Senior Livelihoods Officer (GIZ Alex)

About the role

Save the Children is recruiting a Senior Livelihoods Officer (pending donor approval) for its project in Alexandria, Egypt. The role supports, expands and promotes the Youth and Livelihoods programme, giving technical guidance to Save the Children and partner staff on designing, piloting, implementing, monitoring and reporting livelihood activities that create sustainable income and reduce household economic vulnerability. It reports to the Project Manager, has a dotted line to the Livelihood Technical Advisor and carries direct technical accountability for Outcome 3 (livelihoods and economic resilience).

Key responsibilities

• Translate the approved Results Framework and DIP into weekly and monthly micro-plans, maintain trackers and action logs, and lead partners in participatory market mapping and job identification.
• Coordinate cohort scheduling and training-of-trainers and full livelihoods training (life skills, green skills, business and entrepreneurship, job hunting), including at least three coaching visits per participant.
• Lead outreach and mobilization to reach youth, women and men in Karmouz and El-Labban, chair the livelihoods committee on employment linkage allocations, and support the selection of CBO-led green enterprises.
• Supervise the rollout of VSLA methodology and the Zein El Rigal gender dialogue programme, and review CSO supervision reports.
• Convene monthly consortium meetings with the three CSOs, support partner capacity strengthening, and prepare procurement requests for venues, event supplies, IEC and training consumables.
• Support the MEAL team with Kobo tools, data quality and reporting, and embed child safeguarding, PSEAH, gender and inclusion standards in all activities.
• Submit weekly and bi-weekly updates, monthly progress notes and inputs for semi-annual and donor reports, and document case studies and lessons learned.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in development economics, international development or a related field.
• Minimum 4 years' experience in livelihoods and poverty reduction programming in a humanitarian and development context.
• Experience working through sub-grants and partners, and experience building the capacity of local partners and communities.
• Fluency in Arabic and English (written and spoken).

Required skills

• Poverty reduction and livelihoods skills development, including cash transfer programme implementation.
• Programme design, proposal development and representation with international bodies, government and funders.
• Excellent written and oral communication and strategic thinking.