Programme Coordinator - SPADS

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 Programme coordinator will be responsible and ultimately accountable for the sponsorship facilitated programme (SPADs) strategic direction, quality programming and delivery of results, financial management and compliance, team leadership, coordination and collaboration with other projects, stakeholder and partner relations. S/he will demonstrate excellent project management and problem-solving skills, a very high degree of maturity, flexibility, organization and communication skills, and strategic thinking to meet the demands of a dynamic and sometimes unpredictable operating environment while ensuring Plan International’s systems and policies are adhered to, especially gender transformative programming and children and programme participants’ safeguarding. The Programme Coordinator will work closely with the Leadership Team in the Programme Areas (PAs) and Country Program Team based in Kampala to provide effective and quality leadership to the projects’ (SPADs) implementation teams based in the field at PA level. The Program Coordinator will be based in Northern Programme Area (Lira) with a closer touch on the day-to-day SPADs delivery in the Northern PA, while supporting all other Programme Officers responsible for SPAD projects delivery in East Central and West Nile Programme Areas.

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Location: Lira.

Type of Role: Fixed Term.

Reports to: Programme & Sponsorship Team Lead.

Grade: Level 14

Closing Date: 24 June 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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