Project Assistant

About Teach For Lebanon (TFL):
Teach For Lebanon (TFL) is an NGO working to ensure that all children in Lebanon, regardless of socioeconomic background, have access to quality education. The model of Teach For Lebanon is an education innovation that focuses on youth capacity building to provide quality intervention and systemic support for students. TFL employs and trains Lebanon’s most promising graduates, “TFL Fellows”, and places them in schools serving underprivileged refugee and Lebanese children. These Fellows receive on-going training and support to address educational disadvantages by providing transformational teaching that places their students on a path of academic success. Along the way, they become leaders and advocates for a better Lebanon.
LearnMore:www.teachforlebanon.org

Project Scope:
Lebanon is one of the most complex and fragile countries in the Middle East. While religious and sectarian discord has been a root cause of social instability and conflict for decades, the influx of Syrian refugees has only served to increase tension and instability. On the one hand, host communities have been overwhelmed with the influx of refugees and public services cannot adequately provide services for migrant populations as well as their own host communities; and on the other, the dire conditions of refugee populations and the lack of human rights afforded Palestinian and Syrian refugees causes systematic disenfranchisement, anger, and resentment that not only undermines any possibility of stability but also increases social, ethnic and religious divisions already plaguing the country. There is then, a critical and immediate need to aggressively promote social cohesion and stability in vulnerable communities.
The focus of this initiative then is two-fold and deals with both the short-term need to address the drivers of instability, and the long-term need to normalize values that create a more healthy, equal, and stable society.
First, the program will engage in a broad-based effort to promote social cohesion in 160 vulnerable communities across Lebanon reaching over 120,000 people that includes displaced populations and communities where tensions are extremely high, to counter drivers of current social instability that can result in immediate violence. And Second, working with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE) and safe spaces country-wide, to provide a curriculum that promotes pluralism, inclusion, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law to host community and refugee children; during the program period, 104,000 children (46,800 in schools and 57,500 in safe spaces) will take the curriculum.

Job Summary:

The key working relationships are as follows:

• Responsible for all aspects of the project’s daily management, including logistics, administration, security, community, and beneficiaries liaison. 
• Ensure the project remains ‘on track’ to achieve the project work plan and objectives.
• Closely follow the implementation of partner activities from the design phase through to implementation and closeout.
• Work with the Project Manager using tools to monitor working hours, plans, and expenditures
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation, plans, and reports
• Organize, attend, and participate in meetings
• Document and follow up on important actions and decisions from meetings
• Create a project management calendar for fulfilling each goal and objective
• Communicate with other departments for daily activities.
• Support the Finance Manager in the preparation of project budgets and associated team budgets.
• Assist in the preparation of project expenditure updates and donor financial reports.
• Assist in any other task or duty assigned by the supervisor.
• Ensure that beneficiary communities are adequately informed about programs through partners, are aware of their entitlements, are comfortable to give feedback and that feedback is used to improve the quality of our program;
• Follow up with contact point at local partners and schools, and facilitate and ensure proactive communication between Teach For Lebanon and its partners through regular follow up visits, and implementation review meetings.
• Conduct field visits / virtual classes to observe the implementation of activities and provide support for facilitators
• Provide administrative support for TFL’s projects: documentation of project processes
• Support TFL’s CEO, Project Manager, and HR Manager in their administrative needs.

Requirements:

• Ability to think, plan, prioritize and organize in a clear and structured way
• Previous work experience, including a minimum of 2-3 years working in similar projects
• Flexibility and problem-solving ability to work in a flexible, dynamic environment
• Strong team player with good interpersonal skills
• Bachelor degree required
• Knowledge of project monitoring and evaluation
• Ability to communicate clearly orally and in writing
• Good computer skills, MS Office (MS Excel and MS PowerPoint, in particular)
• Willingness to learn and open to new ways of working
• Comfortable in cross-cultural communication with people from different backgrounds
• Committed to TFL’s core values, job ethics, and staff procedures
• Ability to work in a small team in an office environment
• A calm, confident and welcoming manner
• Good organizational and effective time management skills
• Able to take initiative, work under minimal supervision and be flexible/adaptable
• Achievement-orientation

Knowledge, Skills, and Personal Attributes:

• Identify with the goals of Teach For Lebanon and have a passion for education. Would like to shape something new and take on leadership responsibilities
• Leadership and management experience
• An interest in or experience with leadership development
• Ability to work independently and under pressure
• Flexible and creative; being able to offer a variety of solutions for any given problem
• Cooperative and diplomatic
• Proven skills in report writing
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong organizational and team working skills
• Previous experience in the non-governmental sector in Lebanon
• Required languages: Arabic, English, and French is a plus

   Location: The chosen candidate can be either based in Furn El Chebbak HQ

   Package includes Competitive salary based on experience with NSSF and Medical-Life Insurance benefits.

   Duration: 1-year contract renewable depending on performance and upon the availability of funds.

   Other: Willingness to work some weekends and evenings to facilitate project objectives.