Owns project management and operational execution for the Palestine sub-team. Coordinates concurrent workstreams, tracks deadlines and KPIs, leads project cadence, maintains dashboards, surfaces risks, develops SOPs, improves workflows, and supports secure events and cross-organizational collaboration. The role requires strong accountability, contingency planning, communication, and systems-building in a high-constraint environment without direct reports.
Position overview
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: you will keep project workstreams on track, build the systems and reporting that give leadership visibility, ensure risk and security protocols are implemented, and turn strategy into reliable operational execution under real constraints.
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: you will keep project workstreams on track, build the systems and reporting that give leadership visibility, ensure risk and security protocols are implemented, and turn strategy into reliable operational execution under real constraints.
You will coordinate and hold accountability across project owners rather than managing a team of direct reports. You are the person who makes sure deadlines are clear, blockers surface early, and work does not fall through the cracks. You report to the Thiqa project lead and work closely with project owners, Avaaz operations, HR and Finance teams, and partners on the ground.
Although the team works remotely most of the time, it is strongly preferred for this position to be in the West Bank, or that the candidate has a deep understanding of Palestine and who has worked there.
Although the team works remotely most of the time, it is strongly preferred for this position to be in the West Bank, or that the candidate has a deep understanding of Palestine and who has worked there.
Responsibilities
Project management and delivery
- 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 so momentum and deadlines hold.
- Prepare and share weekly project dashboards summarising status, blockers, risks, and next steps for leadership.
- Support and coordinate project owners rather than replacing them, stepping in directly only when a gap would otherwise stall delivery.
- Ensure security protocols are followed.
- Support donor cultivation and fundraising efforts
- Coordinate cross-team and cross-organisational collaboration, including with partners and Avaaz departments.
- Track operational KPIs such as throughput and survey progress, and keep them visible.
- 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) that fit how the team actually works, so quality and consistency hold as the team scales.
- Analyse workflows to remove friction, cut cycle times, and reduce operational cost.
- Select and set up practical tooling to support project tracking and reduce manual work, matched to the team's context and adoption capacity.
- 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.
Projects run on time with clear ownership; leadership has an accurate, current view of status and risk at any moment; blockers are caught early rather than at the deadline; and the team operates on systems that hold up under pace and pressure.
Why this role matters to leadership
For the director of this project, this role acts as a force multiplier rather than another layer to manage. By owning the operational cadence, tracking, and follow-through, the Project Manager frees leadership from day-to-day delivery mechanics and lets them focus on strategy, external relationships, and high-stakes decisions. Leadership gains a trusted second set of eyes across every workstream, someone who translates direction into action, surfaces risk before it becomes a crisis, and ensures accountability holds even without formal authority over project owners. In a high-constraint, high-security environment, this means the project lead can trust that operations are being actively managed and de-risked, even when they are not in the room.
Skills and Competencies
The ideal candidate has at least five years of experience in project management and operations delivery, ideally within a fast-paced, mission-driven, or international organisation. They have owned delivery across multiple concurrent workstreams and are comfortable holding others accountable without formal authority over them.
- Proven project management. Track record of keeping complex, multi-stream projects on time, with the judgement to prioritise under pressure.
- Systems and process builder. Has designed SOPs, reporting, and workflows that people actually adopt, and can right-size them to the team rather than over-engineering.
- Operates under constraint. Stays composed and keeps delivery moving in a high-stakes, unpredictable environment; strong on contingency and rapid re-planning.
- Accountability with empathy. Skilled at follow-up and delegation tracking; holds the line on deadlines while navigating people and context with emotional intelligence.
- Communication. Excellent written and verbal communication in English and Arabic.
- Tech-comfortable. Fluent in project-tracking and collaboration tools; experience with Asana, Slack, and Google Suite is a plus but not required.
About
Avaaz is an international campaigning and advocacy organization that provides its global membership of almost 70 million people with opportunities to make our world a better place.We’re one of the world’s largest online global campaigning movements, with people from every corner in the world taking action to close the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want. This includes protecting human rights worldwide, supporting indigenous struggles, saving our planet from climate change and other threats, and fighting to stop disinformation and other cyber threats from undermining our democracies. Our model enables people to channel their voices into a powerful collective force at tipping point moments to impact the pressing global challenges of our time, from climate and ecological collapse to human rights abuses and the dismantling of democracy. Avaaz is funded through small donations from individual Avaaz members, no big money from governments or corporations. This keeps us independent and allows us to keep a laser focus on doing what the world needs.
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