Project Coordinator Support – 100% Activity Rate - Emergency

Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in 1971. Today, MSF provides independent, impartial assistance in more than 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, and exclusion from health care or natural disasters. MSF in Lebanon currently has 2 projects mainly on primary health care and mental health, in Wadi Khaled and the Bekaa valley.

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• Starting date: ASAP
• Type of contract: 100% Intervention Fixed-term contract, renewable if needed. Updated competitive salary package with benefits including allowances, medical coverage, and paid leave.
• Place of work: Beirut, Lebanon.
• Salary: LBP 167 533 081

Scope of responsibility:

In South Lebanon and Beirut, providing support to the Project Coordinator with the security management and the coordination tasks, ensuring a smooth relation with local and national authorities and contributing to the context analysis and follow-up according to MSF protocols, standards and procedures in order to ensure the smooth running of the project.

Accountabilities:

• Representing MSF externally together with the Project Coordinator (PC) or alone (when delegated) and negotiating on behalf of the project coordination in close cooperation with the PC and based on beforehand agreed messaging. Assisting in safeguarding and promoting MSF’s image externally
• Monitoring, analyzing and reporting on key issues (security, risk, etc.) to the Project Coordinator and providing contextual information, through a sound knowledge of counterparts, parties, actors, authorities and military groups, in different administrations/parties and governorates/districts in order to improve understanding and decision making processes. Maintaining the security database and providing a biweekly context analysis based on recent incidents and developments
• Assisting in exploratory missions and assessments as needed and participating in the development of security plans
• Assisting the Project Coordinator in Internal and External Communication sessions and events about MSF (for National staff, the Ministry of Health staff, as well as local authorities, community leader, military actors, security forces) in order to improve awareness, understanding of MSF principles and services and public opinion adhesion. Write meeting minutes and contribute to the meeting logbook.
• Ensuring the continuity of relations/networking with local actors (other NGOs, UN agencies, local authorities, media, etc.) and filing and updating field contacts and correspondence in order to ensure information sources accuracy and its availability on regular basis. Organizing advocacy contacts and appointments for the Project Coordinator.
• Translating and reviewing documents and acting as an interpreter when needed. Assisting the Project Coordinator in the drafting of correspondences with authorities and counterparts (government officials, military actors, community leaders, UN agencies, NGOs, etc.) in order to ensure fluent and accurate communication flows.
• Preparing and conducting context, cultural and security briefings on the project context to new employees (national and international) in order to facilitate their integration and within the project environment. Ensuring regular security briefings/trainings of assessment team, drivers, and guards in consultation with the Project Coordinator.
• Being contactable by phone and available to assist the Project Coordinator with important context, security and operational issues that may occur outside of regular working hours unless otherwise agreed with the PC (e.g., holidays)
• Performing assigned additional responsibilities or tasks as required by the Project Coordinator

Specific activities:

• Flexibility with emergency mode and opening of new interventions possibilities
• Accurate understaning of south Lebanon context and dynamics
• Ensuring timely follow up and quick shift of emergency context
• Follow up on vulnerable population (residents, Syrian refugees, Internal displaced people and others)
• Actor mapping in South Lebanon and Beirut
• Continous need assesments and evaluation of current context

Requirements:

Education

• Essential : University Diploma Level, preferably in the field of Social Sciences (Political Sciences, International Public Law, Anthropology, Economics, etc.)

Experience

• Essential: Experience in and exposure to working in a complicated political, security and humanitarian environment
• Essential: Experience in data collection, reporting and analysis
• Desirable : two years previous experience in  similar jobs in the field of humanitarian aid with MSF or other NGOs
• Desirable: Management experience

Languages                        

• Essential: Full professional proficiency (reading, writing, and speaking) in English and Arabic.
• Desirable: Proficiency in French at any level.

Knowledge

• Essential computer literacy (word, excel, Internet/social media)
•  Excellent understanding of MSF’s principles and values
•  Knowledge of and interest in humanitarian issues
•  In-depth contextual knowledge and analysis skills
•  High level of knowledge of local culture and customs

Competencies

• Results and Quality Orientation L2
•  Teamwork and Cooperation L2
•  Behavioral Flexibility L2
•  Commitment to MSF Principles L2
•  Stress Management L3