Starting position: 01/07/2026
Duration : till 31 Dec ( Renewal)
Place of work : Cairo
Status : Active
Deadline for applications: 18June 2026
Type of contract: Fixed-Term national contract (Egyptian)
Terre des hommes (Tdh) :
The Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh), with headquarters in Lausanne and an office in Zurich, is the leading Swiss child rights organisation with more than 2000 employees worldwide. We stand together with children to uphold their rights, protect their lives and improve their well-being. We achieve this through innovative programmes focused on health, migration and access to justice, specially designed to have a positive and sustainable impact.
Overarching responsibilities “Main goals”
He/she will conduct his or her duties in respect of the Charter of the Tdh Child Safeguarding Policy, Code of Conduct and Safeguarding Policies.
Under the supervision of the Country Director, he/she ensures the development and roll-out of the program strategy for Egypt, ensuring alignment with the Country Strategy and Tdh’s areas of expertise.
He/she leads the technical unit, and ensures strategic and technical coherence across Child Protection, MHPSS, health, Access to Justice, Children and youth on the Move, and MEAL functions.
He/She is in charge of developing and consolidating the program in Egypt, ensuring alignment with Tdh’s expertise (Migration, Access to Justice, Health, Protection) and relevant cross-cutting themes in close collaboration with the country team and the regional team.
He/She ensures program quality assurance across the Egypt portfolio, including the application of technical standards, methodologies, accountability principles, and safeguarding requirements.
He/She steers the overall implementation program and results-based monitoring and learning, in line, in collaboration with the MEAL Manager.
He/She promotes evidence-based programming, results-based monitoring, learning, innovation, and adaptation across the program.
He/She contributes to the development of new interventions by providing programmatic analysis, technical leadership, and evidence for business development and donor engagement.
He/She develops and fosters strategic programmatic partnerships and supports the localization agenda in Egypt.
He/She supports knowledge sharing, capitalization, and continuous learning within the Country Office and with relevant regional and global teams
He/She contributes to securing the required resources for the Country Office by providing technical and programmatic inputs, in coordination with the Country Director, Grants and business development advisor, Field coordinator, and support departments.
Specific Responsibilities / Context (Tasks)
Strategy and steering:
Program Quality
Program Development and Grant Management:
Contribute to the identification of programme development opportunities, analyse donor priorities, and build strategic partnerships by providing programmatic analysis, technical positioning, and evidence from Tdh's areas of expertise.
Provide technical and programmatic inputs to donor engagement and strategic dialogue, including analysis of needs, gaps, operational relevance, Tdh's added value, and potential areas for programmatic expansion.
Contribute to developing and updating the business development strategy, donor mapping, and tracking tools, in coordination with the Grants and Business Development Advisor/Grants Manager.
Lead the technical and programmatic design of new interventions — including theory of change, logical frameworks, and technical approaches — in coordination with the Operations/Field Coordinator, Grants and Business Development Advisor/Grants Manager, and support departments. Note: the Grants and Business Development Advisor/Grants Manager leads the overall grant management and proposal coordination process.
Ensure that concept notes, project proposals, modifications, and donor submissions reflect coherent, evidence-based, and contextually relevant technical approaches, aligned with Tdh standards, donor requirements, and the Country Strategy.
Provide technical inputs to budget development, ensuring that budgets reflect the proposed technical approaches, staffing needs, activity plans, quality standards, MEAL requirements, and implementation modalities.
Contribute to the quality assurance of donor reports by ensuring that programmatic achievements, challenges, lessons learned, technical analysis, indicators, and evidence are accurately and compellingly reflected.
Provide programmatic inputs to the national-level master budget process to ensure optimisation of resources across projects (including through co-funding), in coordination with the Finance Manager and relevant team members.
In collaboration with support service units, stay abreast of donor policies, procedures, rules, and regulations.
Ensure close collaboration between the Programme Department and the Communication function to ensure visibility of Tdh's activities.
When needed, draft and/or review scopes of work to hire and manage technical consultants, including review for technical efficacy and budget.
Assessments, Research and Learning
Lead and/or coordinate context analyses, needs assessments, technical assessments, protection monitoring exercises, research initiatives, and other evidence-generation processes, in coordination with the MEAL Manager, technical advisors/specialists, and Operations/Field Coordinator.
Ensure that assessments and research are methodologically sound, ethically conducted, child-sensitive, conflict-sensitive, and aligned with Tdh standards, safeguarding principles, and data protection requirements.
Ensure that assessment and research findings are analysed, documented, and actively used to inform programme strategy, project design, advocacy, donor engagement, and decision-making.
Coordinate the production, management, and sharing of knowledge products (research, analysis, capitalization, assessment reports, etc.), ensuring their accessibility and dissemination internally and externally, with partners, donors, and coordination platforms.
Promote the use of evidence, learning, and contextual analysis to improve programme quality, adapt interventions, and identify emerging needs, risks, gaps, and opportunities.
Support the development of learning products, programmatic briefs, technical notes, case studies, and evidence-based recommendations linked to Tdh's areas of intervention.
Contribute to the exchange of practices and experiences within Tdh at regional and global levels
Staff Management and Capacity building
Lead the technical unit and provide line management, supervision, and strategic direction to the Technical Advisors/Specialists and MEAL Manager or equivalent.
Ensure that the structure, roles, responsibilities, and ways of working within the technical unit remain fit for purpose and aligned with the Country Strategy, programmatic priorities, and operational needs
the work of the technical advisors/specialists and MEAL Manager, ensuring close coordination, mutual support, and clear collaboration between the technical unit, implementation teams, field offices, support departments, Regional Office, and HQ.
In coordination with the Operations/Field Coordinator, ensure that technical capacity-building plans are in place for team members and partners, in order to strengthen in-country expertise and improve programme quality.
Identify technical capacity gaps within programme teams and partners, and support the development of tailored capacity-strengthening initiatives, coaching, tools, guidance, and learning opportunities.
Promote knowledge sharing and learning within the technical unit and support the dissemination of relevant technical guidance and good practices across programme teams.
Ensure that direct reports and relevant programme teams are aware of and adhere to Tdh policies, procedures, safeguarding standards, and code of conduct.
Ensure that team members are adequately supported, have clear priorities and manageable workloads, and proactively raise concerns related to staff well-being, workload, or team functioning with the SMT.
More specifically he/she has the following responsibilities:
Strategy and steering:
Program Quality
Program Development and Grant Management:
Assessments, Research and Learning
Staff Management and Capacity building
Partnerships and Networks
Coordination, Representation and Advocacy
Skills
This function requires possession of fundamental personal, social and leadership skills (CPSLs), technical and methodological skills (CTMs) and Managerial and strategic skills (CMSs). In particular:
Strong understanding and application of Tdh guidelines, technical standards, and strategic priorities in programme design, quality assurance, and learning.
Solid experience in the full project management cycle, including assessments, design, implementation, monitoring, and reporting.
Extensive knowledge of institutional donors (UN, US, European) and their compliance requirements, with proven experience in developing successful funding proposals and contract management, including consortia grants.
Meaningful experience in the development of strategic partnerships, identification of funding opportunities, and mobilisation of resources.
Strong understanding of the localization agenda as well as partnership approaches and tools in strengthening the programmatic and organisational capacities of civil society organisations.
Commitment to integrate gender, protection, conflict sensitivity, and accountability into programming.
A capacity to work in a matrix organisation, listen to, and motivate colleagues.
Ability to work in complex, volatile, and evolving operational environments.
Excellent coordination, communication, organisational, and planning skills, with the ability to work flexibly in a diverse team in a dynamic environment.
As well as the following specific “trade” skills:
Confirmed experience in programme coordination, technical leadership, and programme quality in an NGO and/or international organisation, preferably in humanitarian and/or development contexts.
Strong capacity building, facilitation, and presentation skills; an excellent ability to express him/herself in public (conferences, workshops) and adapt to diverse audiences (governments, local authorities, donors).
A collaborative attitude with colleagues in and outside the team; strong interpersonal qualities: integrity, sound judgement, diplomacy.
Effective management of time and priorities; ability to meet deadlines and remain reliable and independent under pressure.
A capacity to identify challenges, foresee risks, and inform management with substantive recommendations.
Proactive, creative, and out-of-the-box thinking.
Required conditions
Training/Qualifications
Master’s Degree in social sciences, political sciences, international relations, development or related fields.
Experience
· A minimum of seven years of progressively responsible experience in program management, leadership, and in designing, developing, and leading integrated and complex program portfolios – preferably experience in Egypt or the Middle East.
· Solid experience in child protection, migration, access to justice, and health programs.
· At least five years' experience in people management with proven leadership experience in managing multi-disciplinary teams of diverse cultural backgrounds, fostering a positive working environment, and managing issues sensitively and diplomatically.
· Experience in programme and project development and management, including the ability to lead on assessments, design, implementation, and monitoring.
· Strong skills in donor reporting, accountability, and compliance.
· Experience in drafting strategies and programmatic frameworks.
· Strong capacity building, facilitation, and presentation skills with the ability to develop strong interpersonal relationships to facilitate communication and support partners and staff.
· Proven experience in effectively coordinating with National Governments, International and National NGO partners, UN agencies and donors.
· Strong understanding of localization agenda as well as partnership approaches and tools in strengthening programmatic and organisational capacities of civil society organisations.
· Keen understanding of the complexities in the Middle East region, especially of Egypt.
Languages
Full professional proficiency in English and Arabic is mandatory
IT know-how
Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office 365
Tdh General Code of Conduct and Ethical Policies :
Procedure:
Only complete applications (CV + covering letter) posted on our official website will be processed. Additional documents (diplomas, work certificates, etc.) will be requested at a later date. We will only contact those candidates selected for further recruitment.
References :
Please note that all job offers will be subject to satisfactory references and checks (criminal record and anti-terrorism funding check). Terre des hommes will ask the Human Resources of previous organisations to provide references on any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment as well as fraud and corruption, during employment, or incidents under investigation at the time the candidate left employment.
