Project Coordinator
Role Summary
The Country Project Coordinator provides strategic, operational, and security leadership for Medair’s activities inside Syria. The role oversees the implementation of multi-sector programming, ensures strong coordination with internal and external stakeholders, and maintains Medair’s presence and access in a highly complex and dynamic humanitarian environment. The Project Coordinator represents the organisation at country level and plays a critical role in team leadership, representation, fundraising, support with security management, and programme quality.
Project Overview
Medair Syria implements emergency response interventions across multiple sectors, including MPCA, Health, and WASH. The programme supports crisis‑affected populations with life‑saving and early recovery assistance in a complex and evolving humanitarian environment.
Workplace & Conditions
Field based position in Syria, primarily in Damascus
Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic leadership and oversight of humanitarian programmes, ensuring interventions are relevant, timely, and aligned with organizational objectives.
- Lead and develop the country team through recruitment, coaching, and performance management, fostering a positive and collaborative team culture.
- Represent Medair with authorities, donors, and coordination bodies, strengthening partnerships and contributing to collective humanitarian response efforts.
- Support donor engagement and funding processes, including proposal development and reporting in collaboration with senior managers and GSO.
- Oversee overall budget management for the programme, compliance, ensuring adherence to donor requirements, internal policies, and safe operational practices.
This job description covers the main tasks that are anticipated. Other tasks may be assigned as necessary.
Qualifications & Technical Competencies:
- At least 5 years post-qualification experience in a management position.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word and Outlook.
- Experience in dealing with donors and government officials.
- Knowledge of Humanitarian Essentials, Sphere and Core Humanitarian Standards.
- Strong knowledge of UN and other humanitarian actors and of current humanitarian debates and issues.
Behavioural Competencies:
- Strong servant leadership skills with a consultative management style.
- Advanced planning, assessment and analytical skills.
- Creative, open-minded, flexible, self-learner, with good understanding of cross-cultural issues.
- Capacity to work under pressure and manage personal stress levels.
- Able to oversee multiple tasks, prioritising and delegating as required.
Team Spiritual Life
Reflect the values of Medair with team members, national staff, people we serve, and external contacts. Work, live, and pray together in our Christian faith-based teams. Fully contribute to a rich spiritual team life, including team devotion, prayer, and words of encouragement.
Before you apply
Please ensure you are fully aware of the:
- Medair is committed to safeguarding the protection of beneficiaries, volunteers, staff and partners, and particularly children. Therefore, we do not employ staff whose background we understand to be unsuitable for working with children. Medair staff are required to give the utmost respect to, and comply with, Medair’s accountability policies and best practices.
- Medair Relief & Recovery Orientation Course (ROC) (which forms part of the recruitment selection process for field positions).
Application Process
To apply, go to this vacancy on our Medair page. Please do not make multiple applications. We will not review email applications. Only English-language applications / CVs will be reviewed.
Team Spiritual Life
Reflect the values of Medair with team members, local staff, people we serve, and external contacts. Work, live, and pray together in our Christian faith-based teams. Fully contribute to a rich spiritual team life, including team devotion, prayer, and words of encouragement.
Before you apply
Please ensure you are fully aware of the:
- Medair is committed to safeguarding the protection of beneficiaries, volunteers, staff and partners, and particularly children. Therefore, we do not employ staff whose background we understand to be unsuitable for working with children. Medair staff are required to give the utmost respect to, and comply with, Medair’s accountability policies and best practices.
- Medair Relief & Recovery Orientation Course (ROC) (which forms part of the recruitment selection process for field positions).
Application Process
To apply, go to this vacancy on our Medair page. Please do not make multiple applications. We will not review email applications. Only English-language applications / CVs will be reviewed. Advertised on Jobupfree.