Senior Political Advisor

Description of the Tasks:

Institutional relation / Political orientations:

• Liaising with donors, intergovernmental, multilateral and bilateral development cooperation organizations; maintaining close relationship with relevant partners and stakeholders
• Identify deadlocks and set up strategy to ensure the implementation and constant dialogue with institutional partners and authorities,
• Attend and facilitation technical meeting with partners (Ministries, EU delegation, NGOs) and contribute to smooth implementation of the programme
• Identify opportunity of development and synergies with other cooperation projects

Human Resources / Management:

• Organise the workload and manage the technical and operational team
• Set-up tools and/or methodology to optimize the work of the Team
• Coordinate the recruitment of short term technical experts

Technical coordination:

• Provide technical inputs to the programme in coordination with the technical experts on skills development, protection and social stability
• Provide technical support to our partners in the implementation of the activities
• Support partners to increase their technical capacities through capacity building and training activities
• Advise the Programme Manager on the best indicators to monitor project cost-efficiency
• Ensure effective quality assurance and relevancy of the programme
• Support the monitoring and evaluation of the programme
• Initiate extra activities and other management interventions wherever gaps in the programme are identified or issues arise

Requested Profile

• Master degree in one of the relevant fields
• At least 10 years of experience in advising International cooperation projects that includes social stability, protection, skills development sessions.
• Diplomacy and negotiating skills are priorities,
• Proven networking capacities in Ministries
• Excellent knowledge of Lebanese Institutions, specially of the Ministry of Social Affairs
• Excellent knowledge of the Lebanese political context as well as of the relationship between host and refugee communities.
• Good knowledge of international donors environment
• Proven experience in managing complex early recovery/development programmes
• Excellent writing skills
• Professional working knowledge of English & Arabic are required. French is an asset.
• Good coordination and team work skills,

Location, Duration and Arrangements for performance

Location: Lebanon, Beirut

Starting date: ASAP

Period of implementation:  12 months