Project Manager, Cairo Culinary Training Programme - DAPP

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 for the overall management, planning, implementation and successful delivery of the Youth Inclusion and Employment Project (YIEP) – Cairo Culinary Training Programme. Working in collaboration with local partners and the Melting Pot Foundation (MPF), you will lead all phases of the project management cycle to ensure the achievement of project outcomes, donor compliance and Plan International minimum standards. You will bridge the gap between Cairo’s hospitality sector demand and the limited access young people have to quality training by ensuring the delivery of competency-based culinary training, structured internships and employment pathways. Further, you will be accountable for achieving the project's target of reaching 200 young people, with at least 50% female participation and a 90% employment rate.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contribute to the initiation of the project idea in line with the country strategy and identification of project potential local partner(s).
• Ensure realistic project design, lead due diligence with cross-department input, and coordinate gender-transformative scope with partners and advisors. Analyze context, risks, and resource needs, manage pre-start-up activities, confirm partners, and integrate safeguarding for children and youth with budgeted mitigation actions.
• Set project governance with partners, develops a detailed implementation plan covering risks, resources, and budgets, and collaborates with leadership to launch the project internally and externally.
• Lead project implementation within agreed frameworks and timelines, coordinate technical support and resources. With partners, this role will oversee delivery, monitoring, and evaluation, address deviations and risks while optimizing daily operations across logistics, finance, and HR. Ensure accurate reporting, timely procurement and payments, budget control, and realignment when needed. Core responsibilities include achieving gender-transformative results and integrating safeguarding and PSHEA risk mitigation into all activities.
• Ensure proper project closure by reviewing achievements with partners, finalize activities, completing procurements and payments, and manage staff transitions in line with guidelines and laws. Lead final evaluations, coordinates audits, prepare comprehensive reports for internal and donor stakeholders, close project records, and establishe institutional memory through systematic archiving and knowledge management.
• Model Plan International’s values, lead a motivated team, ensure clarity of objectives, manage tasks and staff development, enforce compliance with policies, oversee monitoring and resource use, and strengthen partner capacity to achieve project goals effectively.
• Ensure partner-aligned data systems for monitoring and future design, embed PSHEA policies with staff accountability, and support due diligence for compliance.
• Plan International has a robust global policy for Safeguarding and Gender Equality and Inclusion standards, ensuring staff and associates within your scope strictly comply with these principles and guidelines.
• 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 knowledge and experience in project management.
• Someone knowledgeable on project cycle management best practice.
• Should have experience in working with partner organisations (co-creating and mutual oversight).
• Someone knowledgeable and experienced in project budgeting, activities and expenditure monitoring.
• Should have knowledge and experience in M&E activities tracking, evaluation and reporting.
• Should have understanding of human resources management and procedures.
• Someone with understanding of procurement processes and supply chain management.
• Should have experience of managing people/teams.
• Someone with good working knowledge of donor compliance.
• Should have strong planning and organisational skills.
• Ability to prioritise his/her workload and project team workload.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent influencing, communication, strong negotiation skills and facilitation skills.
• Ability to act as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Should have strong collaboration skills, able to build cooperation and negotiate compromises.
• Ability to build and maintain strong working internal and external relationships.
• Should be able to deliver projects with partners on agreed timelines, ensuring quality through joint evaluation systems.
• Highly positive, proactive, and results-focused.
• Degree in Business administration, management or related academic background.
• Microsoft office skills (Word, Power Point, Excel, Outlook) and able to use project management software.

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: Country Director

Job Grade: Hay Level 16

Vacancy advert closing Date: 2nd 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.