Recrutement  OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY (GAZA) Coordinator

OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY

GAZA COORDINATOR (Gaza) reference CNMGAZ

The Gaza coordinator should be the last holder of this post, before handing over to the local team in Gaza. The coordinator’s main duty is to help the local team become independent and to transfer responsibilities, as well as redefining the organisational process in the Gaza base.

More specifically s/he monitors the existing programs (manages MdM work in Gaza, facilitates the work of the team by accompanying it, summarizes and constantly evaluates programs, is the the driving force behind the improvement of existing programs and the running of the base and takes part in seeking funding for the programs).

The Gaza coordinator represents MdM to partners and Gaza authorities and insures the team security together with the security and logistics’ manager (supervises the security and logistic manager, thus ensuring regular contact with a network of local contacts for security issues, monitors and centralise information about security, analyse the situation and determine changes to security levels, is responsible for the team applying the security plan, provides the General coordination with security related feedback and systematically writing reports and works with the Israeli Civil Authorities, manages any restrictions on movement, ensures that curfews are respected, organise the evacuation of the team if necessary).

S/he manages international and local human resources (applies the Palestine ‘s HR procedures, brief and debrief international staff, supports and leads the team, develop their skills, recruits brief, supervise and evaluate local staff and draw up a new organization chart incorporating the transfer of responsibilities from the international staff to the Palestinian staff).

The Gaza Coordinator supervises the work carried out by the administrator, the security and logistics managers and the program assistant (applies the Palestine mission’s financial and logistic procedures, monitors the daily running of the house and offices, manages the finance and accounting of the base and monitors the logistics management).

S/he insures the internal communication and carries out planning and draft reports with program assistant. S/he coordinates communications work for Gaza program (research and analyse information about changes in the health situation, violations of the right to access healthcare, attacks on medical personnel and obstacles preventing the smooth running of medical services, working with the coordination team in Jerusalem, takes part in the drafting of documented accounts and organises communications work on the MDM Gaza mission: contact with the local media and with correspondents from the international media in the area).

Departure : ASAP

Duration : 6 months

Status : salaried

Profile :

- Good experience of project management abroad is essential, with an NGO or international development organisation

- Experience of difficult security contexts is highly desirable.

- Communications and representational experience is desirable.

- Knowledge of the Arab or Muslim world is a plus.

- Sharing of key humanitarian values

- Maturity, management skills and people skills

- Autonomous

- Sociable and approachable

- Organisational skills

- Energetic and tenacious

- English fluent