Position Start Date: October 1st, 2025

Duration: 12 months

Location: Damascus – Syria

Terre des hommes does not set closing dates for this position; recruitment is on-going until the position is filled.

Tdh:

The Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh), with headquarters in Lausanne and an office in Zurich, is the leading Swiss child rights organisation with more than 2000 employees worldwide. We stand together with children to uphold their rights, protect their lives and improve their well-being. We achieve this through innovative programmes focused on health, migration and access to justice, specially designed to have a positive and sustainable impact.

Responsibilities:

• Under the supervision of the Country Director, he/she ensures the development and roll-out of the program strategy for Syria
• He/She is in charge of developing and consolidating the program in Syria, ensuring alignment with Tdh’s programmes and expertise (Migration, Access to Justice, Health, Protection, WASH) and relevant cross-cutting themes
• He/She steers the overall program implementation and results-based monitoring and learning, in line with the MEAL framework and in collaboration with the Senior Operations Manager.
• He/She develops and fosters innovation in the program in the country
• He/She ensures a system of quality assurance and control for all projects in Syria
• He/She actively supports and models knowledge sharing and continuous learning in the program
• He/She is in charge of developing and fostering the program‘s strategic partnerships in Syria
• He/She is responsible for and accountable to beneficiaries, collaborators and donors

He/She contributes to securing the required resources (financial and human) in the Country Office

More specifically he/she has the following responsibilities:

• Strategy and steering
• Program Quality and Management
• Staff Management and Capacity building
• Business Development and Grant Management
• Partnerships and Networks

Profile :

Education : Master’s degree in political science, international development, humanitarian assistance and or other relevant field.

Experience, Skills & Competencies :

• Minimum 7 years of progressively responsible experience in program management, leadership, and design developing and leading integrated and complex program portfolios – preferably experience in Syria or the Middle East.
• Proven experience in both development and humanitarian and/or conflict affected countries settings.
• At least 5 years’ experience with people management with proven leadership experience with experience managing multi-disciplinary teams of diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Solid experience in project management cycle: development and management; including ability to lead on assessments, design, implementation, and MEAL
• Excellent coordination, communication, organizational and planning skills; with the ability to work flexibly in a diverse team in a dynamic environment, fostering a positive working environment, and manage issues sensitively and diplomatically.
• Strong capacity building, facilitation, and presentation skills
• Extensive knowledge of UN, US and European institutional donors and their compliance requirements with proven experience of developing successful funding proposals, contract management including consortia grants.
• Strong understanding of localization agenda as well as partnership approaches and tools in strengthening programmatic and organisational capacities of civil society organisations.
• Commitment to integrate gender, protection, conflict sensitivity and accountability into programming.
• A positive, collaborative attitude with colleagues in and outside the team
• Enthusiastic, reliable and independent with a strong organizational capacity, prioritization and time management, decision-making and conflict resolution;
• A capacity to identify challenges, foresee risks and inform the management with substantive recommendations
• Excellent interpersonal qualities: integrity, a capacity to judge, diplomacy
• Proactive, creative and out-of-the-box thinking

Languages : Fluency in English, Arabic an asset

IT know-how : Usual MS Office tools

Salary :

Expatriate contract under Swiss regulations, Salary between CHF 5’000.- and CHF 5’500.- Gross/month according to experience x 13 times, Paid leaves: 25 days annual leaves local accommodation and transportation, Health insurance, accident and medical repatriation insurance, return flight.

Tdh Global Code of Conduct and Risk Management Policies :

• Fully complies with Tdh’s Global Code of Conduct and systematically reports any breach to the Code through the whistleblowing procedure: raises awareness within the Foundation on abuse and violence and the rights deriving therefrom, respecting the rights and dignity of children, members of the communities and our own Staff
• Commits to respecting Risk Management Policies including: Safeguarding Policies (Child Safeguarding Policy, Policy on the Protection against Sexual Exploitation and the Directive on Staff Misconduct at the Workplace), Safety and Security Policy and Anti-Fraud/Corruption and Prevention of the Financing of Criminal Activities Policies
• Commits to reducing the risk of abuse and harm by developing a culture of open and informed leadership within the organization and in our work with children and the communities in which we intervene in.

We offer an exciting and varied work, useful and meaningful, in a team that wants to make a difference for vulnerable children.

Are you interested? Do you want to face this challenge?

How to Apply:

Please applying directly online: https://jobs.tdh.org/en-GB/jobs/5993226-programs-coordinator-syria?promotion=1493020-trackable-share-link-reliefweb

Application files sent through our official website will be processed only if complete (CV + cover letter). Additional documents (diplomas, work certificates, etc.) will be requested at a later stage.

We will be in touch with the shortlisted candidates only in the selection process – with the large number of applications received, we unfortunately cannot provide personal follow-up to the larger candidate pool. Thanks for your understanding.

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