[Hiring] Senior Project Manager @Avaaz

Role Description

The Senior Project Manager owns operations execution and project management for the Palestine sub-team in coordination with Avaaz. This is a senior, hands-on delivery role:

• Keep project workstreams on track.
• Build systems and reporting for leadership visibility.
• Ensure risk and security protocols are implemented.
• Turn strategy into reliable operational execution under real constraints.
• Coordinate and hold accountability across project owners.
• Ensure deadlines are clear, blockers surface early, and work does not fall through the cracks.
• Report to the Thiqa project lead and work closely with project owners, Avaaz operations, HR and Finance teams, and partners on the ground.
• Preferred location: West Bank or deep understanding of Palestine.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the central coordination point for the team, ensuring deadlines, deliverables, and priorities are clear, owned, and met across all project streams.
• Track and manage progress across concurrent projects, keeping a single reliable source of truth for status, owners, and next steps.
• Run the cadence: prepare and lead key project meetings, and follow up with each owner afterwards.
• Prepare and share weekly project dashboards summarising status, blockers, risks, and next steps for leadership.
• Support and coordinate project owners rather than replacing them.
• Ensure security protocols are followed.
• Support donor cultivation and fundraising efforts.
• Coordinate cross-team and cross-organisational collaboration.
• Track operational KPIs such as throughput and survey progress.
• Build and maintain reporting that gives leadership real-time visibility into operational health.
• Use data to flag risks early and drive evidence-based decisions on prioritisation and resourcing.
• Design and document lightweight standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Analyse workflows to remove friction, cut cycle times, and reduce operational cost.
• Select and set up practical tooling to support project tracking.
• Support the operational delivery of team events and gatherings in a high-security context.
• Anticipate operational risk, build contingency plans, and pivot quickly when conditions change.

Skills and Competencies

• At least five years of experience in project management and operations delivery.
• Proven project management experience.
• Track record of keeping complex, multi-stream projects on time.
• Systems and process builder.
• Operates under constraint.
• Accountability with empathy.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English and Arabic.
• Fluent in project-tracking and collaboration tools; experience with Asana, Slack, and Google Suite is a plus.