Roving Project Coordinator

Starting Date / Initial Contract Details

November 2025, 12 months

Role Summary

The Project Coordinator leads and manages the implementation of field projects, ensuring strategic direction, management, and evaluation. Key responsibilities include team leadership, security oversight, and liaison with local authorities and stakeholders to achieve project objectives effectively. The role involves assessments, research, and partnership development in response to evolving needs.

Project Overview

Medair has been working in Madagascar since 2002 and is currently running multi-sector emergency projects in Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, Health and Nutrition, Shelter and Disaster Risk Reduction in the Grand Sud, Grand Sud-Est and East of the country, to meet the needs of vulnerable communities, most of the time in rural and hard-to-reach areas.

Workplace & Conditions

Based out of Tana. Initially, South-East of Madagascar (Farafangana), with regular field trips to support our other base and Team in the South-West (Beloha)

Responsibilities:

• Support project identification and design, carrying out research and making recommendations for interventions. Facilitate collaboration with NGOs and authorities for effective project responses.

• Oversee project implementation, ensuring objectives, timelines, and budgets are met; guide managers and PMs in day-to-day decisions, and conduct monitoring, evaluation, and reporting.

• Develop and maintain stakeholder relationships, representing Medair in meetings and networks; facilitate partnerships and respond to evolving project needs effectively.

• Collaborate with team members to assess security risks, update protocols, and train staff on security measures, ensuring adherence to guidelines for team safety.

• Plan, construct, and manage project budgets in coordination with Project Managers; monitor spending and ensure compliance with donor regulations and financial guidelines.

Qualifications, Experience & Technical Competencies:

• University degree in Management, Development Studies, Business Administration or relevant field.  

• Minimum of two years post-qualification experience in a management position, preferably in a relief environment.

• Strong experience with report and proposal writing, and budgeting and financial reporting skills.

Advanced planning, assessment and analytical skills. Leadership and project management skills

• Strategic thinker, creative, open-minded, flexible, self-learner, good understanding of cross-cultural issues.

• Excellent French (spoken and written) and strong working knowledge of English (spoken and written). 

Behavioural Skills

• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and networking skills.

• Very good organisational skills and strong writing skills.

• Advanced planning, assessment, and analytical skills

• Problem solving agility

• Team player

Team Spiritual Life

Reflect the values of Medair with team members, local staff, people we serve, and external contacts. Work, live, and pray together in our Christian faith-based teams. Fully contribute to a rich spiritual team life, including team devotion, prayer, and words of encouragement.

Before you apply

Please ensure you are fully aware of the:

1. Medair organisational values.

1. Medair is committed to safeguarding the protection of beneficiaries, volunteers, staff and partners, and particularly children. Therefore, we do not employ staff whose background we understand to be unsuitable for working with children. Medair staff are required to give the utmost respect to, and comply with, Medair’s accountability policies and best practices.

1. Medair Relief & Recovery Orientation Course (ROC) (which forms part of the recruitment selection process for field positions).

Application Process

To apply, go to this vacancy on our Medair page. Please do not make multiple applications. We will not review email applications. Only English-language applications / CVs will be reviewed.

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