Consultant

Terms of Reference   Summary:     Commissioned by: Diakonia, Lebanon Country Office   Funded by: Sida   Service needed: Assessment of three of Diakonia’s local partner NGO’s work routines and needs on the financial and administrative levels and then designing and writing all the required policies and guidelines to ensure the smooth, transparent and efficient management of the organizations.   Title: Expert on policies, procedures and guidelines for local NGO’s.   Duration of service: Two months     Location: Beirut and Tripoli       Language of the documents: Arabic and/ or English (depending on Partner’s needs)     Project Background: Diakonia has a recurring project for capacity building. The project will develop the capacity of partner organizations in Lebanon in the following areas: 1- Right-based approaches 2- Reporting, monitoring and evaluation 3- Social media and communication 4- Climate change 5- Peace building 6- Humanitarian response 7- Financial Capacity The aim of this consultancy is to build the capacity of partners on the level of financial and administrative management level.   Deliverables, the expert will: Introductory meeting with partners to assess their capacities, needs and style of work on both financial and administrative levels. Design a set of procedures and guidelines on financial and administrative levels: anti-corruption, audit, procurement, authorization levels and segregation of duties within the organization and within each department… Prepare relevant templates, like: payment request, selection tools for procurement decisions, procurement decision / orders. Write the documents in Arabic and/ or English   Fees: Fees will be determined upon the training expert’s technical and financial proposals to execute the assessment and write the documents in accordance with the above deliverables.