Strategy and Vision

• Lead the development of multi-sector strategies across FSL, WASH, cash, and basic services rehabilitation interventions. based on a strong contextual understanding of Syria and in line with Mercy Corps values.

• Ensure that climate-smart agriculture, market-based approaches, emergency WASH services, and integrated resilience models are embedded across programming.

• Contribute to mission-wide advocacy, technical positioning, and donor engagement in support of FSL and WASH priorities.

• Support the transition from emergency to early recovery where appropriate, while maintaining readiness for rapid humanitarian response.

• Ensure strong alignment and integration across Mercy Corps’ Syria portfolio—including linkages between WASH and FSL outcomes.

Design and Planning

• Lead design and planning for integrated multi-sector programs, ensuring they address priority needs and strengthen household and community resilience.

• Contribute to development of new proposals and budgets for FSL, WASH, cash, and infrastructure-related initiatives, including for ECHO, GIZ, CDCS, and other strategic donors.

• Ensure MEL approaches are integrated into program design, including participatory assessments and inclusive approaches for women, youth, and vulnerable populations.

• Maintain up-to-date analysis of humanitarian and early recovery needs across NWS and NES and adjust program strategies accordingly.

·       Oversee budget planning and resource allocation across the multi-sector portfolio.

·       Provides technical support to sub-grants to maintain strong partnerships in Syria.

·       Ensure compliance with donor contractual commitments, extracting and implementing key learnings from project implementation

 Implementation and Programs Coordination

• Ensure high-quality implementation of FSL, WASH, cash, and infrastructure-light rehabilitation activities, including site-level oversight of major components such as (Market-based livelihood interventions, Agricultural support and climate-smart practices, Emergency WASH and hygiene promotion, Water station rehabilitation (e.g., South Idlib), Cash assistance and winterization).

• Provide technical oversight and guidance to Coordinators and field teams across both sectors.

• Oversee timely assessments, activity planning, monitoring, and reporting across all grants.

• Strengthen partnerships with local NGOs and technical stakeholders, ensuring capacity strengthening and effective remote management where needed.

• Ensure that learning, adaptive management, and accountability systems are embedded in programming.

• Engage actively in relevant sector working groups (FSL, WASH, ERL, Cash Working Group).

• Manage multi-million-dollar grants while adhering to spending plans and donor rules. across different secured institutional funding and potential pipeline.

 Team Management

• Lead recruitment, supervise, and build the capacity of team members in relevant technical and management competencies.

• Create and sustain a work environment of mutual respect where team members strive to achieve excellence.

• Promote accountability, communicate expectations, and provide constructive feedback via regular performance reviews.

• Contribute to country team-building efforts, help team members identify solutions, and ensure the integration of all team members into relevant decision-making processes.

• Lead collaborative partner relationships focused on mutual learning and capacity building as well as technical guidance in areas of Mercy Corps expertise.

• Develop and implement remote management capacity building approaches where relevant.

Influence & Representation

• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with all stakeholders - including NGOs, Sectors, UN agencies, community-based organizations and Mercy Corps technical Advisors to enhance cooperation and coordination.

• Attend relevant coordination meetings and/or represent Mercy Corps in other relevant fora.

• Ensure that information from coordination meetings is shared internally and with other sectors, as appropriate.

• Coordinate the development of a quality framework for resilience approaches target communities.

• Represent and advocate for Mercy Corps approaches in the sectoral working groups.

Personal Leadership

• Consistently demonstrate flexibility, resilience and ability to maintain positive relationships and composure, even under difficult circumstances.

• Maintain high ethical standards and treat people with respect and dignity.

• Demonstrate an awareness of his/her own strengths and development needs.

 Strategy & Vision

• Recognize opportunities for innovative action and create an environment of empowerment.

• Set direction by prioritizing and organizing actions and resources to achieve objectives and contribute to countrywide strategy development.

Program Management

• Fulfill Mercy Corps’ Program Management Minimum Standards based on the organization-wide guide.

• Ensure all interventions adhere to Mercy Corps’ Gender Policy, Do No Harm principles, and beneficiary accountability standards.

Finance Management.

●      Manage the project budgets, financial projections and BVAs to monitor financial forecasting and ensure spending is on track.

Security

• Ensure compliance with security procedures, SoPs and policies as determined by country leadership.

• Proactively ensure that team members operate in a secure environment and are aware of policies.

Accountability to Participants

• Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically
  to our beneficiaries and to international standards guiding international relief and development work, while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.