Programme Officer

Medical Aid for Palestinians; Greater London; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A humanitarian organization is seeking a Programme Officer to coordinate and manage projects in Gaza. It's an opportunity for someone with experience in programme coordination, strong organizational skills, and a commitment to humanitarian work. The role involves maintaining tracking systems, coordinating processes, and supporting proposal development. Candidates should bring project management experience and excellent communication skills, with Arabic being a plus.

Qualifications

• Experience in programme or project coordination within an INGO or humanitarian context.
• Understanding of project management methodologies (PMD Pro, PRINCE2, PMI, or similar).
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work with teams across different countries.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve programme tracking systems.
• Coordinate project start-up and close-out processes.
• Support rollout of MAP’s Programme Management tools and standards.
• Assist with indicator tracking and quarterly reporting.
• Contribute to proposal development and donor reports.

Skills

programme coordination

project management methodologies

strong organizational skills

excellent communication skills

Job description

Programme Officer

Application Deadline: 21 December 2025

Department: Programmes

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: London, UK

Compensation: £37,970 - £39,735 / year

Description

Welcome to MAP.

About the Role

About MAP

Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) works for the health and dignity of Palestinians living under occupation and as refugees. For more than 40 years, we have been delivering essential health and medical care to those most affected by conflict, displacement and occupation in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) and Lebanon.

We are now responding to the largest emergency in our history. Over the last two years, tens of thousands of new supporters have joined MAP. We work to raise Palestinian voices and work to secure their rights to health and dignity.

At the forefront of this effort is MAP’s Programme Strategy & Quality Team – supporting the delivery of life‑saving interventions, strengthening programme quality and accountability, and ensuring our work remains effective, principled, and grounded in the voices and experiences of our colleagues and the Palestinian communities we serve.

About the role

MAP is seeking a highly organised and proactive Programme Officer to provide core coordination, systems support, and programme management functions for our Gaza programmes.

In this role, you will work closely with Gaza‑based programme staff and UK teams (Finance, MEAL, Fundraising, and Operations) to ensure that projects are planned, implemented, monitored, and reported on to the highest standard. You will strengthen MAP’s project management systems, maintain key programme documentation, support proposal development, and ensure the smooth flow of information across teams and partners.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong programme coordination experience who thrives in a fast‑paced humanitarian environment and is committed to impactful, rights‑based work.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve programme tracking systems, ensuring accurate documentation, approvals, and deadlines.
• Coordinate project start‑up and close‑out processes using MAP’s standardised tools.
• Liaise with Gaza‑based colleagues to consolidate progress updates, risks, and actions into central dashboards.
• Support rollout of MAP’s Programme / Project Management tools, templates, and standards.
• Assist MEAL and Programme teams with indicator tracking, quarterly reporting, and knowledge management.
• Contribute to proposal development, logframes, Gantt charts, and donor reports.
• Support cross‑team coordination, ensuring coherent and timely communication between UK and Gaza teams.
• Maintain shared calendars, programme libraries, and filing systems for all Gaza project documentation.

About You

You’ll bring proven experience in programme or project coordination within an INGO, humanitarian, or development context, along with strong organisational skills and a solid understanding of project management methodologies (PMD Pro, PRINCE2, PMI, or similar).

Comfortable managing multiple priorities, you will be confident working with teams across different countries and disciplines, and you’ll have excellent communication and documentation skills.

You will be highly organised, collaborative, and motivated by MAP’s mission, with a commitment to supporting high‑quality, accountable humanitarian programming. Arabic language skills are desirable but not essential.

Recruitment Process

Interviews will take place on Monday, 19th January 2026 on Microsoft Teams.

If you have any questions or reasonable adjustment requests at any point in the application and recruitment process, please contact [e-mail].

How to Apply

Please submit your CV before the deadline of 12:00 noon GMT on 21/12/2025.

Equal Opportunities

MAP aims to be an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

Background Checks

As an organisation MAP is committed to the welfare and protection of children and vulnerable adults. MAP will conduct appropriate background and references checks.

Disclaimer

MAP reserves the right to close this advert before the confirmed closing date when we are in receipt of sufficient applications. We advise interested applicants to apply as early as possible. Due to the high volume of applications, we are unable to respond to every application. If you have not heard from us within two weeks of the deadline, then you have not been successful in shortlisting.