Youth Coordinator

All NRC employees are expected to work in accordance with the organisation’s core values: dedication, innovation, inclusivity and accountability. These attitudes and beliefs shall guide our actions and relationships.

Purpose of the role

The Youth Coordinator is responsible for implementing the delegated Youth project portfolio in Beirut and Mount Lebanon area and managing the day to day activities of Youth related staff to ensure proper delivery, high quality results, and compliance to applicable laws, standards, practices, policies and procedures in coordination with the Youth Project Manager and the technical Youth team.

What you will do

• Adhere to NRC policies, guidance and procedures
• Contribute to the Youth strategy development, project proposals and provide input on needs and gaps
• Manage and implement delegated portfolio of youth projects (activities, budget and project documentation) as delegated from the line manager in line with proposals, strategies and donor requirements, and ensure high technical quality
• Provide regular reports to the Youth Project Manager on project implementation
• Promote and share ideas for improvement and necessary changes in the activities
• Supervise the Youth team, ensure their capacity building and transfer key skills 
• Liaise and collaborate with relevant local authorities and other key stakeholders
• Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need of protection, explore and asses new and better ways to assist
• Ensure that NRC’s related activities are implemented within NRC’s Protection mainstreaming guidelines and report any breaches/concerns to the line manager and/or focal point for proper action
• Ensure that all protection related detected cases are referred to the concerned referral focal point and to the related Protection Coordinator.

Specifically you will;

• Oversee the delivery of agreed outputs and quality of the youth activities and work closely with other team members to set and monitor objectives and work plans to ensure activities are implemented in accordance with overall project objectives
• Provide the Youth Project Manager with quality regular reports on project implementation, status, identified issues and activities to be shared with donors and ensure regular monitoring of project implementation using developed tools
• Ensure proper documentation and filing of Youth related documents
• Manage the performance of relevant staff, set objectives, monitor work plans, and provide constructive feedback on a regular basis.
• Provide project and area specific information to the Youth Project Manager for proposal development
• Conduct frequent field visits to youth centres and workshop sites to ensure that services are delivered as per NRC standards and to collect feedbacks from beneficiaries, Educators, etc.
• Lead necessary assessments to identify gaps, assess areas of interventions with the support of the Youth Project Manager.
• Ensure the monitoring and evaluation plan is undertaken in a timely and effective manner in coordination with the Youth Project Manager and M&E unit
• Manage the direct costs of budget, including the preparation, monitoring and updating of financial work plans, ensuring resources are managed effectively
• Ensure the youth database is updated with all beneficiaries’ information and validate consistency of data sets between the youth database and NRC’s reporting system
• Ensure adherence to NRC procedures when recruiting Educators
• Manage the achievement of beneficiaries’ satisfaction through the effective delivery of projects

 Professional competencies

• Bachelor Degree in Education, Social studies or equivalent
• Minimum 3 years of relevant job experience in a similar managerial role, preferably within the humanitarian sector
• Knowledge of relevant concepts of international refugee and human rights law and understanding of protection principles
• Significant understanding of Lebanon’s humanitarian, political and socio-economic context, and main challenges affecting refugees in Lebanon
• Proven experience in implementing Youth programmes, coordinating activities, and liaising with external actors
• Knowledge of the context (gaps and needs)
• Knowledge of curriculum development and adaptation
• Experience managing Learning Centers and Outreach programs
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Fluency in English and Arabic, both written and verbal

Behavioral competencies

• Managing resources to optimize results
• Managing performance and development
• Initiating action and change
• Empowering and building trust
• Handling insecure environments
• Analysing

What We Offer

NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality and physical ability.

We offer an opportunity to match your career to a compelling cause and a chance to meet and work with people who are the best in their fields.

We are also looking for people who share our values:

• To be dedicated in what we do;
• To be innovative with our solutions;
• To act as one unified and inclusive team;
• To be accountable to the donors that make our work possible; the people we exist to serve, and to each other… the members of our NRC family.