Reporting to:
Social Empowerment Director
No. Subordinates:
Direct Reports: 1-2
Indirect Reports: NA
Sector:
Social Empowerment Sector
Main Job Purpose:
Lead planning, technical oversight, and effective implementation of SFSD’s Bab Amal Program in the Social Empowerment Sector. Ensure high-quality, evidence-based poverty alleviation interventions applying the Graduation Approach for households experiencing extreme poverty through sound grant management, partner support, safeguarding, results monitoring, and continuous learning.
Overall Accountabilities and Responsibilities:
- Translate the approved Social Empowerment strategy and Bab Amal priorities into annual program plans, milestones, budgets, implementation schedules, and performance reports in coordination with the Sector Director.
- Oversee the technical design and delivery of Bab Amal interventions based on the Graduation Approach, including context-appropriate support for participating households and consistent implementation standards across partners.
- Identify and assess potential implementing partners, review institutional capacity, proposals and relevant research, and contribute to calls for proposals, terms of reference and prequalification documentation under SFSD procedures.
- Oversee implementing NGOs’ delivery against approved grant agreements, workplans and results commitments; conduct field visits, review partner progress and final reports, and document corrective actions.
- Review the technical evidence supporting program milestones and proposed payments in coordination with Financial Audit on Programs; recommend acceptance or corrective action while reserving financial authorization to duly delegated approvers.
- Coordinate with Strategy, Evidence & Impact on program indicators, monitoring tools, partner MIS submissions, data-quality checks, evaluations, and the use of evidence to improve implementation.
- Maintain a consolidated program risk register and mitigation follow-up, covering implementation delays, partner capacity, safeguarding, participant protection, data privacy, financial irregularities and reputational risks; escalate significant concerns promptly.
- Build and sustain working relationships with local and international NGOs, public bodies, community stakeholders, donors and technical partners, and contribute to evidence-informed policy dialogue as authorized.
- Lead and coach assigned program team members; assign work, review technical outputs, support staff development, and promote coordinated delivery across grants and implementing partners.
- Provide the Social Empowerment Director with clear portfolio reporting, budget and delivery updates, emerging evidence, lessons learned and recommendations; coordinate approved stories and program communications with the Communications Sector.
Position Relationship with Other Parties:
- Internal Relationships: Social Empowerment Director; Strategy, Evidence & Impact; Financial Audit on Programs; Finance & Operations; Partnerships; Communications; HR & Administration; other relevant program teams.
- External Relationships: Local and international implementing NGOs; donors and development partners; government and public bodies; technical partners; communities and participating households.
Decision Making Authority:
- May manage routine program implementation priorities, allocate team assignments and clear technical working documents within the approved Bab Amal plan and written delegated authority.
- May review technical deliverables and recommend partner selection, scope adjustments, milestone acceptance, grant disbursement or corrective measures; final contracting and financial approvals remain with designated authorized officers.
- May coordinate technical partner discussions and propose operational refinements that do not change approved contractual obligations or funding commitments.
- Must escalate material grant or budget deviations, safeguarding incidents, suspected fraud, serious partner noncompliance, data protection concerns and significant reputational or strategic risks to the Social Empowerment Director and relevant control functions.
Required Education:
A relevant Master’s degree in Social Sciences, Development Studies, Public Policy, Public Administration, Economics, Psychology, or a closely related field; a relevant Bachelor’s degree is also expected.
Required Experience:
Approximately 10 years of relevant NGO/development experience, including substantial social protection or poverty alleviation work and at least 2–4 years in management, as specified in the source JD. Familiarity with Graduation Approach programming is strongly relevant.
Required Technical Skills:
Strong MS Office and analytical reporting skills; ability to work with program MIS, partner reporting, monitoring/data-collection tools, grant documentation, and project budget tracking.
Required Languages:
Arabic and English proficiency, including partner communication, technical reporting, and presentations.
Functional Competencies:
- Graduation Approach and extreme-poverty programming
- Grant and implementing-partner oversight
- Evidence-based program design, monitoring and learning
- Safeguarding, risk management and quality assurance
- Cross-sector coordination, stakeholder engagement and team leadership
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.
- Advanced 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.
- Advanced 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.
- Advanced 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.
