Ana Aqra Association is seeking a Project Coordinator to support the planning, implementation, monitoring, and coordination of project activities across schools, community locations, and partner sites. The role involves supervising field implementation, coordinating with staff and stakeholders, ensuring compliance with donor and organizational standards, and supporting quality reporting to enhance education, psychosocial support, protection, hygiene promotion, and distribution services for children and communities.

Responsibilities:

Assist the Program Manager in planning and implementing the project, including preparing and regularly updating work plans, activity schedules, progress and narrative reports, purchase requests aligned with the approved budget, contracts, attendance records, and other project documentation required as evidence of completion.
Coordinate the work of education field officers, teachers, teacher assistants, PSS facilitators, and other project personnel, ensuring clear roles, timely implementation, and regular communication between field teams and Ana Aqra departments.
Coordinate regularly with project partner to align activity plans, beneficiary targeting, implementation schedules, field arrangements, reporting requirements, visibility requirements, and operational follow-up.
Coordinate with school principals, designated school personnel, relevant authorities, and community stakeholders to facilitate project implementation and address operational challenges.
Coordinate closely with the appointed Social Worker to follow up on protection concerns, PSS interventions, and the work of PSS facilitators, including safe identification and referral of cases requiring specialized support in accordance with Ana Aqra’s safeguarding and referral protocols.
Ensure beneficiaries receive clear information on project activities, eligibility criteria, distributions, and available feedback and complaint mechanisms, and follow up on concerns with the relevant focal points.
Conduct and schedule regular field monitoring visits, identify implementation gaps and risks, provide practical guidance, resolve field-level issues, and escalate significant concerns to the Program Manager.
Collect, verify, compile, and maintain data linked to project indicators and beneficiary reach, while ensuring timely, accurate, and confidential data reporting in coordination with the MEAL team.
Prepare weekly, monthly, quarterly, final, and ad hoc reports requested by the Program Manager, donor, or lead partner, supported by complete and properly filed documentation.
Plan and attend coordination meetings, trainings, distributions, events, and other project activities as required, and document agreed actions for follow-up.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in education, psychology, social sciences, social work, development studies, project management, or another relevant field.
3 to 5 years of experience in project coordination, education, PSS, protection-sensitive programming, emergency response, distributions, or a related field.
Previous experience coordinating with local or international partners, schools, and public authorities is an asset.
Strong oral and written communication skills in Arabic and English.
Ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
Strong organizational, multitasking, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to manage pressure, deadlines, and conflict professionally.
Understanding of safeguarding, safe referrals, confidentiality, accountability to affected populations, and do-no-harm principles.
Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and reporting systems.

Additional Conditions

Ana Aqra Association has a zero-tolerance to sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment. Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) is a shared responsibility, and all staff are required to sign, familiarize themselves with, and adhere to the organization’s Code of Conduct, AAP, and PSEA Policy at all times—both during and outside of work hours. Compliance with these safeguarding standards, including the completion of mandatory training and background checks, is a condition of employment and ongoing service with the Association.

Please apply ONLY if your qualifications meet the job requirements, namely the educational background and relevant experience.

Due to the large number of applications received, only short-listed candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. We reserve the right to remove the vacancy ad if we appoint a suitable candidate before the given closing date. Any résumés received after that time will not be considered.

Ana Aqra is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment against any applicant because of individual differences and disabilities. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, or any other protected group.

Ana Aqra and its employees and stakeholders are committed to the core principles regarding protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse laid out by the UN Secretary-General and the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) and adhere to the Safeguarding and Child Protection policies at all times.

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