Overview
The Project Manager will provide overall coordination 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 Somalia/Somaliland’s Amhara, Oromia, Somali, and Afar regions.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate day-to-day implementation of project activities in the assigned region.
- Support the application of technical approaches addressing harmful practices (HPs), including CEFM, FGM/C, SRHR, GBV, and rights-based programming.
- Contribute to the development, updating, and implementation of regional work plans.
- Coordinate and support regional project staff and local implementing partners.
- Manage regional budget, track expenditures against approved budgets, and support accurate forecasting.
- Prepare and submit quality narrative and activity reports, data inputs, and documentation.
- Facilitate agreements with Regional Bureaus and handle regional reports and requests.
- Organize/ lead the provision of different trainings and TOTs for relevant government, partner and community participants.
- Coordinate closely with local implementing partners and regional government counterparts.
- Participate in joint review meetings with partners.
- Support meaningful participation of adolescent girls, boys (including those with disabilities), and community stakeholders.
- Represent the project in relevant regional coordination meetings, technical working groups, and forums.
- Share regional updates, emerging issues, and opportunities.
- Provide supervision and technical support for Project Officers.
- Support routine monitoring, data collection, and field-level quality checks.
- Support the identification and documentation of lessons learned, challenges, and good practices.
- Facilitate regional MEAL activities.
- Maintain organized and up-to-date regional project records.
- Build linkages with universities, research institutions, and technical agencies.
- Support the integration of gender equality, disability inclusion, climate sensitivity, and youth participation across regional activities.
- Ensure strict adherence to Plan International’s Safeguarding Children & Young People Policy.
- Support regional activities align with PIE strategies, SRHR priorities, government policies, and agreed project approaches.
- Support the implementation of survivor-centered approaches, champions of change, peer education, and intergenerational dialogue.
- Ensure that all project activities comply with global, country and statutory policies and guidelines.
- Lead the effective identification and management of risks.
- Ensure that all risks and compliance-requirements relevant to the project are comprehensively mapped.
- Lead the project team to understand and implement all relevant policies, procedures and guidelines.
- Ensure that staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC).
- Manage all project funds according to established accounting policies and procedures.
- Ensure compliance to donor requirements.
- Support the Resource Mobilization Unit and the Technical Advisor in developing proposals.
- Lead the Project Team in a manner that empowers them to contribute effectively towards achievement of PIS’s strategy.
- Ensure that the project is resourced with the expertise necessary for success.
- Lead and manage the team towards high standards of performance.
- Develop and encourage talent through on-going staff development, succession planning, career management.
- Foster an inclusive environment.
- Ensure that staff are managed in accordance with good HR management practice and provided with a safe and conducive working environment.
- Ensure that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded.
- Ensure all staff, partners, and associates understand and comply with Safeguarding, GEI policies, and the Code of Conduct (CoC).
- Facilitate and/or ensure completion of mandatory safeguarding and GEI inductions and regular refresher trainings.
- Promote safe programming by ensuring safeguarding and gender risks are identified, assessed, and mitigated.
- Establish and maintain accessible, confidential, and child-friendly reporting and feedback mechanisms.
- Ensure all safeguarding concerns are reported, documented, and managed.
- Support and monitor partners to comply with safeguarding and GEI requirements.
- Integrate gender-transformative approaches to promote equality, inclusion, and meaningful participation of girls and young women.
- Ensure safeguarding and GEI considerations are reflected in project design, implementation, monitoring, and reporting.
- Foster a safe, inclusive, and respectful working environment.
Required Experience
- Minimum 5 years of experience working in Gender Equality, Women Empoerment, attitude change programming, FGM, GBV and in Child protection (or relevant) programming; working in emergency response is a plus.
- At least three years prior experience of managing partnerships as well as implementing donor projects
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Social Science, Project Management, Reproductive Health, Sociology, Development studies, or related field
