Fostering Refugee Leadership, Project Manager [female candidate]

Basmeh and Zeitooneh is a registered Lebanese organization, committed to serving refugees and vulnerable communities in Lebanon, through four community centers across the country. The organization runs educational, relief, livelihoods, and protection programs, and aims to serve as an inclusive and supportive focal point for the entire community.

Job Purpose : 

Through the Fostering Refugee Leadership project, the refugee community in Lebanon will have more agency in their lives, to have a say and be able to influence the solutions that suit them. It all starts with them identifying the problems, the root of the problems, their needs, the obstacles, and then they will decide on the best solutions for their community. Basmeh & Zeitooneh role’s will be to facilitate this road and provide the necessary resources.

The FRL will pursue the actualization of the below two main objectives:

• 80 refugee-led and co-lead initiatives are supported through capacity-building programs.
• 30 initiatives (out of the 80 initiatives) will benefit from medium grants provision schemes that will fully or partially finance the implementation of their community programs and interventions as per the community needs.

The FRL Project Manager is therefore responsible for planning, coordinating, leading, and controlling the FRL project for 4-5 years while empowering the diverse stakeholders involved and targeted by this strategic intervention. The Program Manager is also responsible for overseeing the enrolled initiatives and supporting their development in order to pursue an extended sustainable impact on this intervention, with constant coordination and involvement of partners and donors, beneficiary participants, different departments, and units in B&Z as well as domestic and relevant stakeholders. Moreover, the PM will remain responsible for designing, planning, and overseeing the execution of the needs assessment as well as the regular production of context analysis.

Major Activities : 

• Provide the overall management, vision, and direction of the FRL Project, including the planning, programmatic and financial implementation, internal and external programmatic, progress and financial reporting, as well as performance monitoring and evaluation; in accordance to the project plans, description of the intervention activities and the relevant contractual agreements.
• Develop and relevantly adjust the necessary relevant productions, including staff job descriptions and terms of reference, detailed operational and control plans, risk registry, risk analysis, and risk mitigation plans, relevant call(s) for applications, information sessions presentations, and MoUs.
• Develop and maintain the synchronicity of the programmatic, operational, and financial trackers and record-keeping tools.
• Develop the internal and external programmatic progress reports according to the set timeframes as well as maintain comprehensive project documentation of the produced reports and their relevant annexes and means of verification.
• Maintain a healthy liaison with the relevant team members, such as country programmatic and operations teams, support services teams, communication and fundraising teams, front line and community centers’ teams, as well as senior management and executive board members.
• Maintain purposeful participation and healthy relationship with the relevant and potential partners and donors, through the participation in meetings, workshops, events, site visits, webinars, and conventions and through the collaboration in the jointly-produced productions such as plans, proposals, reviews, reports as well as other types of public publications.
• Provide data, information, results, plans, briefs... serving proposal development process
• Ensure and maintain the quality delivery of the project activities in complementarity with B&Z’s local and regional programs, interventions emergency plans and response.
• Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs using appropriate verification techniques.
• Develop relevant management procedures within the team; Improve information flows within the project and with other departments and projects; support and work with the relevant team members to reach quality results, and coordinate and create links between team members
• Attend country-level meetings and participate in program/project developments and designs by providing insight and context.
• Guide and assist the relevant trainers, consultants, and coaches in developing curriculums and materials used in capacity building.
• Ensure timely and effective grants distribution for quality and impactful project implementation, and identify and employ the relevant monitoring tools and procedures.
• Ensure and promote the protection mainstreaming among the beneficiary initiatives.
• Participate in the relevant meetings with the coalition members.

• Participate in the advocacy for refugee rights and their contextual situations with deep coordination with B&Z Advocacy Unit.

People Management : 

• Design and draft the R-RLOs project team terms of reference and job descriptions.
• Line-manage the R-RLOs project team members according to B&Z policies and procedures, including - and not limiting to - three Portfolio Development Officers and a Liaison Officer.

• A minimum of 3 years of relevant work experience in a relevant position is necessary (a reference check will be conducted, according to HR Unit judgment)
• A relevant work experience in promoting or advocating for refugee leadership will be considered as a plus

Competencies 

Functional: 

• Pursue an agile approach to project management;
• Express efficient and purposeful work independently with limited guidance;
• Use and continually develop leadership skills;
• Express a clear and logical understanding of the displacement context;
• Prove sound computer and cloud-based, collaborative soft skills (MO, Google Suite, Accounts Tracking and Management, and internet surfing); and
• Prove sound research and relevant analytical skills.

Behavioral:

The ideal candidate is an excellent team worker and team supporter, that is able to actualize the aimed objectives with a dedicated focus on developing co-workers' skills and competencies, yet from a doing-no-harm and dispute-resolution perspective.