Education Project Manager Palestine West Bank

Norwegian Refugee Council; Palestine Township (IA); Sur place; USD 70 000 - 95 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Duty station: West Bank

12-month contract

Travel 40%

Grade 8 salary grade

Equal opportunity employer

Résumé du poste

The Norwegian Refugee Council is seeking a strategic, experienced Project Manager to lead education programmes in the West Bank, focusing on safeguarding, learning outcomes, and collaboration with donors and partners. The role requires strong financial and program management and the ability to mentor teams in challenging contexts.

Applicants must be legally eligible to work in the West Bank. This position involves travel and a fixed-term contract with opportunities to renew based on performance

Qualifications

• 4+ years leading large, complex humanitarian projects.
• Experience with consortia or partnerships.
• Experience managing donor reporting and compliance.
• Ability to build capacity and mentor technical teams.
• Fluent in English and Arabic; work in volatile environments.

Responsabilités

• Lead Education project implementation across the West Bank, ensuring objectives meet NRC and donor standards.
• Provide budget oversight, spending control, and procurement/ staffing coordination.
• Offer technical leadership and mentor Education teams and partners.
• Support needs assessments, proposals, budgets, and strategic direction.
• Coordinate with donors, partners, government counterparts, and clusters.

Connaissances

Strategic thinking

Leadership

Donor relations

Team mentoring

Budget management

Description du poste

Job Description

We are looking for a strategic, experienced, and collaborative Project Manager with a strong track record of managing complex humanitarian or development programmes in challenging and volatile environments. The ideal candidate combines strong project, financial management and managerial skills. Its an added advantage to have technical expertise and background in education programming. If you are an experienced Project Manager with experience in either protection, child safeguarding, psychosocial support, or any other programming for vulnerable and displacement-affected children and youth, we invite you to apply for this position. To excel in this position you should be able to lead, mentor and build team and partner capacities while maintaining strong relationships with donors, government counterparts, clusters, and other stakeholders. A strong understanding of the West Bank operating context and the challenges affecting access to education is essential. The successful candidate will demonstrate sound judgement, adaptability, strategic thinking, and a commitment to quality, accountability, inclusion, and protection. Applicants must be legally eligible to work in the West Bank, We are unable to provide work permits or visa sponsorships for this position.

What You Will Do

• Lead Education project implementation: Oversee the planning, implementation, monitoring, reporting, and quality assurance of NRC’s Education portfolio across the West Bank, ensuring projects achieve their objectives and meet NRC and donor standards.
• Manage budgets and resources: Provide overall budget oversight, maintain appropriate spending and burn rates, and ensure effective management of procurement, logistics, staffing, cash forecasting, and other project resources.
• Provide technical leadership and team development: Guide and mentor Education teams and implementing partners, strengthen technical capacity, support performance management, and promote continuous learning and improvement.
• Support programme development and strategy: Contribute to needs assessments, programme design, proposals, budgets, project extensions, emergency preparedness, and strategic direction, while promoting integrated and durable solutions across NRC’s Core Competencies.
• Coordinate stakeholders and partnerships: Build effective relationships with donors, implementing partners, government counterparts, clusters, working groups, and communities, ensuring effective coordination, communication, accountability, and representation of NRC.

What You Will Bring

• Minimum 4 years of experience developing and leading large, complex and/or multi-sectoral projects in humanitarian, protracted crisis, or development settings.
• Senior-level project management experience, including working with consortia, partnerships, or equivalent structures.
• Demonstrated experience managing development donors, including donor compliance and reporting.
• Proven experience in capacity building, coaching, and mentoring technical teams.
• Strong experience working in complex and volatile operating environments.
• Strong leadership, strategic thinking, planning, coordination, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Fluency in Arabic and English, both written and spoken.

Context-specific expertise:

• Strong understanding of the education sector and operational context in the West Bank, including access restrictions, movement constraints, and risks affecting schools and communities.
• Practical expertise in protection mainstreaming, child safeguarding, and gender-sensitive programming in formal and non-formal education settings.
• Demonstrated experience delivering needs-based non-formal education (NFE), remedial education, and emergency education interventions for vulnerable and displacement-affected children and youth.
• Proven experience designing and delivering psychosocial support (PSS) within learning environments.
• Experience designing and implementing flexible NFE pathways, TVET, and market-oriented technical skills programmes for vulnerable youth.
• Strong financial, programme, partnership, reporting, and project-cycle management capabilities.

Please download the detailed job description to learn more about the position.

What We Offer

• Duty station: West Bank Palestine
• Fixed term contract: 12 months national contract, renewable based on performance, funding and need for the position
• Travel: 40%
• Salary/benefits: Grade 8 on NRC's national grading structure.
• NRC is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to diversity without distinction to age, gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability.
• We think outside the box, encourage ideas, and give responsibility to all employees at all levels. You will have many opportunities to be heard and take the initiative.

Why NRC?

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. Our 15,000 staff work in crises across 40 countries, providing life-saving and long-term assistance to millions of people every year.

This is an opportunity to provide strategic and technical leadership to education programming that supports vulnerable children and youth in one of the world's most challenging humanitarian contexts. The role offers the opportunity to shape high-quality, needs-based education programming while strengthening teams, partnerships, and systems across the West Bank.

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• do demanding and professional work, often in challenging contexts
• join a work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility
• be part of a welcoming and supportive community committed to human dignity

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About Us

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a global humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee.

Join us in assisting millions of people in areas where others cannot, tackling some of the world's most dangerous and difficult crises. Bring your skills and dedication to an organisation recognised for providing high quality aid and for defending the rights of refugees and internally displaced people.

At NRC, we give responsibility to employees at all levels and foster professional growth and innovative teams. You can expect a supportive culture and an open dialogue with management. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion.

Together, we save lives and rebuild futures.

Safeguarding is central to NRC’s work. We expect all employees to:

• treat everyone with respect and dignity
• contribute to building a safe environment for all
• never engage in any form of exploitation, harassment and specifically sexual exploitation, abuse and sexual harassment (SEAH)
• always report. NRC has a zero-tolerance approach to inaction against exploitation, abuse and SEAH