Governance and Community Empowerment Assistant (National Contract)

About the job

Under the supervision of the Governance & Community Empowerment Officer, the GCE assistant will be responsible for running and supervising the day to day activities of the CDC including community support and community mobilization activities related to community centers in Akkar, North Lebanon. 

Your main duties and responsibilities will be:

• Conduct FGDs and fill out questionnaires with beneficiaries to assess POC’s needs and interests 

• Attend the activities, trainings and courses to evaluate the performance of the trainers and the satisfaction of the beneficiaries and monitor all the community development center activities. 

• Recruit beneficiaries for the different courses, trainings and activities (50% Lebanese and 50% Syrians);  

• Responsible of developing and filing all documents related to the center, partner and beneficiaries’ (ex: TOR, MOU, attendance sheets, minutes of meetings, evaluations, beneficiaries’ files, reports, pictures etc.) 

• Set the daily/weekly/monthly work plan, in coordination with the Community Development Center officer;   

• Conduct monthly coordination meetings with the community development center staff and volunteers;  

• Follow up on all payments and ensure timely and supervise payments in his/her sector of responsibility; 

• Ensure application of the human resources in the centers of the Code of Conduct and community development center guidelines, or any other guidelines developed by DRC; 

• Organize and ensure a timely, proper written weekly reporting and report daily if needed on problems faced. 

About you 

To be successful in this role we expect you to have a University degree or higher education relevant to social work, business administration, human rights, law, social sciences or humanitarian aid. Moreover, we also expect the following:

Required

• 1 to 2 years of proven experience in undertaking community empowerment initiatives 

• Strong written and oral communication skills, reporting and planning, effective in representation and liaison with external parties, knowledge in operations such as finance, HR and procurement 

• Knowledge of Humanitarian interventions. 

• Fluency in Arabic is required; Good in English

• Experience in governance (including community empowerment, self-management, liaison with local stakeholders, conflict mitigation) strongly preferred;

Desirable 

• Strong interpersonal skills, including relationship building, presentation skills, communication, negotiation, diplomacy skills and experience in working in development settings.

In this position, you are expected to demonstrate DRC’ five core competencies:   

• Striving for excellence: You focus on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process. 
• Collaborating: You involve relevant parties and encourage feedback.   
• Taking the lead: You take ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation. 
• Communicating: You listen and speak effectively and honestly.   
• Demonstrating integrity: You act in line with DRC’s vision and values. 

We offer

• Contract length: till the end of December 2018 
• Level: B1, equivalent to 1250$ (monthly basic salary)  
• Duty Station: Akkar 
• Start date: June 2018

Salary and conditions will be in accordance with Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment for Nationals; please refer to drc.ngo under Vacancies. For questions regarding the vacancy please contact dolene.khairallah@drclebanon.dk.

Application process 

Interested? Then apply for this position by clicking on the apply button or go to www.drc.ngo under current vacancies. 

All applicants must send a cover letter and an updated CV (no longer than four pages) in English. Applications sent by email to Dolene Khairallah will not be considered.

Closing date for applications: 24th of May 2018 

If you have questions or are facing problems with the online application process, please visit drc.ngo/jobsupport. 

For further information about the Danish Refugee Council, please consult our website drc.ngo.