Project Manager

The Project Manager is responsible for leading, coordinating, and ensuring the successful implementation of the AFD-funded GBV-Education project. This role involves strategic leadership, coordination of multi-sectoral interventions, and technical oversight across education, protection, health, and social norm change, ensuring delivery on time, within budget, and in accordance with Plan International's standards and donor requirements.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Serve as project budget holder or primary budget management focal point, as defined by Plan International Mozambique’s delegation of authority.

Requirements

• 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.

Skills

• Project Management
• Budget Management
• Staff Supervision
• Partner Coordination
• Donor Reporting
• EU-funded Project Management
• EU Compliance
• Public Procurement Principles
• Audit Readiness
• Strategic Leadership
• Inter-sectoral Coordination
• Technical Oversight
• Grant Management
• Cost Eligibility
• Visibility Requirements