Who are we?
The Danish Refugee Council assists refugees and internally displaced persons across the globe: we provide emergency aid, fight for their rights, and strengthen their opportunities for a brighter future. We work in conflict-affected areas, along the displacement routes, and in the countries where refugees settle. In cooperation with local communities, we strive for responsible and sustainable solutions. We work toward successful integration and – whenever possible – for the fulfillment of the wish to return home.
The Danish Refugee Council was founded in Denmark in 1956 and has since grown to become an international humanitarian organization with more than 7,000 staff and 8,000 volunteers. Our vision is a dignified life for all displaced.
All of our efforts are based on our value compass: humanity, respect, independence and neutrality, participation, and honesty and transparency.
DRC Syria
DRC has been operating in Syria since 2008, initially responding to the Iraqi refugee crisis before pivoting to a full-scale response to the Syria crisis from 2011 onwards. Our work encompasses the full cycle of displacement—responding to life-saving humanitarian needs and supporting community recovery until durable solutions can be achieved. DRC Syria takes an area-based approach to supporting internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees, and host communities across our key sectors: Economic Recovery and Resilience, Protection, WASH, Shelter and Infrastructure, and Humanitarian Disarmament and Peacebuilding (including Humanitarian Mine Action).
With an established rapid response mechanism, DRC can rapidly respond to emerging crises and shocks to meet acute emergency needs. Recognizing the significant need for early recovery and resilience programming to ensure dignified, sustainable, and cost-effective solutions for fragile communities, DRC’s programmes foster resilience for individuals and communities in situations of protracted displacement and during the initial stages of post-conflict recovery, towards a durable solution of their choice. With active portfolios in the neighboring countries of Jordan, Lebanon, Türkiye and Iraq, DRC offers a cross-border, regional response to the Syria crisis, through cross-border protection monitoring, advocacy, and trends analysis.
About the job:
The SCC Programme Coordinator leads the operational delivery of the Consortium’s programme in Aleppo and Rural Damascus, ensuring interventions are coherent, efficient, and technically sound. The role connects strategy with practice — translating technical direction into action on the ground, and bringing field experience, challenges, and learning back into programme design and decision-making.
The SCC Programme Coordinator oversees implementation quality, partner performance, and the integration of multi-sector interventions under the SCC resilience framework. The position ensures strong collaboration across partners, technical teams, and field operations to maintain consistency, accountability, and impact across the consortium’s portfolio.
Responsibilities:
Programme Leadership and Coordination
- Supervise day-to-day management of SCC programme implementation across partners and sectors, ensuring quality delivery aligned with SCC standards, donor requirements, and contractual commitments.
- Serve as the operational link between technical leads and field teams, ensuring technical guidance is contextualized, practical, and achievable within area realities.
- Coordinate joint work planning with partners, technical leads, and area managers to ensure sequencing, layering, and integration of multi-sector interventions.
- Oversee progress against targets, work plans, and budgets, ensuring timely corrective actions and alignment with overall SCC objectives.
- Lead bi-monthly Technical Working Group meetings and ensure agreed actions translate into tangible field results.
- Maintain continuous feedback loops between area teams and technical leads, promoting two-way learning and practical adaptation of tools, standards, and guidance.
- Advocate for the field perspective in strategic planning and technical coordination forums, ensuring programming remains realistic, relevant, and effective.
- Support in creating systems to build collaborative working environments by sequencing, integration, and layering of multi-sectoral program activities encompassing resilience agenda to ensure that various program team members (e.g. WASH, Food Security, Education, etc.) working toward achieving the overall resilience objectives and do not conduct their activities in siloes.
Quality Assurance and Adaptive Management
• Lead Monthly Performance Review Meetings, ensuring operational issues are addressed and lessons are incorporated into planning and decision-making.
• Drive adaptive management by linking monitoring data, field feedback, and partner inputs to programme revisions and reprogramming discussions.
• Facilitate quarterly reflection and learning workshops across SCC partners to evaluate integration, delivery efficiency, and resilience outcomes.
• Identify capacity gaps in project cycle management and adaptive planning and work with technical and grants teams to address them.
Working with the Consortium Management Unit (CMU)
- Work closely with all CMU members — including the Chief of Party, MEAL Coordinator, Advocacy Coordinator, and Finance Coordinator — to ensure strong internal coordination and joined-up programme management.
- Collaborate with the MEAL Coordinator to review monitoring tools, data collection systems, and reports, providing feedback and discussing findings to ensure they reflect operational realities and inform decision-making.
- Participate in regular CMU review meetings to discuss programme progress, emerging challenges, and lessons from monitoring, finance, and partner reports — ensuring that data and evidence are used to guide practical action.
- Support the Advocacy Coordinator by sharing field-level evidence, human stories, and contextual insights that strengthen SCC’s advocacy messages and policy engagement.
Actively share observations, questions, and learning from the field to keep CMU discussions grounded in implementation realities and responsive to partner and community feedback.
Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Program Management and implementation of projects in resilience, durable solutions, and economic recovery context, including quality monitoring and evaluation processes.
- Experience working in field or area offices.
- Relevant technical expertise/experience in some sectors of humanitarian programming such as Wash, shelter, economic recovery and protection as well as longer term livelihoods/resilience programming.
- Proven ability to build external relationships with diplomacy, discretion, and professionalism in a complex and demanding environment.
- Demonstrated ability to manage and support multi-sector programmes including operational planning and problem solving.
- Demonstrated experience in people management and team building.
- Demonstrated experience of financial and asset management including multi-donor programming.
- Demonstrated ability to represent SCC in meetings with Local Government officials.
- Excellent written and presentation skills in English and Arabic.
Education
Degree (Social Sciences, Administration etc)
Languages
- English – excellent
- Arabic – excellent
In this position, you are expected to demonstrate DRC’ five core competencies:
- Striving for excellence: You focus on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process.
- Collaborating: You involve relevant parties and encourage feedback.
- Taking the lead: You take ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation.
- Communicating: You listen and speak effectively and honestly.
- Demonstrating integrity: You act in line with our vision and values.
We offer:
Contract length: 06 months (extension based on performance and funds)
Level: Management F2
Location: Syria - Damascus
Expected Start date: 01st of May-2026
Application process
Interested? Then apply for this position by clicking on one of the links below:
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All applicants must send a cover letter and an updated CV (no longer than four pages). Both must be in the same language as this vacancy note. CV only applications will not be considered.
Applications close on 15th of February 2026
Need further information?
For further information about the Danish Refugee Council, please consult our website www.drc.org
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DRC as an employer
Founded in 1956, DRC Danish Refugee Council is Denmark’s largest, and a leading international NGO. We have continuously been ranked as one of the best NGOs in the world - and are one of the few with a specific expertise in forced displacement. In over 30 countries, we protect, advocate and build sustainable futures for refugees and other displacement-affected people and communities.
By working in DRC, you will be joining a global workforce of over 6,000 employees. We pride ourselves on our:
- Professionalism, impact & expertise
- Humanitarian approach & the work we do
- Purpose, meaningfulness & own contribution
- Culture, values & strong leadership
- Fair compensation & continuous development
DRC’s capacity to ensure the protection of and assistance to refugees, IDP’s and other persons of concern depends on the ability of our staff to uphold and promote the highest standards of ethical and professional conduct in relation DRC’s values and Code of Conduct, including safeguarding against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment. DRC conducts thorough and comprehensive background checks as part of the recruitment process.
Danish Refugee Council is an equal opportunity employer and we consider all applicants based on individual merit and qualifications, regardless of personal characteristics or attributes. We are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, aiming for a 50% balance of men and women in management roles and ensuring that at least 50% of management roles are filled by national staff. We recognize that a diverse and inclusive team is crucial for achieving our organizational goals and making a positive impact on the communities we serve.