Program coordinator

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

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

**Place of work : Cairo**

**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.

**Overarching responsibilities “Main goals”**
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.

- Under the supervision of the Country Director, he/she ensures the development and roll-out of the program strategy for Egypt, ensuring alignment with the Country Strategy and Tdh’s areas of expertise.
- He/she leads the technical unit, and ensures strategic and technical coherence across Child Protection, MHPSS, health, Access to Justice, Children and youth on the Move, and MEAL functions.
- He/She is in charge of developing and consolidating the program in Egypt, ensuring alignment with Tdh’s expertise (Migration, Access to Justice, Health, Protection) and relevant cross-cutting themes in close collaboration with the country team and the regional team.
- He/She ensures program quality assurance across the Egypt portfolio, including the application of technical standards, methodologies, accountability principles, and safeguarding requirements.
- He/She steers the overall implementation program and results-based monitoring and learning, in line, in collaboration with the MEAL Manager.
- He/She promotes evidence-based programming, results-based monitoring, learning, innovation, and adaptation across the program.
- He/She contributes to the development of new interventions by providing programmatic analysis, technical leadership, and evidence for business development and donor engagement.
- He/She develops and fosters strategic programmatic partnerships and supports the localization agenda in Egypt.
- He/She supports knowledge sharing, capitalization, and continuous learning within the Country Office and with relevant regional and global teams
- He/She contributes to securing the required resources for the Country Office by providing technical and programmatic inputs, in coordination with the Country Director, Grants and business development advisor, Field coordinator, and support departments.

**Specific Responsibilities / Context (Tasks)**

**Strategy and steering:**

- Contribute to continuous, updated contextual analysis — including humanitarian and development needs and stakeholder mapping — within a Triple Nexus framework, and provide regular context updates.
- Lead the development and monitoring of the Tdh Country Strategy, making programmatic recommendations to ensure it aligns with country needs and the Tdh Global Strategy, and monitor its implementation at Country Office level.
- Ensure strategic and technical coherence across Child Protection, MHPSS, Health, Access to Justice/Legal, and Children and Youth on the Move functions, as well as MEAL, in line with the Country Strategy and Tdh's programmatic positioning.
- Ensure that programme indicators and MEAL frameworks provide strategic information to monitor progress against the Country Strategy, measure results, and inform corrective measures and decision-making, in collaboration with the MEAL Manager.
- Maintain an updated Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan for the Country Office, in collaboration with the Operations/Field Coordinator.
- Design, contribute to, and/or lead assessments for emergency or longer-term programming in existing or new project locations, in collaboration with the Operations/Field Coordinator and MEAL unit.
- Develop, implement, and monitor thematic strategic priorities in line with the Tdh Country Strategy, and ensure appropriate allocation of resources.
- Support the roll-out and dissemination of Tdh principles, approaches, methodologies, and standards across the mission.
- Contribute to the development of Tdh programmatic products, technical guidance, and intervention models, in collaboration with regional expertise.

**Program Quality**

- Provide strategic oversight, guidance, and leadership on programme quality across the country portfolio, ensuring that interventions are technically sound, evidence-based, child-centred, and aligned with Tdh standards, donor requirements, and sectoral best practices.
- Ensure that technical standards, methodologies, tools, SOPs, and quality assurance mechanisms are developed, harmonised, and applied consistently across projects and locations, in coordination with the technical and opera