Field Officer

Action against Hunger is an international non-governmental, private, apolitical, non-religious and non-profit organization created in 1979. Its goal is to combat hunger and dangerous situations that threaten men, women and children. Currently 500 expats and more than 5,000 employees are working for Action against Hunger in more than forty-six countries working in projects concerning four areas of focus: nutrition, health, food security and water and sanitation. 

In Lebanon, the Syrian crisis continues to generate political, social and economic pressure due to the war in Lebanon and keeps more than 1.5 million refugees in a situation of increasing vulnerability. In this environment of political, economic and social uncertainty, our teams have maintained their high levels of humanitarian response and aid to Lebanon. Likewise, our interventions have been maintained in the Bekaa and northern areas, as well as in the south of the country, with a special focus on working in partnership or in consortium with other organizations and on institutional strengthening of the relationship with both donors. institutional, such as with local authorities and entities. 

POSITION GENERAL OBJECTIVE

• Implement the daily field activities for the project under the supervision of the Supervisor and Program Manager and deliver objectives and tasks on-time and to a high quality
•  Work with the team in a highly efficient manner, prioritizing needs and targets, and reporting in a clear and concise manner on the progress
•  Provide support to the project teams for the assessment of WASH/Shelter/FSL or other sectoral needs and related response activities 
•  Oversee and be responsible for the delivery of assistance at the collective shelter and community level, coordinating with other field teams as needed, and ensuring progress towards common goals.  

Objective 1: Response to WASH/Shelter/FSL and other field activities (60%)

• Ensure the delivery of identified services under the different response modalities with the highest quality and standard
• Conduct multi-sectoral needs assessment to identify needs and plan for a multi-sectoral integrated response
• Ensure Action Against Hunger response is aligned with technical humanitarian standards, sector guidance, and coordinated with other departments and organizations
• Visit the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and affected people in the targeted locations to deliver assistance as per sectors guidance 
• Assess the affected population for the provision of Emergency Cash Assistance and collect the necessary means of verification as needed.
• Deliver WASH activities for IDPs in close coordination with sector and relevant stakeholders
• Support in malnutrition screening, distribution of supplements and monitoring of MBC inside collective shelters.
• Support DRR and DRM units in the implementation of site management activities including site monitoring surveys and service mapping updates.
• Apply a protection lens throughout the process in order to detect protection needs and refer to the appropriate actor  
• Provide daily oversight of response modality service delivery directly at the field level, ensuring correct compliance with means of verification and reporting
• Communicate and coordinate with communities, municipality focal points, and other relevant field level actors on the daily implementation of tasks. 
• Work with other Action Against Hunger team members to provide accurate and timely assistance to identify participants in the programme.

Objective 2: Quality monitoring of the activities, needs analysis and adapting approaches, accountability (20%)

• Ensure that the activities and approaches are consistent and relevant to reach programme objectives, and report to the technical manager any deviation
• Identify deviations and needs not covered and proposed adaptations to programme activities
• Ensure proper quality monitoring of the interventions, including collaboration with MEAL Department
• Identify good practices and those that need improvement propose suggestions to adapt the program tools accordingly 
• Monitor and track all field activities and deliveries, ensuring compliance and control is provided

Objective 3: Reporting and archiving (10%)

• Submit weekly and monthly reports.
• Ensure proper, accurate and timely archiving of all the means of verification of the project and other technical project documentation (soft and hard copies)
• Ensure proper documentation of challenges, lessons learned and best practices
• Ensure proper reporting and usage of digital platforms including kobo, activity info, ERNA, ECOSIMA, etc.

Objective 4: Coordination and referral monitoring (10%)

• Assist in the maintenance of regular liaison, collaboration and coordination with other actors at the field level and with relevant departments internally 
• Support in the maintenance and functioning of a proper coordination and referral system with ACF departments and organizations/entities working in the area (referral mechanism…)
• Ensure proper communication of the hotline and feedback mechanisms
• Ensure proper coordination with collective shelters focal points including proper implementation and monitoring of site management activities.

Objective 5: Security

• Respect the security rules specified in the mission and base security plan, see to it that the team under his/her responsibility complies with the security plan and perform the security management tasks that can be assigned in its protocols.
• Communicate to the security managers of the working location any security related information or noncompliance with the security plan

Objective 6: Support humanitarian activities of Action Against Hunger

• Support any other emergency interventions of the organization as per the employee’s abilities.
• Support any activity that helps reaching our humanitarian goals, as per the employee’s abilities.

Objective 7: Gender & Safeguarding (cross-cutting)

• Promote safe and equitable environments, through knowledge and application of the protocol against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment and gender policy.
• Knowledge and compliance with safeguarding policy.
• Promote gender equality within the humanitarian and/or development work

Action against Hunger is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work such as but not limited to sexual harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and/or financial misconduct; We expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through endorsing our code of conduct and other related policies and only those who share our values and code of conduct will be recruited to work for us.