Roots For Growth Project Manager - Assiut

Overview

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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 effective award management system is in place at field level to ensure that donor and SCI requirements are met.
• Working with Upper Egypt filed 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 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.
• 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 grant 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 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.
• Provide technical oversight on livelihoods, financial inclusion, and entrepreneurship development.
• Provide technical oversight on the value chains connections and participants selling channels.
• Recruit and manage all technical consultations in close coordination with PDQ technical team
• Lead and manage the incubation program of the participants, and oversee the incubator service provider who will provide the services.
• Lead the interventions provided to the participants by the national partner on coaching, mentoring and seed fund provision.
• Support capacity building for project staff and partners on adaptive management, gender integration, and child safeguarding.
• Ensure MEAL systems are aligned with RBF requirements and performance-based reporting.
• Recruit, manage, and motivate project staff to deliver high-quality results.
• Implement performance management and staff well-being measures, especially during intensive learning cycles.
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture.
• Utilize the Performance Management System linked to payment milestones, define expectations of staff members, develop work plans and improvement plans as needed, and provide technical support for staff development.
• Ensure communicating and mainstreaming SCI policies and procedures as well as accountability and child participation practices throughout the program activities.
• Ensure field staff receive required training on gender, child protection, Technical intervention package, and M&E tools.
• Represent SCI in coordination meetings with government, donors, and private sector stakeholders.
• Advocate for gender-responsive and child-sensitive economic empowerment approaches.
• Ensure visibility of project achievements through communication products and events.
• Support the implementation of child safeguarding policy within the project cycle; including identifying and addressing risks to children that are caused/exacerbated by project design and intervention.
• Ensure that project activities are safe for children and that all steps are taken to ensure their meaningful and safe participation.
• Provide leadership and guidance in the implementation of the child safeguarding policy and the code of conduct within the project.
• Maintain the project risk register, implement mitigation actions (including GBV, child protection, inflation, and market dynamics), In coordination with all departments.
• Ensure donor reporting, timely narrative and financial reports, and support external independent evaluation processes.
• Coordinate with business incubators, CBOs, and private sector actors to deliver technical training, mentorship, and market linkages.
• Strengthen local partners’ institutional capacity to sustain interventions beyond project closure.
• Ensure accountability and transparency in partner management and resource utilization.
• Oversee documentation of good practices, success stories and learning products; support sustainability planning (VSLAs, incubator capacity building, private sector linkages) for scale-up beyond project close.
• Work closely with the Livelihoods technical advisor to support the modelling and designing for the RBF.
• Contribute to the development of communications products, in collaboration with the CO Communications team;
• Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures;
• Ensure the security, health and well-being of staff and that staff management and other processes and policies and systems reflect SC 's principles of equity and fairness.

Required Experience

• Minimum 7 years’ experience in livelihoods, private sector engagement, or economic empowerment programs.
• Mandatory At least 2 years managing payment by results, impact bond, Payment by outcomes projects
• Strong project cycle management experience.
• Demonstrate strong expertise in results-based management is a must including designing, monitoring, and adapting programs to achieve predefined payment milestones
• Mandatory to have prior experience with Results-Based Financing or disbursement-linked projects, including linking payments to verified results, procedures for payments on results, monitoring outcomes progress in linkage to payments, and coordination with partners on results based payments
• Strong expertise in entrepreneurship development, value chains in rural areas, enterprises development, and partnership management.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate gender and child-sensitive approaches in programming.
• Excellent budget management and donor compliance skills.
• Demonstrable experience beneficiary accountability.
• Strong experience in dealing with government officials at both strategic and operational levels.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, advocacy, negotiation and coaching.
• Strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mind-sets.
• Experience working through/with sub grants and partners is a requirement.
• Experience with capacity building of local partners and communities.

Qualifications

• Relevant university degree in Development Studies, Economics, Business Administration, Agricultural Economics, Social Sciences or related field; advanced degree preferred.

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