Projects Development and Reporting Officer

Common Effort is a Lebanese non-profit, non-governmental and non-political organization that was created by a group of youth in 2010. Our mission is to help society prevent family violence, child protection, drug abuse and provide legal aid. We have since extended our help to renovating homes and shelters. Our vision is to be the trusted shelter to every abused victim, and the hope to all the people in need.

Position Context & Objectives:

• To effectively manage assigned capital projects.
• To effectively communicate with stakeholders to ensure positive project outcomes.
• To provide competent management of human and financial resources.
• To effectively support senior management team.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• To plan and coordinate project activities, including scheduling, reporting and document control.
• To Contribute to drafting new concept notes, project proposals, budgets, submission packages and other project documents in close coordination with relevant managerial and thematic units within CE.
• To verify that the development of projects is in line with donor profiles and donor priorities as well as CE internal requirements and standards.
• To assist in developing approaches to expand CE donor base in Lebanon, including research and mapping of funding trends and sporadic support to donor liaison events.
• To coordinate donor agreements and project activation with managers and finance colleagues as well as other duties related to grant administration in-country.
• At proposal development, work closely with the MEAL unit to facilitate consistency and quality across logical frameworks, results matrix or other monitoring and evaluation aspects required by CE and donor standards.
• In close coordination with Head of Programs, track submission progress, and review and edit interim and final project reports for donors and CE, ensuring adherence to project proposals, signed agreements and institutional reporting requirements.
• To ensure that project documents, donor agreements, periodic reports and key correspondences are archived in line with established procedures.
• Tp participate in donor briefings, conferences, workshops, Cluster meetings, working groups, etc. as requested by the Director.
• To perform such other duties as may be assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Political science or relevant.
• +3 years of experience in NGO; Proposal writing experience.
• Legal background in an international organization.
• Experience in financial reporting and budgeting.
• Field work experience (Development/Humanitarian or think tank).
• Proven communication proficiency (Drafting newsletter, success stories, monitoring and evaluation reports).
• Proficiency in Arabic and English.