Project Coordinator - WEAM Project

BACKGROUND:

Right To Play is a global organization that protects, educates, and empowers children to rise. We work with children in some of the most difficult places on earth, helping them to stay in school and graduate, to resist exploitation and overcome prejudice, to prevent disease and to heal from war and abuse.

For more than 20 years, we have delivered programs with impact in both development and humanitarian contexts. As pioneers in a unique approach to learning, both inside and outside of the classroom, we harness play, one of the most fundamental forces in a child’s life, to help children dismantle barriers and embrace opportunities. We are the only global development organization focused exclusively on using the power of play to transform children’s lives.   

We reach millions of children each year in 15 countries around the world. By collaborating with teachers, governments, communities, and parents, we help children unlock their potential, enabling them to make positive and healthy choices and to create better futures for themselves, their families, and their societies.

Established in 2000, Right To Play is headquartered in Toronto, Canada and has operations in 22 countries across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.

Since 2006, Right to Play has been working in Lebanon to support most marginalized children and young people, provide them with access to play-based learning and psychosocial support. In our new strategy 2024-2026, Right to Play will focus on enhancing the learning and social and emotional skills of children affected by crisis through play-based teaching methodologies, providing play-based psychosocial support to improve the holistic wellbeing of children and young people, and supporting young people to fulfill their potential and drive change at local and national levels.

With a shared passion for our mission, our Culture Code guides how we act and interact based on five core pillars:

• Accept Everyone – Be intentional about inclusion
• Make Things Happen – Seek opportunities to lead and innovate
• Display Courage – Act with integrity
• Demonstrate Care – Look after yourself and one another
• Be Playful – Have fun at work

Please visit our website to learn more about who we are and what we do, and watch this video to find out about the five pillars of our Culture Code.

About the project: WEAM”- Working, Engagement, Acceptance, Mediation- is a consortium project with Oxfam, Shift, and Alef, funded by the European Union. The project aims to contribute to a people-centred recovery of Lebanon, in line with 3RF (Reform, Recovery, Reconstruction) Pillar 3 (Social Protection, Inclusion, Culture) focusing on supporting a socially cohesive environment. WEAM uses a community-based approach to address social cohesion needs through enhancing Women and Youth’s capacities to address and counter the drivers of social and political tensions within and among local communities. The project also focuses on communities having increased access to gender-responsive conflict prevention and resolution tools and methods to sustain social cohesion

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JOB SUMMARY:

 The Project Coordinator reports directly to the Project Officer (PO) and is responsible for the implementation of Right To Play project activities and providing support and guidance to the community team in using RTP tools in the project location. He/she is also responsible for monitoring the project for quality of delivery and effectiveness.

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PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Job Responsibility #1: Activity Planning and Implementation (45% of time):

• Ensures participation of partners, children/young people and stakeholders in the process of project planning and implementation of the proposed activities.
• Supports Coaches and Coach Trainers in developing their activity plans and schedules, encourages their initiatives while ensuring alignment with project proposal, facilitates their activities and reports to the PO.
• Oversee distribution and installation activities to support displaced communities' basic needs, ensuring smooth implementation and logistics.
• In coordination with partners, Coaches and Coach Trainers, evaluates events, provides updates of lessons learned and best practices and reports on progress and challenges as they arise.
• Manages the logistical arrangements for training workshops and events.
• Assesses training needs of Coach Trainers, Coaches, Junior Leaders, teachers and partners, recommends the suitable intervention and works with them to develop training schedules
• Organizes, conducts, and facilitates training workshops conducted by other program staff and participates in the training as required
• Conducts training and, where applicable, facilitates the training sessions conducted by teacher trainers, evaluates them and reports to the Project Officer.
•  Handles equipment management and distribution in the assigned community.
•  Handles advance payments and manages cash money used for the activity implementation.
•  Supports the assessment of needs for facility repairs and upgrades in the community, facilitates the authorized work and ensures that overall work has been completed in accordance with the approved standards.
• Support the implementation of activities in alignment with the third-year project goals including follow up on sub-grantees' implementation and national sports and music campaigns.

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Job Responsibility #2: Monitoring and Reporting (20% of Time):

• Conducts regular field visits with partners, Coach Trainers and Coaches to follow up and provide support as needed.
• Conducts regular visits to project implementation sites/schools and provides coaching and mentoring to coaches, Teachers, principals, educational supervisors youth/Junior leaders and community leaders.
•  Provides narrative, qualitative and quantitative monitoring information/data to support monthly, quarterly and annual reports to update Country Office
• Provides activity report for each activity conducted to support quarterly reports. •
• Prepares and submits financial reports related to activity implementation and initiate the payment process of transports /other related and services provided by the suppliers related to workshop/trainings, meetings events and tournaments.
• Ensures all documents related to the project are well kept and makes sure internal documents for RTP are not shared outside without authorisation.
• Ensures partners, coaches and teachers are in compliance with RTP Child Safeguarding Policy.
•  Ensures all materials and tools distributed to partners, teachers, coaches, parent educators, partner schools and community are well kept and utilized for project related activities and not otherwise

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Job Responsibility #3: Establish and Maintain Partnership (20% of Time):

•  Identifies community needs, participates in the selection of communities and partners to be included in RTP program in the respective Field.
• Represents RTP in the project location and relevant forums and have regular consultations with local partners, stakeholders and key beneficiaries in the assigned community.
• Support the PO in developing reports for stakeholders and key beneficiaries’ meetings in the assigned community.
• Ensures RTP activities are known by local community leaders and makes sure their involvement where necessary.
• Organizes meetings with relevant stakeholders such as teachers, coaches and parent educators to discuss on the project progress and implementations

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Job Responsibility #4: Supervision and Guidance (10% of Time):

• Conducts performance assessment of coaches, teachers, and community facilitators as and where applicable
• In collaboration and consultation with partners, Project Officer, the Training Officer, or Thematic Specialists implements coaches and teachers’ professional development and peer learning approaches through community of practices and/or other existing approach according to the nature of the project.
• Ensures the delivery of professional development and peer learning approaches is aligned to existing project resources and tools.
•  In collaboration and consultation with partners identifies the need of coaches and teachers and advocate it to project officer and RTP team.
•  Identifies and recommends coaches and teachers for certification, where applicable.
•  Identify gaps in the project implementation in the assigned community and propose solutions to Project Officer ____________________________________________________________________________________

Job Responsibility #5: Performs other duties as assigned.  (5% of Time)

Capacity building/technical support and organizational development

EDUCATION/TRAINING/CERTIFICATION:

• Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, adult education, Business Administration and Project Management or any related discipline.

EXPERIENCE:

• 2 years’ experience in coordinating humanitarian or development projects, particularly in emergency responses, social stability or peacebuilding contexts
• Experience in networking and coordinating with local communities, government entities, CBOs, and international partners, with an ability to foster strong relationships and work collaboratively
• Demonstrated experience working with vulnerable populations, including displaced children and youth, ensuring access to safe, inclusive, and quality education
• Experience in providing awareness-raising sessions, life skills sessions, or recreational activities, ideally related to social cohesion, peacebuilding, or youth engagement.

COMPETENCIES/PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:

• Ability to confidently represent oneself and Right To Play
• Effective planning and organizing skills.
• Coaching and feedback skills.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• Strong development and team-building skills
• Experience working with different partners.

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS:

• Knowledge of psychosocial support and child protection principles in emergency responses  
• Effective report writing  
• Knowledge of child rights and child protection
• Knowledge of a community-led process
• Good understanding of the challenges facing displaced communities
• Ability to adapt to rapidly changing contexts and address unforeseen challenges, with a proactive and problem-solving approach’
• Event Coordination and Community engagement skills
• Computer literacy in outlook, MS word, PowerPoint, Excel and Internet

LANGUAGES

• Excellent spoken and written English and local language(s). French is also required for Francophone countries.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS (An Asset)

• Experience implementing a development program with local populations in both rural and urban settings
•  Experience in training, leading workshops, and teaching
• Holds a valid driver’s license

WHO YOU ARE:

You are highly driven, results-oriented, collaborative and well-rounded leader with a passion for working with

children and youth. You are an exceptional communicator with excellent networking skills.

WHAT YOU’LL GET:

The opportunity to work with a passionate, innovative, and collaborative team where you have the ability to make things happen. You will gain experience working for a globally recognized organization with a healthy culture premised on our Culture Code (accept everyone, make things happen, display courage, demonstrate care and be playful). In addition, we offer a competitive salary and benefits package.

Target Start Date:           June 2025

Contract Duration:          Until February 2026- End of projec