Women Peace and Security (WPS) Programme Coordinator

Join War Child International as the WPS Programme Coordinator in Palestine, managing and leading the Women Peace and Security programme with strategic oversight.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.