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KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :
1. Program Management.
• Lead the design and implementation of project activities to unlock payment milestones
• Update the results framework: Align activities with measurable outputs and outcomes. Ensure clarity on agreed indicators, milestones, and payment triggers.
· Manage the Project Management Unit (PMU) and coordinate monthly field consortium meetings with incubator, partner CBOs, and private-sector partners.
· Facilitate co-planning workshops with partners and quarterly learning sessions to refine strategies based on evidence and context.
• Ensure integration of gender equality and child-sensitive approaches across all components.
• Oversee value chain analysis and ensure interventions are market-driven and responsive to local needs.
• Ensuring that program reports are delivered according to SC and donor contractual requirements, within the agreed timescale and budget.
• Collect accurate, timely data to demonstrate achievement of results.
• Validate and report results: Ensure evidence is credible and auditable for payment claims.
• Ensure an effective award management system is in place at field level to ensure that donor and SCI requirements are met.
• Working with the Upper Egypt field manager and the PDQ team to revise the program plans and master budgets as needed and contribute to Save the Children’s updates to the overall CO strategy.
· Ensure that program activities are directly linked to payment milestones and activities not clearly linked to payment milestones are deprioritized
• Develop and implement participatory needs assessment to contribute to program planning and MEAL processes.
• Lead/support on partners’ identification and assessments, implementation monitoring and capacity building
• Oversee program implementation to ensure timely delivery of program activities (for example: DIPs, IPPTs, budget spending plans, etc.).
• In coordination with the CO HR team, lead and support recruitment processes and ensure that program/projects are adequately staffed.
• In collaboration with the CO Safety and Security team, develop and implement effective safety and security procedures for the program, ensuring that these procedures are updated and revised at regular intervals.
• Manage and motivate program staff to perform highly in their respective roles and responsibilities. This will include leading on staff structure, recruitment, performance management and implementing staff wellbeing policies.
2. Budget Management and Compliance
• Manage program financial processes in close cooperation with the Finance team and in line with SCI finance policies and procedures.
• Link budget to results: Track how spending contributes to achieving targets.
• Cash flow planning: Anticipate payment delays and manage liquidity.
• Responsible for financial management of program budget; forecasting, planning, tracking of expenditures, and burn rates.
• Ensure expenditures are approved and in accordance with the budget lines and payment milestones
• Ensure sub-grants and contracts are managed in line with SCI’s award policies.
• Ensure that SCI regulations are communicated to the program staff and that all activities meet SCI’s requirements financially and technically.
• Monitor, update, and adapt the budget in response to market fluctuations and payment milestones.
• Oversee grant and micro-loan disbursement mechanisms (seed grants) and ensure compliance with seed-funding SOPs and social contract requirements.
3. Technical Assistance and Capacity Strengthening
• Provide technical oversight on livelihoods, financial inclusion, and entrepreneurship development.
• Provide technical oversight on the value chain connections and participants' selling channels.
• Recruit and manage all technical consultations in close coordination with the PDQ technical team
• Lead and manage the incubation program of the participants, and oversee the incubator service provider who will provide the services.
• Lead the interventions provided to the participants by the national partner on coaching, mentoring and seed fund provision.
• Support capacity building for project staff and partners on adaptive management, gender integration, and child safeguarding.
• Ensure MEAL systems are aligned with RBF requirements and performance-based reporting.
4. Human Resources support
• Recruit, manage, and motivate project staff to deliver high-quality results.
• Implement performance management and staff well-being measures, especially during intensive learning cycles.
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture.
• Utilize the Performance Management System linked to payment milestones, define expectations of staff members, develop work plans and improvement plans as needed, and provide technical support for staff development.
• Ensure communication and mainstreaming SCI policies and procedures as well as accountability and child participation practices, throughout the program activities.
• Ensure field staff receive required training on gender, child protection, Technical Intervention Package, and M&E tools.
5. Representation and Networking
• Represent SCI in coordination meetings with government, donors, and private sector stakeholders.
• Advocate for gender-responsive and child-sensitive economic empowerment approaches.
• Ensure visibility of project achievements through communication products and events.
6. Safeguarding, Risk, and Compliance oversight:
• Support the implementation of child safeguarding policy within the project cycle, including identifying and addressing risks to children that are caused/exacerbated by project design and intervention.
• Ensure that project activities are safe for children and that all steps are taken to ensure their meaningful and safe participation.
• Provide leadership and guidance in the implementation of the child safeguarding policy and the code of conduct within the project.
• Maintain the project risk register and implement mitigation actions (including GBV, child protection, inflation, and market dynamics), in coordination with all departments.
• Ensure donor reporting, timely narrative and financial reports, and support external independent evaluation processes.
7. Partnership & Localization
• Coordinate with business incubators, CBOs, and private sector actors to deliver technical training, mentorship, and market linkages.
• Strengthen local partners’ institutional capacity to sustain interventions beyond project closure.
• Ensure accountability and transparency in partner management and resource utilization.
8. General:
• Oversee documentation of good practices, success stories and learning products; support sustainability planning (VSLAs, incubator capacity building, private sector linkages) for scale-up beyond project closure.
• Work closely with the Livelihoods technical advisor to support the modelling and design for the RBF.
• Contribute to the development of communications products, in collaboration with the CO Communications team;
• Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures;
• Ensure the security, health and well-being of staff and that staff management and other processes and policies and systems reflect SC 's principles of equity and fairness. |