Project Coordinator

Desenvolvimento Comunitário
Cabo Delgado
5 horas atrás
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About the vacancy

  • Job Title: Project Coordinator (Mozambican National)
  • Reporting to: Country Director
  • Contract Type: 12 months- Full time
  • Main Location: Cabo Delgado, Mozambique
  • Deadline for application: 27th March 2026

About Street Child

Street Child believes that every child deserves the chance to go to school and learn. Our projects focus on a combination of education, child protection and livelihood support to address the social, economic, and structural issues that underpin today’s education crisis. We partner with Governments, UN agencies, local organisations and communities to deliver our locally rooted programmes, using evidence to drive learning and the refinement and scale up of programmes to create maximum impact for the most children at the lowest cost. We pride ourselves on delivering results in the world’s toughest places-including remote, hard-to-reach areas and fragile, disaster-affected states across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Since 2008 we have helped over 1.6 million children to go to school and learn.

Part 1: Role Purpose:

The Project Coordinator will lead Street Child’s programming to advance our mission of ensuring all children are safe, in school, and learning. The primary purpose of this role is to coordinate the effective and adaptive implementation of projects in crisis-affected contexts, with a particular focus on mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS), disaster risk reduction (DRR), and community resilience.

This position offers a unique opportunity to support and strengthen a portfolio of innovative and high-impact projects with strong potential for future scale. The Project Coordinator will ensure the delivery of results-oriented programming that responds to the needs of children and communities affected by conflict, displacement, and climate-related shocks.

The role will focus on building and supporting a cohesive, high-performing team while fostering strong collaboration with government counterparts and local partner organizations. Through close engagement and co-creation with the Ministry of Education and key stakeholders, the Project Coordinator will contribute to strengthening education systems that are resilient and responsive to crisis contexts.

Reporting to the Country Director, the Project Coordinator will oversee the coordination of project implementation, operational planning, and partnership engagement. The role will also represent Street Child with key stakeholders, including the Ministry of Education, UNICEF, and other education partners, ensuring alignment with national priorities and contributing to collective efforts to strengthen education in emergencies in Mozambique.

Part 2: Key Responsibilities

Generic responsibilities

  • Adherence to STREET CHILD policies, guidance and procedures and awareness of STREET CHILD global, regional and emergency strategies.
  • Contribute to national education strategy development and project proposals and provide input on needs and gaps.
  • Coordinate and manage project implementation (activities, budget and project documentation) in line with proposals, strategies and donor requirements
  • Implement technical direction and ensure high technical quality of projects.
  • Provide regular progress reports.
  • Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need of protection, explore and asses new and better ways to assist.
  • Develop and manage project budget, in cooperation with implementation partners of the consortium.
  • Ensure capacity building of project staff and transfer key skills.
  • Liaise and collaborate with relevant local authorities and other key stakeholders

Specific responsibilities

  • Responsible for the implementation of strategic plans and the management of day-to-day project activities including staff, budget and assets in area of responsibility (AOR).
  • Provide technical and logistics/operational support and oversight to project staff EiE programming, including budget management.
  • Plan, monitor and evaluate education activities in area of responsibility; ensure SOPs are in place and logistical and operational needs are met.
  • Coordinate delegated portfolio of activities in line with proposals, strategies and donor requirements, ensuring high technical quality.
  • Promote the rights of IDPs, returnees and the host community in line with SPHERE and the INEE Minimum Standards.
  • Contribute to the development of project proposals, logframes, workplans and budgets.
  • Contribute to advocacy and emergency strategies and action plans.
  • Representation and coordination in internal and external forums on behalf of STREET CHILD Education in AOR, including with the Cluster/Sector/WG and other active NGOs/UN agencies.
  • Liaise and collaborate with relevant government/local authorities and other key stakeholders.
  • Provide supervision, motivation, and support to the Education team, including training and performance management.
  • Ensure capacity building of project staff and the transfer of key skills, support capacity building of teachers and other education personnel.
  • Prepare accurate monthly, quarterly and final narrative reports, logframes, and Sector 5Ws.
  • Any other task relevant to the position as requested by the line and/or technical manager.

Part 3: Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level or higher.
  • Master’s degree in international development or related field.

Desirable

  • Master’s degree or higher in Education or related field.

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

  • Experience of managing development/humanitarian programming in comparable contexts (minimum 3 years);
  • Experience of managing mid to large scale education programmes;
  • Technical Education expertise with a focus on out of school children, Formal and Non formal Education, DRR, MHPSS, Alternative Education/NFE, and EiE response
  • Solid computer skills, including MS Word, Outlook, Power Point and Excel.
  • Ability to work diligently both independently and in a team setting.
  • Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile.
  • Willingness to travel regularly to the field in under-resourced settings.

Desirable

  • Experience in designing / managing literacy and numeracy-oriented instructional programmes;
  • Experience of government partnership;
  • Demonstrable experience of proposal development and/or winning funding.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

  • Knowledge of the Education context in Cabo Delgado is required.
  • Knowledge of the circumstances, needs and challenges displacement and conflict-affected host community, returnee and IDP children face preferred.
  • Experience with EiE and formal education in a humanitarian context preferred.
  • Experience with DRR and MHPSS work in Cabo Delgado.
  • Experience working with children and/or educators required.
  • Experience liaising with multiple stakeholders including government, donor, UN and NGO partners a priority.
  • Experience with strategic development, including proposal and budget creation preferred.
  • Experience with project/programme start-up/scale-up an asset.
  • Experience managing an office and/or field team is required.
  • Understanding of SPHERE and INEE Minimum Standards preferred.

Desirable

  • Experience with youth/adolescent programming and linkages to livelihoods an asset.

Other

Essential

  • Fluency in English and Portuguese, both written and verbal required, local languages an asset
  • A ‘can-do’, and agile attitude, a passion for problem solving and adaptative thinking;
  • A commitment to and respect for local partnership.

Desirable

  • Working knowledge of local language

Street Child’s commitment to Safeguarding

Street Child is committed to the safeguarding and protection of the communities we serve, our partners, our volunteers, and our staff.

As part of this commitment to safeguarding, all offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate background checks, including a Criminal Records check.

Street Child also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job 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.

For purposes hereof, the following definitions will be used:

Sexual exploitation: refers to any actual or attempted

abuse of a position of vulnerability, a power differential, or trust, for sexual purposes, including, among other things, with the aim of profiting pecuniarily, socially, or politically from the sexual exploitation of another.

Sexual abuse: refers to actual physical harm or threat of physical harm, of a sexual nature, which may occur by force, or in situations of inequality, or coercive conditions.

To apply:

Street Child welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. Please email your Cover letter and CV with the Subject line: Project Coordinator Street Child to ivelise.mabjaia@street-child.org with dione.peart@street-child.org in CC.

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