War Child is an independent and impartial international non-governmental child rights organization investing in a peaceful future for children and young people affected by armed conflict. With a focus on child protection, mental health, and psychosocial support, we strive to empower children and young people, while enabling adults to bring about positive and lasting change in the lives of conflict-affected children and young people. War Child has been working in the oPt since 2006 and has offices in Jerusalem, Hebron, Nablus, and Gaza.

War Child is seeking a motivated Project Officer who can fulfill the following Job description to join the organization.

Job Title Project Officer – South of the West Bank

Grade 3

Reporting to Project Manager

Location South of the West Bank

Contract duration 9 months, with the possibility of renewal based on the high performance and availability of funds.

Start Date Immediately

General objective of the Job:

The purpose of this position is to support the Project Manager in the day-to-day operations and implementation of the project, in alignment with the approved project design, budget, donor regulations and requirements, and War child policies, procedures, and technical quality standards.  This project contributes to the resilience of the conflict-affected children & adults through providing access to effective and quality services, in response to protection needs in the West Bank and Gaza. This Project is a consortium of War Child Alliance aiming to collaborate to address the protection risks of children and their caregivers, women and girl GBV survivors, as well as those living with a disability in underserved communities

Essential functional relations: MEAL Unit, in-country CP and MHPSS advisor, Operations Department mainly the Finance Officer, Procurement and Logistics Officer, WCH Project Implementing Partner/s in West Bank and Gaza.

Responsibilities and Tasks

1. Project management and implementation:

• Support in Representing the project in different coordination and reflection meetings with the project implementing partners.
• Support the overall coordination and implementation of the projects, including risk assessment and management, and lead the coordination between partners daily.
• Identify and prioritize programmatic needs and ensure that the project/s addresses those needs.
• Ensures compliance with donor and War Child rules and regulations in all areas including financial management, record keeping, and procurement, in coordination with the Operations Department.
• Ensures appropriate programme quality standards are used in the design and implementation of the project/s.
• Liaise with the MEAL staff to facilitate systematic program monitoring and evaluation are in place and ensure that lessons learned are documented and shared for learning. Provides feedback to the HoP and partners to determine programmatic changes in response to the results of monitoring and evaluation.
• Collects and consolidates narrative reports.
• Conducts site visits to monitor progress and provide capacity support to partners as needed.
• Undertakes other related duties as may reasonably be assigned by the Project manager and the emergency Program Manager.
• Ensure child protection and conflict sensitivity are integrated into all our emergency response planning, learning, and proposal development.
• Any other assignments requested by the line manager.

1. Networking/coordination/representation/strategic influencing

• Proactively develops, coordinates, and maintains productive relationships with project stakeholders, in coordination with the Project manager.
• Ensures proactive coordination in the field to ensure complementarity and avoid duplication and fragmentation.
• Identifies strategic programme opportunities, approaches, and modalities for strengthening the PSS, Protection, and education programming, in close collaboration with the partners and the Head of Programs.
• Ensures the visibility of the project and activities with relevant national and international audiences.