Area Program Manager

We are looking for a highly qualified candidate who has the skills to engage in our organization as an Area Program Manager for the Bekaa area. Who are we?The Danish Refugee Council has worked in Lebanon since September 2004, and the programs have followed the country’s needs and progress. The main focus of today’s efforts in Lebanon is to help the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees, who have fled across the border to find protection from the conflict in their homeland. DRC is simultaneously maintaining the efforts toward the vulnerable groups of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. More than 200.000 Syrian refugees have received assistance from the Danish Refugee Council since the beginning of the crisis.For further information about DRC, please refer to our website: www.drc.dk Duties• The Bekaa Programme Manager is responsible for ensuring that the Bekaa programme is well designed in line with the national programme strategy, and is implemented in compliance with donor contracts and DRC procedures, including follow up on the project and budget monitoring tools. The Programme Manager is responsible for programme quality and for developing the expertise of the sector managers, and critically implementing the capacity building plan on project cycle management and technical skills, as required, for these staff. The Programme Manager will be responsible for working with other field offices and Beirut, in order to develop standardized strategies and working methodologies.• Ensure that all internal and external reports are of high quality and provided in a timely fashion in collaboration with relevant staff. • Lead on proposal development in the area of operation.• Coordinate with the Operations to ensure that budgets are designed in accordance with needs. Ensure that expenditure are planned and properly managed. • Line manage Bekaa sector managers and ensure that all staff have relevant work plan, job description and that performance reviews take place. Ensure that DRC management principles are disseminated and adequately applied. • Attend sector coordination meetings in coordination with the Bekaa Area Manager; • Liaison with Government partners, local authorities; donors; local agencies etc. at all levels of project implementation as required About you• Minimum 5 years of management experience managing humanitarian multi-sector and multi-donor programs and in politicized and insecure settings, and/or experience of programming in protracted refugee settings• Relevant education preferably in management , social sciences or international development• Ability to deal with and build the capacity of duty-bearers such as ministries, LNGOs and other local authorities,• Capacity to properly manage the project cycle (undertaking assessment, planning, implementation, monitoring and documenting ones results) with monitoring-focused skills,• Negotiations and leadership skills• Good communication skills• Excellent interpersonal skills• Experience working in the region is desirable• Some experience in governance, protection, shelter and livelihoods work is desirable.• Commitment to the values, vision and mission of DRC• Full proficiency in spoken and written English. Proficiency in Arabic is considered an advantage, We offerAn interesting job in one of the best NGO’s in the world. DRC will offer the successful applicant a contract until end of December 2015, renewable dependent on both funding and performance. You must be available to start work from July 2015 and be willing and able to work in Bekaa.Salary and conditions will be in accordance with Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment for Expatriates and Nationals; please refer to www.drc.dk under Vacancies. This position will be placed at level A10. CommitmentsDRC has a Humanitarian Accountability Framework, outlining its global accountability commitments. All staff are required to contribute to the achievement of this framework (http://www.drc.dk/HAF.4265.0.html). Application processInterested? Then apply for this position by clicking on the apply button or go to www.drc.dk and find Current Vacancies.  All applicants should send a cover letter and an updated CV no longer than four pages, both in the same language as the vacancy note. Your CV should also include contact details of three professional referees. Applications close 26 of June 2015 and interviews are expected to take place in the following week.DRC reserves the right to recruit a candidate who matches the required profile before the above deadline