Field Officer

I. INTRODUCTION

The Lebanon Reforestation Initiative (LRI) is a Lebanese NGO registered at the Ministry of Interior and Municipalities under no. 1186 on 18 June 2014, which aims to expand, manage and protect Lebanon’s forests and landscapes through a community-based approach. We work on building resilient communities to environmental threats, increasing environmental awareness and education, advocating for forest conservation, and advancing research in the forestry field.

II. TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Field officer at the Lebanon Reforestation Initiative (LRI) is responsible for Supervising the implementation of field activities as per the project implementation plan. S/he applies the field officer principles and procedures, provides accurate and timely information to LRI Project Manager and ensures the field officer’s duties and procedures.

The Field Officer is expected to perform the following duties:

• Conduct daily monitoring visits to the sites and support other team members in field visits when needed.
• Support in filling workers’ sheets and related MEAL forms.
• Take daily pictures of the sites before and after, and coordinate with the corridor leader to ensure a proper implementation of the field work.
• Collect field technical information and conduct needed surveys.
• Prepare administrative documents and develop weekly progress report.
• Communicate with the municipalities and local authorities or other public administrative organization.
• Communicate with the hired workers, all instructions and major decision sent by LRI team.
• Support in any project-related activities on site or in the office.

III. REQUIREMENTS

The Field Officer should possess the following competencies, skills, and experience:

• Good academic and proven practical knowledge in the field of community mobilization, coordination of community activities, social work, forestry or any related field.
• At least 2-3 years of relevant experience working with rural communities.
• Experience in field, data collection.
• Ability to conduct trainings, field visits and organize meeting.
• Familiar with international donors’ projects.
• Flexible.
• Strong analytical, communication and inter-personal skills.
• Professionalism and ethical behavior.

Willingness to travel daily to the project sites