Locations: State of Palestine, Gaza

Time type: Full time

Posted on: Posted Today

Time left to apply: End Date: November 12, 2026 (6 days left to apply)

Job requisition id: JR101565

Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) is an independent, partnership-based international organisation that has worked in Palestine since 1987, supporting local partners through civil society development, humanitarian response and mine action programmes. Its Civil Society Development Programme addresses deep-rooted inequalities and strengthens the meaningful participation of young women and men in civic and public life. Through its Humanitarian Response Programme, NPA supports partners to respond rapidly to emerging crises across Gaza and the West Bank, addressing acute food insecurity through life-saving food distributions while helping vulnerable farmers restore their livelihoods and access to farmland. The programme also supports the prevention of and response to sexual and gender-based violence through awareness-raising, case management support and advocacy.

NPA’s Mine Action Programme delivers digital and in-person Explosive Ordnance Risk Education (EORE) and Conflict Preparedness and Protection (CPP), using NPA’s inclusive curriculum to equip girls, boys, women and men in high-risk communities with practical knowledge to reduce risks and strengthen their safety.

Job purpose:

The Gaza Area Coordinator supports the effective implementation and coordination of NPA’s programme in Gaza, with a strong focus on maintaining close working relationships with local partners, providing programme and technical support throughout the project cycle, and ensuring programme quality, accountability and alignment with NPA’s country programme priorities.

The position is intended to be based in Gaza and to work closely with Gaza-based partners and the wider NPA country team. Any field movement or relocation must be informed by the prevailing context and relevant security assessments. Work arrangements may need to adapt to changing operational conditions.

General responsibilities:

• Contribute to the development and review of the country programme strategy and results framework, ensuring that programme priorities, partners’ needs and lessons learned are reflected.
• Provide inputs to communications and advocacy work, as required.
• Coordinate with the Programme Manager and support the wider NPA country team, as needed, to ensure that partners’ needs are identified and addressed in a dynamic operating context.
• Coordinate and support administrative tasks related to relevant country programme working groups and/or humanitarian coordination structures, in consultation with the Programme Manager.
• Work with partners to identify risks to project implementation and propose appropriate risk-management measures.
• Maintain networks and liaise with local organisations, international NGOs, UN agencies, consortia and relevant coordination forums; represent NPA in meetings and initiatives as required.

Specific duties:

Direct partner support

• Maintain regular contact with and provide direct support to all Gaza-based partners throughout the project cycle, including assessment, design, planning, implementation, adaptation and evaluation.

• Provide technical guidance on programme design, implementation, monitoring and reporting, ensuring that cross-cutting issues are considered throughout the project cycle.

• Conduct regular field-based and/or remote programme monitoring to assess progress against agreed deliverables, outputs, outcomes and the relevant results framework; identify implementation gaps and recommend follow-up actions.

• Contribute to identifying potential new partners whose values and capacities align with NPA’s principles and whose work complements NPA’s Humanitarian, Democracy, Social Peace and Justice pillars.

• Support partners in the design and implementation of activities, as appropriate, including by reviewing terms of reference, workplans, technical documents and draft publications and providing constructive feedback to strengthen quality and alignment with programme objectives.

Programme cycle management

• Review and contribute to partners’ proposals and budgets to ensure alignment with the results framework, programme priorities and NPA budget guidelines; support revisions in response to donor feedback.

• Coordinate the review of partners’ budget and activity reallocation requests.

• Review partners’ mid-year and annual narrative and financial reports, assessing the quality and consistency of reported progress and expenditure against approved plans and budgets.

• Contribute to donor reporting, including drafting narrative inputs and consolidating results against the relevant results frameworks.

• Facilitate organisational development dialogue with partners using NPA’s Organisational Development Dialogue Assessment Tool (ODDAT).

• Ensure that programme implementation follows NPA’s Programme Handbook and relevant procedures throughout the project cycle.

• Identify partners’ capacity-development needs and priorities, and support the planning and delivery of relevant capacity-building initiatives, technical guidance and follow-up.

• Contribute to the development of new project proposals and concept notes, including programme design, needs analysis, theories of change, results frameworks and indicators.

Engagement with UN humanitarian coordination structures

• Actively participate in relevant cluster and coordination meetings, including Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL), Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and Cash Working Group (CWG) forums, and encourage partners to participate or represent them when they are unable to attend.

• Share NPA’s 4/5Ws information with relevant clusters regularly, contribute to information sharing and communicate NPA’s work to the wider humanitarian community.

• Contribute to tasks led by clusters, Areas of Responsibility (AoRs) and technical working groups, including the development of annual Humanitarian Response Plans and advocacy statements, as relevant.

Gender equality and PSEA responsibilities

• Engage actively in the national PSEA Network; support partners to participate in the network, endorse its standard operating procedures and strengthen awareness and capacity on PSEA.

• Review programmes and projects through a gender-equality lens, supporting NPA’s humanitarian and longer-term programming to be at least gender-responsive and, where feasible, gender-transformative.

• Lead the development of NPA’s Annual Gender Equality Implementation Plan.

• Facilitate gender gap analyses and assessments and support the integration of their findings into programme design and implementation.

• Contribute to NPA’s annual Rapid Gender Analysis (RGA).

• Support partners’ capacity development on gender-transformative programming and the application of internal gender-equality policies and practices.

• Provide technical guidance to partners on mainstreaming gender equality across programme areas.

• Support the integration of gender-equality objectives and indicators into project proposals, results frameworks, monitoring tools and donor reports.

• Support the identification and development of programme interventions that address gender inequalities, advance women’s rights and respond to sexual and gender-based violence.

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) responsibilities

• Support the development, implementation and review of programme MEAL plans and frameworks, ensuring alignment with NPA’s country results framework and donor requirements.

• Support partners to develop and apply appropriate MEAL tools and methodologies, including indicators, baselines and endline assessments, post-distribution monitoring (PDM), data-collection tools and reporting formats.

• Coordinate and contribute to needs assessments, baseline and endline assessments, PDM and other monitoring and evaluation processes.

• Analyse quantitative and qualitative data to assess programme performance, identify gaps and inform planning and decision-making.

• Monitor progress against agreed indicators and targets; document lessons learned and promote the use of evidence to improve programme quality and effectiveness.

Contribute to the consolidation and analysis of programme data and results for internal reporting, donor reports and programme reviews

Required qualifications:

Must have:

Education 

• University Master’s degree in social sciences, international development, humanitarian affairs, human rights, gender studies or a related field. Long relevant experience may compensate for a Master’s degree.

Experience 

• At least five years of relevant experience in the NGO/INGO sector in Palestine, in development and/or humanitarian assistance. 

• Demonstrated experience working with and/or within Palestinian civil society, with a sound understanding of its organisations, networks, alliances and membership-based coalitions. 

• Experience in gender mainstreaming in food security and livelihoods (FSL), including the integration of gender-sensitive approaches into food and livelihoods assistance. 

• Experience in MEAL

• Experience in emergency and humanitarian response.

• Good knowledge of rights-based development cooperation, with a willingness to deepen this knowledge. 

Skills and competencies 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in Arabic and English. 

• Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, SharePoint (or equivalent collaborative platforms) and email applications. 

Desirable:

• Experience in holistic and conflict-sensitive programming, rights-based approaches, humanitarian assistance and protection, and the humanitarian-development-peace nexus. 

• Ability to apply a mental health- and trauma-informed approach to programming, partner collaboration and interactions with colleagues across the Country Office. 

Personal Competencies:

• Analytical skills

• Cooperation related

• Goal orientation

• Solution oriented. 

Note:

This position has a working/duty station in Gaza City in NPA’s office, and applicants should be aware that NPA requires interested professionals, if selected as the preferred candidate, to be accessible to our office on their own merit and be accessible to NPA for local team pick up and drop off daily which is provided within Gaza City.

NPA does not offer relocation allowances for this position, nor does NPA have the capacity to be responsible for transportation services from other parts of the Gaza Strip for daily access to the office.

Applications must include an updated CV and a cover letter. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

About the Recruitment Process

We work continuously for more diversity and inclusion throughout Norwegian People's Aid. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply.

Please note, that only applications submitted through our career site will be considered. Applications and resumes sent via e-mail will not be reviewed.

We kindly ask you to carefully read NPA’s Code of Conduct, Safeguarding Policy and Anti-Corruption Policy, before you submit your application. If you are the selected candidate for this position, you will be asked to complete and sign a Safeguarding self-declaration as well as our Code of Conduct. All policies related to ethics can be found on our website.

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