Job Title: Project Manager – Urban & Camp-Based Projects
Location: Jordan

About CARE Jordan

CARE International established a presence in Jordan in 1948 and is among the longest-standing international organizations in the country. Over more than 78 years, CARE has responded to successive displacement crises and supported refugees and vulnerable Jordanians through emergency relief, protection, and longer-term community-based programming.

Today, CARE’s work in Jordan connects humanitarian response, resilience, and inclusive development. CARE works across urban areas and refugee camps, including Azraq Camp, to strengthen protection systems, economic resilience, climate-informed livelihoods, and local capacities. CARE places strong emphasis on accountability, safeguarding, gender equality, and meaningful participation, particularly for women and girls.

CARE works closely with national and community-based partners to reduce risks, strengthen coping systems, and expand pathways to safety, dignity, and opportunity. Its programming focuses on protection and psychosocial support, social protection and economic inclusion, localization and civil society partnerships, and climate resilience and green livelihoods. Through this model, CARE supports local leadership while maintaining strong standards of quality, compliance, and stewardship.

In Jordan, CARE is recognized for its commitment to humanitarian protection, women and girls’ empowerment, and inclusive programming that supports both refugees and host communities. CARE values equality, integrity, transformation, excellence, diversity, and respect for human dignity. We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children, young people, and adults, and we ensure that only those who share these values are recruited.

Job Summary

CARE Jordan is seeking a highly experienced Project Manager to strengthen the day-to-day management and delivery of a portfolio of urban and camp-based projects, ensuring timely implementation, strong program quality, and full compliance with internal policies and donor requirements. This is a fixed-term position for six months, extendable subject to funding and performance, based in Amman with a clear balance between office-based leadership and field-based oversight across urban locations and camps, in line with CARE Jordan procedures.

Reporting to the Program Manager, the Project Manager will lead operational implementation across the assigned portfolio and ensure consistent project management discipline across planning, coordination, risk management, partner follow-up, reporting readiness, and close-out preparation. The role requires strong internal coordination with monitoring and evaluation, finance, procurement, administration, and other relevant functions to ensure delivery is smooth, documented, and audit-ready. The position includes direct supervision of assigned staff, as applicable, and functional coordination of partner focal points and field teams to ensure coherent implementation across sites.

The Project Manager will support delivery in a portfolio that may include integrated or standalone interventions across CARE Jordan priority areas such as social protection and protection-informed approaches, livelihoods and economic empowerment, climate resilience and climate-informed programming, community engagement and accountability, and localization and partnership strengthening, with strong attention to cross-cutting priorities including gender equality, safeguarding, inclusion, and meaningful participation.

In addition, the Project Manager will contribute to CARE Jordan’s portfolio and proposal management processes by providing field-informed and implementation-grounded inputs to strengthen feasibility, sequencing, staffing assumptions, risk analysis, and learning integration. This contribution will be coordinated through the Program Manager and relevant Business Development colleagues and is not expected to replace or lead formal proposal development responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

Management and Delivery Leadership (Project Cycle Management) (35%)

• Lead day-to-day delivery of assigned urban and camp-based projects, ensuring implementation stays on track against approved scope, results commitments, timelines, and quality expectations.
• Translate approved project designs into clear operational workplans, delivery calendars, and field schedules; maintain implementation trackers and decision logs to keep delivery predictable and well managed.
• Drive implementation readiness by coordinating staffing, field arrangements, and delivery sequencing, ensuring activities are prepared, safe, and feasible in both urban and camp contexts.
• Identify delivery risks early, including operational, contextual, partner performance, access, and compliance risks, and apply practical mitigation actions; escalate strategic or high-risk issues to the Program Manager with clear options and recommendations.
• Maintain close-out readiness throughout implementation by ensuring deliverables, documentation, and handover notes are continuously updated rather than left to the end.

Team Leadership and Internal Operating Model (People, Systems, and Cross-Functional Coordination) (20%)

• Supervise assigned project staff, as applicable, with clear objectives, structured follow-up, coaching, and performance support, promoting a respectful and accountable team culture.
• Ensure strong day-to-day coordination between field and office teams and across functions, including monitoring and evaluation, finance, procurement, and administration, enabling timely approvals and smooth implementation flow.
• Promote disciplined internal communication and problem-solving routines that reduce delays, strengthen accountability, and protect delivery quality.
• Ensure teams and partners consistently apply internal procedures and safeguarding requirements, including confidentiality and respectful engagement with communities.
• Strengthen internal ways of working by identifying operational gaps and proposing practical improvements that enhance delivery efficiency and compliance.

Partnership Performance and External Coordination (Localization, Stakeholders, and Authorities) (15%)

• Manage day-to-day coordination with implementing partners, ensuring clear responsibilities, delivery timelines, reporting expectations, documentation standards, and escalation pathways.
• Monitor partner performance through joint planning, routine check-ins, and field follow-up; support partners to meet delivery and compliance requirements through practical coaching and problem-solving.
• Maintain professional coordination with relevant authorities and stakeholders linked to project areas and thematic sectors, ensuring alignment with approvals, access arrangements, and coordination commitments.
• Represent CARE Jordan in assigned coordination spaces with consistent messaging, clear follow-up, and strong credibility-building through delivery reliability.
• Support localization objectives by strengthening partnership ways of working, shared learning, and clarity on quality and accountability expectations.

Accountability, Evidence, and Stewardship (Reporting, Budget Follow-Up, and Portfolio Contribution) (15%)

• Ensure robust accountability through complete, accurate, and well-organized project documentation, including implementation evidence, partner deliverables, and audit-ready filing systems.
• Coordinate with Monitoring and Evaluation colleagues to ensure data quality, indicator tracking, learning capture, and reporting readiness; ensure field realities and results are reflected accurately in reporting.
• Provide timely and evidence-based inputs to donor and internal reporting, capturing achievements, challenges, corrective actions, and key learnings with professionalism and clarity.
• Support strong financial stewardship by tracking expenditure trends against work plans and budgets, flagging risks early, and coordinating with Finance, Procurement, and Administration to protect compliance and value for money.
• Contribute to portfolio and proposal management processes through the Program Manager and Business Development colleagues by providing implementation-grounded inputs that strengthen feasibility, sequencing, staffing assumptions, partner realities, risk mitigation, and integration of field learning into future program design.

Program Quality and Technical Integrity (10%)

• Ensure consistent program quality across sites through structured field presence, supervision, and corrective action, keeping delivery aligned with CARE standards and commitments to communities.
• Coordinate with technical colleagues to ensure implementation remains technically sound and coherent across CARE Jordan priority areas, including social protection and protection-informed approaches; livelihoods and economic empowerment; climate resilience and climate-informed programming; community engagement and accountability; and localization and partnership strengthening.
• Ensure cross-cutting priorities are embedded and operationalized, including gender equality, inclusion, safeguarding, meaningful participation, and do-no-harm.
• Support integrated programming linkages where relevant, ensuring thematic components reinforce each other and delivery remains consistent across multiple sites and partners.
• Ensure quality documentation of implementation standards, key decisions, and adaptations made due to contextual changes, maintaining clarity on what changed and why.

Other Responsibilities as Assigned (5%)

• Carry out other relevant tasks assigned by the Program Manager to support program delivery, quality, and organizational priorities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in international development, social sciences, business administration, public administration, project management, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.
• At least 10 years of progressive experience in managing humanitarian and/or development projects, including multi-site delivery and strong field-based oversight.
• Experience working in Jordan and familiarity with both urban and camp contexts.
• Proven experience managing projects in at least two of the following areas:
  • Social protection and protection-informed approaches
  • Livelihoods and economic empowerment, including community-based or market-linked approaches
  • Climate resilience and climate-informed programming, including adaptation, risk-informed design, and resilience strengthening
• Demonstrated ability to manage implementing partnerships, including planning, deliverable tracking, documentation standards, and performance follow-up.
• Strong experience coordinating with internal support functions and contributing to reporting readiness, budget follow-up, and compliance-focused implementation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English and Arabic.
• Strong leadership, coordination, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to operate effectively in a complex, multi-partner environment.

Contract Duration:
6 months, with the possibility of extension.

CARE International in Jordan is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or disability.

How to Apply:

Applications must be submitted by March 26, 2026. Shortlisting and interviews will begin thereafter.
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