Center Officer

Sawa for Development and Aid is a Civil Society Organisation founded initially as a spontaneous initiative in December 2011 to respond to the arrival of the first 40 Syrian families displaced from Syria into the North of Lebanon.

This initiative then grew to include individual activists, locals and internationals, who worked together (literally meaning ‘Sawa’ in Arabic) to share their knowledge and exchange their experiences in order to support Syrians, internally displaced or refugees in neighbouring countries, united by their belief in their right to live in dignity and freedom, and to be active individuals in their communities, and wherever they are.

Sawa sees itself as part and parcel of the society, and that it is on a continuous learning journey based on a participatory relationship at all levels with the communities that it works with, whether host or displaced, as well as with local and international partners.

Sawa believes that humanitarian, developmental and civic work has to always strive to achieve social justice, and so it aims to work with individuals and communities through holistic interventions towards a society based on democracy, pluralism, and values of citizenship and human rights. 

Job Description:

1. Responsible for the administration work: paper work, filing, reporting, data entry.

2. Follow up with the beneficiaries: create files, lists, and contact.

3. Responsible for the procurement of the project: quotations, purchase, and payments.

4. Time management: make sure the project meets time with every deadline.

5. Attendance control.

6. Assist the trainers in writing the manual.

7. Handel the marketing of this Project.

8. Other necessary requests for the project.

Qualifications/Requirements, Knowledge and Experience

• University degree in a related field, such as development, Statistics, Economics, Psychology, Social Science, Social worker with coursework in operations research, quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis etc.

• Minimum 3 years of work experience in development programming required.

• Experience with development and livelihood.

• Proven ability to work productively with a variety of stakeholders to run participatory processes and meet tight deadlines with an emphasis on producing quality products.

• Demonstrated awareness and responsiveness to gender and social issues in cross-cultural contexts and gender integration programming.

• Demonstrated the ability to adapt to new environments and be flexible given the nature of the work ( i.e. constant changes happening on the ground, movement of the refugees…)

• Excellent computer skills, including experience with: Excel, PowerPoint, Word..

• Fluency in spoken and written Arabic and English.
• Marketing skills
• Great communication skills
• Excellent organization and follow up skills.