Closing date: 15 Aug 2026 Project Officer – Connect, Defend, Act! Office: Remote (Ramallah or East Jerusalem) Hours: 36 Application deadline: August 15, 2026 Do you want to make a meaningful contribution to protecting civic space and supporting human rights defenders? Hivos is looking for a Project Officer to join the Connect, Defend, Act! (CDA) program. In this role, you will help deliver impactful projects by working closely with partners, supporting effective implementation, and ensuring accountability, learning, and compliance. With support from NORAD , Hivos is implementing a 5-year project called Connect, Defend, Act! (CDA) that started in 2024. To respond to the issue of shrinking civic space and amplify civil society-led action, the CDA project will support civil society actors in Colombia, Indonesia, Malawi, and the Occupied Palestinian Territory in their efforts to defend and expand civic space through three strategic objectives: By promoting coalition building among diverse civil society actors, including human rights defenders, rightsholder-led civil society organizations and independent media actors, grounded in civil society-led evidence gathering and knowledge production, and facilitated by context-specific communities of action. By contributing to safe and inclusive digital civic spaces for sustained collaboration and action among civil society actors through localized holistic digital security capacity strengthening, knowledge production and active referral to digital protection providers. By increasing civil society actors’ flexibility to rapidly respond to changes in civic space through organizational capacity strengthening and the provision of strategic funding for sustainable action. The project aims to strategically support relevant actors within civil society whose work actively contributes to civic space from the perspective of different sectors and interests, while particularly including groups who are marginalized within civil society, such as women, youth, People with Disabilities, Indigenous People and others. Purpose of the role The Project Officer contributes to the implementation and performance of CDA activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, supporting delivery of agreed results, timelines and budgets. The role supports project planning, partner engagement, capacity strengthening, monitoring, reporting, risk management and learning, while ensuring alignment with donor requirements, Hivos policies, safeguarding standards and conflict-sensitive programming principles. Responsibilities The key responsibilities of the role include: Project Coordination: Oversee the day-to-day implementation of project activities in alignment with project goals and objectives. Facilitate the formation and strengthening of coalitions among diverse Civil Society Actors, including Human Rights Defenders, rights holder-led organizations, and independent media actors. Support the development and implementation of digital security in