The Organisation
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.
Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.
For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.
We won’t stop until we are all equal.
The Opportunity
The Project Coordinator will support the Project Manager by providing technical and coordination support for the design, implementation, and adaptive management of a resilience programme in cocoa-growing communities. The role focuses on ensuring programme outcomes through child-safe, gender-transformative, and community-led approaches while strengthening community systems, family capacities, and local governance to reduce child labour and improve resilience. It involves coordinating multi-sectoral interventions, embedding safeguarding, gender equality, and accountability across all activities, and fostering strong partnerships with stakeholders. Additionally, the position supports programme implementation, evaluation, learning, and quality improvement while ensuring effective planning, cost control, risk management, and knowledge management practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate community entry, selection, and assessment processes, including stakeholder engagement, safeguarding, gender, and risk analysis.
- Oversee community validation, feedback integration, and final selection/approval processes with proper documentation and agreements.
- Coordinate implementation across all project pillars (community development, system strengthening, CLMRS, and school construction).
- Develop and manage project work plans, timelines, resource allocation, and activity tracking.
- Facilitate coordination with government agencies, partners, and stakeholders to ensure effective collaboration.
- Monitor project progress, track KPIs, maintain documentation, and ensure quality assurance of activities and outputs.
- Identify and manage project risks and issues, proposing and implementing mitigation measures.
- Support financial management, including expenditure tracking, reporting, SAP updates, and compliance with donor and organisational requirements.
- Strengthen teamwork and coordination through clear roles, communication protocols, and structured engagement.
- Lead stakeholder communication, reporting, and engagement, including meetings, updates, and integration with systems such as SWIMS and CLMRS.
About You
We are looking to recruit person(s) with:
- A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in engineering, preferably in automotive engineering and related areas. Additional sector-specific expertise, especially in EV and Hybrids are essential.
- The ideal candidate should have at least 3-4 years’ experience in coordinating automotive sector projects with a unique blend of traditional project coordination, deep automotive industry knowledge and specific technical proficiency in both combustion and EV vehicle domains.
- Understanding of a vehicle architecture, especially on EV and Hybrid
- Ability to manage the technical integration of components across different vehicle systems
- Proven track record of managing large project budgets, cost estimation, financial tracking and cost benefit analysis
- Expertise in identifying, analysing, and mitigating technical supply Chain and regulatory risks across both ICE and EV domains
- Excellent coordination, communication, and interpersonal skills to manage cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to make decisions under pressure.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Strategic thinking with a focus on delivering value to learners and the organisation.
Location: Eastern/Ashanti Region
Type of Role: Fixed-Term
Closing Date: 15th July 2026
Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.
We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.
We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.
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. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.
A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International's Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from 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. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.
Please note that Plan International will never send unsolicited emails requesting payment from candidates.
