Position Start Date: November 1st, 2026

Duration: 12 months

Location: Damascus – Syria

Terre des hommes does not set closing dates for this position; recruitment is on-going until the position is filled.

Tdh:

The Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh), with headquarters in Lausanne and an office in Zurich, is the leading Swiss child rights organisation with more than 2000 employees worldwide. We stand together with children to uphold their rights, protect their lives and improve their well-being. We achieve this through innovative programmes focused on health, migration and access to justice, specially designed to have a positive and sustainable impact.

Responsibilities:

· Under the supervision of the Country Director, he/she leads the development and roll-out of the program strategy for Syria, ensuring alignment with the Country Strategy and Tdh’s areas of expertise.

· He/She leads the technical unit and ensures strategic and technical coherence across Child Protection, MHPSS, Legal/Access to Justice, and MEAL functions.

· He/She ensures program quality assurance across the Syria portfolio, including the application of technical standards, methodologies, accountability principles, and safeguarding requirements.

· He/She promotes evidence-based programming, results-based monitoring, learning, innovation, and adaptation across the program.

· He/She contributes to the development of new interventions by providing programmatic analysis, technical leadership, and evidence for business development and donor engagement.

· He/She develops and fosters strategic programmatic partnerships and supports the localization agenda in Syria.

· He/She supports knowledge sharing, capitalization, and continuous learning within the Country Office and with relevant regional and global teams.

· He/She contributes to securing the required resources for the Country Office by providing technical and programmatic inputs, in coordination with the Country Director, Grants Manager, Senior Program/Operations Manager, and support departments.

More specifically he/she has the following responsibilities:

Strategy and steering

Program Quality and Management

Staff Management and Capacity building

Business Development and Grant Management

Assessments, Research and Learning

Coordination, Representation and Advocacy

Partnerships and Networks

Profile :

Education : Master's degree in political science, international development, humanitarian assistance and or other relevant field.

Experience, Skills & Competencies :

· Minimum 5 years of progressively responsible experience in program management, leadership, and design developing and leading integrated and complex program portfolios – preferably experience in Syria or the Middle East.

• Proper knowledge and command of the stakes in his/her field of expertise

• Meaningful experience in the development of strategic partnerships, identification of funding opportunities, and mobilization of resources

• A capacity to work in a matrix organization

• A capacity to listen to and motivate his/her colleagues

• Ability to work in complex, volatile, and evolving operational environments

· Confirmed experience in program coordination, technical leadership, and program quality in an NGO and/or international organization, preferably in humanitarian and/or development contexts

• An excellent capacity of and ease in expressing him/herself in public (conferences, workshops) and adapting to their audiences (governments and local authorities)

• A collaborative attitude with colleagues in- and outside the team

• Management of time and priorities; meeting deadlines

• Enthusiastic, reliable and independent with a strong organizational capacity, decision-making and conflict resolution;

• A capacity to identify challenges, foresee risks and inform the management with substantive recommendations

• Experience contributing to project proposals, donor reporting, fundraising efforts, and engagement with financial partners

• Good knowledge of the project management cycle, MEAL, evidence-based programming, and quality assurance

• Excellent interpersonal qualities: integrity, a capacity to judge, diplomacy

• Proactive, creative and out-of-the-box thinking

Languages : Fluency in English, Arabic an asset

IT know-how : Usual MS Office tools

Salary :

Applications are welcome from both national and international candidates. The contractual modality and salary package will be established according to the selected candidate's profile and eligibility, and in accordance with either the Tdh Syria local salary grid or the Tdh international compensation framework.

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.

References :

Please note that all job offers will be subject to satisfactory references and checks (criminal record and anti-terrorism funding check). Terre des hommes will ask the Human Resources of previous organisations to provide references on any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment as well as fraud and corruption, during employment, or incidents under investigation at the time the candidate left employment.