Project Manager

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Street Child – Job Description

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 organizations and communities to deliver 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.

Street Child in Mozambique: Since 2019, Street Child has been delivering integrated education, child protection, and livelihood support in crisis-affected areas of Mozambique, particularly in Cabo Delgado. To date, we have reached over 141,000 children and engaged more than 24,000 caregivers, supporting children to be safe, in school, and learning in contexts affected by conflict, displacement, and climate shocks. Our programmes combine accelerated learning, teacher training, and school rehabilitation with community-based protection, case management, and mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS). We have also pioneered accelerated learning approaches, with up to 91% of out-of-school children reintegrated into formal education, and contribute to strengthening resilient, government-aligned education systems.

Part 1: Role Purpose

The Project Manager will lead the implementation of a UNICEF-funded digital learning programme titled “Providing Access to Quality Learning through Digital Modalities”, delivered across Cabo Delgado, Nampula, Gaza, and Maputo provinces over a period of approximately 16 months (May 2026 – August 2027).

The Project Manager will provide overall leadership and coordination of programme delivery across approximately 50 e-learning centres, ensuring high-quality, timely, and results-oriented implementation. The role will oversee a multidisciplinary team—including Digital Learning Coaches, MEAL staff, and technical support personnel—and ensure strong alignment with government systems, consortium partners, and UNICEF requirements.

The role combines strategic oversight and hands-on management, ensuring that digital learning interventions (Learning Passport and Maza) are implemented with fidelity, effectively integrated into teaching practice, and contribute to improved learning outcomes and pathways to employment for children and youth.

Working closely with consortium partners and government stakeholders, the Project Manager will play a central role in bridging programme delivery, system strengthening, and partnership management, ensuring that the programme contributes to scalable, sustainable education solutions in crisis-affected, low-connectivity contexts.

Part 2: Key Responsibilities

General Responsibilities:

• Ensure compliance with Street Child policies, procedures, and safeguarding standards.
• Lead delivery of programme objectives in line with donor and government priorities.
• Ensure inclusion of the most vulnerable learners, including girls and children with disabilities.
• Contribute to programme learning, adaptation, and reporting.
• Represent Street Child with partners, stakeholders, and coordination forums.

Specific Responsibilities:

a. Programme Leadership & Delivery

• Lead overall planning, implementation, and coordination of programme activities across all target provinces.
• Ensure timely and high-quality rollout of digital learning centres, training, and programme components.
• Develop and oversee detailed workplans, ensuring alignment with targets and timelines.
• Supervise and support programme staff, including Digital Learning Coaches and other field teams.
• Ensure effective coordination across provinces and programme sites.

b. Quality Assurance & Technical Oversight

• Ensure high-quality implementation of blended learning approaches using Learning Passport and Maza.
• Oversee implementation fidelity, ensuring adherence to programme design and pedagogical approaches.
• Support and supervise the coaching model, ensuring effective classroom-based support to teachers and facilitators.
• Promote data-informed programme adaptation, using monitoring data and dashboards to improve performance.
• Ensure integration of inclusive, gender-responsive, and child-centred approaches.

c. Partnerships, Coordination & Representation

• Lead coordination with consortium partners, including Cambridge Partnership for Education and MozYouth Foundation.
• Ensure effective integration of learning-to-earning pathways and private sector engagement.
• Maintain strong working relationships with government counterparts at provincial and national levels.
• Represent Street Child in coordination forums (e.g. Education Cluster, technical working groups).
• Ensure alignment with national policies and digital learning strategies.

d. Programme Management, Compliance & Reporting

• Oversee programme budget management, ensuring effective and compliant use of resources.
• Ensure compliance with UNICEF requirements, including reporting, financial management, and HACT procedures.
• Lead preparation of high-quality narrative and financial reports.
• Monitor programme risks (operational, financial, security) and implement mitigation measures.
• Ensure strong monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) systems are in place.

Part 3: Person Specification

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.

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 Subject line: Project Manager Street Child to ivelise.mabjaia@street-child.org with dione.peart@street-child.org in CC.

Female applications are particularly encouraged.