Program Director (Injaz III)

Chemonics seeks a Program Director for the Supporting Education in Syria (Injaz III) project. The Injaz III project, funded by the US Department of State Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (NEA) and running currently through late 2025, contributes to the stabilization of northeast Syria through working with civil councils, education committees, and community-based organizations to provide remedial education and Self-Learning Program, psychosocial support for children and their caregivers, vocational and secondary skills training, as well as support for the formal education system through teacher training and school infrastructure refurbishment.

Position Overview:

The Program Director will provide strategic leadership, overseeing program implementation and relationships with local education authorities, as well as coordinating with the Technical, MERL and Compliance teams on quality assurance, data verification, and compliance with Injaz, Chemonics and US government policies. The Program Director will supervise Program Managers and Syria-based Partnership Facilitators, ensuring harmonization of Syria-based staff responsibilities and identifying ways to maximize programmatic outputs and impact. S/he will report directly to the Chief of Party and will serve as a member of the senior management team.

Principle Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions):

Strategic Leadership and Oversight

• Lead programmatic implementation of activities.
• Actively contribute to the project’s strategic analysis to ensure alignment of program objectives with the evolving conflict, political and security situation in Syria.
• Harmonize programming approaches across subawards, embedding cross-cutting themes like “do-no-harm” and safeguarding, and identify ways to maximize outputs and impact.
• Provide support and technical guidance to research, reporting, and assessment activities.
• Support advocacy and policy engagement efforts, as well as contribute to requests for information from NEA.

Management and Supervision

• Directly supervise Program Managers and select Partnership Facilitators, providing regular coaching, mentorship, and performance management.
• Ensure clear work planning, accountability, and delivery of program outputs by the managers and their teams.
• Ensure harmonization of supervision of Partnership Facilitators.
• Promote collaboration and integration between technical, MERL and implementation teams.

Coordination and Collaboration

• Support Technical team with data and information required for activities and planning, as well as on implementation.
• This includes liaising with the Technical team and assuming responsibility for providing timely and thorough feedback to respective Program Managers and the respective subawardees.
• Coordinate with the MERL team and assume responsibility for ensuring that monitoring and evaluation data is shared with Program Managers, Partnership Facilitators and subawardees.
• Coordinate with Compliance/Operations to implement direct procurements for programmatic activities.

Stakeholder Engagement and Communication

• Build and maintain strong relationships with local education authorities, civil society actors, and international stakeholders.
• Lead on communication with the councils’ Education Committees to advocate for Injaz programing, coordinate programming, and the securing of necessary council approvals, and problem-solving as challenges arise.
• Lead on the development of council-proposed support concepts and activities.

Qualifications:

• Degree in a relevant field, or relevant professional experience, is required.
• Demonstrated experience in leading program teams with specific education and/or stabilization experience.
• Experience mentoring and providing oversight to staff preferred.
• Strong understanding about the context, conflict and security situation in Syria, previous experience in Syria strongly preferred.
• Experience working with different levels of stakeholders - local actors, local and International NGOs.
• Knowledge of the political humanitarian and education sector dynamics within the Syrian context.
• Team player with strong organizational and management skills.
• Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity
• Fluency in Arabic, with strong speaking and writing skills in English.

How to apply

Please submit your application, including a CV, through this form linked here: Program Director by October 22, 2025. No telephone inquiries, please. Chemonics will contact finalists.

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