Job Title: Project Manager
Reporting to: Country Director
Contract Type: 16 months, Full time, national contract
Principal Location: Pemba, Cabo Delgado or Nampula, Nampula
Deadline for application: 25th May 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 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
Attributes
Education / Qualifications
Essential
Degree in Education, International Development, or related field
Desirable
Master’s degree in Education, Development, or related field
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Minimum 5-8 years’ experience managing education or development programmes
- Proven experience managing multi-site or multi-province programmes
- Experience managing teams and delivering results in complex or humanitarian contexts
- Strong understanding of education programming, preferably in low-resource settings
- Experience working with government stakeholders and partners
Desirable
- Experience with UNICEF or UN-funded programmes
- Experience in digital learning, EdTech, or blended learning approaches
- Experience managing consortium partnerships
- Experience linking education to youth skills or livelihoods
Skills and Abilities
Essential
Strong leadership and team management skills
Excellent planning, coordination, and organisational skills
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Ability to manage multiple priorities in complex environments
Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
Ability to work independently and travel frequently
Desirable
Experience using data and dashboards to inform programme management
Strong facilitation and representation skills
Ability to develop educational content and assessments in text, pdf, video, HTML5 interactive, and assessments
Other
- Fluency in Portuguese; local languages an advantage
- Strong commitment to child safeguarding and protection
- Flexible, proactive, and solutions-oriented
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 Manager Street Child to ivelise.mabjaia@street-child.org with dione.peart@street-child.org in CC.
Female applications are particularly encouraged.