throughout the world.
Organization context
General Requirements
CRS offers are contingent on the selected candidate’s ability to legally work where the position is to be performed. Every government has a unique set of work permit eligibility requirements. All positions requiring residence or frequent travel outside a home country must undergo and clear a pre-employment medical clearance; some work permit processes require clearing a separate government administered medical examination.
CRS prioritizes candidates who are citizens/ permanent residents of the countries where we have CRS offices.
