Tearfund is seeking an experienced and collaborative Project Coordinator to join our team in Iraq and play a key role in coordinating the delivery of our portfolio within a consortium project. This is an exciting opportunity for a committed professional who is passionate about influencing change, driving high-quality project implementation, and ensuring impactful partnerships in alignment with Tearfund's Country Strategy.
The role is to coordinate and manage Tearfund's portfolio within a consortium project and manage Tearfund's partner, in coordination with the Programme Quality Director (PQD), ensuring effective design, assessment and monitoring of partner projects in support of the delivery of Tearfund's Strategy for Iraq while ensuring projects reflect Tearfund Quality Standard commitments.
The ideal candidate will have:
* A University Degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., Development, Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Economics, Business, or other discipline relating to Livelihoods and resilience or a humanitarian-related field).
* A minimum of 5 years experience in a similar role, specifically in managing Public Private Partnership.
* Very strong experience in resilience and livelihoods programming at both strategic and operational levels.
* Demonstrated experience in integrating gender and diversity issues into programmes.
* Project cycle management experience, including strategic planning, budgeting, reporting, monitoring & evaluation.
* Demonstrated experience in partnership management and providing support to partner organisations.
* Proven ability to coordinate project implementation and track deliverables against work plans.
* Experience in managing documentation, budgets, and project data to ensure high-quality reporting.
* Experience in delivering training or mentoring colleagues or partners in good project practices.
* Prior experience with international humanitarian organizations.
The ideal candidate should also have strong coordination, influencing and relationship-building skills; a strong interest in Gender and Women's Economic Empowerment programmes; excellent analytical and problem-solving skills; the ability to communicate ideas in a culturally-sensitive manner; the ability to adapt and work within a multicultural, multilingual and multidisciplinary environment; excellent report writing and facilitation skills; fluency in spoken and written Arabic and excellent spoken and written English; the ability to work in a fast-moving environment; strong organisational, administrative and IT skills (Google Workspace, Excel); and excellent interpersonal, negotiation, mentoring and coaching skills.
Contract Type: Fixed Term. Region: Eurasia and North Africa. Job Category: Global Influencing & Programmes. This role will be based in Basra, Iraq. Applicants must possess a valid passport/visa stating the right to live and work in Iraq. National candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
Closing date: 7 September 2026
HOW TO APPLY:
Apply online via the Tearfund vacancy page: https://jobs.tearfund.org/jobs/vacancy/project-coordinator-iraq-3269/3295/description/ (Apply Now). Closing Date: 7 September 2026. Potential Interview Date: 15 September 2026. The recruitment process will include specific checks related to safeguarding issues; personal identification information will be submitted against a Watchlist database to check against criminal convictions as a counter-terror measure.
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