Humanitaire (ONG, Associations, ...), Projet/programme de développement
Humanitarian Finance & Grants Officer
Date: 2 Sept 2025
Location: Cairo, Egypt
Company: Plan International
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 know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.
Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. 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.
For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.
We won’t stop until we are all equal.
Plan started working in Egypt in 1981 and has a presence in ten of the 27 governorates in which the country including Cairo, Alexandria, Giza, Beheira, Kalyoubia, Damietta, Qena, Assuit and Sohag. Plan international Egypt implements programmes designed to enable communities to improve the lives of the most marginalised children and their families. Plan Egypt’s Country Strategy focuses on five strategic objectives.
Through a five-interconnected, gender transformative and context-fit country objectives, PIE intends along with the various stakeholders at all levels to continue delivering positive and transformative changes so that “Children, especially girls, and young people grow up in an enabling environment, realizing their rights and contributing in both development and humanitarian settings as active agents of change”.
Role Purpose
The Humanitarian Finance & Grants Officer is responsible for ensuring high-quality financial management, donor compliance, and grants oversight within Plan International Egypt’s Humanitarian Preparedness and Response Unit. The role supports effective stewardship of donor resources in line with Plan International’s policies, Egyptian statutory requirements, and donor regulations, enabling timely, accountable, and impactful delivery of humanitarian assistance.
You will be responsible to do the following;
Provides financial and grants management support across all humanitarian and emergency response projects.
Oversees financial reporting, budget monitoring, and donor compliance for multiple grants.
Ensures effective internal controls, audit readiness, and financial risk management.
Builds capacity of programme staff and partners on financial management and donor requirements.
Collaborates closely with Grants, Programme, Supply Chain, and Finance teams for integrated humanitarian delivery.
Liaises with donors, auditors, and Plan International’s global humanitarian finance networks.
Child Protection, Gender Equality and Inclusion
• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children, Young People and Programmes Participants and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan
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Location: Plan International Egypt Country Office in Maadi.
Type of Role: One-year fixed-term contract till 31/07/2025.
Reports to: Country Finance Manager.
Grade: 14
Closing Date:9th of Sep. 2025 - rolling interviews.
Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.
We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.
We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.
Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.
A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International's Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.
Please note that Plan International will never send unsolicited emails requesting payment from candidates.