Project Coordinator at ActionAid Danmark

Desired Skills & Experience

The successful candidate will have:

1. Postgraduate degree in Social Science, Political Science, Development Studies, Human Rights, Governance or other relevant humanities field.
2. At least 6 years’ experience working in an international agency / across countries using rights based approaches.
3. Excellent understanding of both policy issues and programme practice on promoting democratic governance.
4. Solid project management skills and experience of managing complex projects with a wide geographical scope requiring virtual collaboration.
5. Experience of developing, planning, managing and reporting on complex multi-country institutional donor-funded projects.
6. Strong networking/relationship-building skills to work well with and influence diverse stakeholders in a multi-cultural environment.
7. Excellent problem-solving skills, resourcefulness to understand and synthesize diverging points of view and resolve conflicts without escalation.
8. Team coordination skills, ability to negotiate, influence and facilitate activities with colleagues to get results without formal line management authority.
9. Energetic, enthusiastic and interested in learning within a political, changing and diverse work environment.
10. Very good communication skills (verbal and written English) to work well in a global and multi-cultural context.