The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation 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 started working in Egypt in 1981 and has a presence in five of the 27 governorates in which the country including Greater Cairo, Alexandria, and Upper Egypt, Plan started working in Egypt in 1981 and has a presence in ten of the 27 governorates in which the country including Greater Cairo, Alexandria, Damietta, Aswan and Assuit. 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”.

About the Role

The post holder reports to the DAPP Country Expert with a dotted-line reporting to the M&E Manager. S/he provides technical oversight for M&E systems, tools, and field-level data processes. The role requires close coordination with the DAPP Country Expert, Project Specialist, Project Coordinators across PUs, PU Managers, and frontline staff to ensure accurate data collection, progress monitoring, evidence generation, and documentation of learnings. The post holder ensures that partner organizations comply with M&E standards and that all reporting meets donor and Plan International requirements.

Project’s Brief:

Project Name: Youth Inclusion and Employment Project

Outcome: Young women and men have enhanced employability and engage in entrepreneurship.

The project focuses on enabling young people to be inspired and included in economic life. Both burgeoning entrepreneurs and youth in search of employment are targeted. Upcoming entrepreneurs will be supported through the building of life skills and inclusion into relevant business ecosystems in order to establish themselves and make a living by bringing their ideas to life. Youth in search of employment will build technical skills to ensure that they have the qualifications needed in the labour market. All of this will aim at ensuring that their employability is enhanced at the same time as their own capacity to secure a job is enhanced.

Target:

a) 6600 young people are employed or have established themselves as entrepreneurs (minimum 50% young women)

b) 33000 young people (minimum 50% young women) (after controlling for double counting)

The main outputs:

• Inclusion: Inclusion of youth to engage productively in society
• Skills development: Technical skills development for increased capacity and employability
• Enabling entrepreneurs: Access to business development services and mentoring for entrepreneurs
• Access to Finance: Better access to finance for entrepreneurs
• Business environment: Improved business environment for entrepreneurs and SMEs

• Project activities:

Typical Responsibilities

• Provide technical oversight and support for establishing, maintaining, and improving the project’s monitoring system, procedures, and field-level feedback mechanisms.
• Collaborate with the Project Team to finalize the implementation plan, ensuring that activities and indicators are logically sound, context-appropriate, aligned with the Theory of Change, and linked to a SMART Results Framework.
• Facilitate youth, community, and partner participation in monitoring and feedback processes, ensuring inclusive and gender-responsive MER practices.
• Ensure development of detailed, feasible, and donor-aligned monitoring plans.
• Work with project and support staff to ensure monitoring activities are adequately staffed and resourced.
• Ensure monitoring activities are integrated into project workplans and regularly updated.
• Develop, translate, pilot, and finalize high-quality data collection tools for all project outputs.
• Support training of staff and partners on data collection, data management, M&E standards, and MEL accountability practices.
• Ensure timely and accurate data entry into databases/BTT and digital platforms.
• Conduct supportive supervision, field monitoring visits, and regular data quality checks.
• Lead or support Data Quality Audits and ensure corrective actions are implemented.
• Conduct routine data analysis comparing achievements to targets and quality benchmarks, highlighting issues that require management attention.
• Track implementation of action points linked to M&E activities.
• Provide M&E inputs for project reports, donor communications, and internal learning documents.
• Support baseline, midline, and endline studies, and contribute to survey tool design and data analysis.
• Facilitate data-driven learning and documentation of best practices, success stories, and lessons learned.
• Strengthen partner capacity on M&E, ensuring standardization of tools and indicators across all implementing partners.
• Support Annual Counting, data consolidation, and annual reflections as required.

About you

• University degree in a relevant field (Economics, Development Studies, Statistics, Social Sciences, or related discipline).
• Minimum 2–3 years of professional M&E experience, preferably in international development programmes.
• Proven experience in quantitative and qualitative data collection, data management, and statistical analysis.
• Experience designing and facilitating M&E-related capacity-building sessions and workshops.
• Strong analytical skills with demonstrated ability to work with large datasets.
• Excellent writing skills (reports, assessments, proposals).
• Experience working with youth programming or vulnerable groups is an asset.
• Strong understanding of rights-based, gender-responsive, and participatory MEL approaches.
• High computer literacy, especially in Microsoft Office and digital data collection tools (Kobo, ODK, etc.).
• Ability to work under pressure, meet tight deadlines, and manage multiple priorities.
• Strong communication, teamwork, and relationship-building abilities.
• Ability to analyze and interpret data from a gender and inclusion lens.
• Demonstrated commitment to GEI principles and safeguarding standards.
• Analyze data and evidence (including research findings) from a gender and inclusion lens.
• Challenges sexual harassment and other forms of gender-based violence and confronts both overt and subtle forms of inequality, exclusion and/or discrimination in the workplace and in public
• Promotes equality, including gender equality, inclusion and girls’ empowerment in Plan’s work and in its work with partners.
• Present/speak about gender equality and inclusion with gravitas and passion, and in a manner that people can relate to and understand in their local context.

• Advanced English language proficiency, with the ability to produce high-quality written reports, analytical summaries, presentations, and data narratives that meet donor and internal standards.
• Strong spoken English communication skills, including the ability to present findings clearly, engage with donors, and participate confidently in technical discussions.
• Ability to translate complex M&E concepts into clear, concise English for non-technical audiences.

Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI)

• Understands and puts into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GEI policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), ensuring that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.
• Ensures that Humanitarian Program staff are properly inducted on and understands their role in upholding Plan International’s safeguarding and GEI policies;
• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in project design, during implementation and as principles applied in day-to-day work of Programme team;
• Ensures that Plan Egypt contributes to Plan International’s global efforts to ensure safeguarding and GEI, including making sure that relevant reporting and data are submitted.

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Location: Plan International Egypt Greater Cairo Office, Maadi.

Type of Role: Fixed term contract.

Reports to: DAPP Country Expert .

Closing Date: 20/01/2026.

This role requires 100% working from the office and the vacancy is open to Egyptian 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.

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