Projects Assistant Access To Education

Purpose of job:   To provide administrative support to the EU project team.     Context and environment:   The British Council Lebanon has secured a contract to deliver the EU partnership project: ‘Access to Education for Syrian Refugee Children’. The contract duration is 28 months from 1 October 2013. The post will be one of a team of four responsible for contract delivery in accordance with EU procedures.     Accountabilities, responsibilities and main duties: Lead on logistics for all three phases of the project; includes coordinating arrangements for teacher training courses and accelerated learning programmes, monitoring and evaluation related procedures, other events as determined by the Project Manager and partners.   Action and monitor all financial procedures, including those related to vendors and payments, in strict compliance with EU and British Council accounting and reporting requirements.   Filing of project documents in line with EU auditing standards.   Provide administrative support to the project manager on tasks including, but not limited to, review of project design and project plan, coordination of project delivery, resources management, internal and external communications, contract reporting.