Social Cohesion Program Coordinator

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Program coordination and implementation:

Coordinate the design, planning, implementation, and follow-up of social cohesion and transitional justice activities in line with program objectives. 

Develop detailed workplans, activity schedules, budgets, and implementation plans. 

Ensure timely delivery of activities while maintaining quality, accountability, and conflict sensitivity. 

Coordinate with field teams, partners, consultants, and technical specialists to ensure coherent implementation across locations. 

- Social cohesion and conflict sensitivity:

Lead initiatives aimed at strengthening trust, dialogue, peaceful coexistence, and cooperation among communities affected by conflict. 

Conduct and regularly update conflict and context analyses to ensure interventions are do-no-harm, conflict-sensitive, and responsive to changing dynamics. 

Identify drivers of tension, exclusion, polarization, and local conflict and incorporate findings into program design. 

Support community-led mechanisms for dialogue, mediation, reconciliation, and collaborative problem-solving. 

Ensure meaningful participation of women, youth, displaced populations, returnees, minorities, and other marginalized groups. 

- Transitional justice:

Support the design and implementation of activities related to truth-seeking, accountability, reparations, memorialization, institutional reform, and guarantees of non-recurrence. 

Facilitate safe and inclusive consultations with conflict-affected communities regarding their justice, accountability, and reconciliation priorities. 

Support community and civil-society actors to understand transitional justice concepts, processes, and opportunities for participation. 

Coordinate with relevant actors working on documentation, victims' rights, missing persons, detention, reparations, and accountability, while applying appropriate confidentiality and protection principles. 

Help translate community perspectives and evidence into program recommendations and policy-oriented outputs. 

- Stakeholder and partnership management:

Build and maintain relationships with Syrian civil society organizations, community representatives, local authorities, women's and youth organizations, victims' groups, and other relevant stakeholders. 

Coordinate with international and national organizations to identify synergies, avoid duplication, and strengthen referral pathways. 

Represent the program in coordination meetings, working groups, workshops, and relevant forums. 

Support partner selection, capacity strengthening, grant management, and performance monitoring. 

- Research, analysis, and advocacy:

Monitor political, social, security, and conflict-related developments that may affect program implementation. 

Identify emerging opportunities and risks related to social cohesion and transitional justice. 

Contribute to advocacy and policy discussions on inclusive governance, accountability, reconciliation, and victims' rights. 

- Risk, protection, and ethical standards:

Identify and manage political, operational, reputational, security, and protection risks. 

Ensure activities involving victims, survivors, witnesses, or sensitive conflict-related information follow appropriate do-no-harm, informed-consent, confidentiality, and data-protection standards. 

Ensure programming does not reinforce sectarian, ethnic, political, or other forms of exclusion. 

Escalate safeguarding, protection, or security concerns through appropriate channels. 

- Budget and reporting:

Monitor program expenditures against approved budgets and workplans. 

Prepare donor reports, progress updates, and internal management reports. 

Contribute to proposals, concept notes, budgets, and fundraising materials. 

Ensure compliance with donor and organizational policies.

Qualification/s and Professional Experience:

Master’s degree in Peace and Conflict Studies, International Relations, International Development, Human Rights, Political Science, Law, Sociology, or a related field. A bachelor’s degree combined with an additional year of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a master’s degree.

3-5 years of relevant professional experience in social cohesion, peacebuilding, transitional justice, conflict prevention, human rights, governance, reconciliation, or related fields. 

Experience working in Syria or the wider MENA region is highly desirable. 

Experience coordinating donor-funded programs, including planning, implementation, monitoring, reporting, and partner coordination. 

Demonstrated experience working with civil society organizations, community-based organizations, local stakeholders, and/or conflict-affected communities. 

Experience facilitating dialogue, consultations, reconciliation, and community engagement processes.

Knowledge of transitional justice, accountability, reconciliation, human rights, and conflict-sensitive programming.

Strong understanding of the Syrian political, social, and conflict context.

Strong Arabic and English communication skills, both written and verbal a must