Project Manager

About Girl Rising

Girl Rising is a global nonprofit that works to ensure girls everywhere are educated, respected and heard.

Together with local partners across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, we equip girls with the skills, support, and opportunities to lead change and shape their own futures. And we engage everyone around them - boys, educators, families, and locally-led organisations - to expand opportunity and dismantle the barriers that stand in the way of girls choosing their own futures. In 2025, Girl Rising merged with She's the First, bringing together two powerful organisations united by a shared commitment to girls education, rights and leadership globally.

This year our work will reach over 100,000 youth with in-depth programming and more than 5 million with digital resources. Our three program pillars - In Schools, In Communities, and Directly With Girls - all create safe spaces and opportunities for girls through creative learning resources, skill-building, mentorship, and communities of support.

The Opportunity

This year, we are launching an exciting new global initiative and are seeking an exceptional Project Manager to lead its implementation. In addition to this flagship initiative, the role will support other strategic Girl Rising projects as needed.

This role sits at the intersection of play-based youth engagement, girls empowerment, grassroots engagement, and corporate partnership: the kind of work that requires someone who can hold complexity, interact with a range of stakeholders, propel a project forward, and meticulously manage all the details.

This role is based in India, with a preference for Delhi or Mumbai.

The Projects

Play. Rise. Thrive. Play. Rise. Thrive. is a two-year initiative to create, pilot, and distribute an updated edition of Girl Rising's What Would You Do Game — a powerful, playful resource that teaches girls about their rights, healthy relationships, and speaking up for themselves. The project is rooted in a core commitment to creating impact through play and in our shared belief that girls are leaders, builders, and role models. 

Additional Program Management

Beyond Play. Rise. Thrive., this role will assist in the management and coordination of other Girl Rising programs. This may include, but not be limited to, supporting in-person and virtual events/trainings for the Girls First Institute and RISE programming, coordinating cross-region and cross-team projects, and providing support to partners in the South Asia region. 

Role Overview

This is not a back-office role. You will be a visible leader within the main project: running partner meetings, managing funder relationships and reporting, anticipating challenges before they become problems, and keeping the team aligned and moving. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable in a co-creation session with teenage girls, a progress call with a corporate partner, or working solo on detailed project tracking.

Key Responsibilities

Play. Rise. Thrive.

• Develop and maintain detailed project work plans, timelines, and task trackers in collaboration with the Girl Rising Programs team and stakeholders
• Coordinate across Girl Rising staff, external partners, and other stakeholders to ensure smooth workflow
• Prepare for and facilitate team check-ins, partner meetings, and progress updates
• Coordinate the implementation and training of pilots across selected regions, including travel to project sites in India as needed, in close collaboration with the Programs team, evaluation team, and partner organisations.
• Support the development of updated game materials — working with consultants and the Programs team on content, design, translation, and production
• Manage funder reporting, milestone documentation, and deliverables for the partnership
• Collaborate with the Development, Communications, and Measurement and Evaluation teams to ensure excellent partner management, great storytelling from the project, and in-depth measurement and evaluation
• Ensure overall quality control and on-time execution of this project

Program Support and Management

• Support the management of Girl Rising partners, as needed
• Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, and trackers for partner initiatives across multiple regions.
• Coordinate across Girl Rising staff and external partner stakeholders for assigned projects.
• Manage partner reporting, milestone documentation, and deliverables
• Ensure quality control and on-time execution across assigned partner projects
• Coordinate training and event logistics, including scheduling, materials development, and preparation for pilots and rollout.
•  Provide broader support to the Girl Rising Programs team as needed

Qualifications required

• 5+ years of experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects in the social sector, international development, education, or a related field
• Demonstrated experience working with corporate partners — comfortable interfacing with both nonprofit and corporate stakeholders
• Experience working with and/or on behalf of youth, particularly in low- and middle-income countries
• Exceptional organisational skills: able to hold multiple workstreams, competing deadlines, and a high volume of operational detail simultaneously
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and Hindi— able to write clearly for internal coordination, external partners, and funder audiences, including creating visually dynamic decks and reports
• Experience with project management tools and software
• Comfortable working across cultures and time zones, including regular availability outside standard business hours in India to coordinate with colleagues in East Africa and the Americas, and occasional engagement with youth partners in other time zones; a track record of building trust with diverse stakeholders
• Passionate about gender equity, girls education, and youth empowerment

Preferred

• Advanced degree in Education, International Development, Gender, Social Sciences, Project Management, or a related field
• Experience developing curriculum, games, or other learning tools for youth
• Experience managing large-scale, public-facing campaigns or partner-facing initiatives
• Experience working with community-based organisations in East Africa, South Asia, and/or Latin America

Personal Qualities

• A finisher: you take real pride in closing loops, meeting deadlines, and seeing things through to completion
• A connector: you build trust easily and genuinely across very different kinds of people and organisations
• A problem-solver: when something is not working, you find another way rather than waiting for someone else to fix it
• A mission-aligned collaborator: you believe in the power of girls voices and stories to change the world

To Apply  

Please send your updated curriculum vitae along with a cover letter highlighting your experience related to this role, including if you have been involved in creating resources for youth, to [Confidential Information] with the subject line: Application for GR Project Manager July 2026 by 3rd August, 2026.