Livelihood Project Officer

SAWA for Development and Aid is a Civil Society Organization founded initially as a spontaneous initiative in December 2011 to respond to the arrival of the first 40 Syrian families displaced from Syria into the North of Lebanon.
This initiative then grew to include individual activists, locals and internationals, who worked together (literally meaning ‘SAWA’ in Arabic) to share their knowledge and exchange their experiences in order to support Syrians, internally displaced or refugees in neighboring countries, united by their belief in their right to live in dignity, freedom, and to be active individuals in their communities and wherever they are.
SAWA sees itself as part and parcel of the society, and that it is on a continuous learning journey based on a participatory relationship at all levels with the communities that it works with, whether host or displaced, as well as with local and international partners.
SAWA believes that humanitarian, developmental, and civic work has to always strive to achieve social justice, and so it aims to work with individuals and communities through holistic interventions towards a society based on democracy, pluralism, and the values of citizenship and human rights.

• Working alongside the Coordination team. S/he leads on the development of the strategy and positioning for the livelihoods Department, proposing innovative and sustainable approaches.
• Actively participates in the definition and implementation of assessments and participates in the development of proposals 
• Represents the association to partners, authorities, and local stakeholders involved in implementing livelihoods programs. Ensures the active participation of SAWA in national sectorial working groups and forums, and meetings.
• Ensures that program(s) are in line with SAWA’s livelihoods intervention framework and country strategy and monitors them for efficacy, quality, and cost effectiveness. supports teams in ensuring that logistical and administrative procedures are respected by the livelihood’s teams and alerts/relays the gaps to the coordination team.
• Ensures quality reports are submitted to donors.
• Develops qualitative and quantitative data analysis in the livelihoods department; promotes capitalization on livelihoods research and technical developments in the sector.
• Support field staff and provides guidance in technical aspects of project implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and learning.
• Provides and supervises technical training activities based on identified needs.
• Be responsible of the overall effective and efficient technical management of project implementation in Lebanon with the project management cycle, program objectives, activities, and indicators.
• Provide technical advice and supportive supervision to SAWA’s staff working in all livelihood’s projects (responding in a timely manner to technical questions, analyzing problems and identifying solutions).
• When defining new operations, work with the project teams to prepare and draft project proposals for livelihood-related activities.
• Supervise technical quality of livelihoods-related activities, including project and site visits, meeting with livelihoods staff members and all the external stakeholders.