Early Childhood Development Project Manager - Bekaa FOR NATIONAL CANDIDATES ONLY

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The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.

Please submit your application before September 20, 2020 on https://rescue.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/9073?c=rescue

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. We will be moving on a rolling basis.

Applications by email will NOT be considered.

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Scope of Work

The ECD Manager will supervise the ongoing implementation of safe and appropriate ECD activities in the Bekaa region, ensuring effectiveness, quality and monitoring and evaluation of these activities.

 

Position objectives:

Staff Supervision & Development

  • Directly Supervise ECD staff in Bekaa.
  • Ongoing supervision, leadership, training and technical support and guidance to all program staff.
  • Ongoing supervision, leadership, training and technical support and guidance to all program staff.
  • Effectively manage the ECD team in the governorate, including ongoing technical and operational support
  • Ensure high quality ECD programming in the governorate that is responsive to the needs on the ground and well-coordinated with all education actors.
  • Ensure staff adhere to best-practice principles when working with children, youth, and community members.
  • Maintain accessible and professional support with team members, promoting a strong team spirit and providing oversight and guidance to enable staff to successfully perform in their position.
  • Ensure timely completion and submission of monthly timesheets, probations reviews and annual performance reviews.
  • Plan/coordinate and oversee staff work plans, work and vacation schedules, and staff training/development activities.
  • If/as required identify staff performance issues and work with Human Resources to document and address these in accordance with the National Staff Employment Policies.
  • Mentor and support staff’s professional development and foster a positive team spirit to encourage innovative and quality programming.

Activity Planning & Implementation

  • Prepare and maintain/update detailed work plan(s) that support and achieve the overall grant timeline and completion date.
  • Provide direction and monitor staff in their implementation of the workplan and quality of technical activities, share relevant information and direction to improve quality and achieve timelines
  • Approve expenditures to designated level; assist in managing and monitoring monthly expenditures and tracking budgets.
  • Design and develop new methodology to support community level outreach and work;

Grant Monitoring & Reporting

  • Make sure that all program implementation reports and data are up to date, and accurate.
  • Undertake regular field monitoring visits to assess progress and identify technical quality issues and/or other implementation issues, provide solutions and implement modifications as required.
  • Produce/contribute to internal and donor reports as per set schedules (monthly, quarterly and annually) on grant activities, indicators and achievements.
  • Ensure that the program is implemented according to schedule and budget and that project objectives are met.
  • Write regular field reports including progress against targets, all implementation details and challenges;

 

Coordination & Representation

  • Work closely and coordinate with logistics and finance to ensure timely and compliant program activities and expenditures; including active participation in internal meetings.
  • Work closely with other IRC programming sectors to ensure information sharing about geographic targets, cases to be referred or supported by other sectors, and holistic integrated support to communities.
  • Undertake/participate in liaison, coordination, and information sharing activities with national NGOs, international organizations, donors and government at the governorate level.
  • Develop and maintain effective working relationships with relevant stakeholders including community leaders and other implementing partners at the governorate level.

Research, Monitoring and Evaluation

  • Ensure that the project undertakes continuous monitoring and evaluation so that activities are appropriate and based on a clear understanding of the problems, causes, contributing factors, and issues specific to out-of-school or at-risk children and youth.
  • Support the collection, analysis and dissemination of project data and information for problem analysis, planning and evaluation with all stakeholders.
  • Ensure all monitoring activities are fully documented, including systematic and timely data collection as required under the grant and for internal M&E purposes.
  • Support and participate in research activities when needed.
  • Act as key focal point for data quality and data screening with Beirut-based RMEAL team;

Key Working Relationships:

 

Position Reports to:  Deputy ECD Coordinator
Position directly supervises:  ECD Officers, ECD MER Officer and senior quality officer.

Indirect Reporting: Integrated ECD Coordinator
Other Internal and/or external contacts:

Internal: Senior Quality, Training, and Capacity Building Officer, ECD Managers in Akkar and Tripoli, ECD Officer in Mount Lebanon, RMEAL team, IRC Bekaa field teams

External:  local governance representatives, local NGOs and INGOs, UN agencies, local ECD stakeholders, donors, Sesame Workshop, New York University

 

 

Job Requirements:

 

  • Bachelor degree in social sciences, social work, public health, development, or any relevant related field
  • At least 3 years of professional experience in the field of ECD and/or community-level humanitarian work overseeing community-level programming (awareness sessions, parenting)
  • At least 2 years of professional experience at management level
  • Adhere program implementation to IRC policies at all times, including confidentiality and safe identification/referrals
  • Demonstrated knowledge of monitoring, evaluation and planning
  • Demonstrated knowledge of developing new community-level awareness raising and assessment tools
  • Demonstrated experience in overseeing data collection and M&E activities
  • Demonstrated capacity to lead a team (organize, plan and oversee)
  • Demonstrated capacity to write clear reports
  • Experience in working with communities (monitoring, training, needs assessment, and overseeing activities)
  • Outstanding interpersonal skills, and capacity to maintain excellent working relationships with relevant stakeholders
  • Demonstrated capacity to perform well under pressure with overlapping deadlines in a challenging environment
  • Fluency in written and spoken Arabic and English

 

Preferred:

 

  • Working experience with an NGO/INGO
  • Master degree in social sciences, development, public health, or any relevant related field.

 

 

Working Environment: 

The position is based in Zahle, and expected to travel extensively within the Bekaa, and occasionally to Beirut. 

 

WOMEN OF ALL BACKGROUNDS ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY

منتهية الصلاحية

ملاحظة:

دليل مدني، شبكة المجتمع المدني، يوفر للمنظمات منصة لنشر الوظائف, وليس مسؤول عن عملية التوظيف. كل منظمة مسجلة على دليل مدني هي مسؤولة بشكل فردي عن منشوراتها وعن عملية التوظيف.

آخر تاريخ التحديث: 
09 سبتمبر, 2020
قطاع(ات) التدخل:
الأطفال والشباب, تنمية, التعليم
آخر مهلة للتقديم:
الأحد, 20 سبتمبر 2020
نوع العقد:
دوام‬ ‫كامل‬
مدة الوظيفة:
1 year contract, renewable
الراتب
Between $2500 and $3300
نطاق الراتب:
> 3000 (USD)
درجة التعليم:
بكالوريوس
تفاصيل درجة التعليم:
Bachelor degree in social sciences, social work, public health, development, or any relevant related field
متطلبات الخبرة:
بين 5 سنوات و10 سنوات
اللغة العربية:
بطلاقة
اللغة الانكليزية:
ممتاز
اللغة الفرنسية:
جيد
البلد/المدينة: 
  • Lebanon
  • البقاع
  • Zahleh