• Mnimum 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 and internationally.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Turkish. 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

• Ability to work in flexible time arrangements according to the work loa

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.
• Designing and monitoring the implementation of annual quarterly and monthly operational plans within the mission.
• Ensure periodic update to SMT about all WATAN Türkiye 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 Türkiye mission includes the legal registration and work permits for the team.

The doners relations and grant management

• Oversee the mission annual financial target and design a grant management plan to achieve it.

• Mapping potential partners and donors could support WATAN programs in Türkiye

• Collaborate with the projects director in developing high quality proposals to current and potential donors

• Ensure Donor information are up to date and stored safely ad correctly

• 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 stakeholders 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

• Collaborate with liaison department to 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.

  The projects management

• Support project managers in guaranteeing the quality and consistency of their projects.

• Assist with tasks relating to program development and implementation, including assessments, reporting, and audit exercises.

• Support with tasks relating to visitors from WATAN or donor representatives

  The team and area management

• Ensure the presence of well-functioning team through collaboration with Human resources in hiring gap positions and put a development plan for current staff

• Ensure all mission staff are covered financially by the available resources and include their salaries properly in the project’s budgets

• Supervise area managers in developing and maintaining well-functioning area offices in Türkiye