Project Manager

The Organization

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.

We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And its girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.

We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 85 years, and are now active in more than 80 countries.

The Project Manager has overall responsibility for leading, coordinating, and ensuring the successful implementation of the AFD-funded GBV-Education project. S(He) will oversee all components of the project across planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and in accordance with Plan International’s standards, AFD donor requirements, and international best practices in education, protection, and gender equality. The role requires strategic leadership, coordination of multi-sectoral and multi-actor interventions, and robust technical oversight across education, protection, health, and social norm change. The Project Manager will supervise the project team and ensure the integration of cross-cutting themes such as conflict sensitivity, safeguarding, gender equality and inclusion, disability, and localization.

The Opportunity

• Lead the development, review and implementation of the Detailed Implementation Plan, annual workplans, quarterly plans and monthly field-level implementation plans.
• Translate the approved proposal, logframe, budget and donor commitments into clear operational plans for Plan and consortium partners.
• Ensure coherent delivery across Education, WASH, youth livelihoods, social cohesion, protection, gender equality, disability inclusion and local governance components.
• Lead regular project review meetings to assess progress, identify bottlenecks, agree corrective actions and ensure timely escalation of strategic and operational issues.
• Ensure all project activities are implemented in a conflict-sensitive, gender-transformative, inclusive and accountable manner.
• Ensure strong field presence and practical problem-solving across Mecufi and Memba, with particular attention to access constraints, government coordination, security, partner performance and community acceptance.
• Proactively identify and operationalise synergies between the EU Stabilization project and the ECHO-funded REACH project, ensuring that both projects contribute to a coherent Plan International response in northern Mozambique.
• Lead effective coordination among Plan International Mozambique, Plan International Finland, Helvetas, MUVA, OMD and other relevant stakeholders to ensure strategic coherence, operational alignment and mutual accountability
• Ensure protection, GBV risk mitigation, safeguarding, referral pathways and safe disclosure mechanisms are embedded across all project activities.
• Work with the MERL and technical teams to use evidence, community feedback and field monitoring data to adapt implementation.
• Ensure that technical teams deliberately analyse linkages between REACH and EU Stabilization interventions, particularly where humanitarian response activities can inform or feed into longer-term education recovery, WASH functionality, social cohesion and livelihoods support.
• Work with the MERL and technical teams to use evidence, community feedback and field monitoring data to adapt implementation.
• Ensure that technical teams deliberately analyse linkages between REACH and EU Stabilization interventions, particularly where humanitarian response activities can inform or feed into longer-term education recovery, WASH functionality, social cohesion and livelihoods support.
• Serve as project budget holder or primary budget management focal point, as defined by Plan International Mozambique’s delegation of authority.

About You

• Master’s degree in International Development, Project Management, Education, Social Sciences, Public Administration, Economics, Engineering, Humanitarian Action, Development Studies or another relevant field. A bachelor’s degree with substantial relevant experience may be considered.
• At least 7 years of progressively responsible experience managing complex development, humanitarian, stabilization or nexus programmes.
• At least 3 years of experience in a senior project management role involving budget management, staff supervision, partner coordination and donor reporting.
• Proven experience managing EU-funded projects, preferably DG INTPA, EUD or comparable institutional donor grants.
• Strong understanding of EU compliance, donor reporting, procurement principles, visibility requirements, cost eligibility and audit readiness.

Location: Memba

Type of Role: Full time role

Reports to: Head of Programmes

Grade: 16 (Pay range 2 628 549,6MT to 2 957 118,36MT annual gross) Plan reserves the right to pay according to internal procedures;

Closing Date: October 2nd 2026

Position subject to project approval

Women are highly encouraged to apply

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity, and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with, and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International's Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme, we will request information from the applicant's previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

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