• Minimum Education Degree: Bachelor’s degree in administration, Law or relevant.
• Minimum 5 years professional and proven experience in project implementation and liaison with government.
• Travel Availability: Ability and willingness to travel domestically.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Turkish

• Strong written and spoken English.  Arabic is desirable Excellent relationship building and maintenance skills Experience working with provincial- and district-level government authorities, community leaders and civil society organizations Strong networking capability and diplomacy skills Ability to develop capacity building frameworks and work plans Commitment to, and good knowledge of, creating efficient, independent partner organizations, through effective capacity building and learning and development activities Commitment to WATAN's policies of promoting gender equity and diversity and the interests of marginalized people in all aspects of WATAN's work Experience working in emergency situations

  May need to work after hours or at weekends

The role in  SMT

• He or she will be a member of WATAN executive management team.
• Leading consolidation of WATAN values, vision, mission, and supporting its brand.
• Working with SMT to set up WATAN strategy and update it.
• Monitoring the implementation of interim operational plans
• Ensure periodic update to SMT about all WATAN turkey activity and set up needed administrative mechanism.
• plays a role in supporting the international expansion of the organization.
• Do whatever necessary to ensure the proper legal status turkey mission includes the legal registration and work permits for the team.

The government relations

• Ensure WATAN has strong and healthy government relation in all levels can facilitate it mission 
• Identify key government actors and appropriate approach routes for NGO communications and relationship building
• Develop and implement standard operating procedures for government liaison management
• Map out, and work to build and maintain strong working relationships with, district and provincial level government actors on behalf of WATAN

• Regularly coordinate with Liaison staff from other INGOs and national NGOs in order to ensure inter-agency learning.
• Represent WATAN in related working groups and other stakeholder or coordination meetings, as needed, and maintain a positive, continuous, and visible presence for WATAN.
• Ensure all work needed protocols signed and in place.
• Provide translation in meetings where necessary

The doners relations

• Mapping potential partners and donors could support WATAN programs in Turkey
• Ensure Donor information card Updated
• Ensure that there is a clear and documented communication strategy for each donor with power map and WATAN goal of the relationship
• Ensure effective communication with donors in a documented and systematic manner.
• Ensure all Marketing tools updated and in place

The projects design

• Maintain a database of refugee numbers in Turkey, regularly updating this with new information from reliable sources
• Assist with tasks relating to program development, including assessments
• Support with tasks relating to visitors from the WATAN Confederation or donor representatives