Program Area Manager

Overview

Lead strategic program management for impactful, rights-based initiatives.

You have:

• Master’s degree in Social Sciences, Development Studies, or related field;
• Experience in program and project management, including grant oversight.
• Years in senior leadership or coordination roles.
• Proven track record in partner management, institutional fundraising, and donor compliance.
• Experience in humanitarian coordination and emergency response.

The Organization

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.

We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And its girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.

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.

We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 85 years, and are now active in more than 80 countries.

The Programme Area Manager (PAM) provides strategic leadership and coordination at the provincial level (Nampula and Zambézia), ensuring effective external engagement, strong oversight of partner-led implementation, contribution to business development, humanitarian coordination, and people management. This role is key to ensuring Plan International Mozambique’s programs are impactful, gender-transformative, rights-based, and aligned with the Country Strategy.

The Opportunity

• Lead annual and quarterly planning processes, ensuring alignment with the Country Strategy.
• Ensure effective delivery of all project outcomes in line with work plans and budgets.
• Provide strategic oversight of partner-led implementation, ensuring accountability for KPIs.
• Ensure all projects have robust M&E plans and use data for adaptive management.
• Monitor SAP, PO logs, and financial reports to inform decision-making.
• Track grant performance and ensure compliance with donor requirements.
• Oversee the quality and timely production of sponsorship communications.
• Lead or contribute to the development of high-quality proposals and concept notes.
• Coordinate with Emergency Response Manager for localized emergency responses.
• Ensure that budget utilization aligns with donor requirements and approved work plans, including partner budgets.

About You

• Master’s degree in Social Sciences, Development Studies, or related field;
• Experience in program and project management, including grant oversight
• Years in senior leadership or coordination roles
• Proven track record in partner management, institutional fundraising, and donor compliance
• Experience in humanitarian coordination and emergency response

Please follow this link for full role profile: JD Programme Area Manager.docx

Location: Nampula and Zambézia

Type of Role: Full time role

Reports to: Head of Programmes

Grade: 17 (Pay range 3 529 598MT to 3 970 798MT annual gross) Plan reserves the right to pay according to internal procedures;

Closing Date: July 31th 2025

Women are highly encouraged to apply

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 the applicant's 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.

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