Project Manager (Project Remotely Managed from Beirut)
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Position Summary
Search seeks a professional, motivated, creative, and well-organised Project Manager. This position holder will lead and coordinate various activities and a team, under one of Search’s flagship projects in a strategic country. S/he will ensure that assigned project activities are properly implemented and Search methodologies are effectively employed across activities. The project will support local community leaders and civil society organizations in addressing relevant local needs in a sensitive manner, through a series of training and dialogue activities, and small grants. These activities are part of the implementation of an ongoing project aiming to build the capacity of local CSOs to create and nature space for peacebuilding programmes in the target country. S/he will supervise a Project Officer, Project Assistant and about six Focal Points. He/She will work closely with different departments within the Beirut office, the MENA team, as well as trainers and technical experts working on the project to ensure the deliverables are of high quality and delivered in a timely manner. S/he will ensure a positive and productive team spirit and with the Programme Director, ensure that the staff under her/his supervision are qualified and meet the expectations of the organisation.
The position holder will be responsible for designing Search’s activities and implementation approach in such a way that they create lasting change towards peace, social cohesion, mutual understanding, and contributes to changing attitudes towards violence and conflicts and challenges stereotypes. The Project Manager will ensure the quality and relevance of existing project activities and will design new high-quality and relevant activities that respond to the context. The Project Manager will also be involved in supporting studies, evaluations, and documenting success stories that measure the change triggered by Search’s activities. In close collaboration with the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEAL) staff, s/he will support the monitoring and evaluation activities related to the project.
The Project Manager is expected to support the Programme Director and Country Director in planning and facilitating team retreats, reflection meetings, and capacity building for the project team members.
The Project Manager must ensure that activities are well planned and implemented in a manner that complies with Search’s start-up and close-out protocols and financial health of the project is ensured through regular costed works plans and budget versus actual analyses. The project manager must also ensure quality narrative reporting of project activities
Scope of Work
- Responsible for the implementation of project activities in a timely manner ensuring good quality action and credible outcomes.
- Provide guidance related to supporting local leaders and civil society organisations in conflict transformation.
- Develop and maintain proactive, positive, and professional relationships with all relevant stakeholders.
- Responsible for the management and reporting on project activities, ensuring timely grant reporting and compliance with contract and donor guidelines in coordination with the local partners.
- Develop and maintain project records such as databases, reports, and records of decisions.
- Implement the financial and administrative systems necessary for the execution of the project.
- Ensure compliance with Search’s policies and procedures.
Roles and Responsibilities
1. Activity Design and Implementation
- Design the project’s activities, building on Common Ground Approach, Community Dialogue Approach, Enduring Change Package and other methodologies and tools used in Search;
- Ensure the quality, effectiveness, and ultimately the impact of Search’s ongoing project activities;
- Analyse conflict, stabilisation, peacebuilding and social cohesion dynamics in target communities and ensure activity design responds to and is informed by these;
- Design new activities that meet the purpose of the project, as well as fit with Search’s strategy;
- Ensure Search’s project activities are inclusive, and conflict and gender-sensitive;
- Adapt activity design to digital and virtual methods to ensure project continuity in times of movement restrictions due to pandemics, tensions or other factors;
- Keep abreast of Search-worldwide peacebuilding work, findings from the evaluation of other countries’ projects, including lessons learnt and best practices, and use the findings to enrich project activity design;
- Regularly monitor the quality, resonance, reach, the relevance of project activities by organising reflection and learning meetings (in close collaboration with the MEAL team);
- Closely collaborate with the MEAL team to ensure a monitoring system and monitoring and evaluation plan and system for the project;
- Participate in the design of new programs and projects to ensure that your learning from ongoing activities informs the design of new projects.
- Participate in project launch, mid-term reviews, and close-out workshop; and
- Support the strategy and mission of Search in the target country, the region, and globally.
2. Project Planning and Reporting
- Plan the work of the project team, including capacity building of the team, partners, and target participants;
- Ensure activities are delivered on time and with high quality;
- Ensure activities are documented by relevant staff;
- Develop and follow the project’s monthly work-plans that derive from the annual workplans;
- Develop and regularly update the project’s annual work-plan
- Ensure that costed workplans for the project are developed and regularly updated;
- Produce activity and project reports that are drafted in a results-based manner, ensuring high quality, consistency and completeness;
- Produce at least one well-written success story from the project per quarter; and
- Take the lead in coordinating with finance teams to ensure BvA meetings are done.
3. Team Management and Supervision
- Lead the hiring process for consultants, staff (temporary and full time) when needed, to ensure human resources meet the needs of the project;
- Supervise, guide, evaluate the team members (when hired), ensuring a high team spirit and an excellent atmosphere
- Set objectives and performance plans with your team and regularly evaluate staff performance in a collaborative and inclusive manner, providing regular and honest feedback;
- Provide technical leadership and oversight to project staff;
- Ensure the welfare of volunteers, champions, and other affiliates of the project is taken care of in line with agreements set with them;
- Lead by example in your team in terms of compliance with Search policies, that include but not limited to Code of Conduct, Partnership Policy, Child Protection Policy, Conflict of Interest Policy, among others;
- Ensure team issues and grievances are resolved in a collaborative manner; and
- Available to provide cover for other Project Managers or senior roles on an interim basis.
4. Relationship with Stakeholders
- Maintain a network of participants, stakeholders, and influencers at the local and national and level and a contact database relevant to the project;
- Manage the partnership agreements with champions, project partners, volunteers, etc. Keeping track of contracts and their end dates, ensuring timely renewal of agreements, and keeping track of support provided to each partner;
- Develop and maintain proactive, positive, and professional relationships with consortium partners, civil society organisations, international organisations, UN agencies, media outlets, ministries, local authorities, and local communities;
- Build connections between local community peacebuilding activities to ensure project activities are locally driven;
- Ensure Search has a key role in reinforcing the partners’ capacity to deliver appropriate services (this can be removed as much has been mentioned about capacity building).
Required Profile
Education
- Bachelor’ degree in Peace and Conflict Studies, Development, Political Science, International Affairs, Social Sciences or another relevant field (Master’s Degree preferred);
- Additional education or training in conflict management, media for peacebuilding, communication for social change would be a strong asset.
Experience:
Essential
- At least five in development, peacebuilding, or humanitarian work;
- At least three years’ experience should be at a coordinator or managerial level;
- Significant experience designing and conducting project activities;
- Experience with the use of project management tools such as Gantt charts, logical frameworks matrices, work breakdown structure, critical path analysis among others;
- Experience in designing, planning, and facilitating community dialogues, round tables, town hall meetings, etc., in-person and virtually (online);
- Track record in delivering effective quality project activities; and
- Experience working with local and refugee communities.
Desirable:
- Experience working in a conflict resolution setting;
- Experience working in a non-profit or similar environment;
- Experience of partnership building, with experience of influencing stakeholders and establishing and maintaining strong partnerships;
- An excellent planner with deep knowledge and experience of project management tools and processes (project planning, workplans, budget planning, etc.);
- Organisational skills and attention to detail;
- Excellent use of Excel, excellent writing and analytical skills;
- Well organised, dynamic, and creative;
- Excellent comprehension of the principles of conflict, conflict transformation, and the role of media in peacebuilding;
- A team leader, with a strong capacity to motivate oneself and others and build a team spirit;
- Ability to work under pressure and in challenging environments;
- Flexible and adaptable to changing circumstances;
- Willingness to travel regularly to Search’s field offices; and
- Proficiency in written and spoken English and Arabic.
Other Relevant Requirements
- Understand opportunities in key communities and context and requirements for peacebuilding interventions;
- Written and verbal communications skills including the ability to synthesize complicated policy issues into digestible and implementable project activities;
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment and strong interpersonal skills;
- Commitment to Search’s aims and a clear understanding of the links between policy, lobbying, campaigning, and social cohesion and peacebuilding work and of how policy change can be achieved through effective advocacy;
- Ability to responding flexibly to opportunities and requests sometimes with little notice;
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a rapidly changing environment;
- Demonstrate the capacity to adapt to a multi-cultural context, and tolerance and respect to issues related to gender, religion, race, and nationality; and
- Treats all people fairly without favouritism and solves problems in collaborative ways.
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.
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