Project Coordinator

Job Vacancy
Save the Children (SC), active in the occupied Palestinian territory since 1997, works to ensure children’s rights to education and protection. Save the Children’s vision is a world in which all rights of children are fulfilled – a world that respects and values each child, a world where all children participate and have influence, a world where all children have hope and opportunity. The East Jerusalem YMCA Rehabilitation Program (YMCA-RP) is a non-governmental, non-profit organization established in 1989 to offer quality rehabilitative services to youth who were disabled, injured or traumatized as a result of political violence.
Save the Children Sweden & Save the Children Denmark and YMCA-Rehabilitation Program seek a Project coordinator for the programme “Post-Trauma Rehabilitation of Palestinian Child Ex-detainees in the West Bank”.
Job Title:   Project Coordinator
Project:     Post-Trauma Rehabilitation of Palestinian Child Ex-detainees
Location:  West Bank
Contract:  One year with possibility for extension.
Key Responsibilities:
• Coordinate and oversee project management functions, including human resources, finance, logistics support, under the direct supervision of the Project Manager and the Director of The East Jerusalem YMCA Rehabilitation Program
• Provide effective logistic, financial and management support to the project
• Supervise and coordinate timely, efficient implementation of all project activities
• Work closely with project field staff to develop implementation plans, worksheets, and reports
• Conduct monitoring visits for on going activities and submit progress reports
• Ensure proper, professional, documented and clear communication with the project staff
regarding all aspects of the project activities
• Coordinates staff work with governmental ministries, NGOs, community leaders and other relevant bodies
Qualifications:
- Bachelor degree in Social Sciences, Human Rights Studies, or relevant fields
- Proven experience in community work, preferably on social work related projects
- Demonstrated experience in project management: planning, monitoring and evaluation
- Arabic mother tongue, verbal and written, and fluent English is essential
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills
- Proven experience in building cooperative relationships
- Ability to work under pressure
- Able to work from Bethlehem area office
Contact Interested candidates are invited to submit a cover letter and CV by Monday,29 June 2009 to email address: [email protected]. Applications which do not meet the specified minimum requirements, or are received after the closing date, will not be eligible.
Applications from female candidates are especially welcome