Reporting to:
Social Empowerment Director
No. Subordinates:
Direct Reports: NA
Indirect Reports: NA
Sector:
Social Empowerment Sector
Main Job Purpose:
Provide senior technical support for the design, implementation, monitoring, and quality assurance of the Children Without Parental Care (CWPC) Program within the Sawiris Foundation Social Empowerment Sector. Support the Program Manager in strengthening evidence-based interventions, partner performance, and the well-being of children without parental care, in accordance with approved program priorities and safeguarding requirements.
Overall Accountabilities and Responsibilities:
- Support the Program Manager in preparing and updating CWPC program workplans, project milestones, technical reports, and implementation follow-up schedules.
- Review evidence, project concepts, proposals,s and partner technical submissions relevant to the needs, protection, and well-being of children without parental care; identify technical gaps and propose improvements.
- Provide technical guidance to implementing NGOs on approved CWPC activities, project deliverables and reporting standards, while respecting the roles and responsibilities established in grant agreements.
- Conduct field monitoring visits and structured partner follow-up; verify progress against approved project plans, document findings, and track agreed corrective actions.
- Review project implementation matrices, technical progress reports, milestone evidence, and final reports; prepare documented technical recommendations for the Program Manager rather than independently authorizing payments or contract changes.
- Coordinate with Strategy, Evidence & Impact on relevant indicators, monitoring tools, partner MIS data, data-quality issues and follow-up to monitoring or evaluation recommendations.
- Identify and document implementation risks, partner-capacity gaps, child safeguarding concerns and other material issues; escalate concerns promptly through Sawiris Foundation approved channels.
- Contribute to terms of reference, prequalification documents, calls for proposals and technical assessments using available research, program learning and relevant good practice.
- Coordinate with Financial Audit on Programs on technical evidence needed for budget or milestone reviews, while keeping financial verification and payment authorization with the designated functions.
- Maintain effective technical relationships with NGOs, relevant government and community stakeholders, and internal Sawiris Foundation sectors; prepare concise briefings, lessons learned, and approved program updates.
Position Relationship with Other Parties:
- Internal Relationships: CWPC Program Manager; Social Empowerment Director; Strategy, Evidence & Impact; Financial Audit on Programs; Partnerships; Communications; other relevant Sawiris Foundation teams.
- External Relationships: Local and international NGOs; implementing partners; relevant government and public bodies; community stakeholders; and other authorized CWPC counterparts.
Decision Making Authority:
- May coordinate assigned technical activities, undertake field follow-up, request clarifications from partners, and recommend corrective actions within approved CWPC workplans and procedures.
- May provide senior technical review and quality assurance of partner submissions, implementation evidence and draft technical reports, with findings submitted to the Program Manager for decision.
- May propose improvements to program tools, implementation approaches and partner support arrangements; any material scope, budget or contract change requires formal approval.
- Must escalate safeguarding or child-protection concerns, suspected misuse of funds, serious partner noncompliance, data confidentiality breaches and material implementation risks. Has no independent authority to approve grants, payments, contracts, or staffing decisions.
Required Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, Social Work, Psychology, Development Studies, or a related field. A relevant Master’s degree is an advantage.
Required Experience:
6–8 years of relevant NGO/development experience, including substantial experience in social protection, child protection, poverty alleviation, or basic services; experience in partner monitoring and technical program implementation.
Required Technical Skills:
Advanced MS Office proficiency; ability to use monitoring and data-collection tools, management information systems, and structured technical reporting.
Required Languages:
Arabic and English proficiency, including clear written reporting and stakeholder communication.
Functional Competencies:
- Child protection and children-without-parental-care programming: Good understanding of child protection principles, children’s rights, safeguarding standards and the specific needs of children without parental care, with the ability to apply this knowledge when assessing care centers, reviewing partner programmes and practices, identifying service gaps and informing monitoring and audit processes.
- Technical assessment of NGO partners and grant implementation
- Field monitoring, evidence review and program learning
- Safeguarding, confidentiality and risk escalation
- Technical reporting, stakeholder coordination and quality assurance
Sawiris Foundation Competency Framework:
- Advanced Planning and Organizing Skills:
Plans complex work and resources, anticipates risks and dependencies, aligns priorities across stakeholders, and guides others to deliver effectively.
- Advanced Communication & Networking Skills:
Communicates effectively in complex or sensitive situations, builds strategic relationships, and influences diverse stakeholders through clear and credible messages.
- Advanced Teamwork Skills:
Promotes cross-functional collaboration, resolves complex team challenges constructively, and strengthens collective ownership and performance.
- Advanced Adherence to Principles and Values Skills:
Models SF principles in complex situations, reinforces ethical and accountable practice, and guides others in resolving difficult values or compliance issues.
- Intermediate Influencing Skills:
Influences complex stakeholder decisions, builds alignment across differing interests, and negotiates effectively to advance agreed organizational priorities.
- Advanced Engaged Leadership Skills:
Provides technical or people leadership, creates accountability for high-quality delivery, coaches others, and actively supports team capability and engagement.
- Intermediate Visioning and Strategic Thinking Skills:
Translates organizational priorities and external trends into strategic options, anticipates longer-term implications, and helps shape functional or cross-sector direction.
- Intermediate Decision-Making Skills:
Makes timely decisions in complex or ambiguous situations, balances evidence, risk, and stakeholder implications, and guides others on appropriate judgment and escalation
Work Environment:
This position is primarily office-based and includes field visits and external meetings as required by the role and in accordance with Sawiris Foundation policies.
