WPS Programme Coordinator
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War Child
- Career category: Advocacy/ Policy, Programme/ Project design & management
- Job type: Job
- Experience level: Other (specified in job description)
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: No
- Right to work requirements: Not specified
- Remuneration: Remuneration not disclosed
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Location: Palestine
Your mission
The WPS Programme Coordinator - Palestine is responsible for the overall coordination, implementation and delivery of the WPS Programme in Palestine. The role provides strategic and technical leadership for country-level programme implementation, ensuring effective planning, partnership management, programme quality, monitoring, reporting, budget oversight and stakeholder engagement.
Working under the supervision of the WPS Regional Programme Manager, the Coordinator ensures that programme implementation aligns with the regional WPS strategy, the programme’s Theory of Change, donor commitments and War Child’s policies and procedures. The coordinator serves as one of the primary country focal points for the WPS Programme and represents the programme with relevant national & international stakeholders, including relevant ministries and coalitions.
Your profile
Your profile
Knowledge and experience:
Core Competencies
• Excellent coordination and organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship management skills, with demonstrated ability to build trust and maintain productive partnerships.
• Excellent facilitation, negotiation, mediation, and representation skills, including experience engaging with government institutions, UN agencies, donors and civil society.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including high-quality report writing and presentation skills.
• Strong leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to work independently while fostering collaboration across diverse stakeholders.
• Demonstrated commitment to gender equality, women’s rights, safeguarding, localisation and humanitarian principles.
• Ability to work effectively within a matrix management structure and collaborate across multidisciplinary and multicultural teams.
• High level of integrity, professionalism and accountability.
Education and Experience
• Master’s degree in Gender Studies, International Development, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, Political Science, Social Sciences, or another relevant field. A Bachelor’s degree combined with substantial relevant experience may be considered.
• At least 5–7 years of progressively responsible experience managing gender, women’s rights, peacebuilding, governance, protection or related programmes in humanitarian and/or development settings.
• Demonstrated experience working with national NGOs, women’s rights organisations and government counterparts.
• Strong understanding of conflict-sensitive programming and gender-transformative approaches.
• Experience working with institutional donors and managing donor-funded programmes.
• Experience working on gender equality and women’s rights in Palestine is essential.
• Fluency in Arabic and professional proficiency in English, both written and spoken.
Technical Competencies
• Strong knowledge of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, including the UN Security Council WPS resolutions, National Action Plans, and gender-transformative programming approaches.
• Demonstrated understanding of partnership-based programming, localisation, feminist leadership principles, and working with women’s rights organisations (WROs) and civil society organisations (CSOs).
• Proven experience in programme planning, implementation, monitoring, budgeting, reporting and adaptive programme management.
• Strong understanding of results-based management, MEAL approaches and donor compliance requirements.
• Experience managing partnerships, and multi-stakeholder coordination processes.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities in complex and rapidly changing contexts.
Core Competencies
• Excellent coordination and organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship management skills, with demonstrated ability to build trust and maintain productive partnerships.
• Excellent facilitation, negotiation, mediation, and representation skills, including experience engaging with government institutions, UN agencies, donors and civil society.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including high-quality report writing and presentation skills.
• Strong leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to work independently while fostering collaboration across diverse stakeholders.
• Demonstrated commitment to gender equality, women’s rights, safeguarding, localisation and humanitarian principles.
• Ability to work effectively within a matrix management structure and collaborate across multidisciplinary and multicultural teams.
• High level of integrity, professionalism and accountability.
Education and Experience
• Master’s degree in Gender Studies, International Development, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, Political Science, Social Sciences, or another relevant field. A Bachelor’s degree combined with substantial relevant experience may be considered.
• At least 5–7 years of progressively responsible experience managing gender, women’s rights, peacebuilding, governance, protection or related programmes in humanitarian and/or development settings.
• Demonstrated experience working with national NGOs, women’s rights organisations and government counterparts.
• Strong understanding of conflict-sensitive programming and gender-transformative approaches.
• Experience working with institutional donors and managing donor-funded programmes.
• Experience working on gender equality and women’s rights in Palestine is essential.
• Fluency in Arabic and professional proficiency in English, both written and spoken.
Technical Competencies
• Strong knowledge of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, including the UN Security Council WPS resolutions, National Action Plans, and gender-transformative programming approaches.
• Demonstrated understanding of partnership-based programming, localisation, feminist leadership principles, and working with women’s rights organisations (WROs) and civil society organisations (CSOs).
• Proven experience in programme planning, implementation, monitoring, budgeting, reporting and adaptive programme management.
• Strong understanding of results-based management, MEAL approaches and donor compliance requirements.
• Experience managing partnerships, and multi-stakeholder coordination processes.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities in complex and rapidly changing contexts.
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