Project Manager - Adidas Foundation

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 lead the implementation of the three-year "Sport for Peace and Resilience for Conflict-Affected IDPs and Refugees" project. Funded by the Adidas Foundation, this initiative uses Sport for Development (S4D) as a catalytic tool to address trauma and social fragmentation among over 57,000 direct beneficiaries, fostering social cohesion, and peacebuilding in Tigray and Benishangul-Gumuz.

The Project Manager will provide overall strategic leadership, technical direction, and management to ensure the project achieves its goals in contributing to SDGs 5, 10, and 16. The role is responsible for managing all project components, ensuring quality, building institutional S4D capacity, and generating evidence for scale-up, in alignment with Adidas Foundation and Plan International standards.

The Individual

• Bachelor's/Master’s Degree in Social Work, Development Studies, or related field. Minimum 7 years of progressive experience in development and humanitarian response, with at least 4 years in senior technical or advisory roles focused on child protection, GBV prevention, and peacebuilding in refugee/IDP settings in Ethiopia.
• Served as a national-level senior technical advisor in protection (CP and GBV) for at least 3 years, with a proven track record in resource mobilization, quality assurance, evidence-driven programming, strategic advocacy, and national-level positioning.
• Led the design and implementation of at least 2 innovative pilot projects focusing on peacebuilding, youth participation, and inclusion in humanitarian contexts within the last 2 years.
• Proven experience in independent protection monitoring and evidence generation from multiple partners (INGO/NGO/CBOs) in IDP/refugee responses, and has conducted at least one conflict-sensitive research on peacebuilding/conflict management in refugee/IDP/host communities.
• Led rehabilitation and inclusion projects for persons with disabilities in both refugee and development contexts, and has experience advocating for and mainstreaming sport-for-protection approaches with networks and partners.
• Experience in supporting, establishing, and ensuring adolescents' participation in humanitarian action, including Youth Advisory Panels (YAP), in the last 3 years. This includes demonstrated experience in contextualizing and translating curricula (e.g., PALS, CBIM, Champions of Change) and applying youth engagement frameworks like the Compact for Young People in Humanitarian Action.
• Extensive experience in designing and delivering capacity-building training for staff and partners through both face-to-face and online modalities at national and regional levels.

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

Location: Addis Ababa, Country Office

Type of Role: Addids Foundation Project

Reports to: Head of Disaster Preparedness and Response

Closing Date: January 24, 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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