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Women Peace and Security (WPS) Programme Coordinator

OPT - Jerusalem office, OPT - Hebron office, OPT - Nablus office
Full-time
Fixed-term

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.

About the role


 
Responsibilities and Tasks:
 
1.    Programme Coordination and Management
•      Co-lead the overall coordination, implementation and adaptive management of the WPS Programme in Palestine, ensuring timely, high-quality delivery of programme commitments.
•      Develop and oversee country work plans, implementation schedules and risk mitigation measures in collaboration with implementing partners and the WPS Regional Programme Manager.
•      Ensure implementation remains aligned with the programme’s Theory of Change, regional strategy and donor requirements.
•      Coordinate programme implementation on a day-to-day basis, ensuring activities respond to evolving contextual needs and opportunities.
•      Ensure compliance with War Child policies, donor requirements and organizational procedures, including finance, procurement, safeguarding, security and documentation.
•      Identify implementation challenges and risks, proposing timely mitigation measures and adaptive programming approaches.
 
2.    Financial Management and Programme Quality
•      Work closely with the Finance team and implementing partners to ensure accurate financial forecasting, reporting and compliance with donor and organizational requirements.
•      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.
•      Monitor programme performance against approved work plans, budgets, indicators and results frameworks.
•      Promote continuous programme quality improvement by identifying lessons learned and integrating evidence into programme implementation.
 
3.    Partnership Management and Capacity Strengthening
•      Co-Lead and coordinate relationships with the eight implementing partners in Palestine, fostering collaborative, transparent and accountable partnerships.
•      Ensure effective programme governance through regular technical coordination meetings, partner consultation and joint decision-making processes.
•      Identify organisational capacity-strengthening needs among partners and coordinate technical support, mentoring and learning initiatives.
•      Provide ongoing technical guidance to implementing partners on Women, Peace and Security programming, localisation, feminist programming approaches and programme quality standards.
•      Conduct regular field monitoring visits to assess implementation progress, identify challenges and provide technical support.
 
4.    Strengthening Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, Learning and Reporting (MEAL)
•      Work closely with the MEAL team to ensure effective monitoring, evaluation and learning systems are implemented throughout the programme.
•      Monitor progress against programme indicators, milestones, budgets and expected outcomes.
•      Support the identification and application of appropriate MEAL methodologies to strengthen programme learning, accountability and evidence generation.
•      Consolidate narrative reports submitted by implementing partners and prepare timely country-level reports for submission to the WPS Regional Programme Manager.
•      Contribute to regional learning processes by documenting lessons learned, promising practices and recommendations for programme adaptation.
 
5.    Representation, Coordination and Strategic Engagement
•      Serve as one of the primary focal points for the WPS Programme in Palestine.
•      Represent the programme with relevant ministries, coordination mechanisms and other relevant national and international stakeholders.
•      Represent the programme on relevant coordination platforms, working groups and thematic networks, ensuring effective information sharing with implementing partners and the regional programme team.
•      Develop and maintain productive relationships with government institutions, civil society organisations, women’s rights organisations, and other strategic stakeholders.
•      Promote coordination and complementarity with other actors to maximize programme impact and avoid duplication.
•      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.
•      Support programme visibility and strategic communications in coordination with War Child communication teams and implementing partners.
 
6.    Safeguarding and Organisational Responsibilities
•      Promote and uphold War Child’s Integrity Framework, Safeguarding Policy and Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) standards throughout programme implementation.
•      Ensure implementing partners understand and comply with safeguarding and accountability requirements.
•      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.

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.
 

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. We work with global teams with team members being based in different locations. War Child is currently operates in: Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, Colombia, DR Congo, Germany, Jordan, Lebanon, the occupied Palestinian territory, South Sudan, Sweden, Syria, Uganda, Ukraine (soon to be registered), and Yemen. We also have offices in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Learn more about War Child and our programmes https://www.warchild.net/ 

Safeguarding and Integrity
Our work with children and at-risk adults to keep them safe is the most important thing we do. We are committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults in all areas of our work. We have zero tolerance for any behaviours and practices that puts children and/or vulnerable adults at risk of abuse and/or harm. All (prospective) employees will be expected to be compliant with and sign up to our Child Safeguarding policy, our Code of Conduct and PSEA: Adults at Risk Policy. You can find the Child Safeguarding and Adults at Risk policy here: Integrity & Safeguarding - Home
 
Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) and Belonging (DEIB)
We value diversity and inclusion and are committed to ensuring that all our people and job applicants are treated fairly, irrespective of where, what or whom they were born, or of other characteristics. We want to offer a safe and inclusive workplace where all our people, especially those who are currently marginalised or underrepresented, can be themselves at work.