Field Team Leader

Main duties and responsibilities:

Team Leadership and Supervision:

• Supervise, guide, and support volunteers during field activities.
• Develop and organize volunteers’ work schedules and deployment plans.
• Conduct regular briefings and debriefings with volunteers.
• Monitor volunteers’ performance and provide constructive feedback.
• Promote teamwork, accountability, and professional conduct among volunteers.
• Ensure volunteers understand project objectives, methodologies, and expected standards.

Project Implementation

• Coordinate and oversee implementation of project activities in targeted locations.
• Ensure activities are implemented according to approved work plans and project targets.
• Support implementation of livelihood, protection, awareness-raising, assessments, distributions, and other project activities.
• Ensure beneficiary selection and project activities comply with approved criteria and procedures.
• Identify implementation challenges and propose practical solutions.

Community Engagement

• Maintain positive relationships with community leaders, beneficiaries, and local stakeholders.
• Facilitate communication between project teams and communities.
• Collect community feedback, complaints, and suggestions.
• Ensure accountability and safeguarding principles are applied during implementation.

Monitoring, Data Collection and Reporting

• Supervise data collection activities conducted by volunteers.
• Verify accuracy and quality of collected data before submission.
• Support surveys, assessments, monitoring visits, and post-distribution monitoring activities.
• Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly field reports.

Compliance and Quality Assurance

• Ensure adherence to Mission East policies, donor requirements, and humanitarian standards.
• Ensure compliance with Protection, PSEA, Safeguarding, and Code of Conduct policies.
• Monitor quality of field activities and recommend improvements where necessary.

Report any incidents, risks, or protection concerns immediately to management.

Other Duties

• Participate in trainings, meetings, and communication planning sessions.
• Support organizational events, campaigns, and awareness activities.
• Perform any other tasks assigned by the Program Manager.

Requirements:

Education

• University degree or diploma in Social Sciences, Business Administration, Development Studies, Education, Agriculture, Economics, or a related field.
  

Experience

• Minimum 3 years of experience with NGOs, INGOs, or humanitarian organizations.
• At least 2 years of experience supervising volunteers, community mobilizers, or field teams.
• Experience in Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL), Protection, Emergency Response, Community Development, or related sectors.
• Experience in community engagement, field coordination, and reporting.
  

Skills and Competencies

• Strong leadership and team management skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong organizational and coordination abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines.
• Experience using Kobo, ODK, or other data collection platforms.
• Good report writing and documentation skills.
• Good in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Ability to work under pressure and in challenging environments.
• Problem-solving and decision-making skills.
  

Technical Skills

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
• Experience using Canva, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro, CapCut, or similar editing software is an asset.
• Ability to use smartphones and cameras for professional documentation.

Languages

• Arabic: Mother tongue
• English: Good working knowledge preferred.
  

Core Competencies

• Integrity and Accountability
• Teamwork and Collaboration
• Respect for Diversity
• Community Engagement
• Planning and Organizing
• Results Orientation
• Adaptability and Flexibility
• Leadership and Coaching
  

Application

Deadline for application: 12/07/2026 at 17:00 Damascus Time.

Please NOTE that this vacancy may close earlier once suitable candidates are identified.

Field Team Leader reports to Programme Manager

If you have any questions about the position, please, contact Finance & HR Manager: Rasha Aleter, email address: rar-sy@missioneast.org

Mission East wants to promote equality and diversity, and we therefore encourage all qualified people to apply for the job- regardless of ethnic background, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability or religion.

We, on the other hand, have zero tolerance for fraud, sexual exploitation and abuse, harassment or gender-based violence, and we conduct a thorough screening of our preferred candidate. We carry out reference checks and are members of the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme, a network that shares all SEAH issues in relation to potential new hires.

About us

Mission East is an international relief and development organisation founded in Denmark. We work to create hope, dignity and new beginnings. Every day and when crisis strikes.
We work closely with local communities in some of the world's most vulnerable, dangerous and hard-to-reach areas. We go the extra mile to reach the people who are most often overlooked. With our work, we restore their dignity, strengthen their resilience and promote justice, for the benefit of both people and our planet.
Mission East is active in 10 countries: Afghanistan, Armenia, Lebanon, Nepal, Nigeria, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Chad and Ukraine. Here, we and our local partners support the most vulnerable people in lifting them out of crises, poverty and marginalisation. 

Visit our home page to know more about our work.

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All contract offers will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks,
which can include PEP, criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Mission East also participates in the Inter
Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we may request information from current and previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual
harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left
employment. By submitting an offer, the consultant confirms his/her understanding of these
recruitment procedures and is asked to give their consent during the application process.