Education Project Manager - West Bank

About the role

NRC Palestine is looking for an experienced, strategic and collaborative Education Project Manager to lead the implementation and quality delivery of its Education portfolio across the West Bank. The role covers the full project cycle, from design and planning through implementation, monitoring, reporting and learning, and provides technical leadership to Education teams and partners. Applicants must be legally eligible to work in the West Bank; work permits and visa sponsorship are not provided.

Key responsibilities

• Oversee planning, implementation, monitoring, reporting and quality assurance of NRC's Education portfolio, ensuring projects meet NRC and donor standards.
• Manage budgets and resources, including procurement, logistics, staffing, cash forecasting and spending control.
• Guide and mentor Education teams and implementing partners, strengthen technical capacity and support performance management.
• Contribute to needs assessments, programme design, proposals, budgets, project extensions, emergency preparedness and strategic direction.
• Build relationships with donors, implementing partners, government counterparts, clusters and communities, ensuring coordination, communication and accountability.

Required profile

• At least 4 years of experience developing and leading large, complex and/or multi-sectoral projects in humanitarian, protracted crisis or development settings.
• Senior-level project management experience, including consortia or partnerships, and proven experience managing development donors, compliance and reporting.
• Experience in capacity building, coaching and mentoring technical teams, and in complex, volatile operating environments.
• Fluency in Arabic and English, written and spoken.
• Understanding of the West Bank education context, including access restrictions and movement constraints, and practical expertise in protection mainstreaming, child safeguarding and gender-sensitive programming.
• Demonstrated experience delivering non-formal education, remedial and emergency education, and psychosocial support in learning environments, as well as flexible NFE pathways, TVET and market-oriented technical skills programmes.

What we offer

• Fixed-term national contract of 12 months, renewable based on performance, funding and need.
• Travel allowance of 40%.
• Salary at Grade 8 on NRC's national grading structure.