Project Manager

The LHF funded project “Food security and nutrition for 450 migrant worker households in Beirut and Mount Lebanon” is due to launch in August 2021.

This project will target 450 vulnerable migrant households in Beirut and Mount Lebanon with balanced and nutritious food (both dry rations and fresh vegetables) for a period of 6 months. All recipients will also receive multi-sector messaging translated into languages appropriate for migrant workers in Lebanon. For households with children under 2 years old malnutrition will be prevented through IYCF awareness raising and the provision of micro-nutrient supplements to complement the food distributed. Early detection and referral for treatment of moderate or severe malnutrition for children aged 6-59 months will be improved through a family MUAC approach with strong referral pathways to referent malnutrition treatment centres in nearby PHCs.

The project will work with members of Migrant-Led Initiatives and focus on building their capacity in warehouse management, distributions, M&E, nutrition education, accountability to affected populations and referrals; ensuring benefits that last beyond the duration of the project.

This project is embedded within Concern’s strategic approach to working with migrant workers in Greater Beirut, which combines addressing immediate and basic needs with long term efforts to address the underlying and structural causes of migrant vulnerability, and works with and through migrant-led initiatives in a migrant-community based, bottom-up approach.

The project and post is an 8-month duration, starting on the 1st August 2021 until the 31st March 2022.

This job is based in Beirut

The post holder will be expected to work on weekends, with Monday and Tuesday being rest days in lieu.

This post will be managed by, and report to, the Beirut Programme Coordinator.

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
• Directly line manage the logistics officer, admin and cashier officer, and nutrition officer
• Part-manage (within the project) the outreach officers and MEAL officer (50% 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
• Conduct monthly team meetings, getting project updates, addressing feedback, and adjusting the project based on beneficiary feedback where necessary

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 between the Logistics Officer and Logistics Manager (Tripoli), and between the Admin and Cashier Officer and the Human Resources Manager (Tripoli) and the Finance Manager (Tripoli) 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 direct and respectful interaction with the project managers from each of the migrant-led initiatives is maintained, in order to ensure that migrant-led initiatives are treated as independent implementing partners
• 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 on their own

MEAL

• Guide (in terms of objectives) 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 food security and livelihoods coordination meetings and nutrition sector coordination meetings, representing Concern and the project
• Provide timely updates to coordination mechanisms, including updating outputs, outcomes and project progress on Activity Info

Reporting

• Submit a monthly project situation report to the Beirut MEAL Officer in time for it to be compiled into the Concern monthly SitRep
• Submit an interim report for OCHA to the Beirut Programme Coordinator half way through the project
• Submit a final report for OCHA to the Beirut Programme Coordinator in the final month of the project

Qualifications for this post:

Necessary:

• At least 5 years experience in managing humanitarian emergency response projects
• Proven experience in logistics and large scale distributions
• Proven track record in high quality human resource management
• Proven experience working in partnership with other independent CSOs or NGOs
• Deep understanding of the kafala system and how the kafala system contributes to the vulnerability of migrant workers
• 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
• Fluency in Arabic and English, both written and spoken

Preferred:

• Prior experience in the food security and/or nutrition sectors
• Prior experience working with migrant workers in Lebanon
• Prior experience working with INGOs

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

Concern Code of Conduct and its Associated Policies

Concern has an organisational Code of Conduct (CCoC) with three Associated Policies; the Programme Participant Protection Policy (P4), the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy. These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organisation, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context, staff have a responsibility to the organisation to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the content of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Associated Policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these policies.