Position Start Date: October 1st, 2024

Duration: 24 months

Location: Cairo – Egypt

Status: family posting

Terre des hommes does not set closing dates for this position; recruitment is on-going until the position is filled.

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.

Context:

Since 1983, Terre des hommes (Tdh) works in Egypt in collaboration with recognized national and local partners to provide support and protection to the most vulnerable children, youth, their families, and their communities. We provide a variety of activities in Greater Cairo and across Upper Egypt governorates with innovative approaches and sustainable solutions to enhance the resilience and well-being of the children and youth and help them to build a better future. The interventions are including mental health and psychosocial support, case management, cash assistance, community mobilization, youth empowerment and capacity building to strengthen protection systems and ensure a protective child-friendly environment.

All projects in Egypt are implemented under the umbrella of the Egyptian Ministry of Social Solidarity.

In Egypt, using the nexus approach, we seek to achieve sustained positive changes for a safe and protective environment for vulnerable children, youth and families through:

• Highly visible and trusted expert partner: well positioned and recognised as a leading child rights organisation and the partner of choice in relation to child protection & Trusted technical expert that deploys best practice models and guidance frameworks.
• Empowering and participatory Programmes: Dynamic, evidence led, innovative and high-quality migration, access to justice and health programmes, supported by effective business development and information sharing systems & Empowerment and participation of children and youth within all programmes and interventions.
• Efficient and motivating workplace: Motivating work environment, with a highly professional, empowered, and innovative workforce & Effective business processes and procedures, supported by innovative solutions to sharing information.

Responsibilities:

• Under the supervision of the Deputy to the Operations Manager, he/she ensures the proper functioning of operations at the national level; as such he/she represents the Foundation in the assignment country
• He/She directs and supervises all activities connected to the Tdh projects in his/her assignment country in line with the SP (Strategic Plan) and strategic orientations
• He/She represents Tdh (including legally) and promotes the entirety of its remit in the assignment country
• He/She demonstrates ethical and exemplary leadership in order to maintain the Foundation’s good reputation and leads all the delegation’s collaborators in a shared vision in compliance with the Foundation’s strategic orientations. In collaboration with the programs and expertise, he/she develops the Strategic Plan of the Delegation’s operations in compliance with the general reference framework.
• He/She develops and guarantees the implementation of the Delegation’s Annual Operational Plans (AOPs) in compliance with the Strategic Plan and internal processes (budgetary management, HR and logistics management, quality and accountability)
• He/She guarantees the implementation of an operational risk-management system for the Delegation.
• He/She supervises and supports all staff attached to the Delegation
• He/She ensures the Delegation’s internal and external communications
• He/She feels accountable to the beneficiaries, collaborators and donors
• He/She makes sure that his/her teams and partners have learned the security policies and the general code of conduct and comply with them at all times
• He/She is responsible for the security of the Tdh teams under his/her responsibility and is in charge of the security rules and the contingency plans of the country or countries under his/her responsibility
• Manages and assumes ultimate responsibility for the risks and access aspects of the mission

More specifically he/she has the following responsibilities:

Strategy and steering

Representation

Security and safety

Human Resources

Finance and logistics

Management

Reporting

Profile :

Education : Master’s degree in a relevant field

Experience, Skills & Competencies :

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a similar position (country director or senior manager).
• Reliable and independent with a strong organizational capacity, decision-making and conflict resolution.
• Experience in developing partnerships, identifying new opportunities, and mobilizing resources.
• Excellent interpersonal qualities: integrity, a capacity to judge and diplomacy.
• Proactive, rigorous and a results-driven attitude.
• Knowledge of Child protection, migration, A2J, maternal and child health programs
• Strong team spirit and excellent capacity to motivate colleagues.
• Confirmed experience in supervising multicultural teams.
• Prior experience in the MENA region

Languages : Fluency in English, Arabic an asset

IT know-how : Usual MS Office tools

Salary :

Expatriate contract under Swiss regulations between CHF 5’000.- and CHF 5’700.- Gross/month according to experience x 13 times, Paid leaves: 25 days annual leaves local accommodation and transportation, Health insurance, accident and medical repatriation insurance, return flight.

Tdh Global Code of Conduct and Risk Management Policies :

• Fully complies with Tdh’s Global Code of Conduct and systematically reports any breach to the Code through the whistleblowing procedure: raises awareness within the Foundation on abuse and violence and the rights deriving therefrom, respecting the rights and dignity of children, members of the communities and our own Staff
• Commits to respecting Risk Management Policies including: Safeguarding Policies (Child Safeguarding Policy, Policy on the Protection against Sexual Exploitation and the Directive on Staff Misconduct at the Workplace), Safety and Security Policy and Anti-Fraud/Corruption and Prevention of the Financing of Criminal Activities Policies
• Commits to reducing the risk of abuse and harm by developing a culture of open and informed leadership within the organization and in our work with children and the communities in which we intervene in.

We offer an exciting and varied work, useful and meaningful, in a team that wants to make a difference for vulnerable children.

Are you interested? Do you want to face this challenge?