Project Manager, Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Survivors Engagement in Syria
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Dr. Denis Mukwege Foundation
- Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
- Job type: Job
- Experience level: Other (specified in job description)
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: No
- Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
- Remuneration: Not Disclosed
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 14/12/2025
- Location: Syria
About Us
The Dr. Denis Mukwege Foundation (MF) is an international rights-based, survivor-centred organisation, dedicated to ending sexual violence as a weapon of war globally. The Mukwege Foundation supports survivors’ demands for a world where sexual violence as a weapon of war is no longer tolerated, and bears consequences for individual perpetrators and states. We work for a future where survivors receive the holistic care and compensation they need to rebuild their lives. We create opportunities for survivors to speak out and be heard, and where they can organise to create change, influence policies, and demand justice and accountability.
Job overview
This is an excellent opportunity for a Syria-based Project Manager dedicated to human rights and motivated to support survivors of conflict-related sexual violence. The ideal candidate has experience in project management within international or national human rights or humanitarian organisations, particularly in survivor-centred approaches, gender-based violence prevention and response, and has—or is eager to gain—experience in capacity building with survivor-led initiatives.
The Project Manager will serve as the Mukwege Foundation’s focal point in Syria, representing the organisation and leading the engagement with survivors, in close collaboration with ADMSP, future implementing partners and other key stakeholders in Syria. The Project Manager will monitor and support the project implemented by ADMSP and support the development of survivor networks through technical, logistical, administrative, financial reporting, and advocacy support, and will identify and facilitate survivor participation across relevant coordination platforms including transitional justice efforts, and all future MF programmes in Syria.
Qualifications and competencies
- Fluency in Arabic and English is mandatory.
- The position is open to women candidates only, given the sensitivity of the topic and the stigma surrounding it, as it is considered more appropriate and comfortable for women survivors to engage with a female staff member.
- Relevant university degree (e.g. political science, social science, management, gender studies) with 5 years of relevant work experience in a comparable context.
- Experience in project management, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation.
- Experience in engaging with survivors of SGBV/CRSV or other victims of grave violations.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Strong writing and communication skills.
- Flexibility, independence, problem solving attitude, reliability and commitment to the objectives of the Foundation.
- High ethical standards of behaviour, good judgment, respect for others, diplomatic skills, confidentiality and attention to detail.
- Candidates with experience in advocacy and prevention will be considered an asset.
- Candidates with experience in capacity-building of civil society organisations, grassroots organisations, and/or activist movements have an additional advantage.
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