M.E.A.L. Consultant

As a queer feminist organization with a growing extended network of collaborators, and as a grassroots entity actively seeking collaborations with institutions of various scales and setups, Qorras has a growing need to formalize its internal policies and to document its processes in ways that reflect our values, principles and politics. Doing so allows us to ensure that our ways of work are clear and transparent to our collaborators, partners and donors, while remaining faithful to our core values. Such a set of reference documents is crucial for strengthening our operations, governance and accountability, and for streamlining our processes and policies.

For these reasons, Qorras seeks to hire a consultant to work closely with its four core members in order to translate and formalize our established and preferred ways of work into systematized policies that cover issues related to operations organizational development, institutional strengthening and governance, including staffing, procurement and code of conduct, among others. The objective of this assignment is to produce a comprehensive and customized set of policies and documents for Qorras.

Scope of work

The consultant will be working within the scope of “Towards Legal Justice for Trans Individuals in Lebanon” a 3 years’ project funded by the Embassy of the Netherland. This project contributes to improving access to justice for trans individuals by legally empowering trans community members to participate in legal proceedings pertaining to trans issues, and monitoring policies related to issues affecting their community. The project has 3 main areas of focus, Research, mapping, and dissemination of information on procedures related to trans legal status Capacity Building & Development for paralegals. Establishing a legal clinic.

Within this scope, the consultant/s is expected to apply their knowledge in strengthening internal systems and their documentation process by collaborating with Qorras’s leadership team in order to co-develop policies and processes related to Operations, Organisational Development, Institutional Strengthening and Governance including but not limited to, staffing, procurement and code of conduct.

Deliverables/outputs:

The policies we aim to develop with the consultant are:

• Organisational structure document
• Organisational procurement policy
• A description of staffing capacity (in terms of both numbers and expertise) and remuneration policy
• A description of how supervision is organised
• Organisational code of conduct or integrity policy
• Organisational anti-fraud and anti-corruption policy

Qualifications and Experience require

• Experience with M&E processes, systems, procedures and internal policy development 
• Knowledge and experience of using participatory approaches and innovative facilitation techniques
• Strong analytical skills
• Experience in multi-year donor requirement 
• Have a minimum of 5 years of experience working with civil society organization
• Knowledge and ideally, experiences in feminist and queer organising
• Availability in the next 30 days  

Duration

The selected consultant will start this assignment as soon as possible following the completion of the recruitment process and signing the contract thereof. The duration of the consultancy is expected to be not more than 15 working days from the signature of the contract.