Program Assistant

BACKGROUND:

The Lebanese Center for Human Rights (CLDH) is a local non-profit, non-partisan Lebanese human rights organization based in Beirut. CLDH was created in 2006 by the Franco-Lebanese Movement SOLIDA (Support for Lebanese Detained Arbitrarily), which has been active since 1996 in the struggle against arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance and the impunity of those perpetrating gross human rights violations.

CLDH monitors the human rights situation in Lebanon, fights enforced disappearance, impunity, arbitrary detention and racism and rehabilitates the victims of torture. CLDH regularly organizes press conferences, workshops and advocacy meetings on human rights issues in Lebanon and collects, records and documents human rights abuses in reports and press releases.

CLDH team on the ground supports initiatives aimed at determining the fate of all missing persons in Lebanon.

CLDH regularly follows up on numerous cases of arbitrary detention and torture in Lebanon in coordination with Lebanese and international organizations, and with the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention WGAD and the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture.

          CLDH currently has three different offices, in Dora, Achrafieh and Beqaa

Job Profile:

The Program Assistant will be reporting to the ProgramsManager, providing technical and admin support to CLDH projects.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support the Program Manager to facilitate the project finance requirements, annual planning, implementation of activities, and monitoring outputs and outcomes of the project activities.
• Regularly update the Gantt chart.
• Support the Monitoring & Evaluation in collecting data from the implementing team and contribute to narrative reports for donors.
• Responsible for developing quarterly project journals and activity reports.
• Assist the Program Manager and the office staff with admin work.
• Ensure activities are being implemented according to CLDH’s operational policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Be an active member of CLDH’s team; participating in internal and external meetings, planning sessions and on-going liaising as needed.

Qualifications:

• Good communication skills
• Appropriate problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Fair leadership skills
• Organization and time management skills
•  Fluency in Arabic, English and French languages