About this role
Your mission <div style="text-align:justify;">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.</div> <div style="text-align:justify;">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.</div> About the role <table><tbody><tr><td style="width:100%;"><div style="text-align:justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align:justify;"> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align:justify;">Responsibilities and Tasks:</div><div style="text-align:justify;"><strong> </strong></div><div style="text-align:justify;"><strong>1. Programme Coordination and Management</strong></div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Co-lead the overall coordination, implementation and adaptive management of the WPS Programme in Palestine, ensuring timely, high-quality delivery of programme commitments.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Develop and oversee country work plans, implementation schedules and risk mitigation measures in collaboration with implementing partners and the WPS Regional Programme Manager.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Ensure implementation remains aligned with the programme’s Theory of Change, regional strategy and donor requirements.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Coordinate programme implementation on a day-to-day basis, ensuring activities respond to evolving contextual needs and opportunities.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Ensure compliance with War Child policies, donor requirements and organizational procedures, including finance, procurement, safeguarding, security and documentation.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Identify implementation challenges and risks, proposing timely mitigation measures and adaptive programming approaches.</div><div style="text-align:justify;"> </div><div style="text-align:justify;"><strong>2. Financial Management and Programme Quality</strong></div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Work closely with the Finance team and implementing partners to ensure accurate financial forecasting, reporting and compliance with donor and organizational requirements.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Ensure implementing partners understand and comply with War Child and the donor financial procedures and grant management requirements in coordination with the Finance and WPS Regional Programme Manager.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Monitor programme performance against approved work plans, budgets, indicators and results frameworks.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Promote continuous programme quality improvement by identifying lessons learned and integrating evidence into programme implementation.</div><div style="text-align:justify;"> </div><div style="text-align:justify;"><strong>3. Partnership Management and Capacity Strengthening</strong></div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Co-Lead and coordinate relationships with the eight implementing partners in Palestine, fostering collaborative, transparent and accountable partnerships.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Ensure effective programme governance through regular technical coordination meetings, partner consultation and joint decision-making processes.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Identify organisational capacity-strengthening needs among partners and coordinate technical support, mentoring and learning initiatives.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Provide ongoing technical guidance to implementing partners on Women, Peace and Security programming, localisation, feminist programming approaches and programme quality standards.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Conduct regular field monitoring visits to assess implementation progress, identify challenges and provide technical support.</div><div style="text-align:justify;"> </div><div style="text-align:justify;"><strong>4. Strengthening Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, Learning and Reporting (MEAL)</strong></div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Work closely with the MEAL team to ensure effective monitoring, evaluation and learning systems are implemented throughout the programme.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Monitor progress against programme indicators, milestones, budgets and expected outcomes.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Support the identification and application of appropriate MEAL methodologies to strengthen programme learning, accountability and evidence generation.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Consolidate narrative reports submitted by implementing partners and prepare timely country-level reports for submission to the WPS Regional Programme Manager.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Contribute to regional learning processes by documenting lessons learned, promising practices and recommendations for programme adaptation.</div><div style="text-align:justify;"> </div><div style="text-align:justify;"><strong>5. Representation, Coordination and Strategic Engagement</strong></div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Serve as one of the primary focal points for the WPS Programme in Palestine.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Represent the programme with relevant ministries, coordination mechanisms and other relevant national and international stakeholders.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Represent the programme on relevant coordination platforms, working groups and thematic networks, ensuring effective information sharing with implementing partners and the regional programme team.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Develop and maintain productive relationships with government institutions, civil society organisations, women’s rights organisations, and other strategic stakeholders.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Promote coordination and complementarity with other actors to maximize programme impact and avoid duplication.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Identify strategic opportunities to strengthen Women, Peace and Security programming and influence policy and practice in Palestine, in close collaboration with implementing partners and the WPS Regional Programme Manager.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Support programme visibility and strategic communications in coordination with War Child communication teams and implementing partners.</div><div style="text-align:justify;"> </div><div style="text-align:justify;"><strong>6. Safeguarding and Organisational Responsibilities</strong></div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Promote and uphold War Child’s Integrity Framework, Safeguarding Policy and Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) standards throughout programme implementation.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Ensure implementing partners understand and comply with safeguarding and accountability requirements.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Undertake any other duties reasonably assigned by the WPS Regional Programme Manager or the Country Director that are consistent with the nature of the role.</div> Your profile <table><tbody><tr><td style="width:100%;"><div style="text-align:justify;">Knowledge and experience:</div><div style="text-align:justify;"><strong> </strong></div><div style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Core Competencies</strong></div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Excellent coordination and organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Strong interpersonal and relationship management skills, with demonstrated ability to build trust and maintain productive partnerships.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Excellent facilitation, negotiation, mediation, and representation skills, including experience engaging with government institutions, UN agencies, donors and civil society.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including high-quality report writing and presentation skills.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Strong leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to work independently while fostering collaboration across diverse stakeholders.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Demonstrated commitment to gender equality, women’s rights, safeguarding, localisation and humanitarian principles.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Ability to work effectively within a matrix management structure and collaborate across multidisciplinary and multicultural teams.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• High level of integrity, professionalism and accountability.</div><div style="text-align:justify;"><strong> </strong></div><div style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Education and Experience</strong></div><div style="text-align:justify;">• 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.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• 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.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Demonstrated experience working with national NGOs, women’s rights organisations and government counterparts.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Strong understanding of conflict-sensitive programming and gender-transformative approaches.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Experience working with institutional donors and managing donor-funded programmes.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Experience working on gender equality and women’s rights in Palestine is essential.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Fluency in Arabic and professional proficiency in English, both written and spoken.</div><div style="text-align:justify;"><strong> </strong></div><div style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Technical Competencies</strong></div><div style="text-align:justify;">• 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.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Demonstrated understanding of partnership-based programming, localisation, feminist leadership principles, and working with women’s rights organisations (WROs) and civil society organisations (CSOs).</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Proven experience in programme planning, implementation, monitoring, budgeting, reporting and adaptive programme management.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Strong understanding of results-based management, MEAL approaches and donor compliance requirements.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Experience managing partnerships, and multi-stakeholder coordination processes.</div><div style="text-align:justify;">• Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities in complex and rapidly changing contexts.</div><div style="text-align:justify;"> </div></td></tr></tbody></table>