Project Officer-Addidas 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

This position is responsible for implementing the Adidas Foundation Project in Benishangul Gumuz Program Area (PA), focusing on sport for peace and resilience among conflict-affected refugees and host communities. The role contributes to annual planning, serves as the principal representative at implementation sites level, tracks progress, reports achievements, conducts assessments, and facilitates youth-related activities, including capacity building, youth-friendly services (YFS), peace forums, and youth-led tournaments. Activities align with SDGs 5, 10, and 16, targeting focus communities such as girls and women, refugees, IDP, people with disabilities (PwDs) individuals, and those facing religious, racial, or ethnic discrimination, to reduce gender-based violence, enhance social cohesion, empower youth, and promote inclusive sport spaces.

The Individual

• Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology, Psychology, Project Management and other related fields.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant humanitarian aid experiences applied in emergencies, experience in Youth engagement and development, Protection in an NGO setting
• Sound analytical and problem-solving capability;
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent knowledge of Child Protection & youth and SGBV minimum standards and basic principles; Good knowledge of SGBV and Child Protection
• Ability to deliver quality project in a desirable time and work under stressful conditions

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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 Young People 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: Benishangul Gumuz PA-Assosa

Type of Role: Adidas Foundation Project 

Reports to: CPiE & Youth Program Coordinator

Grade: C1

Closing Date: January 18, 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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