Job Opportunity: Project Manager - Adidas Foundation position available at Plan International Ethiopia in Addis Ababa. Management, Development and Project Management, Social Sciences and Community Service jobs in Ethiopia are in high demand. Apply now through GeezJobs - Ethiopia's leading job portal.

The Opportunity 

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 peacebuilding 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.

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Safeguarding Children and Program Participants (Safeguarding) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI)

• Understands and puts into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GEI policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), ensuring that concerns are reported and managed per the appropriate procedures.
• Ensures that all staff in the unit/function/department are properly inducted on and understand their role in upholding Plan International’s safeguarding and GEI policies;
• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Program Participants and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in day-to-day work.
• Ensures that Plan Ethiopia contributes to Plan International’s global efforts to ensure safeguarding and GEI, including making sure that relevant reporting and data are submitted.

• 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 peacebuilding 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 peacebuilding, 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 peacebuilding/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 contextualizing and translating curricula (e.g., PALS, CBIM, Champions of Change) and applying youth engagement frameworks like 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.

How To Apply

The closing date for the application is January 24, 2026. Qualified candidates should submit their application with the links provided below.

• Internal Applicants:Link
• External Applicants:Link

This position is only open to Ethiopian Nationals, who must be eligible to live and work in Ethiopia.

Please note that: 

• Only Shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
• We are not accepting CVs that are not sent through the indicated links.
• Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert early.

Female candidates are highly encouraged to Apply

More information about Plan International can be found on http://plan-international.org 

References will be taken and background and anti-terrorism checks will be carried out in conformity with Plans Child Protection Policy. Plan operates an equal opportunities policy and actively encourages diversity, welcoming applications from all persons meeting the skills and experience required. As an international child centered community development organisation, Plan International is fully committed to promoting the realization of children's rights including their right to protection from violence and abuse. That means we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with. Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. We must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.