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The Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation has a broad agenda within the areas of women’s rights and peace, but our main focus lies on six thematic areas: create safe meeting places, empower women’s rights defenders, increase women’s power, more women in peace processes, power over one’s own body and security for all. They form the core of our field and advocacy work.

Kvinna till Kvinna has established operations in the MENA region since 2001 with a regional office in Amman, Jordan. The operational capacity supports some 50 women’s organizations in the entire region. Kvinna till Kvinna is looking to recruit a Program Officer based in Beirut. As Program Officer you are responsible for the following main tasks:

Providing continuous support to partner organizations through the project cycle, including, review of applications, reporting and monitoring and evaluation.
Support capacity building efforts and organizing experience exchanges, study trips and networking meetings to enhance quality programming and implementation;
Preparing proposals and reports to donors, and making appropriate recommendations on the program’s progress and further development;

As Program Officer you are part of the field team and report to the Head of Office who is managing all employees at the field office. The PO will work under the guidance of the Senior Program Officer.

Introduction

Kvinna till Kvinna is a non-profit organisation that provides support to women rights organisations and women human rights defenders in conflict-affected areas to promote gender equality and women’s participation in all levels of decision making. Kvinna till Kvinna has established operations in the MENA region since 2001 with a regional office in Amman, Jordan, and country offices in Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq and another to be established in Tunisia. Kvinna till Kvinna currently supports some 50 women’s rights organizations in eight countries in the region with organizational, thematical and financial assistance.

Kvinna till Kvinna’s Syria Regional Programme January 2017- December 2022, focuses on women´s increased participation, psychosocial support and women´s economic empowerment as well as support to partner organisations’ capacity building, networking and advocacy in the region.

Kvinna till Kvinna focus much of its work on implementation of UNSCR 1325 and the Women, Peace & Security agenda, and have provided a range of support to women’s political participation, including supporting and commissioning reports on the topic such as the study ‘Peacebuilding Defines Our Future Now’ in 2015 and ‘Participation of Syrian Women in Political Processes 2012–2016, Literature Review’ in 2017.

Kvinna till Kvinna’s partner organisations in the Syria Regional Programme vary widely in structure, level of capacity and topical focus; and they operate under different national and operational frameworks, and degree of physical and organisational stability.

Purpose of the assignment

The overall purpose of the assessment and development of capacity building plans is to support Kvinna till Kvinna’s partner organisations in the Syria Regional Programme to have improved organisational sustainability, and to be strengthened to implement projects aiming to increase women’s empowerment in targeted areas in Syria through support from and consultations with Kvinna till Kvinna. The purpose is also to support Kvinna till Kvinna to become more relevant to its partner organisations when comes to supporting them with organisational strengthening, capacity building and development.

Kvinna till Kvinna has established operations in the MENA region since 2001 with a regional office in Amman, Jordan.

Organizational affiliation

Kvinna till Kvinna has established operations in the MENA region since 2001 with a regional office in Amman, Jordan.

Kvinna till Kvinna has established operations in the MENA region since 2001 with a regional office in Amman, Jordan.