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:
Specific Responsibilities:
a. Programme Leadership & Delivery
b. Quality Assurance & Technical Oversight
c. Partnerships, Coordination & Representation
d. Programme Management, Compliance & Reporting
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
Desirable
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
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.
Street Child works to see all children kept safe, in school and learning—especially in low resource environments and emergencies.
Our vision is a world where it is seen as unacceptable for a child not to be in education. But today there are 250 million school-aged children around the world who are not in education. Millions more children are in school but failing to learn.
Street Child believes that education is a fundamental right and achieving universal basic education is the single greatest step toward eliminating the inequality gap and global poverty.
We go to places where others don’t go, where we seek out remote, hard-to-reach, fragile and disaster-affected states that are forgotten about and ignored. It’s in these contexts where our pragmatic and cost-effective approaches can make a real difference to a child’s future.
Street Child works to remove the complex social, economic and structural barriers to education wherever they lie. We are there to close the gaps through which the most marginalised children can slip. Our work includes not only building schools and training teachers but also protecting children and livelihood support for caregivers to ensure they can afford the cost of their children’s education.
Wherever we work, we partner with local organisations and communities which allows us to be responsive and nimble. We use simple, low-cost and replicable solutions that allow us to create maximum impact for the most children.
We started out supporting 100 street-connected children in Sierra Leone in 2008. Since then, we have impacted one million marginalised children in over 25 countries around the world.
