Micro and Small Enterprise Development Specialist

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.

We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.

We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 85 years, and are now active in more than 80 countries.

ROLE PURPOSE

SWEET (Strengthening Women’s entrepreneurs in Egypt) project asserts that targeted gender-specific action is critical to empower women and girls to amplify their inherent individual and collective agency and create an enabling social and economic environment for them. SWEET is a five- year project that will take a three-pronged, rights-based and gender-transformative approach for women and adolescent girls in the handmade and leather carpet and handicraft (kilim, crochet, macramé) industry in the Giza governorate of Egypt to: expand their knowledge and understanding of the sector, improve their social status, provide them a range of industry-relevant skills, and strengthen governance systems and business linkages to build a supportive social environment and an enabling institutional environment for women and adolescent girls in underserved communities.

The Enterprise Development Specialist will be responsible for providing high strategic technical input to the implementation of SWEET project.

DIMENSIONS OF THE ROLE

The post holder reports to the SWEET Project Manager and is responsible for providing top quality technical advisory and program development approaches in the area of the project which is the Economic Empowerment for women.

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Location: Cairo Prohram Unit, Maadi.

Type of Role: One year fixed term contract.

Reports to: SWEET Project Manager

Closing Date:30th of Oct. 2023

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