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

• Lead detailed quarterly and monthly implementation planning aligned to the results framework and partner roles across all outcomes.
• Coordinate integrated delivery across demand, supply and accountability elements of SRHR programming, ensuring coherent sequencing across partners and stakeholders.
• Provide structured oversight of partner workplans, deliverables, and field execution; ensure accountability for agreed milestones and KPIs.
• Ensure interventions remain rights-based, gender-transformative, and inclusive, consistent with the project theory of change and outcome pathways.
• Actively support the project MERL system by ensuring accurate and timely collection of disaggregated data (sex, age, disability, and other inclusion markers as required), and ensuring partners meet data quality standards.
• Promote and model data-informed decision-making by using monitoring findings and feedback mechanisms to recommend improvements, course correction, and adaptive management.
• Serve as the project-level focal point to ensure safeguarding perspectives are embedded into SRHR-sensitive programming and partner delivery (without being a standalone safeguarding role).
• Lead routine budget management for the project at field level, working with the PAM and CO Finance/Grants teams to ensure the budget remains realistic, compliant, and aligned to evolving implementation needs, recognizing that MFA-funded programming may require frequent activity and budget adjustments.
• Coordinate closely with Finance and Supply Chain to ensure timely and compliant procurement and logistics for project activities (including facility/school corner improvements, equipment, trainings, and service delivery support), and ensure procurement choices reflect value for money, lead times, and operational constraints.
• Draft and consolidate monthly/quarterly narrative progress inputs and partner updates, ensuring alignment with results and evidence.

About you

• Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, Public Health, International Development, Education, Gender Studies, or related field.
• Minimum 3 years of progressive experience in coordinating complex development or humanitarian projects, with strong field delivery exposure.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating partner-led implementation, including work planning, performance monitoring, and capacity strengthening approaches.
• Proven experience supporting SRHR-related programming and/or adolescent and youth-centered interventions (education/community/service delivery).
• Strong competence in risk-aware programming, including practical application of safeguarding, PSEA/PSHEA and ethical approaches in field delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to support MEAL processes, including routine monitoring, data quality checks, and evidence-based reporting.
• Fluency in Portuguese and working proficiency in English.
• Experience working in Zambézia and/or similar rural contexts, including coordination with district services.
• Experience and/or demonstrated understanding of social and gender norm change programming, including community mobilization approaches that address harmful norms and practices affecting adolescents’ and young people’s SRHR (e.g., working with gatekeepers, parents/caregivers, faith/traditional leaders, and peer structures).

Click here to access the full Job Description: Project Coordinator

Location: Zambézia - Lugela

Type of Role: Permanent

Reports to: Program Area Manager

Grade: 14 (Pay range 1.662 651,72 Mt a 1.930 821,36MT annual gross) Plan reserves the right to pay according to internal procedures.

Closing Date: 02nd March, 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.