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Case Worker - Gaza Response
SUMMARY
18 Jan 2026
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Egypt
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TITLE: Caseworker
TEAM/PROGRAMME: Child Protection Program - Gaza Response
LOCATION: Greater Cairo.
GRADE: 6
CONTRACT LENGTH: Till 15 May 2026
Child SAFEGUARDING:
Level 3: The post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting
process staff.
ORGANISATION PROFILE / PROGRAMME SUMMARY:
Save the Children International is the world’s leading independent organization for children. We work in 117 countries and work, together with our partners, to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. In Egypt, Save the Children International has been working to ensure that children’s rights are respected, protected, and promoted since 1982. We carry out both long-term development work and, more recently, emergency humanitarian work.
This project aims to ensure that children and youth in vulnerable situations to have their rights respected and possess sound self-reliance capacities that allow them to improve their life perspectives. It will also target national and community organizations to enable them to provide effective protection and self-reliance services for children and youth.
ROLE PURPOSE:
This position will be primarily responsible for providing intensive case management for children and adolescents from Palestinian beneficiaries, including best interest assessments and the Case Management Steps to Protect
approach. This post requires frequent travel in Greater Cairo as interviews take place in SC different field offices.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: Case Management Coordinator
Staff directly reporting to this post: None
Responsibilities
- Conducting best interest assessment interviews and drafting relevant reports to assess the children’s needs.
- Making referrals to and coordinating with partner organizations.
- Following up and monitoring individual cases of unaccompanied minors and children at risk within the context of Cairo.
- Ensuring Case Management is implemented in line with Save the Children’s policies and procedures and adhering to donor requirements and guidelines.
- Support the project team in developing the project activities and the monthly plan for Cairo children.
- Develop monthly reports on their case load.
- Ensure that the activities are implemented in full respect of the child safeguarding polices of SC
- Facilitate, when necessary, orientation sessions, workshops, follow-up visits, and other activities for the project.
- Co-facilitate different psychosocial support sessions and awareness sessions for the children with other disciplines, including the Psychosocial Activities team; -
- Supporting the program teams as deemed necessary.
SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS
Accountability:
• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and modelling Save the Children values.
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
Ambition:
• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for oneself (and their team), takes responsibility for own personal development and encourages others to do the same.
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others.
Collaboration:
• Builds and maintains effective relationships with team, colleagues, members, and external partners and supporters
• Values diversity as a source of competitive strength
• Approachable and active listener
Creativity:
• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
Integrity:
• Honest, encourages openness and transparency
Confidentiality and data protection:
• Ensures that beneficiaries’ data are kept confidentially and in line with data protection policies
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Educational Background:
Social studies, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology.
Essential:
· 1-2 years of previous relevant experience in the development/humanitarian field with a focus on child protection.
· Excellent drafting, interpersonal, interviewing, and communication skills
· Proficiency in Arabic and English, written and spoken, is a must.
· Demonstrated ability to work with highly vulnerable groups.
· Awareness about the security context and political situation in Egypt for refugees.
· Able to work effectively within a team and/or individually.
· This is a field job; the candidate must be willing to work in the field effectively.
· Well-organized with strong time-management skills.
· Ability to apply Self-care techniques.
· Shares Save the Children’s vision and values.
Desirable:
• Experience in case management/ working with children.
• Previous working experience with NGOs and in refugee-related contexts.
Additional job responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry o additional duties within the reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.
Equal Opportunities
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.
Child Safeguarding:
We need to keep children safe, so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Safeguarding our Staff:
The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy
Health and Safety
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.