Projects Manager at Adyan Foundation

Background:

About Adyan

Adyan, Foundation for diversity, solidarity and human dignity, works locally, regionally and internationally for pluralism, inclusive citizenship, community resilience, and spiritual solidarity, through homegrown solutions in Education, Media, Policymaking, and intercultural and interreligious relations.

Adyan is registered in Lebanon as a non-profit and non-governmental organization (NGO), under registration number 1103 by a ministerial decree dated 18 September 2008.

Adyan Vision: Adyan envisions a world where diversity between individuals and communities is lived as enrichment, generating mutual understanding, inclusive citizenship, creative development, sustainable peace, and spiritual solidarity.

Adyan Mission: Adyan works on valuing cultural and religious diversity in its conceptual and practical dimensions, and on promoting coexistence and diversity management among individuals and communities, on the social, political, educational and spiritual levels.

About the Rashad Center for Cultural Governance

The Rashad Center for Cultural Governance is Adyan’s Think-Do-Tank for policymaking and enhancement of cultural governance and diversity management. It is the newest expansion of Adyan’s structure to respond to the work for a better diversity management on the level of political and educational public policies, legislation and affairs.

Since 2017, the center runs a variety of local and international projects that focus on advocacy and policy dialogue dedicated to improve private and public responses to arising challenges in the field.

Through independent field research, sharp policy analysis and direct engagement with decision-makers, the center motivates, informs and enhances strategic debates and policymaking. The center works with youth, women, government representatives and religious authorities.

Under the scope of Inclusive Citizenship, Coexistence, Human Rights and FoRB, Rashad Center partners and collaborates with governments, academic centers, think-tanks, civil society organizations, international non-government organizations and other stakeholders to monitor, mediate and negotiate democratic practices; influence and bring together decision-makers; facilitate dialogue; raise awareness; build political and democratic capacities; and develop policies.

With its three operating tools – Policymaking, Social Data Analysis, and Consultancy – the center strengthens institutional capacity and provides targeted policy recommendations for both private and public sector.

Responsibilities:

Adyan is currently seeking a Projects Manager which would be responsible for Managing projects at the Rashad Center for Cultural Governance, with a main focus on Lebanon.

Main Responsibilities:

• Manage the center and all its projects.
• Manage the center’s advocacy efforts.
• Lead with the support of the Executive Director the effort to prepare the long-term strategy of the center and to ensure sustainability of projects and activities.
• Attend external policy meetings, in Lebanon or abroad, coordinate advocacy efforts and perform necessary lobbying and follow-up with policy makers.
• Communicate with external stakeholders and beneficiaries of different levels.
• Insure the visibility of the center and its projects in the Media
• Prepare, develop and implement project activities as per the contracts’ timeline and budget.
• Ensure that projects reach their objectives on the outputs and outcomes levels according to the logical frameworks.

Other Responsibilities

• Ensure adherence of projects to Adyan and donors’ policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines.
• Ensure coordination with different Adyan departments (Finance, Media, Community, etc.) to achieve project targets.
• Contribute to the monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEAL) of the organization through reflection on projects.
• Report and Provide weekly feedback from activities to the Executive Director
• Prepare, implement and maintain monthly financial cross-checks in coordination with Finance department and ensure the adequacy of projects budgets and spending.
• Prepare narrative and financial reports to the donors as per the contracts
• Prepare Terms of References, Contracts or any other document requiring the assistance of external consultants (English and Arabic).
• Manage the human resources needs of the center, in terms of recruitment, training, supervising, coaching and assessment (including as suitable employees, interns, external experts, etc…)

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Education:

• Master degree in social sciences, humanities, political sciences, international affairs or any other relevant field

Experience & Qualifications:

• A minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience preferably in social work, research, community development, non-governmental and/or outreach organizations
• Proven project management experience for a minimum of 2 years.
• Proven experience of working in complex, volatile and challenging contexts.
• Fluent in English and Arabic, both written and spoken
• Proficient in MS Office applications, including Word, Excel and Powerpoint

Communicative Competencies:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Excellent attention to details in terms of data, financial information and all written communication
• Ability to organize and accurately complete multiple tasks by establishing priorities
• Self-motivated with the capacity to work independently and remotely, when needed
• Handling insecure environments and high stress levels
• Planning and delivering results
• Working with people from different backgrounds and professional levels
• Coping and adapting with change

Values:

• Demonstrates commitment to the three core values of Adyan Foundation, which are diversity, solidarity and human dignity
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability
• A team player, who strives to support and be helpful to others, and to support the achievement of organizational goals
• Establishes, builds and maintains effective and respectful working relationships with all team members and external parties
• Demonstrated interest in NGO work in the areas of cultural diversity management and peacebuilding

JOB INFORMATION

Job Duration

This recruitment is for a one-year full time, Beirut based contract (including three months of probation) with the possibility of renewal and/or extension through mutual agreement between Adyan and the employee. Adyan reserves the right to terminate this contract, without any due compensation, in case of force majeure or changes in the project funding and implementation, and is obligated to inform the Programs Manager two months prior to termination.

Salary Range

The Projects Manager will benefit from a monthly salary between 1800 and 2300 US Dollars, to be determined based on previous experience and qualifications. He/she will also benefit from NSSF and daily transportation rates according to the Lebanese labor law.

Salaries are subject to Lebanese fiscal laws.