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Project Manager - West Bank

Temporary, Full-time · Hebron office, Jerusalem office
Your mission

Responsibilities and Tasks

  • Project Implementation: 
  • Responsible for the overall coordination and implementation of the project in the West Bank and Gaza, including risk assessment and management, and leads the coordination between local and international consortium partners on a day-to-day basis. 
  • Oversee the execution of project activities according to the agreed-upon plans, timelines, and budgets. 
  • Coordinate with project staff, partners, and stakeholders to ensure smooth implementation and timely delivery of assistance. 
  • Monitor project progress in both West Bank and Gaza, identify risks and challenges, and take proactive measures to address them. 
  • Represent the project in different coordination and reflection meetings with the project consortium, partners, and different stakeholders. 
  • Identify and prioritize programmatic needs and ensure that the project/s addresses those needs.   
  • Liaise with the MEAL unit to facilitate systematic program monitoring and evaluation in place and ensure that lessons learned are documented and shared for learning. Provides feedback to the program manager and partners to determine programmatic changes in response to the results of monitoring and evaluation. 
  • Collects and consolidates narrative reports.  
  • Identifies strategic program opportunities, approaches, and modalities for strengthening the PSS, Protection, and education programming, in close collaboration with the partners and the Program Manager. 
  • Identifies and follows up on strategic influencing opportunities, whether directly related to the target areas of the project or to linking various local, national, and international influencing trajectories. 
  • Ensures the visibility of the project and activities with relevant national and international audiences. 
  • Participate and support in the preparation of procurement plans, purchase requests, payments, and tracking sheets, ensuring alignment with project needs and timelines.
  • Collaborate with the finance team to update expense forecasts and ensure budget accuracy.
  • Review monthly project expenses with the Finance Team.
  • Support in overseeing and reviewing financial reports from partners, working closely with the finance team to ensure compliance and accuracy.

 

  • Compliance and Risk Management:  
  • Ensure that project activities are implemented in accordance with War Child's mission, values, and code of conduct. 
  • Adhere to donor guidelines and reporting requirements, including financial and narrative reporting. 
  • Ensure that all project expenditures are eligible and properly documented. 
  • Conduct risk assessments at the beginning of the project and regularly throughout the project lifecycle. 
  • Develop risk management plans to mitigate identified risks, including strategies for risk prevention, mitigation, and response. 
Your profile
  • Knowledge and Experience 
  • Relevant academic degree in education or social sciences or a related field is required. 
  • Minimum 5 years of relevant employment experience in consortium project management, including project planning, implementation, management, monitoring and evaluation, and reporting. 
  •  Proven Work experience in managing grants specifically EU and ECHO Projects. 
  • Demonstrated experience in effectively coordinating with multiple partners and stakeholders, including government agencies and donors. 
  • Experience in managing projects focused on protection and psychosocial support is preferred. 
  • Strong technical experience in Psychosocial support preferred. 
  • Demonstrated strong track record of successful program management. 
  • Experience providing technical assistance to project staff, and national and government partners on psychosocial support, emergency responses, participation, education, and child protection.  
  • Demonstrated experience in collecting, integrating, and disseminating learnings. 
  • Previous experience with community-based programming preferred. 
  • Demonstrated experience in leading/managing a team. 
  • Good understanding of the Palestinian context.  

 

  • Skills and Competencies 
  •  Strong communication skills. 
  • Fluency in Arabic and English. 
  • Strong spoken and written English skills, including demonstrated reporting ability. 
  • Demonstrated financial management skills. 
  • Flexibility. 
  • Cultural sensitivity.  
  • Attention to detail with strong follow-up. 
  • Team-oriented, with the ability to work efficiently independently. 
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office - word processing, spread sheets, etc. 
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About us
The War Child Alliance is an international non-governmental organization committed to providing psychosocial support, child protection, youth empowerment programming and quality education to the children affected by armed conflict. We implement evidence-based interventions to empower key stakeholders—including governments, educators, caregivers, and communities—to foster children’s wellbeing, education, and self-determination. War Child has a presence in 19 countries: Jordan, Lebanon, the occupied Palestinian territory, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Colombia, Burundi, DR Congo, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda, Ukraine, Germany, Sweden, The Netherlands, United Kingdom and the United States of America.
Learn more about War Child and our programmes https://www.warchild.net/ 

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War Child is committed to humanitarian values, standards and norms and we expect the same from job applicants. War Child is especially committed to safeguarding the children and youth we support and doesn’t tolerate any form of abuse. Because we want to prevent and deter any actions that place children and youth at risk, conduct references are an important part of our recruitment procedure. As part of the selection process, War Child will request standardized references in accordance with the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme and a recent Criminal Records statement.
The safety of children is essential to War Child. War Child does not tolerate or accept any form of abuse. This subject is addressed in our recruitment and selection procedures.
 
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