Senior Partnerships and Programmes Officer (Arabic speaking)

Senior Partnerships and Programmes Officer (Arabic speaking)

Location: United Kingdom OR the Netherlands (the role can be based at Peace Direct's office in London or The Hague)

Contract: Permanent, 35hrs p/week.

Salary: £37,200 p.a.

Candidates must have the right to work in the country where they will be based. Hybrid working is available.

For Netherlands based applicants, the salary will be reviewed in line with Netherlands benchmarking data.

Peace Direct does not currently hold a sponsorship license and therefore if you do not have the right to work in the UK or EU, we cannot accept your application.

Who we are
Peace Direct is an international charity with a vision for a just world, free from violent conflict. Working in partnership with local peacebuilders in some of the world's most conflict-affected places, we want to change the international system so that it better supports the role that local people and communities play in preventing violence and building and sustaining peace. More than that, we want to change the international system so that it better supports the role that local people and communities play in preventing violence and building and sustaining peace.

The Role
We are looking for a Senior Partnerships and Programmes Officer to join our busy International Partnerships, Programmes and Research team.

This is an exciting opportunity to work alongside local peacebuilders and help shape more equitable ways of supporting peacebuilding. You will build trusted partnerships, accompany organisations working in challenging and rapidly changing contexts, and coordinate locally led projects, primarily in Syria and Sudan. You will also support programme development, financial oversight, compliance, learning and external engagement, ensuring that partners' priorities remain at the heart of the work. Fluency in English and working proficiency in Arabic are essential.

About You: To join us, some of the skills you will need are:

• 4+ years' relevant experience in peacebuilding, development, humanitarian or related work.
• Experience working effectively and equitably with local partners.
• Fluent English and working proficiency in Arabic.
• Strong programme, budget and organisational management skills.
• Experience in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• A collaborative, proactive and adaptable approach.
• Willingness to travel and work in challenging environments.

Still interested? Take a look at the job description to see full details about the role and whether it matches your skills and experience.

How to Apply

Please send your CV and a cover letter detailing relevant experience and why you are interested in the role via Charity Jobs. Please indicate in your cover letter, should you choose to, whether you are applying through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We also offer candidates the choice of submitting a video clip, ie. a video cover letter if this is preferable to a written cover letter. To ensure fairness we suggest you turn the camera off so that we only hear your voice. The video should be no more than 2 minutes in length. You should email it as a video link via WeTransfer or any other file sharing tool, to our recruitment inbox, the address of which you will find on the jobs page of our website as unfortunately the Charity Jobs website does not permit a url to be inserted here.

For the video cover letter, the following should guide your speaking points. Please state the following:

• Your name;
• The job you are applying for;
• Describe your overall skills and abilities (as they relate to the post being advertised);
• A brief description of your work experience (in relation to the post being advertised);
• What makes you qualified for the new position;
• Any additional details that help introduce yourself

You should choose either a written cover letter or a video cover letter, but we request that you please DO NOT submit both.

Closing deadline for CV and cover letter is 23:30pm on Sunday 15th November 2026.

Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a short supplementary information form.

First stage interviews will be held online during w/c 23rd November 2026.
Second stage interviews will be shortly after, on a date to be confirmed to those selected through to the next round.

Peace Direct strives to be a diverse and inclusive employer, with equality of opportunities regardless of personal identity, and we are committed to improving our systems and ways of working to support this, including creating a Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) working group, DEI strategy and recruitment guidelines. We strongly encourage individuals from disadvantaged and underrepresented backgrounds to apply, including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME), LGBTQ+. As part of being a Disability Confident Committed employer, we welcome people with disabilities or health challenges to apply and those who meet most of the Essential requirements as laid out in the job specification will be guaranteed an interview for the job for which you are applying, through our Disability Confident scheme (formerly known as the Guaranteed Interview Scheme).

We welcome people from all backgrounds and strongly advocate our DEI policy and commitment to maintain an inclusive workplace culture; we take pride in being inclusive, fair, equitable and transparent, so we welcome a conversation about any DEI concerns you may have. What's important isn't your level of education or the opportunities which you have had; it's about your passion and how you seize the opportunities ahead of you to use your skills and knowledge in this field of work.

Our values and commitment to safeguarding
All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which includes criminal records (DBS) checks. Peace Direct also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (Misconduct Disclosure Scheme). In line with this Scheme, we will ask your consent to request information from previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation after having left previous employment.

By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Peace Direct is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom Peace Direct engages. Peace Direct expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.

Peace Direct is committed to preventing and protecting all people from harm in their interactions with us. We expect all those that act in our name to uphold our approach to doing no harm and to sign up to our Safeguarding policy and Code of Conduct.