Starting position: 01/07/2026

Duration : till 31 Dec ( Renewal)

Place of work : Cairo

Status : Active

 Deadline for applications: 18June 2026

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:

• Contribute to continuous, updated contextual analysis — including humanitarian and development needs and stakeholder mapping — within a Triple Nexus framework, and provide regular context updates.

• Lead the development and monitoring of the Tdh Country Strategy, making programmatic recommendations to ensure it aligns with country needs and the Tdh Global Strategy, and monitor its implementation at Country Office level.

• Ensure strategic and technical coherence across Child Protection, MHPSS, Health, Access to Justice/Legal, and Children and Youth on the Move functions, as well as MEAL, in line with the Country Strategy and Tdh's programmatic positioning.

• Ensure that programme indicators and MEAL frameworks provide strategic information to monitor progress against the Country Strategy, measure results, and inform corrective measures and decision-making, in collaboration with the MEAL Manager.

• Maintain an updated Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan for the Country Office, in collaboration with the Operations/Field Coordinator.

• Design, contribute to, and/or lead assessments for emergency or longer-term programming in existing or new project locations, in collaboration with the Operations/Field Coordinator and MEAL unit.

• Develop, implement, and monitor thematic strategic priorities in line with the Tdh Country Strategy, and ensure appropriate allocation of resources.

• Support the roll-out and dissemination of Tdh principles, approaches, methodologies, and standards across the mission.

• Contribute to the development of Tdh programmatic products, technical guidance, and intervention models, in collaboration with regional expertise.

Program Quality

• Provide strategic oversight, guidance, and leadership on programme quality across the country portfolio, ensuring that interventions are technically sound, evidence-based, child-centred, and aligned with Tdh standards, donor requirements, and sectoral best practices.

• Ensure that technical standards, methodologies, tools, SOPs, and quality assurance mechanisms are developed, harmonised, and applied consistently across projects and locations, in coordination with the technical and operational teams.

• Oversee systems and tools that support effective project cycle management, programme quality monitoring, grants follow-up, risk analysis, and technical quality assurance, in cooperation with relevant departments and the regional office.

• Ensure proper monitoring and evaluation of programmes, with a focus on results, accountability, learning, and evidence generation, in accordance with the MEAL framework, project plans, and donor requirements.

• Provide technical guidance and support to field offices and project teams to ensure that programme activities are implemented in line with agreed technical standards, quality benchmarks, and programmatic objectives.

• Support the review of project progress, implementation challenges, risks, and quality concerns, and recommend corrective measures to improve programme relevance, effectiveness, and impact.

• Ensure that accountability to affected populations, child safeguarding, PSEA, gender and inclusion, conflict sensitivity, and "do no harm" principles are integrated into programme design, implementation support, monitoring, and learning processes.

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:

• Contribute to continuous, updated contextual analysis — including humanitarian and development needs and stakeholder mapping — within a Triple Nexus framework, and provide regular context updates.

• Lead the development and monitoring of the Tdh Country Strategy, making programmatic recommendations to ensure it aligns with country needs and the Tdh Global Strategy, and monitor its implementation at Country Office level.

• Ensure strategic and technical coherence across Child Protection, MHPSS, Health, Access to Justice/Legal, and Children and Youth on the Move functions, as well as MEAL, in line with the Country Strategy and Tdh's programmatic positioning.

• Ensure that programme indicators and MEAL frameworks provide strategic information to monitor progress against the Country Strategy, measure results, and inform corrective measures and decision-making, in collaboration with the MEAL Manager.

• Maintain an updated Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan for the Country Office, in collaboration with the Operations/Field Coordinator.

• Design, contribute to, and/or lead assessments for emergency or longer-term programming in existing or new project locations, in collaboration with the Operations/Field Coordinator and MEAL unit.

• Develop, implement, and monitor thematic strategic priorities in line with the Tdh Country Strategy, and ensure appropriate allocation of resources.

• Support the roll-out and dissemination of Tdh principles, approaches, methodologies, and standards across the mission.

• Contribute to the development of Tdh programmatic products, technical guidance, and intervention models, in collaboration with regional expertise.

Program Quality

• Provide strategic oversight, guidance, and leadership on programme quality across the country portfolio, ensuring that interventions are technically sound, evidence-based, child-centred, and aligned with Tdh standards, donor requirements, and sectoral best practices.

• Ensure that technical standards, methodologies, tools, SOPs, and quality assurance mechanisms are developed, harmonised, and applied consistently across projects and locations, in coordination with the technical and operational teams.

• Oversee systems and tools that support effective project cycle management, programme quality monitoring, grants follow-up, risk analysis, and technical quality assurance, in cooperation with relevant departments and the regional office.

• Ensure proper monitoring and evaluation of programmes, with a focus on results, accountability, learning, and evidence generation, in accordance with the MEAL framework, project plans, and donor requirements.

• Provide technical guidance and support to field offices and project teams to ensure that programme activities are implemented in line with agreed technical standards, quality benchmarks, and programmatic objectives.

• Support the review of project progress, implementation challenges, risks, and quality concerns, and recommend corrective measures to improve programme relevance, effectiveness, and impact.

• Ensure that accountability to affected populations, child safeguarding, PSEA, gender and inclusion, conflict sensitivity, and "do no harm" principles are integrated into programme design, implementation support, monitoring, and learning processes.

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.

• Oversee 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.

Partnerships and Networks

• Contribute to the development and implementation of Tdh's partnership and localization strategy, ensuring that it is embedded in programmatic strategies, project design, and technical approaches.

• Identify and consolidate strategic programmatic partnerships at country level, focusing on partners that are relevant, complementary, technically credible, and aligned with Tdh's mandate and Country Strategy.

• Support the identification and assessment of local NGOs, civil society actors, community-based organisations, and technical partners, in coordination with the Operations/Field Coordinator and Grants and Business Development Advisor/Grants Manager.

• Ensure that partnership approaches promote localization, mutual capacity strengthening, complementarity, accountability, and meaningful engagement of local actors throughout the project cycle.

• Provide programmatic and technical inputs to partnership tools, guidelines, capacity-strengthening plans, and collaboration modalities, ensuring that they support quality programming and equitable partnerships.

• Improve partnership practices by periodically assessing Tdh's partnership management approach considering both Tdh and partners' perspectives — capturing lessons learned and best practices and making recommendations for improvement.

• Oversee the ongoing development of partner tracking systems, due diligence processes, and capacity development plans.

Coordination, Representation and Advocacy

• Represent Tdh in relevant technical coordination platforms, working groups, networks, and inter-agency forums at national and field levels.

• Contribute to developing advocacy activities and strategies linked to Tdh's operational presence and programmatic focus in the country, as part of consortia and inter-agency efforts.

• Contribute to strengthening Tdh's visibility and positioning as a child rights actor.

• Ensure that Tdh's programmatic priorities, technical expertise, operational experience, and evidence from the field are reflected in relevant coordination, advocacy, and policy discussions.

• Ensure that technical advisors/specialists and relevant programme staff actively participate in appropriate coordination mechanisms and contribute to sectoral discussions, learning, and joint initiatives.

• Support evidence-based advocacy by ensuring that relevant programme data, assessment findings, protection analysis, MEAL evidence, case trends, lessons learned, and field observations are regularly

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 :

• Commits to promoting and complying with the Global Code of Conduct, systematically reporting any violations of the Code through Tdh's formal reporting mechanisms and dealing with any violations of procedures and processes appropriately.

• Raises awareness of the Foundation of the risks of policy non-compliance, violence and abuse, and related rights, towards children, community members and our own employees.

• Undertakes to comply with key ethical policies and guidelines, including the Safeguarding Policy, the Anti-Fraud and Corruption Policy, the Conflict-of-Interest Policy and other policies related to the prevention of terrorist financing and criminal activities, as well as workplace behavior.

• Commits to putting values and principles into practice through exemplary behavior, in full compliance with the Code of Conduct, and always respecting established procedures and processes.

• Commits to developing a compliant and enlightened management culture within the organization and in our work with children and the communities in which we operate.

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.