Project Manager

Plan International Ethiopia is recruiting a Project Manager to lead its flagship Countering Harmful Practices F4B Project (2026–2030). This is a high‑impact leadership role for professionals with strong project management and gender expertise, offering the chance to drive transformative change across Ethiopia’s Amhara, Oromia, Somali, and Afar regions. If you are passionate about advancing children’s rights, preventing harmful practices, and strengthening civil society organizations, this position provides both challenge and purpose in one of the world’s most respected humanitarian organizations.

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.

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

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

The Opportunity

The Project Manager will provide strategic leadership and oversight for the Countering Harmful Practices  F4B Project (2026–2030), funded by the Dutch Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA). This project aims to strengthen local civil society organizations to prevent and respond to harmful practices including Child, Early and Forced Marriage (CEFM), Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C), teenage pregnancy, and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) across Ethiopia’s Amhara, Oromia, Somali, and Afar regions.

The Project Manager will be responsible for ensuring efficient and high-quality delivery of project objectives, advancing the agency and protection of children, adolescent girls, and women. This includes leading planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting in compliance with donor requirements and organizational policies. The role involves facilitating partnerships with regional government bureaus, Amref Health Africa, and local implementing partners to strengthen coordination and collaboration.

In addition, the Project Manager will oversee financial planning, budget management, staffing, and timely work planning, while driving capacity building, learning, and documentation. A key aspect of the role is promoting gender equality, disability inclusion, and climate-sensitive approaches throughout the project. The position will champion innovative strategies such as Champions of Change, survivor-centered interventions, peer education, intergenerational dialogue, policy advocacy, and community engagement on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). The Project Manager will also play a pivotal role in enabling CSOs to deliver essential services and foster dialogue within local contexts, contributing to transformative, inclusive, and sustainable change.

The Individual

• Master’s or Bachelor’s Degree in Social Science, Gender Studies, Project Management, Reproductive Health, Sociology, Development studies, or related  field.  
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience in project management, grant management, in an NGO setting, with 3 years on a senior level experience or demonstrated equivalent combination
• Sound analytical and problem-solving capability and team work ability;
• Experience of working on complex projects that involves consortium and local partners 
• Ability to influence others’ behaviour through effective relationship building; thorough current knowledge and understanding of relevant SRH and GBV strategies/policy frameworks, teenage pregnancy roadmap, child marriage, FGM.
• Strong knowledge of planning, budget management, policies, and procedures,
• Knowledge and experience of donor grants of diverse institutional donors  like Dutch MFA,
• Excellent communication skills

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Safeguarding Children and Program Participants (Safeguarding) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI)

• Understands and puts into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GEI policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), ensuring that concerns are reported and managed per the appropriate procedures.
• Ensures that all staff in the unit/function/department are properly inducted on and understand their role in upholding Plan International’s safeguarding and GEI policies;
• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Program Participants and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in day-to-day work.
• Ensures that Plan Ethiopia contributes to Plan International’s global efforts to ensure safeguarding and GEI, including making sure that relevant reporting and data are submitted.

Location: Addis Ababa, Country Office

Type of Role: Fixed-term contract for a one-year period, with the possibility of extension. 

Reports to: Head of Development Programme and Partnership

Closing Date: Januray 16, 2026

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 applicants 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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