Project Manager - Adidas Foundation

Organisational Overview

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 Project Manager will lead the implementation of the three-year "Sport for Peace and Resilience for Conflict‑Affected IDPs and Refugees" project. Funded by the Adidas Foundation, this initiative uses Sport for Development (S4D) as a catalytic tool to address trauma and social fragmentation among over 57,000 direct beneficiaries, fostering social cohesion and peace building in Tigray and Benishangul‑Gumuz.

The Project Manager will provide overall strategic leadership, technical direction, and management to ensure the project achieves its goals in contributing to SDGs 5, 10, and 16. The role is responsible for managing all project components, ensuring quality, building institutional S4D capacity, and generating evidence for scale‑up, in alignment with Adidas Foundation and Plan International standards.

• Bachelor's/Master’s Degree in Social Work, Development Studies, or related field. Minimum 7 years of progressive experience in development and humanitarian response, with at least 4 years in senior technical or advisory roles focused on child protection, GBV prevention, and peace building in refugee/IDP settings in Ethiopia.
• Served as a national‑level senior technical advisor in protection (CP and GBV) for at least 3 years, with a proven track record in resource mobilization, quality assurance, evidence‑driven programming, strategic advocacy and national‑level positioning.
• Led the design and implementation of at least 2 innovative pilot projects focusing on peace building, youth participation and inclusion in humanitarian contexts within the last 2 years.
• Proven experience in independent protection monitoring and evidence generation from multiple partners (INGO/NGO/CBOs) in IDP/refugee responses, and has conducted at least one conflict‑sensitive research on peace building/conflict management in refugee/IDP/host communities.
• Led rehabilitation and inclusion projects for persons with disabilities in both refugee and development contexts, and has experience advocating for and mainstreaming sport‑for‑protection approaches with networks and partners.
• Experience in supporting, establishing and ensuring adolescents’ participation in humanitarian action, including Youth Advisory Panels (YAP), in the last 3 years. This includes demonstrated experience in contextualising and translating curricula (e.g., PALS, CBIM, Champions of Change) and applying youth engagement frameworks such as the Compact for Young People in Humanitarian Action.
• Extensive experience in designing and delivering capacity‑building training for staff and partners through both face‑to‑face and online modalities at national and regional levels.

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