Job Vacancy (Female Only)
Project Coordinator (Protection)
Title: Project Coordinator (National)
Location: Gaziantep, Türkiye
Position Status: Full time (9 to 4)
Length of Contract: 6 Months – with possible extension
Closing Date: 15 October 2024
About Amal Healing & Advocacy Center
Amal Healing & Advocacy Center (AHAC) is a women-led organization that specialized in empowering women, who have experienced psychological symptoms resulting from social and sexual violence within their family or community.
AHAC seeks to contribute to creating a change in the status of women in Syrian society and to support them in becoming more aware of their rights and opportunities.
The motivation to start the organization was led by the desire to contribute to building a Syrian society based on fair and equal human rights in an independent civil state.
The organization was founded in 2014 in Antakya, Turkey, which is located near the Syrian-Turkish border and strives to respond to the needs of Syrian refugee women, survivors of violence in particular.
VISION:
AHAC strives for a world where the voices of Syrian women are raised and heard to attain equal human rights and social justice.
MISSION:
AHAC works with and for Syrian women to advocate, connect and empower each other to build a peaceful community, where all people live in dignity and security.
VALUES:
Female Leadership, Democracy, Empowerment, Social Justice, and Equality.
Job Details:
AHAC team is looking for a highly organized and detail-oriented project coordinator, under the supervision of the CEO in Gaziantep, to provide support in the coordination, preparation, and implementation of projects.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee the implementation of the center’s projects, ensuring all activities align with the program’s objectives and the needs of the beneficiaries.
- Coordinate with project teams, partner organizations, and stakeholders to ensure effective and timely service delivery.
- Monitor and evaluate project performance, providing regular reports and updates to management and donors.
- Facilitate community outreach and advocacy efforts aimed at raising awareness of the challenges faced by refugee women.
- Ensure compliance with donor requirements and organizational policies.
- Act as the primary contact for program procedures and activities.
- Ensure efficient and effective program implementation while following the budget and work plan.
- Represent the activities for program-related matters.
- Correspond with management regarding the goals and objectives of programs.
- Carry out tasks as required to facilitate an efficient working environment.
- Ensure activities and efforts are always favorable to the project objective.
- Participate in preparing monthly/quarterly/annual highlights/reports and proposals.
- Represent AHAC at meetings and other relevant technical coordination meetings.
- Provide necessary reports on work progress to the management team as needed.
Required Skills/Qualifications:
- Female with Turkish citizenship
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Project Management, Humanitarian Studies, or a related field (master’s preferred).
- Familiarity with the principles of humanitarian action.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in project coordination, preferably in protection projects and women rights or refugee protection projects.
- Excellent skills in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and Google Workspace.
- Excellent English written communications skills including the ability to prepare reports, Turkish is a plus.
- Strong understanding of issues facing refugee women, including trauma, violence, and displacement.
- Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a multicultural and sensitive environment.Core Competencies:
- Team player and ability to multi-task and cope with competing demands under tight deadlines
- A creative approach to solving problems
- Lecturer with good skills
- Strong organizational and communication skills
- Stress & Time management skills
- Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships in a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary environment
- Willingness to travel within Turkey
Note:
Due to the urgency of filling this post, AHAC reserves the right to review the CVs on a rolling basis, and selected candidates may be interviewed prior to the closing dates listed, therefore early applications are encouraged.
Please note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
AHAC is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality, and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups, and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply.
AHAC recognizes its responsibility to protect children from harm in all areas of its work. AHAC is committed to ensuring a child-safe environment and is applying a zero-tolerance approach toward any kind of child abuse and exploitation.
AHAC employees and related personnel must not take part in any form of tolerating sexual exploitation and abuse, or any kind of harassment, discrimination, harassment, or abuse (physical, sexual or verbal), intimidation or exploitation, or in any other way infringe the rights of others inside or outside AHAC.
All staff is expected to abide by our Code of Conduct.
How to apply
How to apply
- Due to national quota regulations, this position is open only to applications from Turkish citizens.
- Women, minorities, and differently-abled persons who fit the criteria are encouraged to apply
- Applications in languages other than English will not be acceptable.
- Multi-sent CVs will be ignored (please send your CV & Cover letter only once at a time).
- No resume will be reviewed after the specified date for receiving a CV for the announced vacancy.
- We thank all applicants; however, only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interviews. Should you not have heard from us within one week after the application deadline, please consider your application as being unsuccessful.
Interested candidates, please attach a Curriculum Vitae and a Cover letter in English (in a separate file of no more than one A4 page) describing how your experience and education relate to the skills and experience outlined in the terms of reference with your salary expected by the end of 15 October 2024, stating “Project Coordinator “in the subject line
to: vacancies@amals-ac.org
