Child Protection Project Manager

Duty Details

                   Team Management

• Directly supervises two Child Protection Area Managers (one for the North, including Beirut, Beqhaa and Tripoli and one for the South) (under national contract) and overall a team of approximately 60 staff.
• Ensures that a daily support as well as punctual trainings are organized and provided in order to develop and strengthen the programmatic technical skills of the team implementing Child Protection Projects;
• Encourages effective team work, especially on issues related to cross-sectoral collaboration;
• Ensures the coaching of any collaborator under her/his responsibility, from the recruiting to the final collaboration reports. Uses the good practices so that her/his management respects the values of Tdh;

• Evaluates the staff under her/his direct responsibility on a regular basis and pass on the evaluations and recommendations to the Program Coordinator;
• Promotes and encourages a culture of compliance and ethics throughout Terre des hommes Lebanon. As applicable to the position, maintains a clear understanding of Tdh’ and donor compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards. Communicates these values to staff and to partners and requires them to adhere to these values.

     Internal Coordination

• Ensure the correct flow of operational informationrelated to her/his program within the Operational Department and also to the others departments in the delegation;
• Under the supervision of the Program Coordinator and with the technical support of Regional Migration Program Coordinators, collaborates to develop and implement the thematics strategy in line with the Tdh strategic commitments.

External Coordination

• In agreement with the Program Coordinator, ensures, her/himself or in determining the most appropriate person, a regular attendance of Tdh in relevant Coordination meetings at Local level and that a proper dataflow/information restitution within the Operational Departement, and with others Departements where appropriate, is done;
• Under the supervision of the Program Coordinator, s/he represents the organization locallyto partners, donors, NGOs, International Organizations and local authorities, and reports interview findings to the Program Coordinator

  Projet Cycle Management (PCA)

• Overseeing the planning and implementation of the projects under her/his Program through the management and supervision of the associated ressources in her/his team;
• Supervise proper implementation at project level of the M&E system put in placeby the Q&A department Ensures systematic analysis of the data provided by the Q&A team
• In collaboration with the Q&A departement, contributes to the reporting on the project success, as measured by expected outcomes and indicators;
• Contribute to proposal development
• In collaboration with the Admin.&Finance Department, ensures the correct financial management of projects or activities under her/his Program and the funds available for them. Guarantees a monthly tracking of budgets;
• In collaboration with all others Departments, contributes actively to prepare narrative, statistical and financial reports for donors as required, in a timely manner, as well as concept note and proposal for developing the portfolio.
• In collaboration with the the Delegate, guarantees a correct communication and visibility of the projects under their responsibility and the Tdh Foundation. Produce, jointly, awareness/advocacy documents;
• In collaboration with the regional Communication manager and Delgate,contributes actively to draftarticles or required internal reportson the programme’s activities for HQ ;

Programs Technical Quality

• Ensure a proper and timely delivery of the projects under her/his Program, according to agreed outcomes, within budget and on time, by the project team;
• Provides technical support and guidance to her/his team, in order to ensure an excellent level of quality of the projects implemented, compliant with the international standards, but also to those of Tdh and donors.
• Oversee the proper monitoring of the Migration Program impact, assessment of the value of each activity in terms of its contribution to expected outcomes. Discuss and validate with Program Coordinator the proposed changes/adjustments in activities if needed;
• Ensure the harmonization of programmatic approach with appropriate processes, practices and tools
• Actively supports the technical unit in developing technical guidances and models of action

Competencies : 

• This function requires the mastery of Personal, Social and Leadership Competencies(PSLC),Technical and Methodological Competencies   (TMC)and Management and Strategic Competencies (MSC)
• Degree in Social Work, Social Science,  Humanitarian/ NGO management; Child protection related fields; International Development; Advanced degree a plus.

Previous relevant experience and extensive knowledge of the relevant programs(Child Protection in a longer-term approach/Gender based Violence/LRRD/protracted crisis/resilience): at least 3 years

 Previous relevant experience and extensive knowledge of project design and experience in project development  

• Large experience of major institutional donors (UNICEF; SDC;; OCHA; UNHCR) and significant projects;
• Demonstrated experience working with local partners;
• Experience in data analysis;
• Experience with budgets and budgeting;
• Analytical and problem solving skills

Previous relevant experience and excellent competencies in human resources management and good managerial skills.

• Excellent team leadership;
• Organisational and managerial skills;
• Strong capacity and motivation for team work;
• Ability to motivate and develop skills of others

Others personal abilities

• Fluency in English and Arabic are mandatory 
• Sound personal organisational skills, including time management, ability to meet deadlines, multitasking, prioritisation of tasks, and working under pressure;
• Resourceful who likes to address challenges;
• Communication of professional needs in a clear, concise and responsible manner;
• Cross cultural awareness and sensitivity;
• Tolerance and acceptance of diversity;
• Flexibility and strong adaptation skills.
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