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Application process

All applicants must upload a cover letter and an updated CV (no longer than four pages) in English. Applications sent by email will not be considered.

Closing date for applications: 16th of June 2023
Interested? Apply here!

For further information about the Danish Refugee Council, please consult our website drc.ngo.

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الوصف: 

DRC has been responding to various humanitarian crises in Lebanon since 2004, working with Palestinian, Iraqi and Syrian refugees. DRC received registration from the Ministry of Interior in 2011, and since then has focused primarily on responding to the Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon and the resulting impact on Lebanese host community. DRC Lebanon’s focus is to ensure that we are able to respond to critical emerging humanitarian needs whilst improve the living conditions of displacement-affected populations and contribute to the achievement of durable solutions. With an annual portfolio of $10million, and with approximately 180+ staff, DRC is focusing its response in protection and economic recovery sector in Bekka, North Lebanon and Beirut. DRC is also contributing to the evidence base and coordination structures in country through our Evidence Generation and RIMS teams.

 

About the job

In 2023, the Danish Refugee Council (DRC), Intersos and International Rescue Committee (IRC) established a multi-year Protection Consortium funded by ECHO. The consortium will focus on providing protection to vulnerable Syrians and Lebanese across Lebanon providing GBV & Child Protection services, legal assistance and support to Persons with Specific Needs. The consortium will also carry out protection monitoring, collectively advocating for impactful and positive change in the protection environment. Lastly, the consortium will support the broader NGO community via funding the Access and Operations Coordinator position in the INGO Forum.

DRC is therefore seeking a Consortium Coordinator to support and oversee the successful management of the ECHO funded protection consortium. The Consortium Coordinator will be recruited and hosted by DRC Lebanon as lead of the consortium. However, he/she will be accountable to the Consortium Steering Committee composed of Country Directors of the three consortium member organizations.   

 

Your main duties and responsibilities will be:

 

Responsibilities:

Coordination

  • Support partners on the overall implementation and delivery of the ECHO funded consortium. This includes coordinating consortium partners and monitoring programme activities to ensure full compliance with project targets, deadlines and other commitments, including donor compliance requirements.
  • Serve as primary focal point between all consortium agencies.
  • Maintain responsive and clear communications with donor on grant issues, and consortium focal points on ongoing projects.
  • Ensure that core functions (internal and external coordination, financial oversight and compliance; M&E, donor liaison, communication activities and reporting, etc.) are carried out in a timely and effective manner.
  • Ensure that the steering committee is abreast of all project related issues and opportunities, from programmatic implementation perspective and strategic perspective, ensuring that consortium partners are kept abreast of programme implementation, any challenges that need to be flagged and opportunities to raise.
  • Coordinate all meetings among consortium working groups (Steering Committee, Project Management, Technical, Advocacy, MEAL), document and share key discussions points and decision making.
  • Track progress on indicators, activities and budget – flagging anomalies for corrective actions.
  • Ensure ‘lessons learnt’ through the consortium are followed up upon by relevant focal points, supporting coordination between the three agencies on specific joint initiatives as relevant.

Ensure the establishment and coordination of different Technical Working Groups based on the Consortium Structure.

 

Grants Management & reporting:

  • Maintain a broad and deep understanding of ECHO policies, regulations, and procedures, ensure that the grant is well-administered and implemented in compliance with donor regulations and DRC procedures.
  • Maintain a proactive relationship with the donor, ensuring requests and reports are responded to in a quality/timely manner.
  • Proactively identify compliance risks throughout the portfolio and advise partner agencies & DRC senior management on necessary actions. Assist program technical leads and operations staff with understanding the reporting and other compliance requirements for the project.
  • Take the lead on internal and external reporting with partners, programs and finance teams, ensuring high-quality, well-written and timely reports meeting donor and DRC requirements. Maintain close collaboration with all relevant departments in preparation of donor reports and donor visits
  • Ensure quality information management related to grants by overseeing the regular maintenance of reporting calendars, and updating of internal DRC documentation and Grants team tools and processes.
  • Lead project monitoring meetings in close coordination with partners to ensure that the grants are implemented in compliance with the DRC and relevant donor regulations and to ensure strong financial management, proper operational openings and closings of grants, and monitoring and evaluation of programmatic progress. Support the follow-up on action points from meetings.
  • Conduct monitoring visits to field locations to observe and understand the progress of project implementation, security protocols permitting.
  • Responsible for organizing donor visit schedules when requested – ensuring adequate visibility and communications is also on site.
  • Present regular briefings and documentation on programme progress to the Head of Programme/ Country Director to ensure that the Steering Committee is informed of and consulted on critical issues and report to the Steering Committee regularly
  • Ensure documentation and information exchange/management system is in place for the grant implementation.

Partnerships Management:

  • Facilitate and coordinate different aspects of sub-award life cycle management, including vetting, project and agreement/amendment development, monitoring through to close-out coordinating with the partnership team and different DRC departments
  • Maintain and coordinate partner program, finance and compliance monitoring schedules and coordinate support for partners to address any concerns or issues that may arise.
  • Draft partners’ sub-agreement with close coordination and review of HQ compliance, DRC internal departments and partners
  • In close collaboration with finance and grants, accountable for timely review and disbursement of financial instalments pending satisfactory review of financial reports by the finance team and narrative reports by programme team.
  • Monitor the timely submission of accurate financial and activity reports from partners
  • Ensure that comprehensive electronic and physical files for partnerships are maintained.
  • Ensure smooth communication and collaboration between all the partners, in line with DRC partnerships’ principles, skills and approaches

 

About you

To be successful in this role we expect you to have:

  • Minimum 3 years’ experience in working in grants &/or leading projects within consortia, with an NGO or partner network
  • Demonstrable understanding of project planning and management cycles.
  • Strong communication and representation skills, including fluent verbal and written English - with the ability to organize and lead meetings with various stakeholders
  • Demonstrable experience in managing donor grants and grant processes, with specific experience and knowledge of ECHOs regulations and requirements;
  • Strong organizational and documentation skills with the ability to effectively manage multiple competing deliverables on varying timelines
  • Excellent communication, negotiation and problem-solving capacities; with the ability to work flexibly within a team as well as in a leadership position
  • Ability to manage stress, multi-task and take decisions;
  • Excellent computer skills, particularly in Word and Excel.
  • Demonstrated experience with support services and associated compliance, including in finance management, MEAL and advocacy/communications depts.
  • Experience working on protection programming preferred or understanding of protection/refugee issues preferred.

Moreover, we also expect the following:

  • Masters in Social Sciences, international law, Development Studies or other relevant field.
  • Fluency in English & Arabic (written and spoken)

 

In this position, you are expected to demonstrate DRC’ five core competencies:

  • Striving for excellence: You focus on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process. 
  • Collaborating: You involve relevant parties and encourage feedback. 
  • Taking the lead: You take ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation. 
  • Communicating: You listen and speak effectively and honestly. 
  • Demonstrating integrity: You uphold and promote the highest standards of ethical and professional conduct in relation to our values and Code of Conduct, including safeguarding against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment.

 

We offer

  • Contract length: 2 years (This position is pending project confirmation from Donor)
  • Band: G-1
  • Duty Station: Beirut
  • Start date: July 2023

Salary and conditions will be in accordance with Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment for Nationals. For questions regarding the vacancy please contact [email protected]

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: 
02 يونيو, 2023
قطاع(ات) التدخل:
اللاجئين
آخر مهلة للتقديم:
الجمعة, 16 يونيو 2023
نوع العقد:
دوام‬ ‫كامل‬
مدة الوظيفة:
2 years
الراتب
N/A
نطاق الراتب:
> 3000 (USD)
درجة التعليم:
ماجستير
تفاصيل درجة التعليم:
متطلبات الخبرة:
بين 3 سنوات و5 سنوات
اللغة العربية:
بطلاقة
اللغة الانكليزية:
بطلاقة
اللغة الفرنسية:
غير مطلوب
البلد/المدينة: 
  • Lebanon
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