Project Manager

Location: Khan Younis, Gaza Strip

Report to: Humanitarian and Emergency Program Manager

Duration: 10 months

MA’AN is implementing an education project in Khan Younis governorate in the Gaza Strip. The project aims to provide support to learning centers in order to form governing bodies and students’ councils along with establishing strong accountability systems at the learning centers. This process will include close coordination with UNICEF team. MA’AN seeks to hire a competent Project Manager to lead the project's overall operations.

Roles and Responsibilities:

· Lead the overall planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of the project, ensuring timely delivery and achievement of project objectives.

· Coordinate the implementation of the project activities in close collaboration with UNICEF team and a local partner team, ensuring adherence to approved technical approaches and quality standards.

· Develop and monitor project work plans, implementation schedules, budgets, procurement plans, and spending forecasts.

· Lead the project's overall implementation, ensuring alignment with project goals and objectives.

· Supervise and support project staff, ensuring effective team coordination, performance management, and capacity development.

· Supervise the trained facilitators and field coordinators in establishing governing bodies and documenting all relevant details, using proper reporting templates.

· Ensure compliance with donor requirements, organizational policies, humanitarian principles, and relevant protection standards.

· Coordinate with internal support departments, including Finance, HR, Logistics, Procurement, and MEAL, to ensure smooth project implementation.

· Monitor project progress against targets and budgets, identify implementation challenges, and develop appropriate corrective actions.

· Ensure timely preparation and submission of high-quality narrative reports, work plans, and other project documentation.

· Maintain effective coordination with the partner, donor, UN agencies, clusters, government counterparts, and partner organizations as required.

· Support activities design, proposal development, budget revisions, and project close-out processes.

· Promote Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP), safeguarding, PSEA, protection mainstreaming, disability inclusion, and gender-sensitive programming across all project activities.

· Facilitate regular coordination meetings between project teams and technical specialists to ensure effective implementation and continuous quality improvement.

· Perform any other duties assigned by the line manager relevant to the position.

· Participate in inter-agency assessments and redirect resources as needed in emergencies.

Requirements

· Bachelor’s degree in education, Social Sciences, or related field.

· Minimum of 3 years of project management experience in humanitarian contexts.

· Previous experience in managing UNICEF funded projects.

· Strong understanding of child protection and education in emergencies.

· Proven experience in managing multi-disciplinary teams and intersectoral coordination.

· Excellent communication, leadership, and organizational skills.

· Fluent in English.