Reporting to:
Micro and Small Enterprises Program Manager
No. Subordinates:
Direct Reports: NA
Indirect Reports: NA
Sector:
Economic Empowerment Sector
Main Job Purpose:
Provide technical monitoring, partner coordination, and operational support for assigned Economic Empowerment projects, particularly Training for Employment initiatives, ensuring timely implementation, credible reporting, effective follow-up, and alignment with approved grant objectives.
Overall Accountabilities and Responsibilities:
- Support annual work planning, assigned project schedules, and consolidation of technical progress and management reports.
- Maintain regular contact with implementing NGOs and training/employment partners; organize and document field visits and follow-up actions.
- Review assigned technical progress reports, deliverable evidence, project matrices and milestone documentation; flag inconsistencies and recommend corrective action to the Program Manager.
- Support the preparation of calls for proposals, terms of reference, partner assessments and evidence reviews for employment and livelihood interventions.
- Track risks, implementation delays, and recommendations arising from monitoring, evaluation, and financial-audit findings; follow up with partners on approved actions.
- Coordinate with SEI on data collection, MIS completeness, indicator definitions, and verification of reported outputs and outcomes.
- Coordinate with Financial Audit on Programs to reconcile technical deliverables with expenditure and milestone information; do not independently authorize disbursements.
- Maintain complete, accessible, and confidential project records, correspondence, site-visit notes, and technical review trails.
- Contribute verified achievements and beneficiary stories to Communications in accordance with consent and safeguarding requirements.
- Provide timely portfolio updates, technical observations, and practical improvement suggestions to the Program Manager.
Position Relationship with Other Parties:
- Internal Relationships: Economic Empowerment Manager/Director, SEI, Financial Audit on Programs, Partnerships, Communications, and other technical sectors. External: implementing NGOs, training providers, employers, and other authorized project stakeholders.
- External Relationships: Implementing NGOs, employers, training providers, government, and development partners.
Decision Making Authority:
- May coordinate routine partner follow-up, request clarification and prepare technical assessments within assigned projects.
- May recommend technical acceptance, corrective measures and escalation based on documented evidence.
- Must obtain Manager authorization for contractual changes, payments, formal commitments and significant deviations.
- Must promptly escalate safeguarding concerns, suspected misuse of funds, serious data-quality issues and material delivery risks.
Required Education:
A relevant Bachelor’s degree; a Master’s degree is an advantage.
Required Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in economics, socioeconomic or development studies, public policy, or a related field; a relevant Master’s degree is an advantage.
Required Technical Skills:
- Approximately 4–6 years of NGO/development experience, including exposure to employment, livelihood, or poverty-alleviation initiatives.
- Experience in partner monitoring, field visits, technical reporting, basic budget tracking, and results data collection.
Required Languages:
- Arabic and English proficiency.
Functional Competencies:
- Technical partner monitoring and field verification
- Grant documentation and milestone tracking
- Results data quality and MIS reporting
- Risk identification and corrective-action follow-up
- Analytical reporting and stakeholder coordination
Sawiris Foundation Competency Framework:
- Intermediate Planning and Organizing Skills:
Plans complex work and resources, anticipates risks and dependencies, aligns priorities across stakeholders, and guides others to deliver effectively.
- Intermediate Communication & Networking Skills:
Communicates effectively in complex or sensitive situations, builds strategic relationships, and influences diverse stakeholders through clear and credible messages.
- Intermediate 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.
- Foundational 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.
- Foundational 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.
- Foundational 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.
