Project Officer - WFP (Alexandria)

The Project Officer is responsible for implementing the “Smart Production: Enhance Competitiveness and Employability” project in Alexandria, supervising the Project Assistant for the “Enhance Stability and Social Cohesion in Egypt, Phase 2” project, and ensuring quality and timely delivery of both projects. The role involves coordination with various stakeholders including WFP, government entities, schools, private sector, consultants, and community partners.

Responsibilities

• Develop and monitor implementation, procurement, and training plans, in line with the overall work plan, budget and WFP requirements.
• Assess production units and workshops, and oversee coaching, improvement plans, and quality compliance.
• Coordinate occupational health and safety training and safe work practices.
• Facilitate artisan linkages with production units and shared workspaces.
• Support seed fund assessments and monitor fund utilization and improvements.
• Coordinate practical training placements and participant documentation.
• Manage Digital Skills Accelerator training, participant selection, and employment linkages.
• Coordinate vocational, soft skills, and employability training with education stakeholders.
• Build private sector partnerships to enhance market access and youth employment opportunities.
• Supervise and coach Project Assistants, including work planning and performance management.
• Oversee quality implementation of participant selection, training, mentorship, and grant follow-up activities.
• Review participant data, selection decisions, and reports for accuracy and compliance.
• Review procurement requests and supporting documentation against budgets and procedures.
• Promote project integration by creating linkages between beneficiaries, training initiatives, and market opportunities.
• Represent the organization and maintain stakeholder relations with government, partners, donors, and the private sector.
• Coordinate and oversee consultants and service providers, including deliverables and performance.
• Secure approvals and facilitate smooth implementation of field activities through effective stakeholder engagement.
• Raise and manage purchase requisitions in SAP, ensuring budget and donor compliance.
• Monitor project budgets and expenditures, and report variances.
• Maintain complete, accurate, and audit-ready financial and activity documentation.
• Ensure timely collection, verification, and reporting of participant data and project indicators.
• Prepare monthly progress reports, highlighting achievements, challenges, and mitigation actions.
• Support monitoring visits, assessments, and post-distribution monitoring activities.
• Document success stories, lessons learned, and good practices to support project learning.
• Promote and monitor the project feedback and complaints mechanism for effective stakeholder engagement.
• Ensure safeguarding children and young people and gender equality and inclusion policies are embedded and applied during implementation.
• Ensure Project Assistant, consultants and service providers are properly inducted on safeguarding and GEI policies.

Requirements

• A bachelor degree in Social Sciences, Business Administration, Economics, Development Studies or similar field.
• 3-5 years of experience in livelihoods, economic empowerment, employability or vocational training projects, preferably in an INGO or UN agency.
• Experience working with the private sector, small businesses or production units on market linkages, product quality or value chains.
• Experience coordinating with government entities, including education directorates and schools, and with civil society organisations.
• Experience working with refugees and host communities in Egypt.
• Experience supervising staff or volunteers.
• Experience in planning, conducting and facilitating trainings and workshops.
• Proven skills in documentation, reporting and analysis of lessons learned, good practices and project outcomes.
• Advanced understanding of the development needs and vulnerabilities of youth, women, refugees and host communities, the root causes of the issues affecting them, and the key actors most relevant to their interests.
• Knowledge of labour market dynamics, employability and enterprise development in Egypt.
• Knowledge on gender transformative approaches, working in partnership, evidence-based approaches, and working to strengthen civil society.
• Providing clear direction and support to team members.
• Using on-going monitoring and assessment, working closely with project teams to improve the quality of implementation.
• Interpreting and contextualising data, assessing results and drawing conclusions to inform initiatives and communicate lessons learned.
• Numeracy and the ability to interpret financial data to support budget planning, monitoring and reporting.
• Ability to interact and work effectively with others at all levels.
• Strong skills in facilitation, team player, time management, negotiation and problem-solving and good report writing skills.

Skills

• Livelihoods Project Management
• Economic Empowerment
• Vocational Education
• Private Sector Engagement
• Market Linkages Development
• Value Chain Analysis
• Government Coordination
• Civil Society Engagement
• Refugee Support
• Staff Supervision
• Training Facilitation
• Workshop Facilitation
• Project Documentation
• Reporting and Analysis
• Lessons Learned Analysis
• Development Needs Assessment
• Labour Market Knowledge
• Employability Strategies
• Enterprise Development
• Gender Transformative Approaches
• Partnership Building
• Evidence-Based Approaches
• Monitoring and Performance Assessment
• Data Interpretation
• Financial Data Analysis
• Budgeting
• Budget Monitoring
• Negotiation
• Report Writing

Languages

English