Project Manager

The Project Manager is responsible for the management of the JRS Migrant Center project, ensuring high-quality, accountable, and compliant implementation in line with JRS Lebanon’s mission and policies. The role provides oversight of all programmatic, operational, financial, and compliance aspects of the project, with a particular focus on protection-centred and community-based approaches for migrant workers.

The Project Manager directly supervises the Project Coordinator and the Center Administrative Assistant, and works closely with other team members, including social workers, Legal Consultants, clinical psychologists, and external stakeholders, to ensure effective implementation and sustainability of services delivered through the Migrant Center.

Main Responsibilities of the Position:

1. Project Leadership & Implementation Oversight:

• Provide overall leadership for the Migrant Center project, ensuring alignment with JRS Lebanon’s strategy, protection priorities, and donor agreements.
• Identify programmatic risks, gaps, and opportunities, and lead adaptive management to improve program quality and impact.
• Oversee day-to-day implementation of Migrant Center activities through effective supervision of the Project Coordinator and the Center Administrative Assistant.
• Ensure that services are delivered in a timely, efficient, and high-quality manner, responding to the evolving needs of migrants’ communities.
• Lead and ensure coherent implementation and coordination across all components of the project, promoting integrated, safe, and accountable service delivery aligned with protection principles and donor requirements

2. Operational and Financial Management

• Ensure effective operational management of the Migrant Center, including planning, resource allocation, and workflow coordination.

• Work closely with finance and logistics teams in the Country Office to monitor project budgets, expenditures, and cost-effectiveness.
• Ensure that project activities are implemented within approved budgets and timelines.
• Anticipate operational challenges and proactively propose solutions.

3. Compliance and Reporting:

• Ensure full compliance with JRS Lebanon internal policies, donor requirements, and relevant legal and regulatory frameworks.
• Lead the preparation and timely submission of high-quality narrative reports and provide accurate programmatic input to financial reports, ensuring compliance with donor requirements and internal reporting standards, in close coordination with relevant departments.
• Ensure proper documentation, data management, and use of monitoring and evaluation tools.

4. Team Management and Capacity Development:

• Line-manage the Project Coordinator and the Center Administrative Assistant, providing leadership, guidance, performance management, and professional development support.
• Foster a positive, inclusive, and supportive work environment that promotes staff well-being and learning.
• Ensure staff adherence to safeguarding, code of conduct, and security protocols.
• Identify capacity-building needs within the team and facilitate relevant training and coaching.

5. Coordination and Representation:

• Ensure strong and meaningful engagement with migrant communities served by the project, maintaining regular presence, open communication, and participatory approaches to ensure their perspectives, priorities, and feedback meaningfully inform program design, implementation, and continuous improvement.
• Lead strategic partnerships and coordination with protection partners to strengthen referral pathways, ensure complementarity of interventions, and enhance integrated protection outcomes for migrant communities.
• Represent JRS Lebanon in relevant coordination forums, technical working groups, and stakeholder meetings at local and national levels, ensuring clear articulation of the organization’s mandate, priorities, and field realities.

Qualifications, Skills, and Attributes:

• Bachelor’s degree in social work, law, international development, humanitarian studies, or any related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in project management, preferably within humanitarian or NGO settings.
• Experience in managing multi-component projects, including protection and community-based programming.
• Strong understanding of donor compliance, reporting, and project cycle management.
• Proven leadership and people management skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and shared document platforms (e.g. SharePoint, OneDrive).
• Experience with monitoring and evaluation tools and project management systems.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and coordination skills.
• Fluency in spoken and written Arabic and English.
• Strong commitment to serving migrants, refugees, and displaced populations with dignity and respect.

Core Values and Ethics:

• Commitment to JRS’s mission, vision, and values;
• Ability to convey with enthusiasm JRS’s role in accompanying and serving vulnerable communities and to advocate for their right to protection and a life in dignity.
• Trustworthy and good listener.
• High sense of discretion in dealing with confidential matters.
• Acceptance of diversity and inclusion as core values.
• High integrity and honesty.
• Ability to deal tactfully and discreetly with people, situations, and information.