Migrant Advocacy Project Manager

Roles and responsibilities for this post:

Management

• Ensure project outputs and outcomes are achieved in a timely and efficient manner
• Ensure project budget is spent in a timely and efficient manner
• Part-manage (within the project) the outreach officers (35% of their time) to ensure that beneficiaries are correctly identified and treated, and that complaints and feedback are gathered, received and addressed in a timely manner
• Participate/lead monthly advocacy team meetings, getting project updates, addressing feedback, and adjusting the project based on beneficiary feedback where necessary

Advocacy campaign strategic development

• With the Beirut Programme Coordinator, develop and attract funding for other advocacy initiatives that fit within the overall strategic approach to migrant protection in Greater Beirut

Interactions with Concern’s country office

• Ensure that all paperwork, administration, finance, logistics and human resource management is conducted to the highest possible standards of excellence
• Ensure close working relations with various people in the country office (eg Finance, HR, logistics, comms, PMs etc) so that appropriate guidance is provided, and to get as much assistance from the country office as necessary for the timely delivery of the project

Partnership

• Ensure respectful interaction with members of the migrant-led initiatives under the principles of solidarity, and ensuring that they are fully informed about everything in the project, participate in all decisions, and are treated as team members
• Ensure that capacity strengthening of migrant-led initiatives are being met by all team members, with the goal of ensuring that their capacity is built to the fullest extent possible, so that they are increasingly able to implement projects or advocacy on their own
• Ensure positive collaboration and interaction with all other NGOs and agencies working on migrant advocacy, including ARM, LAW, People’s Solidarity, Amel, Kafa, Caritas etc.

MEAL

• With the Beirut MEAL officer, develop indicators for the advocacy project
• Guide and assist in the timely delivery of monitoring processes and outputs (to be done by the Beirut MEAL officer), including the generation of monthly summaries of all indicators and processes, to be done prior to monthly team meetings
• Assist the MEAL officer to collect communications products from the project participants, while respecting the solidarity principles in the process
• Ensure a complaints response mechanism is implemented and integrated into every component of the project; both through the Outreach Officers and a hotline, with close interaction with the Accountability and Partnerships Officer (Tripoli), and that complaints are addressed in a timely fashion

Coordination

• Attend Migrant Worker Coordination Group meetings, representing Concern and the project
• Provide timely updates to coordination mechanisms

Reporting

• Submit a monthly project situation report to the Beirut MEAL officer in time for it to be compiled into the Concern monthly SitRep

Qualifications for this post:

Necessary:

• At least 2 years professional experience in humanitarian advocacy/communications/projects
• Proven experience in facilitation, writing and human resource management
• Proven experience in networking
• Fundamental agreement and ethical buy-in to the principles of solidarity, anti-racism, feminism, equality and impartiality, with an acceptance that any discriminatory behaviour of any kind based on nationality, legal status or gender is the grounds for immediate dismissal
• Deep understanding of migrant worker issues in Lebanon, and the Lebanese system/culture
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken

Preferred:

• Prior experience working with migrant workers in Lebanon
• Prior experience working with INGOs
• Arabic language skills would be considered an asset

Women are encouraged to apply. This post is not restricted by nationality