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 in