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THE ORGANIZATION
Plan International is a rights-based development and humanitarian organization working for better lives for all children. We are independent of government and have no political or religious affiliation. Our purpose is to strive for a just world that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We have been building powerful partnerships for children for more than 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries. Our global strategy has a specific focus on girls, as they are often the most marginalized and most often left behind. We have committed ourselves to the ambitious target of reaching 100 million girls over 5 years, to ensure they can learn, lead, decide and thrive. This is our contribution to reaching the sustainable development goals, and in particular the goals on gender equality. Our organization is transforming itself to meet this enormous challenge everywhere we work. We need bold, forward-thinking and innovative individuals to lead our country operations, driving change and delivering results that will allow us to reach our target of 100 million girls.
In Mozambique we are working to eradicate early marriage and early pregnancy through projects that focus on adolescent girls in Inhambane Sofala and Nampula provinces. These projects are programmed along our three strategic pillars: Girl Education, Sexual Reproductive Health Rights, Youth Economic Empowerment and climate change. Our work is gender transformative and includes influencing work at national and sub-regional level.

SCOPE

• The post holder will report to the Programme Area Manager and is primary responsible for overall coordination and completion of Project activities on time, within allocated budget and within the scope. The incumbent will oversee all aspects of project implementation, set deadlines, assign team responsibilities, monitor and ensure development and timely submission of quality project reports.

  Direct reports: Programme Area Manager

  Key relationships

  Internal

  📚 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗮 𝗝𝗼𝗯 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗡 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯! 🌍🤝 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗡 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗨𝗡𝗛𝗖𝗥, 𝗪𝗙𝗣, 𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗖𝗘𝗙, 𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗦𝗦, 𝗨𝗡𝗙𝗣𝗔, 𝗜𝗢𝗠 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀! 🌐

  ⚠️ 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐰: 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐚 𝐣𝐨𝐛 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐍𝐎𝐖!

  • PA Senior Accountant: work together through regular project budget monitoring to ensure project budgetary objectives and key performance indicators are timely met
  • PA Procurement and Logistics Coordinator: work together to monitor project procurement plan performance, specifically to analyze the successful completion of acquisitions in line with Plan International’s procedures and donor regulations
  • Sponsorship Coordinator: coordinate implementation of project activities in sponsored children communities and development of SPAR

    External

    • Local Government: work closely with local government institutions to ensure sustainability of Project interventions
    • Children and youth: involve children and youth in project implementation, monitoring and reporting, ensuring their views and opinions are integrated in the project implementation methodologies and approaches
    • NOs: ensure NOs are constantly updated on Project Progress, through submission of biweekly flash reports, sharing project implementation challenges and seek support from different Technical Advisers
    • Other organizations, civil societies and networks
    • Donors
    • Implementation partners

      Level of contact with children

      Mid contact: Occasional interaction with children

      Physical Environment

      • Typical Office environment with 50% travel to project implementation sites and 10% to Country Office

        Accountabilities and MAIN WORK ACTIVITIES

        • Drive the planning and design of the project implementation strategy, methodologies and approaches, through development of Project Detailed Implementation Plan (DIP)
        • Liaise closely with project partners and stakeholders to develop consolidated project plans
        • Implement the project with high quality (completion of Project activities on time, within allocated budget and within the scope)
        • Recommend changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs to the upper management and adjust accordingly, observing donor and Plan International’s policies and procedures
        • Set deadlines, assign responsibilities to project team members, monitor progress of individual work plans
        • Develop and upload project annual, quarterly and monthly work plans and phased budget as per Project Management guidelines on SAP/Y.O.D. A
        • Prepare monthly quality narrative and financial progress reports for upper management
        • Monitor project performance work plan and budget through SAP/Y.O.D. A system
        • Anticipate risks involved in a particular project activity and managing these risks through structured approaches
        • Lead and facilitate project knowledge building and management in collaboration with MERL Specialist