Programme Coordinator at "SolidarityNow" (Thessaloniki & Northern Greece)

SolidarityNow (SN) was founded in 2013 upon an initiative of the Open Society Foundations (OSF). SN is a network of people and organizations working together to alleviate the suffering of those worst affected by the socio-economic crisis. Until now SN has supported and funded over 70 projects around Greece in the areas of legal, medical, psycho-social support, education and culture, job-creation amongst others. SN’s initial intervention took place in the wider area of Thessaloniki and Athens through Solidarity Centers; these are “one stop shops”, hosting a variety of civil society organizations and covering a wide range of relief and context-related services and actions (i.e. medical aid, legal and psycho-social support, employability support, human rights monitoring, promotion, protection and advocacy). SN is also greatly involved in the recent emergency response related to refugees and migrants arriving in the country. During summer 2015, SN was the only donor that allocated a total of more than 6 million EURO for a blend of projects raising from emergency response to medium and longer term concepts as migrants’ integration and anti-trafficking.

The organization seeks for:

- Programme Coordinator – (Thessaloniki and Northern Greece).
Qualifications:
- MA and/or University Degree preferably in Social Sciences, Migration studies, International Relations and/or Law or related field. Absence of a relevant degree may be substituted by a combination of hands on, previous, extensive (i.e. over 5 years) experience;
- At least five (5) years of programme management in senior positions within international development and humanitarian work;
- Proven experience in emergency and post-crisis environments and community mobilization;
- Proven track record of successful project planning, designing and implementation;
- Ability and experience to coordinate and manage staff and implementing partners and project activities, especially in emergency context;
- Experience in liaising with governmental authorities, and other national/international institutions;
- Experience in capacity building of personnel and stakeholders;
- Deep knowledge in PCM, SPHERE standards;
- Experience with human rights and gender equality standards and knowledge of rights-based approaches;
- Excellent communication and writing skills in Greek and English;
- Solid computer skills including proficiency MS Office package (word, outlook, excel, PP).

Assets:
- Experience from work in a developing country;
- Knowledge of foreign languages;
- Regional experience is an asset.

If you are interested in applying, please fill send your CV and motivation letter to recruitment@solidaritynow.org by March 18 th, 2016 (EOB), mentioning in the email subject “Programme
Coordinator Northern Greece”.