Field Coordinator

**Starting position: 01/07/2026**

**Duration : till 31 Dec ( Renewal)**

**Place of work :** Cairo, with frequent travels to projects’ locations (Alexandria, Aswan, Asyut)

**Status : Active**

**Deadline for applications:** **18June 2026**

**Type of contract: Fixed-Term National Contract (Egyptian).**

Terre des hommes (Tdh) :

The Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh), with headquarters in Lausanne and an office in Zurich, is the leading Swiss child rights organisation with more than 2000 employees worldwide. We stand together with children to uphold their rights, protect their lives and improve their well-being. We achieve this through innovative programmes focused on health, migration and access to justice, specially designed to have a positive and sustainable impact.

**Job description**:

The Field Coordinator reports to the Country Director and is a key leadership position within the Egypt Country Office, responsible for overseeing the efficient and effective operations of Tdh in all Egypt. The role involves managing staff, safety and security risk management, ensuring compliance with Tdh and donors’ regulations, representing Tdh to external stakeholders, coordinating with authorities, partners, communities and other stakeholders, and upholding Tdh’s values.

The Field Coordinator will interface directly with the Senior Management Team, for operational planning, program strategy, operations security management, reporting and budget management.

A professional sense of security, confidentiality, and proper representation is paramount.

All Tdh employees will conduct their duties in respect of the Charter, Code of Conduct, Safeguarding policies and Child Protection Policy. Terre des hommes expects that its staff’s professional conduct reflects proper behaviour in accordance with local culture and traditions and in the best interests of the organisation.

He/she will conduct his or her duties in respect of the Charter of the Tdh Child Safeguarding Policy, Code of Conduct and Safeguarding Policies.

**Main responsibilities:**

**Leadership and Program Management**

- Provide overall leadership and guidance to the projects’ staff based in the program governorates, fostering a positive and inclusive work environment.
- Set strategic goals, develop work plans, and monitor progress to ensure the achievement of organizational objectives.
- Leads and manages all Tdhs project management team members, encouraging effective teamwork and providing supervision and guidance, providing feedback on performance evaluations, and supporting their professional development.
- In coordination with HR, the operations coordinator ensures that all program staff receive a comprehensive induction package and have easy access to familiarize with and apply all Tdh information and knowledge, specifically Tdh program methodologies and expertise.
- Ensure adequate information flow within the different project teams
- Create/maintain a “team spirit” within the different departments and amongst the project teams.
- Ensure good collaboration, mutualisation, coordination and analysis with other projects, encouraging a programmatic approach, rather than projects approach.
- Organize monthly Project Review Meetings, and ensure the meetings have been previously prepared with finance, log, MEAL focal points, to measure and discuss the status of project achievement in the work plans, budget management, workplan challenges.
- Train/Coach the direct team members in their duties (Contribute in training needs collection, analysis and identification of resources and opportunities),and ensure project managers participation in the regional expertise community of practices.
- Organize monthly program meetings, to foster learning, coordination and sharing of practices among program staff.
- Implement and monitor the Tdh Programs based on the quality standards, as per the Country strategy Programmatic strategic framework, and as per program SOPs.
- Ensure an effective and solid coordination between the program unit and the Support units (Finance, Logs, MEAL, HR, Communication) based on Tdh set country strategy milestones.
- Continuously review and adjust the program based on project evaluations, lessons learnt, and needs assessments, in collaboration with the Program Coordinator, Grants and business development advisor and MEAL unit.
- Ensures that the projects implemented are aligned with Tdh Egypt country strategy (2026-2028); Tdh quality standards : gender and diversity integration, data protection, innovation, climate action.

**Operations and Compliance**

- Manage the project programmatic operations with the Program, Logistics, HR and Finance staff responsible for each project.
- Ensures strong inter-departmental planning, coordination and tight follow-up and a service-oriented, beneficiary-focused outlook.
- Follows and ensures respect of programmatic and project-level action plans; anticipates and flags areas of operational attention and facilita