Job Description

Description

Welcome to MAP.

About the Role

About MAP

Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) works for the health and dignity of Palestinians living under occupation and as refugees. For more than 40 years, we have been delivering essential health and medical care to those most affected by conflict, displacement and occupation in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) and Lebanon.

We are now responding to the largest emergency in our history. Over the last two year, tens of thousands of new supporters have joined MAP. We work to raise Palestinian voices and work to secure their rights to health and dignity.

At the forefront of this effort is MAP's UK Programmes Team - shaping public narratives, protecting and strengthening MAP's reputation, and ensuring that the voices of our colleagues and the Palestinian communities we serve are heard worldwide.

About the role

MAP is seeking an experienced

programme professional

to oversee the UK programmes quality and strategy and Institutional Funding team.

In this role, you'll work across teams and with external stakeholders to ensure that MAP UK Programmes team strategy delivers quality in its programming and achieves its institutional funding targets.

Key Responsibilities:

Support the Director of Programmes in providing strategic direction for MAP's programmatic activity and deputise in his/her absence. Lead the day-to-day management of the UK programme team. Oversee UK programme budgets and expenditure forecasts. Ensure effective programme quality, coordination, and institutional funding across all operational contexts. Provide oversight to MAP's medical missions and emergency medical teams. Drive organizational initiatives on safeguarding, accountability, MEAL, and technical standards while supporting country office autonomy and decision-making. Deputise for the Director of Programmes in her/his absence.

About You

You'll bring proven experience in programme planning, delivery, management, monitoring and evaluating humanitarian and developmental health projects/programmes overseas, especially in the middle eastern region. You will have experience motivating and leading diverse teams and would have coordinated programmes with external stakeholders, especially UN and non-governmental agencies. You will have a track record of delivering institutional funding targets and will have strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Right to work in the UK is necessary.

RECRUITMENT PROCESS

Interviews will take place beginning of January 2026 on Microsoft Teams.

If you have any questions, or reasonable adjustment requests at any point in the application and recruitment process, please contact recruitment@map-uk.org.

How to Apply

Please submit your CV and Personal Statement of 1 page before the deadline of 12:00 midnight GMT on 14th December 2025.

Equal opportunities

MAP aims to be an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

Background checks

As an organisation MAP is committed to the welfare and protection of children and vulnerable adults. MAP will conduct appropriate background and references checks. Link in that safeguarding and ethical conduct.

Disclaimer

MAP reserves the right to close this advert before the confirmed closing date when we are in receipt of sufficient applications.



We would therefore advise interested applicants to apply as early as possible. Due to the high volume of applications, we receive, we are unable to respond to every application. If you have not heard from us within two weeks of the deadline, then you have not been successful in shortlisting

About Medical Aid for Palestinians

Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) works in partnership with Palestinian communities to uphold their rights to health and dignity. We do this by developing effective, sustainable and locally-led healthcare services, providing medical aid during emergencies, and campaigning to break down the barriers to Palestinian health and healthcare today and for the future.



MAP has a zero tolerance policy with regard to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by MAP's personnel against the people they serve. Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) is the responsibility of everyone, and all selected candidates will be required to comply with MAP's PSEA Policy at all times. Selected candidates will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks against their past behaviour related to sexual exploitation and abuse, and may be required to provide additional information further on in the selection process.