Project Supervisor

Main Duties and Responsibilities

1. Assessing beneficiaries’ needs.
2. Supervising all ongoing activities under “Basic Education and Psychosocial Support for Syrian and Palestinian Refugee Children in Lebanon” project.
3. Supervise and follow up with staff, trainers, animators and activators working on field on daily bases
4.  Provide technical guidance, on the job coaching and mentoring to the PSS team on the principles of psychosocial support and learning and development principles for children and adults
5. Establishing suitable weekly action plans and reports and support the activators to develop a weekly, monthly and yearly work plan thus update it regularly and follow-up on its implementation
6. Hold weekly team meetings to discuss challenges and successes faced in implementation and share coordination meeting minutes and staff meeting minutes with the Education and PSS Program Officer.
7. Ensure that consent is taken from caregivers and children for the activities
8. Monitor the progress of project targets against indicators on a weekly basis using the appropriate documents
9. Maintain positive relations with local implementing actors, local authorities and other international and local stakeholders through coordination
10. Liaise with local partners and community leaders to identify vulnerable individuals in areas of intervention mainly for events and open days
11. Maintain and monitor the data entry for the project activities
12. Coordinate with the admin, finance and the logistics departments to ensure that the needed means and tools are available for the running of the project
13. Maintaining contact with Education and PSS Program Officer.
14. Respecting and applying Islamic Relief policies and procedures
15. Adhere to IRL Child Protection Policy and committed to “do no harm”.
16. Willingness to dedicate 100% of his/her working hours to education and PSS projects and providing accurate time-sheet and performance report to Education and PSS Program Officer on weekly and monthly bases as per IRL requirements.
17. Raise purchase requests for the projects’ materials upon the approval of the Education and PSS Program Officer.
18. Perform any other task as assigned by the Education and PSS Program Officer/ line manager.

Child Protection Policy:

1. Commit to respect the Islamic Relief Child Protection Policy
2. Commit to ensure the best implementation possible of the Child Protection Policy
3. Commit to respond to any child abuse concerns following the procedures and guidelines on dealing with child’s allegation or suspicion of abuse.

Person Specification                                                                                                              

Experience / Education/Skills- Essential

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work, Counseling, Psychology Child Development or other related field
• Minimum 2 years of relative experience, preferred with international NGOs.
• knowledge of psychosocial support basic principles and PSS key messages to vulnerable children and caregivers
• Strong communication, interpersonal & technical skills.

Ability To

• Work independently with minimal supervision.
• Read, comprehend and interpret written materials of moderate to complex difficulty.
• Records management systems (both automated and paper files) to ensure accurate maintenance of files and ease of retrieval.
• Word-processing, spreadsheet and database software programs related to job functions.
• Communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.

Language                                                         

• Fluency in English & Arabic (written and spoken).

IT skills                                                            

• Proficiency in MS office and the ability to use software necessary for project management and reporting.

General Skills                                       

• Analytical skills
• Flexibility
• Communication
• Leadership skills
• Stress management
• Professionalism
• Staff development
• Conflict management  
• Report writing skills.