Overview
The Project Manager has overall responsibility for leading, coordinating, and ensuring the successful implementation of the AFD-funded GBV-Education project. The role requires strategic leadership, coordination of multi-sectoral and multi-actor interventions, and robust technical oversight.
Key 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.
Required Experience
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.
Qualifications
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.
