Roots For Growth Project Manager

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 managing program delivery, payment indicators achievement, budget management, partnership coordination, and compliance with SCI and donor standards, ensuring gender-responsive and child-sensitive approaches.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of project activities to unlock payment milestones.
• Update the results framework aligning activities with measurable outputs and outcomes.
• Manage the Project Management Unit and coordinate monthly field consortium meetings with incubator, partner CBOs, and private-sector partners.
• Facilitate co-planning workshops and quarterly learning sessions to refine strategies.
• Ensure integration of gender equality and child-sensitive approaches across all components.
• Oversee value chain analysis ensuring market-driven and responsive interventions.
• Ensure program reports are delivered according to SC and donor contractual requirements within agreed timescale and budget.
• Collect accurate, timely data to demonstrate achievement of results.
• Validate and report results ensuring evidence is credible and auditable for payment claims.
• Ensure effective award management system at field level meeting donor and SCI requirements.
• Revise program plans and master budgets as needed and contribute to CO strategy updates.
• Ensure program activities are linked to payment milestones and deprioritize activities not linked.
• Develop and implement participatory needs assessment for program planning and MEAL processes.
• Lead/support partner identification, assessments, implementation monitoring and capacity building.
• Oversee program implementation ensuring timely delivery of activities.
• Lead and support recruitment processes ensuring adequate staffing.
• Develop and implement effective safety and security procedures for the program.
• Manage and motivate program staff including staff structure, recruitment, performance management and wellbeing policies.
• Manage program financial processes in cooperation with Finance team and SCI policies.
• Track budget spending linked to results and manage cash flow planning.
• Responsible for financial management including forecasting, planning, tracking expenditures and burn rates.
• Ensure expenditures are approved and in line with budget and payment milestones.
• Manage sub grants and contracts in line with SCI award policies.
• Communicate SCI regulations to program staff ensuring financial and technical compliance.
• Monitor, update and adapt budget in response to market fluctuations and payment milestones.
• Oversee grant and micro-loan disbursement mechanisms ensuring compliance with SOPs and social contract requirements.
• Provide technical oversight on livelihoods, financial inclusion, entrepreneurship development, value chains and selling channels.
• Recruit and manage technical consultations in coordination with PDQ technical team.
• Lead and manage incubation program and oversee incubator service provider.
• Lead interventions by 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 align 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.
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture.
• Utilize Performance Management System linked to payment milestones and provide technical support for staff development.
• Communicate and mainstream SCI policies, accountability and child participation practices.
• 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 implementation of child safeguarding policy including risk identification and mitigation.
• Ensure project activities are safe for children and support meaningful participation.
• Provide leadership in child safeguarding policy and code of conduct implementation.
• Maintain project risk register and implement mitigation actions including GBV, child protection, inflation, and market dynamics.
• Ensure donor reporting, timely narrative and financial reports, and support external independent evaluation processes.
• Coordinate with business incubators, CBOs, and private sector actors for technical training, mentorship, and market linkages.
• Strengthen local partners’ institutional capacity for sustainability 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 for scale-up beyond project close.
• Work closely with Livelihoods technical advisor to support modelling and designing for RBF.
• Contribute to development of communications products with CO Communications team.
• Comply with Save the Children policies on safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies.
• Ensure security, health and well-being of staff and reflect SC principles of equity and fairness in management processes.

Requirements

• Relevant university degree in Development Studies, Economics, Business Administration, Agricultural Economics, Social Sciences or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 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 including designing, monitoring, and adapting programs to achieve predefined payment milestones.
• Mandatory 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.
• Fluency in English with strong written and oral communication skills.
• The capacity and willingness to be flexible and accommodating in difficult working circumstances.
• Commitment to the aims and principles of SC, with a good understanding of the SC mandate and child focus.
• Professional expertise in one of the Save the Children program areas is preferable.

Skills

• Project Cycle Management
• Result-Based Management
• Results-Based Finance
• Payment by Results Management
• Impact Bond Management
• Payment by Outcomes Projects
• Entrepreneurship Development
• Value Chain Analysis
• Enterprise Development
• Partnership Management
• Gender-Responsive Programming
• Child-Sensitive Programming
• Budget Management
• Donor Compliance
• Beneficiary Accountability
• Government Relations
• Advocacy
• Negotiation
• Coaching
• Sub Grants Management
• Capacity Building
• Programme Monitoring
• Payment Indicators Management

Languages

English