Beirut program coordinator

 Job Summary

Since the blast, Concern has been developing a suite of projects based in Beirut, mainly (bit not exclusively) focusing on migrant workers, but with a view to establish a secure foothold in Beirut and develop a suite of projects that can be scaled up as the context declines. In this sense the programme can be seen as a preparedness action.

The programme consists of the following:

Already running:

 Migrant-led advocacy, focusing on developing a distinctive migrant ‘voice’, key messages and strategy to be supported (taking the lead of the migrants themselves)

 Capacity assessments / networking with migrant-led initiatives, aiming towards having the funds to support a capacity strengthening process with them, including addressing issues related to registration

 Outreach and referrals: identifying need, identifying service providers, and making the connections. All referrals tracked to feed into advocacy processes

 Migrant protection: a transitional shelter for homeless migrants who need a place to stay while awaiting repatriation.

 MSME research: to answer the question “What can an INGO (like Concern) do to assist Lebanese urban MSMEs avoid closure – and thus maintain employment opportunities for the extreme poor – in a context of severe economic decline and high inflation rates?”

 Children of migrants research: to answer the question “What is the situation of children of migrant workers and their immediate families?”

Duties and Responsibilities

Management

 Overall management of, and responsibility for, the Concern Beirut team

 Directly manage all the project managers in Beirut, advocacy project manager, Protection and PSS officer, Beirut MEAL officer and the two outreach officers

 Ensure that all members of the Beirut programme are treated with respect, listened to, encouraged to learn and develop, and pull together as a team

 Ensure all projects are run to the highest possible quality, on time, with correct budget management, ensuring correct adherence to reporting schedules, and following the principles of solidarity, anti-racism and gender transformation at all times

 Ensure feedback and complaints systems are appropriately designed, functioning and responsive in all activities without exception

 Ensure that relationships between the Beirut programme and Concern’s Lebanon Country Office (Tripoli) are maintained and beneficial

Resource mobilisation, context analysis and strategy development

 Clarify Concern’s strategic approach to working in Beirut with regards to integrated sectoral approaches, targeting, ways of working with others; combining migrant protection with urban livelihoods so as to create a shock responsive easy-to-scale-up urban programme targeting the extremely poor/vulnerable

 Continually monitor and analyse the evolving national, Beirut, political, economic, conflict and security context and use this information to continually adapt the Beirut programme to fit

 Develop additional projects that fit into Concern’s Beirut strategy, aiming to have all components of the strategy funded

Interaction with Concern

 Closely coordinate all activities with the Programme Development and Quality Coordinator, Human Resources Manager, Logistics Manager, Country Finance Controller, MEAL Manager, Livelihoods PM, Protection PM and Country Director

 Maintain close relationships with relevant Technical Advisors (eg Protection, Equality, Social Protection, Nutrition etc), Regional Director and Desk Officer in Dublin

Partnership, networking, representation

 Ensure respectful interaction with migrant-led initiatives under the principles of solidarity

 Develop strategic partnerships with relevant actors for consortia or collaborations.

 Develop networks with donors, coordinators, peer NGOs, CSOs and other actors pertinent to the suite of projects in Beirut (protection, migrants workers, urban livelihoods, food security, nutrition)

 Represent Concern at selected and pertinent coordination groups, conferences, media etc where relevant

Skills, Qualifications, Experience and Attitude Required

Education, Qualifications & Experience Required:

Necessary:

 At least 15 years’ experience in humanitarian programming, especially in protracted crises

 Proven experience in both short term emergency responses and longer term programming, and an understanding of the interactions between these modalities

 Proven experience and understanding of Lebanon

 Proven experience in human resource management

 Proven experience in context analysis, strategy development, programme design and proposal writing

 Proven experience working in partnership with other independent CSOs or NGOs

 Fundamental agreement and ethical buy-in to the principles of solidarity, anti-racism, feminism, equality and impartiality, with an acceptance that any discriminatory behaviour of any kind based on nationality, legal status or gender is the grounds for immediate dismissal

 Fluency in English, both written and spoken.

Preferred:

 Prior experience working with migrant workers in Lebanon

 Prior experience working with INGOs

Special Skills, Aptitude or Personality Requirements:

 Non-judgmental attitude and respect for Concern’s beneficiaries, other staff and people that Concern deals with

 Commitment to humanitarian principles and values

 Commitment to Concern equal opportunity and gender practices

Concern Code of Conduct and its Associated Policies

Concern has an organisational Code of Conduct (CCoC) with three Associated Policies; the Programme Participant Protection Policy (P4), the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy. These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organisation, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context, staff have a responsibility to the organisation to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the content of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Associated Policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these policies.