The Project Manager will provide strategic, technical, and operational leadership for the GAC Global EmpowHER: Ensuring Inclusive Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Delivery for Women, Girls, and Marginalised target groups, ensuring high-quality implementation of interventions aimed at advancing sexual and reproductive health and fostering inclusive service delivery. The role ensures effective coordination with government stakeholders, civil society organizations, and community structures to advance women and girls' empowerment, social norms change, inclusive service delivery, safeguarding, advocacy, and sustainability, while aligning with donor (Global Affairs Canada - GAC) requirements and FGAE standards.

Location: Addis Ababa (with frequent travel to Oromia, Sidama, Amhara and Tigray Regions)

2. Key Roles and Responsibilities

A. Strategic Leadership and Project Management

• Lead the overall planning, execution, monitoring, and reporting of the GAC Global EmpowHER Project across the multi-year implementation.
• Ensure strict alignment with the project Theory of Change, Results Framework, and Global Affairs Canada (GAC) donor compliance standards.
• Develop and manage annual work plans, performance tracking tools, and comprehensive financial frameworks.
• Ensure timely, high-quality delivery of all project outputs across targeted implementation areas.
• Coordinate implementation and joint review mechanisms of the project.
• Strengthen collaboration with government institutions (Health, Education, Women & Social Affairs), CSOs, CBOs, OPDs, religious leaders and community gatekeepers. 
• Represent FGAE in national and regional coordination platforms, Technical Working Groups (TWGs), and high-level advocacy forums to elevate the project's profile.

B.  Stakeholder Coordination

C. Technical Oversight of Project Components

i. Capacity Strengthening & Community Empowerment

• Oversee institutional and health systems capacity building, improving the competency of health workers to provide quality, person-centered, and stigmatization-free sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care.
• Guide SRH Education delivery to increase the SRH knowledge and service demand of young people.
• Supervise community-based youth interventions, including structured peer education networks, youth center initiatives, and life skills programs for adolescent girls and marginalized youth.

ii. Service Delivery & Survivor Support

• Guide the expansion and quality assurance of integrated SRH and safe abortion care and ensure clinical spaces meet quality standards.
• Oversee the strategic deployment and tracking of the Supplies and Commodities budget to prevent stockouts of essential SRH medicines, contraceptives, and medical equipment.
• Support the integration of trauma-informed care pathways, Gender-Based Violence (GBV) clinical case management, and survivor-centered referral tracking across FGAE service points.

iii. Social Norms Change, Dialogue & BCC

• Lead community engagement initiatives to elevate community awareness, sensitize gatekeepers, and foster a supportive environment for youth SRHR.
• Oversee the design, localized adaptation, and dissemination of inclusive Behavior Change Communication (BCC) materials, job aids, and community dialogue tools.
• Engage and capacitate community leaders, women's groups, and youth advocates to actively challenge restrictive socio-cultural dogmas surrounding gender equality and reproductive choice.

iv. Networking, Learning, and Social Accountability

• Lead regional and national advocacy networks to build robust coalitions.
• Promote a culture of continuous learning and data utilization to translate project evidence into national policy briefs and strategic operational improvements.
• Capture and publicize verified best practices, institutional learning notes, and human-interest impact stories for broader dissemination across the IPPF secretariat.

D. Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL)

• Ensure the maintenance of a robust, disaggregated MEAL framework that captures real-time progress against GAC-approved key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Support routine data quality assessments (DQAs), participatory learning reviews, and adaptive management adjustments to overcome operational bottlenecks.
• Use emerging programmatic data to refine field implementation tactics, ensuring interventions remain inclusive, safe, and context-responsive.
• Oversee the financial management, tracking the burn rate of the allocation and to achieve optimal cost-efficiency.
• Ensure complete institutional compliance with GAC financial guidelines, audit provisions, and FGAE’s operational policies.
• Enforce zero-tolerance standards regarding safeguarding, Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment (PSEA), child protection, and gender-transformative environmental principles across all project-funded activities.
• Supervise the dedicated project implementation team, providing strategic guidance, routine performance monitoring, and customized professional mentorship.
• Strengthen the technical capacity of FGAE project staff and clinical field personnel in gender-transformative programming, disability-inclusive service design, and advocacy.
• Foster an accountable, inclusive, and mission-driven team culture that aligns with FGAE’s core values and strategic vision.

E. Financial, Compliance, and Safeguarding Responsibilities

F. Team Leadership and Capacity Building