Roots For Growth Project Manager - Assiut/Cairo

Job Description JOB TITLE: Roots For Growth Project Manager TEAM/PROGRAM: Program Operations LOCATION: Upper Egypt Field Office- either based fully in Assiut or based in Cairo with a minimum of 40% travel to Assiut. GRADE: 2 TYPE OF CONTRACT: Fixed Term Child Safeguarding Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work in country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff. Role Purpose The Roots for Growth Project Manager will lead the implementation of a multi-year results-based financed project in Assiut Governorate, designed to empower household-led microenterprises and improve child well-being through sustainable income growth. The role requires a high level of flexibility and adaptive management, including iterative planning, quarterly learning workshops, and co-design sessions with partners. The post holder will oversee program delivery, payment indicator achievement, budget management, partnership coordination, and compliance with SCI and donor standards, while ensuring gender-responsive and child-sensitive approaches across all activities. In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly. Brief Project Scope Roots For Growth Phase one is a 27-month project designed to achieve sustainable economic empowerment and strengthened resilience among vulnerable households with children in Upper Egypt, particularly in Assiut, to increase investments in children’s development and well-being. The project targets 800 household-led microenterprises across four cohorts (200 per cohort), providing initial entrepreneurship and business development training within pre-selected value chains. From these, 630 micro-enterprises will be selected to receive a comprehensive package comprising seed funding, tailored technical training, business coaching through household coaches, market linkages, and individualised support for business growth. Grounded in a theory of change that emphasizes gender-responsive, tailored capacity building; sector-specific technical development; mentorship; inclusive market access; and early-stage growth capital, the program aims to strengthen microenterprise performance and promote improved financial planning, saving practices, and child-sensitive household financial management. By addressing discriminatory gender norms and ensuring equitable participation and benefits for women and youth, the project seeks to enable households to sustainably grow their enterprises, generate predictable income, and reinvest in their children’s education, health, and overall well-being, ultimately contributing to long-term resilience and sustainable economic empowerment. Implementation will be delivered through a local incubator to deliver all business mentorship and capacity-building aspects and community-based organizations (CBOs), which will serve as hubs for coaching and market linkage support. These partners will provide continuous hands-on guidance to households and help embed project practices within existing community systems. Leveraging their local networks and contextual knowledge will ensure outreach to the most vulnerable yet viable groups and promote long-term sustainability beyond the project’s duration. The project will also pilot a Results-Based Financing (RBF) model to strengthen and build on SCI Egypt's expertise and adapt our implementation approach so that it becomes technically and institutionally fit for future RBF programming. Through this pilot, the PM, the team, and livelihoods TA will refine operational processes, reporting mechanisms, and partner engagement models to align with RBF requirements and ensure readiness for broader scale-up. RBF is a financing approach in which payments are partially or fully tied to the achievement of measurable and pre-defined results, aiming to improve performance, enhance accountability, and ensure that resources directly drive high-quality outcomes. Scope Of Role Reports to: Upper Egypt Field Office Manager, Dotted-line Livelihoods Technical Advisor Staff reporting to this post: Project Senior Officer, Operations Officer, and dotted-line oversight of MEAL Senior Officer. Budget Responsibilities: Yes Key Areas Of Accountability Program Management. Lead the design and implementation of project activities to unlock payment milestones Update the results framework: Align activities with measurable outputs and outcomes. Ensure clarity on agreed indicators, milestones, and payment triggers. Manage the Project Management Unit (PMU) and coordinate monthly field consortium meetings with incubator, partner CBOs, and private-sector partners. Facilitate co-planning workshops with partners and quarterly learning sessions to refine strategies based on evidence and context. Ensure integration of gender equality and child-sensitive approaches across all components. Oversee value chain analysis and ensure interventions are market-driven and responsive to local needs. Ensuring that program reports are delivered according to SC and donor contractual requirements, within the agreed timescale and budget. Collect accurate, timely data to demonstrate achievement of results. Validate and report results: Ensure evidence is credible and auditable for payment claims. Ensure an effective award management system is in place at field level to ensure that donor and SCI requirements are met. Working with the Upper Egypt field manager and the PDQ team to revise the program plans and master budgets as needed and contribute to Save the Children’s updates to the overall CO strategy. Ensure that program activities are directly linked to payment milestones and activities not clearly linked to payment milestones are deprioritized Develop and implement participatory needs assessment to contribute to program planning and MEAL processes. Lead/support on partners’ identification and assessments, implementation monitoring and capacity building Oversee program implementation to ensure timely delivery of program activities (for example: DIPs, IPPTs, budget spending plans, etc.). In coordination with the CO HR team, lead and support recruitment processes and ensure that program/projects are adequately staffed. In collaboration with the CO Safety and Security team, develop and implement effective safety and security procedures for the program, ensuring that these procedures are updated and revised at regular intervals. Manage and motivate program staff to perform highly in their respective roles and responsibilities. This will include leading on staff structure, recruitment, performance management and implementing staff wellbeing policies. Budget Management and Compliance Manage program financial processes in close cooperation with the Finance team and in line with SCI finance policies and procedures. Link budget to results: Track how spending contributes to achieving targets. Cash flow planning: Anticipate payment delays and manage liquidity. Responsible for financial management of program budget; forecasting, planning, tracking of expenditures, and burn rates. Ensure expenditures are approved and in accordance with the budget lines and payment milestones Ensure sub-grants and contracts are managed in line with SCI’s award policies. Ensure that SCI regulations are communicated to the program staff and that all activities meet SCI’s requirements financially and technically. Monitor, update, and adapt the budget in response to market fluctuations and payment milestones. Oversee grant and micro-loan disbursement mechanisms (seed grants) and ensure compliance with seed-funding SOPs and social contract requirements. Technical Assistance and Capacity Strengthening Prov