الوصف الوظيفي:Background Information
Terre des hommes (Tdh) Lausanne is a leading organization worldwide on child rights and has been supporting child protection, humanitarian assistance, and access to justice programming in Palestine since 1973, working for 50 years with local partners, communities, families, children, and youth.
The Role
For this position, Tdh is seeking an experienced Project Officer who is familiar with the context of Access to Justice and Child Protection (CP/MHPSS) — to ensure smooth and coherent execution. The role requires confident project management skills, flexible and collaborative interpersonal skills, cultural sensitivity, capacity to engage with children and beneficiaries and enhance participation of the rights holders. The Project Officer will be responsible to coordinate among project staff — including the Access to Justice Specialist and Child Protection (CP/MHPSS) Specialist — to ensure smooth and coherent execution to manage all aspects of project implementation including budget, networking, partner's capacity building and reporting. In addition, the Project Officer will represent the project in coordination meetings The initiative aims to strengthen protection, care, and psychosocial assistance to vulnerable populations — particularly children, adolescents, and adults exposed to violence, displacement, or forced transfer.
Specific Responsibilities
Project Implementation & Coordination
Support planning, coordination, and execution of project activities in Jerusalem and Hebron in line with the approved log frame and work plan.
Liaise with implementing partners, local authorities, and community stakeholders to ensure smooth field operations.
Ensure adherence to protection principles, AICS/Tdh operational standards, and Do-No-Harm approaches.
Prepare and update activity schedules, ensuring timely delivery of outputs.
Contribute to procurement planning and follow-up with logistics and finance teams.
Monitoring & Reporting
Track progress against project indicators using established monitoring tools.
Collect and verify data from field staff and partners for reporting.
Draft monthly and quarterly activity reports and contribute to donor progress reports.
Identify and report any risks, delays, or implementation challenges.
Document success stories, lessons learned, and case studies for visibility purposes.
Financial & Administrative Support
Monitor activity-related budgets, ensuring expenditures align with donor and organizational requirements.
Support financial tracking, procurement requests, and liquidation processes in coordination with the finance department.
Contribute to budget revision exercises and costed work plans when required.
Representation & External Relations
Represent the project in local coordination meetings (clusters, working groups, community forums).
Support visibility actions and field visits by donors, Tdh, and AICS representatives.
Build and maintain effective relationships with local NGOs, CBOs, and service providers.
Project Management and Development
Ensure planning of the project in accordance with project’s objectives, activities and targets outlined within Project Documents and in line with project’s budgets.
Ensure a strong coordination across West Bank and a unified coherence in the project vision, implementation, monitoring and reporting.
Close coordination, monitoring and follow-up with the project partners (MOSD, including in relation to their project-related activities to ensure timely implementation as per their work plans and to validate payments as per the agreed budget and in line with Tdh and donor’s financial and procurement policies and procedures.
Provide orientation to partners (if needed) on Tdh policies/procedures as needed and based on the partners’ due diligence assessment.
Ensure that activities are implemented appropriately and with quality, as per the project workplan and timeline, and in line with donor and Tdh standards and procedures. Keep the donor updated on implementation challenges and foreseen delays and propose corrections/amendments as necessary.
Plan and organize regular meetings with representatives of local authorities and other stakeholders working on Access to Justice in Palestine.
In collaboration with the Program Coordinator and Senior Finance Manager, forecast expenditures and track activities expenses on monthly basis.
Prepare and update regularly the project follow up sheet (PFU) as per Tdh standards.
Ensure proper and regular documentation of all project activities in the West Bank and monthly management of sources of verification.
Lead the drafting and submission of donor reports, and follow-up with partners for timely inputs.
Work closely with MEAL colleagues in order to support the development and implementation of appropriate monitoring and evaluation data for the project.
Make regular field visits to West Bank and to the partners, to monitor and support the project activities.
Assist in the identification and development of new opportunities for Access to Justice programming and funding.
Coordination with actors and stakeholders
Actively participate in relevant cluster meetings and sub-groups including AoRs, GBV SC, etc.
Identify the service providers in targeted areas and continuously update the mapping of services.
Support service providers, including institutional services providers such as MoSD, in coordinating services and strengthening best practices mainstreaming to make sure that children have access to Justice and other protection services.
Pursue capacity building and best practices dissemination with other key stakeholders and services providers.
Validation of the national reintegration guideline. And implementation of MHPSS activities and establishment of safe spaces at care centers.
Child safeguarding Policy- Safety and Security
Knows and implements institutional policies on security, child protection, PSEA and Code of Conduct and fraud prevention, in their day-to-day work.
Commits to ensure the best implementation possible of the Tdh Child Safeguarding Policy (CSP) in her/his area, including participation in annual audit, and reviews and updates of action plan.
Commits to inform the Country Representative and/or the National Safeguarding Focal Point and/or the Tdh Concern global mechanism about any case of any allegations or suspected transgression of the CSP.
Other:
Knows and implements all institutional policies and internal regulations of Terre des hommes
Respects Terre des hommes security procedures in country.
Supports the organization and facilitation of field visits for relevant staff, consultants and donor representatives.
Any other duty as required by the line supervisor.
متطلبات الوظيفة:Competencies and Requirements for the position
Technical competencies
Protection and Humanitarian Principles:
Understanding of protection standards (CP, GBV, MHPSS) and the Do-No-Harm approach in emergency response contexts.
Monitoring and Reporting:
Skilled in data collection, progress tracking, and contributing to narrative and financial reports.
Budget and Resource Management:
Knowledge of basic financial tracking and cost control mechanisms within project budgets.
Partnership Coordination:
Experience collaborating with NGOs, UN agencies, and local community structures.
Interpersonal and Behavioral Competencies
Teamwork and Collaboration:
Builds positive working relationships with colleagues, partners, and stakeholders.
Communication:
Demonstrates clear, respectful, and effective communication — both written and verbal — in English and Arabic.
Adaptability and Flexibility:
Responds effectively to changing circumstances and field conditions.
Problem-Solving and Decision-Making:
Identifies challenges proactively and contributes to solutions within delegated authority.
Accountability:
Takes responsibility for results, ensuring transparency and compliance with policies and standards.
Organizational and Leadership Competencies
Time Management:
Prioritizes tasks effectively, ensuring adherence to deadlines in dynamic environments.
Ethical Conduct and Integrity:
Demonstrates honesty, impartiality, and respect for confidentiality and safeguarding principles.
Cultural Sensitivity:
Respects diversity and promotes inclusion in all interactions and programmatic approaches.
Representation:
Presents the organization professionally in coordination meetings, donor visits, and external engagement.
Manages time and priorities, meets deadlines.
Cooperates and contributes to achieving goals.
Respect for others.
Ability to resolve conflicts.
Job requirement
BSc. Social Work, Social Science, Psychology, counseling, development, business administration or any related fields. A master’s degree in related areas is a strong asset.
Minimum five years related experience in youth programming, development, business administration or any other related fields.
Knowledge and interest of gender issues and disability, and ability to mainstream gender and disability into programming.
Experience working with local partners and community mobilization
Strong organizational and planning skills.
Strong communication skills, both oral and written, in both Arabic and English.
Proven experience/ability and willingness to travel regularly to West Bank
Valid driving license and ability to drive to project localities
Tdh Global Code of Conduct and Risk Management Policies:
Fully complies with Tdh’s Global Code of Conduct and systematically reports any breach to the Code through the whistleblowing procedure: raises awareness within the Foundation on abuse and violence and the rights deriving therefrom, respecting the rights and dignity of children, members of the communities and our own Staff
Commits to respecting Risk Management Policies including: Safeguarding Policies (Child Safeguarding Policy, Policy on the Protection against Sexual Exploitation and the Directive on Staff Misconduct at the Workplace), Safety and Security Policy and Anti-Fraud/Corruption and Prevention of the Financing of Criminal Activities Policies
Commits to reducing the risk of abuse and harm by developing a culture of open and informed leadership within the organization and in our work with children and the communities in which we intervene in.
تفاصيل الوظيفة:المسمى الوظيفي: Project Officer
آخر موعد للتقديم: 12.11.2025.
المكان: القدس، رام الله والبيرة
طبيعة العمل: مكتبي أو ميداني (مقر العمل)
نوع الوظيفة: دوام كامل
المستوى المهني: متوسط الخبرة
الدرجة العلمية: البكالوريوس
الخبرة: 5 سنوات
التصنيف: العلوم الاجتماعية والدراسات المجتمعية الإدارة والأعمال
آلية التقديم:Interested candidates should send their resume with a motivation letter on or before Wednesday 12 November 2025 at 4:00 PM to
pse.jerusalemrecruitment@tdh.org, the subject line of your e-mail application.
Incomplete applications or applications received after the deadline will be disregarded.
Please note that while Tdh values every application, the recruitment process may be concluded ahead of schedule should Tdh identify a candidate who meets all the requirements. Tdh encourages interested applicants to submit their applications promptly.
As an equal opportunity employer, tdh stands for inclusion and diversity and does not discriminate against applicants for employment because of their gender, disability, age, religion, or ethnic origin.
Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply and those shortlisted will be contacted.
We thank all candidates for their interest to Tdh.