Junior Advisor “Youth Openness and Inter-community Exchange” - (UDP-NL)

Junior Advisor “Youth Openness and Inter-community Exchange” - Local Development Programme for Deprived Urban Areas in North Lebanon (UDP-NL)

A. Required qualifications, competences and experience
 Formal Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in social or political science; pedagogy, bachelor of arts, bachelor in humanities

Professional experience:

• At least 2 years of professional work experience in relevant field in the region in a comparable position/with a comparable work experience
• First experience in international cooperation and formats that foster social cohesion and greater openness of youth and children by promoting inter-community relations between different communities
• Profound knowledge of civil society actors in North Libanon
• Working experience in peace promotion and youth empowerment
• Proven experience in volunteering in civil society
• Experience in intercommunity exchange activities
• First experience in non-formal educational activities
• Experience in working with vulnerable population groups
• Working experience in participatory and gender sensitive background and projects
• First experience and very good ability to interact with partners at various levels of government and non-government organizations
• First Experience in planning, preparation, coordination and implementation of workshops, dialogue formats, events, trainings and other measures to foster social cohesion and to promote inter-community relations
• Very good working knowledge of ITC technologies (related software, phone, fax, email, the internet) and computer applications (e.g. MS Office)

Other knowledge, additional competences:

• Native in Arabic, excellent skills in verbal and written English (report writing level)
• High sensitivity and ability to interact with a large number of diverse partners in a sensitive and dynamic political setting
• Very good networking skills
• Very good intercultural skills and communication
• Very good team player and ability to cooperate with others
• Very good personal work organization, punctual, thorough
• Dedication, commitment, reliable
• Ability to work under pressure and coordinate inputs from a wide variety of sources
• Reliability and excellent time management
• Friendly and cooperative nature

B. Responsibilities:
The position holder is responsible for:
 

• Processes and activity implementation
• Activity planning
• Progress monitoring and reporting
• Assisting with general project planning and developing project concepts including preparation, organisation and moderation of planning exercises and their implementation, management, monitoring, quality management, evaluation, communication and documentation
• Compiling the relevant information for joint activities and assignments
• Continuously reporting and coordinating with the Module Team Leader and project manager on status and details of projects implementation and field work
• Representing the interests and always acts on behalf of GIZ
• Knowledge management
• Strictly applying a “Do-no-harm” approach in implementing activities

C . Tasks
Key Tasks:
The position holder is responsible for subject-matters issues related to Module 3 “Youth Openness and Inter-community Exchange” particularly:

• Coordinates and ensures timely implementation of related processes and activities in consultation with the module Team Leader and project manager
• Proposes, elaborates and develops further activities for the achievement of Module goals and indicators
• Ensures intensive teamwork and cooperation with colleagues in Module 3 as well as with other programme modules
• Contributes to conducting events for youth favouring inter–communitarian exchange e.g. job fairs, cultural events, community works
• Contributes to development of Exchange programmes in cooperation with local authorities and NGOs/CBOs
• Contributes to needs assessment and stakeholder mapping
• Contributes to elaborating agreements with implementing partners

Networking and Cooperation:

The position holder:

• Reports to the project manager or his delegate including all monitoring results and on his direction back to other team members and partner organizations
• Supports and facilitates meetings, regular exchange formats, workshops etc.
• Communicates and liaises regularly with all relevant stakeholders, and contributes to establishing good relations with them
• Builds up trustful relations among partners and stakeholders to collaborate on vital issues and core questions that are relevant for the Module and programme
• Develops and updates the stakeholder engagement analysis and strategy
   

Knowledge management, networking and communication:

The position holder:

• Ensures cooperation and dialogue with stakeholders and partners from government, nongovernmental organisations and private sector ccontributes to preparing and implementing the coordination process, joint project activities and work
• Contributes in report writing
• Supports PR activities, including the development of PR materials and brochures
• Assists in translations
• Supports project monitoring and updates information on project progress, documents and reports regularly on the status of results
• Reports monitoring results back to other team members and partner organizations
• Contributes to Inputs to specific knowledge management services, websites, presentations, etc.
• Ensures cooperation, regular contact and dialogue with partners;

Other duties/additional tasks:
The position holder:

• Represents the interests and always acts on behalf of GIZ
• Conducts other relevant tasks upon the requests of the direct superior
• Cooperates actively with all GIZ and non-GIZ team members
• Performs other duties and tasks at the request of the Module Team Leader and the Programme Director

Working place: Tripoli

Place of action: North Lebanon

Function: Responsible for subject-matters issues related to Module 3 “Youth Openness and Inter-community Exchange” of the programme

Expected term of employment/contract: 06/2018-05/2019 (with options for contract extension)

Description of the programme: The overall objective of the Local Development Programme for Deprived Urban Areas in North Lebanon (UDP-NL) is to contribute to political stability in the region through addressing critical issues to stability and conflict prevention, more inclusive economic development and social cohesion. The main target groups are vulnerable youth and woman.

The programme is focusing on the following three results:

Increased livelihoods of the youth and the woman of the targeted communities.

Improved urban environment.

Greater openness of the youth and children of the various communities to each other.

The results are reflected in the three organisational modules of the programme:

Module 1 is to promote the income generation capacities of youth woman and other vulnerable groups by providing assistance to the development of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, strengthening the local economic development supporting skills development and providing access to short term income opportunities.

Module 2 is to implement the interventions targeting the improvement of the urban environment through investments in the construction and rehabilitation of urban infrastructure.

Module 3 targets social cohesion by promoting inter-community relations between the youth of the different communities.