West Bank Education Project Lead

Norwegian Refugee Council; Palestine (TX); On-site; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

The Education Project Manager at Norwegian Refugee Council will lead the implementation and quality delivery of NRC’s Education portfolio across the West Bank, overseeing projects from design to learning, ensuring alignment with NRC strategy and donor commitments.

The role provides strategic and technical leadership to Education programming, supports field teams and partners, manages budgets and resources, and coordinates across sectors, advocacy, and emergency preparedness.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Planning

Coordination

Communication

Arabic & English fluency

Job description

The Education Project Manager at Norwegian Refugee Council will lead the implementation and quality delivery of NRC’s Education portfolio across the West Bank, overseeing projects from design to learning, ensuring alignment with NRC strategy and donor commitments.

The role provides strategic and technical leadership to Education programming, supports field teams and partners, manages budgets and resources, and coordinates across sectors, advocacy, and emergency preparedness.