Program coordinator (F/M) – Yemen, Sanaa
Job description
For more than 40 years, Médecins du Monde (MdM), a campaigning medical organisation committed to international solidarity, has been caring for the most vulnerable populations here and abroad. It has continued to bear witness to obstacles that exist in accessing healthcare and has secured sustainable improvements in health-for-all policies.
Those working for this independent organisation do not solely dispense care and treatment but condemn violations of human dignity and rights and fight to improve matters for populations living in precarious situations.
MdM France currently works in 30 countries across all continents to facilitate access to healthcare through 6 political battles:
- Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights
- Migration, Exile, Human Rights and Health
- Harm Reduction
- Environment and Health
- Humanitarian Space
- Healthcare systems and rights
MDM in Yemen
Médecins du Monde France operates in Yemen to deliver essential primary health care and mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) services to vulnerable populations affected by prolonged conflict, displacement, and economic deterioration.
The operational environment in Yemen is characterised by significant access challenges. Humanitarian activities are subject to administrative constraints, evolving approval procedures, movement restrictions, and varying requirements imposed by different authorities. Security risks, bureaucratic delays, and sudden changes in regulations can directly impact program implementation, staff mobility, and supply chains. Maintaining humanitarian access requires continuous negotiation, coordination with authorities, and strict compliance with national regulations.
MdM France operates through three offices: Sana’a (coordination office), Aden, and Marib. Each location presents distinct operational dynamics and access considerations. Ensuring harmonised procedures and consistent program quality across these bases requires strong coordination, proactive risk analysis, and adaptive planning.
In this context, the program coordinator plays a key role in anticipating access-related risks, supporting contingency planning, and ensuring that programs remain flexible, compliant, and responsive to the evolving humanitarian situation.
About the role
You are responsible for overseeing the implementation of MdM Yemen’s project activities across all areas of intervention, ensuring overall quality, coherence, and strategic alignment of programming.
You guarantee the integration of different program sectors in order to maximise holistic programming within the framework of MdM’s mandate, strategy, policies, and humanitarian principles.
You support the general coordinator in defining and implementing the mission strategy in Yemen. You monitor the humanitarian, political and security context, and anticipates its impact on ongoing programs, donor strategies, and operational priorities.
You represent MdM in programmatic discussions with clusters, partners, and donors when delegated, and supports coordination with other MdM chapters where relevant.
You ensure continuity of program leadership during the absence of the general coordinator.
What you’ll do
- Coordinate and oversee all MdM programs to ensure quality implementation aligned with MdM standards and donor requirements
- Contribute to the development, adaptation, and monitoring of the mission’s program strategy
- Ensure coherence and integration across sectors, geographic areas, and strategic partnerships
- Monitor program implementation, identify operational challenges, and lead corrective actions
- Support the development of SOPs and adaptive operational modalities according to context changes
- Monitor program budget utilization in close coordination with support services and grants teams
- Lead recruitment, supervision, performance management, and capacity building of program staff
- Strengthen coordination between Sana’a coordination office and field teams, fostering positive team dynamics
- Ensure robust monitoring, data collection, and analysis to inform programming, reporting, and advocacy
- Lead donor reporting, proposal development, evaluations, and overall MEAL framework implementation
- Ensure MdM’s active participation and leadership in consortia, clusters, and coordination mechanisms
- Represent MdM with donors, UN agencies, partners, and technical forums, contributing to evidence‑based advocacy
Whom you will work with?
Under the supervision of the general coordinator, you will manage directly the program team (MEAL department and the grants coordinator) and interract with the medical coordinator and the MHPSS coordinator.
Your conditions of employment
Employment conditions
Contract & status:
- Gross monthly salary: 3 392 €
- Fixed-term contract starting as from June for 6 months
- Single posting
Work environment:
- Position based in Sanaa, Yemen, with regular field visits
Benefits:
- 13th month salary (paid in 2 installments after 6 months of service)
- Expatriation allowance: 10% of gross monthly salary
- Coverage of travel (home – mission), visas, and vaccinations
- Guesthouse
- Health insurance (50% covered by MdM and 50% by the employee)
- Repatriation insurance
- MdM promotes training and internal mobility
Essentials:
- 5 weeks paid leave + 22.5 RTT days per year
- Strong commitment to inclusion and fighting all forms of discrimination
- More info: https://www.medecinsdumonde.org/en/working-internationally/
Our commitment to diversity and inclusion
MdM is committed to the inclusion of people with disabilities and to fighting all forms of discrimination.
If you are officially recognized as a person with a disability and/or require workplace accommodations, please let us know.
Your profile
You are the right match if you fit to the following selection criteria:
- Five-years’ higher education in project management or equivalent
- At least three years’ professional experience in project management in an iNGO
- Experience working in a volatile security environment
- Knowledge of the Yemeni context will be preferred
- Capacity to plan, manage and adapt a project, including in emergencies, good understanding of health projects
- Ability to draft action plans, create, choose and follow up appropriate indicators for the project and results in a given area
- Ability to discuss, present arguments, negotiate and convince authorities and partners
- Capacity to manage and follow a budget
- Ability to coordinate multi-location operations
- Knowledge of the main donors: ECHO, CDCS, GFFO
- Capacity to use financial and logistical tools and coordinate with the support team
- Capacity to supervise, assess and develop colleagues’ skills
This role may not suit you if you:
- Are not aligned with MdM’s values
- Cannot grasp and communicate MdM values and positions
- Are not able to work quickly, under pressure, and with short deadlines
Recruitment process
If shortlisted, you will first meet with our HR team. Technical and managerial interviews, which may include practical case studies, will follow.
Please note: as part of our anti–money laundering and counter-terrorism policy, international background checks may be conducted. Data is processed confidentially and securely. More info: https://www.medecinsdumonde.org/en/working-internationally/
All successful candidates must provide a criminal record extract (B3).
Ready to apply?
We only need your CV and a cover letter.
If this role sounds like the right fit for you, apply now – we’d love to hear from you!
