Program Assistant

SENED; Şahinbey; On-site; TRY 134,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

SENED is an independent NGO in Türkiye, focused on humanitarian relief and community development. The Program Assistant reports to the Program Officer and manages daily planning, implementation, supervision, monitoring, and reporting of cash and livelihoods activities.

The role ensures field coordination, supports meetings, workshops, and training, and handles essential logistical and financial tasks. The position requires Turkish and English fluency, a bachelor’s degree (preferred) and at least

Qualifications

• Proficiency in current office software applications and corporate IT systems.
• Strong organizational and administrative skills.
• Fluency in Turkish and English is required. Arabic is an advantage.
• Verified experience in humanitarian work and principles.
• Preferably has a bachelor’s degree, with minimum one year of relevant professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, monitor, and implement assigned projects.
• Ensure that all emergency response data, reports, and records are well-organized and archived.
• Collaborate with supporting departments.
• Provide logistics, administrative, travel and secretarial support, maintaining confidentiality.
• Monitor and evaluate the progress of beneficiaries.
• Collect and analyze data to support planning and operations.
• Participate in project activities, meetings, training and events.
• Support officers in improving project tools and developing new ones.

Skills

Office software

Organizational skills

Turkish & English fluency

Arabic language (advantage)

Education

Bachelor’s degree (preferred)

Job description

SENED is an independent, non-governmental, non-profit organization licensed and registered in Türkiye with the number 27-15-175. SENED Organization was established shortly after the Syrian Nakba and in response to the suffering of millions of Syrian refugees in Turkey as well as internally displaced people in Syria, with the aim of alleviating suffering, achieving justice, equality, and freedom, strengthening the role of civil society, and supporting and developing the local community. SENED works in the humanitarian work sectors to support, empower, and educate the community through several programs, and takes special care of people with disabilities and their families and defends their issues.

SENED Association emphasizes the need to create safe, accessible, and participation-encouraging living conditions for the emotional, intellectual, physical, and social development of individuals by focusing on the people with disabilities. Beyond the medical perspective on disability, it tries to find solutions to the problems faced by disabled people with a holistic perspective by considering the disabled people, their families, and the society they live in, focusing on the conditions they experience. SENED Association aims to create a safe and supportive environment and space by conducting family-oriented activities to help disabled individuals and their families to become stronger, discover their potential and stand by with their children. By collecting data on refugee disabled people, identifying problems and needs, SENED strives to ensure harmony between disabled refugees and local people with a voluntary, professional team and a community-based approach. In all activities, education, research, advocacy, etc. carried out on platforms created by local and disabled refugee people.

Job purpose:

Reporting to the Program officer, the program assistant is responsible for the daily planning, implementation, supervision, monitoring, and reporting of cash and livelihoods activities. S/he will ensure proper coordination with the team in the field. Program assistant is also responsible for arranging meetings, workshops and training courses pertaining to programme development, and provides support in making the necessary logistical and financial arrangements.

Duties, objectives and competencies:

• Plan, coordinate, monitor, and implement assigned projects
• Ensure that all emergency response data, reports, and records are well-organized and archived.
• Collaborate with supporting departments.
• Provides logistics, administrative, travel and secretarial support, in line with Sened rules and regulations, maintaining full confidentiality in all aspects of assignment; maintenance of protocol procedures, information flow and follow up on deadlines and commitments made.
• Monitor and evaluate the progress of beneficiaries.
• Collect and analyze data to support project planning, monitoring, evaluation, and operations.
• Participate in project activities, including needs assessment, meetings, training, workshops, and events.
• Support the program officers in enhancing existing project tools and developing new ones as needed.
• Ensure the quality of project database and prevent duplications.
• Perform any other duties as assigned.

• Proficiency in current office software applications and corporate IT systems
• Preferably has bachelors degree, with minimum one year of relevant professional experience
• Strong organizational and administrative skills.
• Fluency in Turkish and English is required. Arabic is advantages.
• Verified experience in humanitarian work and principles.

Requirements (desired)

• Experience in procurement and logistics is an asset.
• Working experience with an international organization is an asset.

General terms and conditions

Safeguarding

Disabled beneficiaries, children and vulnerable adults must be safeguarded to the maximum possible extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of abuse, sexual exploitation, injury and any other harm. One of the ways that SENED shows this on-going commitment to safeguarding is to include rigorous background and reference checks in the selection process for all candidates.

Diversity

SENED is committed to creating a truly inclusive, effective and representative organizational culture, encouraging equity and diversity among its employees and eliminating discrimination. Having a diverse profile of employees, different age groups, backgrounds, cultures, gender identities and expressions, sexual orientation etc., including a range of different experiences and capabilities helps us understand, represent, and serve children better. Therefore, all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, or age.

This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. SENED reserves the right to change this document. Any published closing dates are estimated. Due to the nature of SENEDs work we aim to fill vacancies as quickly as possible. This means that we will close adverts as soon as we have found the right candidate, and this may be before the published closing date. We would therefore advise interested applicants to apply as early as possible.