Overview

The Unit Coordinator - Governance will work within the Governance Team, focusing on justice, security, and fiscal issues. The role involves engaging with stakeholders and contributing to the delivery of the Sector Strategy and Workplan.

Tasks Summary

• Identify, map and maintain an overview of external stakeholders, their mandates & capacities.
• Track institutional and policy developments across Palestinian stakeholders.
• Support in developing sector stakeholder engagement strategy.
• Maintain working level partnership with the Palestinian Authorities, the private sector and the international community.
• Act as the point of contact / focal point for Governance team external engagements.
• Coordinate with working level stakeholders for Governance programming and planning.
• Maintain access to right external resources and mechanisms for delivery of Governance program.
• Obtain external support to conduct the work of Governance team and consultants.
• Identify and maintain channels of external information input for Governance products and content.
• Provide regular updates and presentations to stakeholders at relevant forums.
• Arrange and facilitate meetings and missions of OQ and OQ partner delegations to stakeholders.
• Facilitate & coordinate team inputs towards sector strategy and team plans.
• Support in deciding the resources required to deliver strategic and team plans.
• Support in recruitment and procurement, to ensure team resources are obtained in time & budget.
• Work closely with the Ops Team to ensure above deliverables are met.
• Monitor and evaluate progress against Governance logframe and team deliverables.
• Support in assessing risks and actioning mitigation measures to manage risks of Governance team & program.
• Contribute to integrated planning, action, and strategy development across different teams.
• Collaborate with members from other OQ sectors to identify synergies and joint programs.
• Effective utilization of OQs office-wide resources to build and leverage on common knowledge.
• Develop and maintain a robust understanding of Palestinian Governance, particularly justice, security and fiscal sectors.
• Support data and information gathering relevant to the sector / work-streams by conducting research and analysis.
• Draft analysis, literature reviews, briefs, publications etc. based on research findings to inform sector strategy & team deliverables.
• Support the team in refining team’s value proposition & positioning.
• Coordinate with the team and generate document structure, analytics and content.
• Coordinate with the team and develop maps, graphics & illustrations, data visualizations, etc.
• Draft input for briefing notes, OQ website and social media.
• Facilitate & coordinate team inputs towards high level reports, briefings papers and presentations.
• Support the director with drafting letters, memos, emails, talking points etc.
• Interpretation and translation support, as required.
• Review, comment and edit materials produced by the team for quality and consistency.
• Conduct research and assessments to identify workstream opportunities.
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to prioritize and develop workstreams.
• Propose activities, outputs, budgets, works plans etc. to implement workstreams.
• Identify and mitigate risks associated with workstreams.
• Coordinate development of procurement documents & coordinate procurement as per the plans.
• Support engaging and obtaining buy-in of the stakeholders to enable workstream delivery.
• Coordinate resources and collaborate with all parties to ensure workstream delivery.
• Produce and present workstream status updates.
• Produce workstream delivery reports.
• Support in monitoring and evaluation of workstreams.
• Support transition plans / handover to the stakeholders.

Experience Requirements

• 4 years of relevant work experience required with a bachelor’s degree or two years of relevant work experience required with a master’s degree.
• Excellent communication skills, including a demonstrated ability to both write and present high-quality written documents/presentations in English is essential.
• Demonstrated ability to manage & coordinate competing priorities is essential.
• Desired: Experience and understanding of the local political & Governance context (particularly justice, security, and fiscal sectors) is desirable.
• Desired: Experience in internal & external stakeholder engagement is desirable.

Qualification Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) preferably in law, governance, international relations, development management or other relevant field with 4 years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree (or equivalent) in any of the above or related fields with 2 years of relevant experience is required.