Women Peace and Security (WPS) Programme Coordinator

About this role

The War Child Alliance is an international non-governmental organization committed to providing psychosocial support, child protection, youth empowerment programming and quality education to the children affected by armed conflict. We implement evidence-based interventions to empower key stakeholders—including governments, educators, caregivers, and communities—to foster children’s wellbeing, education, and self-determination. We work with global teams with team members being based in different locations. War Child currently operates in: Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, Colombia, DR Congo, Germany, Jordan, Lebanon, the occupied Palestinian territory, South Sudan, Sweden, Syria, Uganda, Ukraine, and Yemen. We also have offices in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
In Syria, War Child works through a partnership-based model with national and local organisations, delivering education in emergencies, child protection, mental health and psychosocial support, water, sanitation and hygiene, food security and livelihoods, and emergency response, including across the north-west and north-east of the country. The country programme is funded by a range of institutional donors and pooled funds. War Child places implementing partners at the centre of design, delivery and decision-making, in line with the organisation’s localisation commitments.
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The WPS Programme Coordinator - Syria is responsible for coordinating the implementation and delivery of the WPS Programme in Syria. The role provides technical and coordination support for country-level programme im-plementation, supporting effective planning, partnership coordination, programme quality, monitoring, report-ing, budget monitoring and stakeholder engagement.
The role is performed in a fluid political and operational environment. Syria’s transition has reopened questions of civic space, legal and policy frameworks, and the terms on which women participate in public life, while access, authorisation requirements and security conditions continue to differ markedly between areas of operation. The post-holder is expected to maintain a strong analytical read of gender, protection and conflict dynamics across the areas in which the programme operates, to exercise a high degree of independent judgement, and to adapt programming as conditions change – including through partner-led and remotely supported implementation modalities where direct access is constrained. The role also requires regular travel to Damascus to coordinate with relevant ministries, government stakeholders and other key national counterparts, ensuring effective en-gagement and alignment with programme priorities.
The role combines programme coordination, partnership support and working-level representation, and is a key interface between the Syria programme and the Regional WPS Programme Manager.
Working under the supervision of the Area Manager, and in close collaboration with the Regional WPS Pro-gramme Manager, the Coordinator ensures that programme implementation aligns with the regional WPS strat-egy, the programme’s Theory of Change, donor commitments and War Child’s policies and procedures. The Co-ordinator acts as the day-to-day operational contact point for the WPS Programme and participates in relevant coordination mechanisms at working level; formal engagement with national authorities, including the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour (MoSAL) and the National Action Plan (NAP) 1325 development committee, is under-taken under authority delegated by the Country Director.

Position within the Organization
The Women, Peace and Security Programme Coordinator – Syria is based in Syria, with the duty station to be confirmed. The position is open to Syrian nationals residing in any governorate, with regular travel required to Damascus for coordination with ministries, government stakeholders and other key counterparts. The post re-ports to the Area Manager
The post-holder holds a functional (technical) reporting line to the Regional WPS Programme Manager, who car-ries overall accountability for the multi-country programme. Programme standards, tools, the reporting calendar and cross-country learning processes are set at regional level. Line management, objective setting and perfor-mance review, duty of care, security management and day-to-day operational decision-making sit with the Area Manager.
Within the mission, the post-holder works closely with, and draws technical support from, the functions man-aged by the Head of Programme and Partnerships – Grants, MEAL and Localisation – and with Finance, Human Resources, and Security and Access. The post-holder coordinates on a day-to-day basis with the Programme Manager and with the Project Coordinators, to ensure that WPS activities are integrated with War Child’s wider child protection, education and MHPSS portfolio and are not delivered as a parallel structure.
The post-holder does not hold line management responsibility on appointment. Relationships with the imple-menting partners are managed through partnership agreements and joint governance mechanisms rather than through line management. The post-holder supports monitoring of the Syria WPS budget and partners’ financial reporting; budget-holding authority for the Syria WPS budget rests with the Area Manager.
Representation with national authorities, including in relation to the National Action Plan on UN Security Council Resolution 1325, is undertaken in coordination with, and under authority delegated by, the Country Director.

Programme Coordination and Implementation
• Coordinate the day-to-day implementation of the WPS programme in Syria, supporting timely, high-quality delivery of activities by implementing partners.

• Develop and maintain country work plans, implementation schedules and risk mitigation measures, in collaboration with implementing partners and the Regional WPS…