Programme Design and Quality Implementation

• Monitor key developments, trends, and changes across Southern Syria context to ensure AFH’s programming remains relevant, adaptive, and responsive to community needs.
• Lead the development and periodic updating of the Area Programme Strategy and sector-specific plans for the south, ensuring they are evidence-based, aligned with AFH’s country strategy, and informed by MEAL findings, assessments, and stakeholder consultation.
• Ensure AFH regional and global frameworks, standards, and policies are contextualized for southern governorates and consistently understood and applied across programme teams.
• Oversee quality implementation of all projects in the Area, ensuring activities are delivered on time, on scope, and on budget, in line with internal standards, donor requirements, and humanitarian principles.
• Promote integration and complementarity across sectors and locations, facilitating harmonized approaches between Area and Field Offices to ensure coherence and high programme quality.
• Strengthen quality assurance mechanisms by ensuring regular monitoring, evidence-based adjustments, lessons-learned integration, and adherence to cross-cutting priorities including protection, age, gender, and diversity.
• Ensure Area-level emergency preparedness and response mechanisms are maintained, updated, and operational, and lead assessments and rapid response actions as agreed with Senior Management.
• Engage actively with Early Recovery and Livelihoods coordination structures in Damascus and southern governorates, ensuring AFH is well represented and that programme insights inform advocacy, programme design, and external communication.
• Coordinate and support donor, partner, HQ, and internal delegations during field visits to Southern project sites, ensuring accurate presentation of programme progress and challenges.
• Provide overarching management and coordination of all AFH programmes implemented in Southern Syria, ensuring strong collaboration with Operations, MEAL, and Support Services to achieve quality outcomes.

Donor Liaison, Partnerships, and Representation

• Represent AFH to donors, partners, local authorities, and coordination fora in southern Syria, ensuring clear communication of AFH priorities and programme achievements.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships that strengthen AFH’s visibility, credibility, and positioning as a preferred partner in Southern Syria.
• Identify potential partnerships with local and international actors and contribute to the development and management of formal partnership arrangements.
• Participate in and ensure consistent representation in South-level coordination structures (e.g., clusters, working groups, task forces), ensuring AFH’s technical perspectives and operational realities are effectively communicated.

Staff Management

• Ensure all programme teams including coordinators under direct line management have clear workplans, objectives, and performance indicators.
• Provide regular coaching, mentoring, and technical guidance to programme teams, promoting professional development and ensuring staff have the tools and skills required for quality delivery.
• Develop or review terms of reference for consultants, ensure technical oversight of their work, and monitor delivery in line with contractual and budgetary requirements.

Technical Advisory - Early Recovery and Livelihoods (ERL)

• Provide technical leadership and strategic guidance on Early Recovery and Livelihoods programming across Southern Syria, ensuring interventions align with humanitarian–development nexus approaches and local recovery priorities.
• Support programme teams in the design, implementation, and monitoring of ERL interventions including livelihoods restoration, vocational training, market-based programming, small enterprise support, climate-smart agriculture, and community-based recovery initiatives.
• Ensure ERL programmes are informed by market assessments, conflict sensitivity analysis, and local economic recovery opportunities.
• Provide technical review and guidance during proposal development to ensure ERL components are evidence-based, technically sound, and aligned with donor priorities.
• Support programme teams in integrating livelihoods and recovery approaches across sectors such as WASH, protection, and community stabilization.
• Develop and promote ERL technical guidance, SOPs, and tools to strengthen programme quality and consistency across the Area.
• Support monitoring of ERL outcomes and contribute to learning and adaptation through analysis of programme results, lessons learned, and best practices.
• Represent AFH in relevant Early Recovery and Livelihoods coordination mechanisms, technical working groups, and sectoral forums when required.

Other Responsibilities

• In collaboration with the Senior Management Team, champion AFH’s commitments to the Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS) and lead by example in promoting accountability to affected populations.
• Uphold and ensure full compliance with AFH’s safeguarding and zero-tolerance policies related to Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment (SEAH).
• Ensure programme activities and staff operations comply with local regulations and maintain a clear legal and operational standing within South.
• Perform other tasks and responsibilities as assigned by the Director of Programmes and Partnerships.