Action for Humanity Organization is a non-governmental, non-profit, neutral organization that looks forward to rebuilding human life and building a generation capable of advancing society by providing them with all the necessities of life such as food, medicine, education, medical aid, and water.

Position: livelihood & resilience coordinator

 Direct manager position: Project officer

 Project/ Workplace: Northeast Syria, Deir Ezzor, Hajin.

Advertising start date: 07-04-2024

Deadline for receiving applications: 30-04-2024.

Note: Due to the urgency of this position, CVs will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the vacancy can be filled before the specified closing date.

Qualifications and Requirements:

•    University degree or higher in social sciences, Gender/ Women’s Studies, Law or Development Studies or another related field.
•    Minimum 5 years of experience working with Communities in resilience programming and livelihood program management in an NGO context.

General Work Experience:

• Demonstrated experience in relevant resilience projects.

• Experience in project management (e.g., monitoring, reporting).

• Experience with integration / mainstreaming of economic resilience and conflict-sensitivity across other programmes and projects is a plus.

• Experience in working with communities. 

• Knowledge of humanitarian industry including sphere standards, NGO code of conduct and humanitarian charter.

Skills & Abilities: 

• Effective Communication Skills

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and Outlook.

• Ability to work in and contribute to team building environment, handle multiple assignments and meet deadlines.

• English (professional/working level)

• Arabic (native/professional written and spoken)

• Strong analytical, documentation, problem solving, interpersonal and negotiation skills.

• Ability to work with different partners, local authorities, local organizations and NGOs, to develop and maintain positive relationships.

• Cross-cultural sensitivity, flexible worldview, emotional maturity and physical stamina.

• Ability to maintain performance expectations in diverse cultural contexts, psychologically stressful environments and physical hardship conditions with limited resources.

• Ability to cope and deal with stress and work under stressful work conditions is a requirement.

GENERAL DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

Provides effective support for the implementation of the Women’s working group project.

• Coordinate the overall project work plan implementation according to the Detailed Implementation Plan (DIP).

• Gather inputs and support the preparation of periodic narrative progress reports for the partner and the donor.

• Record and maintain documents on relevant Project activities, issues, and risks.

Manage coordination, implementation, and operations with project operations staff to execute project activities.

• Identify capacity building needs and support beneficiaries through technical assistance, mentoring, training, and capacity development initiatives, as needed.

• Support the Project officer at executing project activities including implementation and monitoring and engaging with government stakeholders.

Supports the monitoring and reporting on the project at national level.

• Gather and compile all information necessary for monitoring and reporting on the project.

• Monitor the implementation of activities and the expenditure of funds; conduct regular monitoring visits, as required.

• Draft and provide inputs to annual and quarterly reports; coordinate the submission of implementing partner financial and narrative reports.

• Contribute to the preparation of internal and external reports, as per requirements.

• Document lessons learnt and best practices from experience and comparative initiatives; incorporate learnings into the ongoing work and suggest ways to improve the processes of the Humanitarian and Recovery work based on this review.

• Perform any other duties assigned by the line manager.

Advocate and facilitate knowledge building and management and communication.

• Document the programme implementation process and products.

• Contribute to the exchange of information and provide inputs to the development of knowledge products internally and externally of the programme.

• Coordinate the organization of events and trainings.

• Facilitate knowledge building and knowledge sharing in the women’s groups.

• Identify sources and compile data and information for the preparation of documents, guidelines, and other materials as required.

• Contribute to briefing materials, meeting notes, notes for file, PowerPoint presentations and other documents for the team and keep all papers ready for meetings.

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS:

Adhering to all AFH policies and procedures including those stipulated in the Code of Conduct, PSEA and Child Safeguarding policies.

How to Apply: If you wish to apply for the advertised vacancy, kindly fill out the job application form through the following link: https://ee.kobotoolbox.org/x/tSgVvzWE 

Kindly List three references in the resume, including the reference’s full name, job position, contact number and email.

Only accepted applicants by the country office based in IRAQ will be contacted.

Action for Humanity is committed to maintaining all necessary measures to protect and promote the well-being of all individuals who have a direct and/or indirect relationship with the organization and expects all staff, volunteers, consultants, and suppliers to share this commitment.

Action for humanity doesn’t discriminate in its recruitment process against any race, religion, or gender and maintains a transparent recruitment process. The humanitarian intervention of Action for Humanity has no political, or religious affiliation nor has any monetary purpose.