Project Manager, EU INTPA

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 (EU INTPA – Education) supports the Team Leader in ensuring the high-quality, timely, and compliant implementation of education activities in Benishangul Gumuz and Amhara regions. The post holder oversees and ensures field implementation across target schools and communities in Benishangul Gumuz and Amhara, including refugee and host community settings, ensuring delivery is consistent with donor agreements and relevant coordination requirements with government and humanitarian stakeholders (including UNHCR and RRS where applicable).

The role provides hands-on technical and operational support to field teams, including coordinators, officers, and social workers, through regular guidance, coaching, and follow-up to ensure effective and quality implementation of project activities.

Key responsibilities include;

• Lead end-to-end project management, including planning, budgeting, implementation, and performance tracking
• Ensure high-quality project delivery through effective coordination with teams, partners, and stakeholders
• Monitor project progress and financial performance, ensuring timely corrective actions and compliance
• Prepare and deliver donor reports aligned with required standards and timelines
• Provide strategic leadership, risk management, and decision-making support across project teams
• Strengthen monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) systems for evidence-based results
• Promote knowledge sharing by documenting and disseminating best practices and lessons learned
• Oversee financial, administrative, and procurement processes in line with organizational policies
• Ensure alignment with organizational values, safeguarding, and compliance requirements

The Individual

Qualifications/ Experience/Skills Essential:

• BA, BSc degree in Project Management, Social Sciences, Education, Disaster Management, Humanitarian Sciences, Child Development, Development Studies, Sociology, Social Work, or other related fields.
• Minimum 7 years of experience, in education or humanitarian project management within the UN/NGO sector.
• Knowledge of evidence-based practices and standards for child protection and child participation, including the Minimum Standards for Child Protection and Education in humanitarian contexts.
• Experience in refugee or fragile context programming is required
• Strong understanding of humanitarian principles and established international child protection standards, including Sphere Standards, Sphere Companion Standards, Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS), and the Code of Conduct for Red Cross/Red Crescent and NGOs.

Skills Specific to the Post

• Basic understanding of Results-Based Management (RBM)
• Strong facilitation, negotiation, communication and representation skills.
• Strong leadership and management skills.
• Skills in monitoring, evaluation, Learning and reporting. 
• Strong analytical skills.
• Excellent writing and speaking skills.
• Requires general finance, administration, information management and telecommunication skills and proficiency in information technology/ computer skills (SAP, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

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 enure safe guarding and GEI, including making sure that relevant reporting and data are submitted.

Location: Addis Ababa, Country Office

Type of Role: EU INTPA Project

Reports to: Team Leader

Closing Date: June 12, 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.

Please note that Plan International will never send unsolicited emails requesting payment from candidates.