Project Coordinator - EU Gender Programme

About the project:

Expertise France has been identified by the EU Delegation in Beirut as the main implementing partner of a new PADA programme aimed at supporting the Government of Lebanon in promoting gender equality and promote women economic empowerment. The overall objective of the programme is to support equality between men and women by enhancing an effective institutional mechanisms for gender equality, by reducing gender based violence and promoting women economic empowerment.

The project will be structured in three main components of activities presented below:

1) Support institutional mechanism for gender equality:

Providing support to the National Gender Equality Mechanism (NGEM) toward fulfilment of its mandate including supporting interinstitutional coordination of actions on issues related to gender equality. Promotion of the role of Gender Focal Points in Ministries and institutional bodies. Provision of support to the Parliamentary committee on Women’s affairs for the revision/amendment of discriminative laws.

2) Enhance the legal mechanisms to fight GBV

Enhance capacities of legal professional on dealing with GBV issues and protecting the victims. Support the institutionalization of legal aid to victims, develop GBV curriculum for the Bar Association in Beirut and in the regions and support the Committee on Women’s Affairs of the Ministry of Justice’s for the formulation of evidence-based policy and for carrying out effective advocacy on specific issues related to GBV

3) Women economic empowerment initiative

Support skilled women, jobseekers and women entrepreneurs through various means such as entrepreneurship training and motivation, counselling, mentoring and access to seed funding (grants) to develop innovative  business ideas.

About the job:

In light of the above,  we are looking for a project Coordinator to be based in the Expertise France’s Beirut office and responsible for the daily management, coordination and  implementation of the project activities.

The project coordinator will be responsible for the day-to-day technical and administration/financial implementation of the activities of the project including co-construction and planification of the periodical activity programs with the main Lebanese stakeholders, contractual commitment monitoring, and administrative/financial monitoring.

He/she will be responsible for the coordination of the Key experts, and short-term experts. He/she will assist the team leader in the identification of short-term expertise and will be responsible for the recruitment and contractualisation of the short-term expertise.

He/she will manage the local staff of the project.

He/she will be responsible for the harmonisation and delivery of the technical outputs and reporting of the project team and transfer to the European Delegation. She/he will address the question and comments of the EU in liaison with the project team.

He/she will closely monitor the project progresses and deliverables.

He/she will identify needs for short-term assignments with the available budget, validation of the ToRs, planning and steering the assignments,

He/she will ensure the proper coordination of the different components of the project.

He/she will implementation of the monitoring and evaluation system for the project,

He/she will ensuring visibility for actions of the project in line with the Communication and visibility plan,

He/she will ensure proper liaison with relevant national and international counterparts to ensure a smooth implementation of the action, avoid overlapping and maximize synergies,

He/she will ensure proper reporting to the EU delegation in Lebanon.

He/she will ensure the secretariat of the project Streering Committee.

Finally, the Project Coordinator will coordinate the content and logistical preparation and closure of all projects events.

Requested profile:

Qualifications / Qualifications and skills

• University diploma (master level of equivalent) in Management, political sciences, international relations or any topics relevant to the project.
• Excellent, proven organisational and project management skills.
• Capacity to establish effective working relations with Lebanese public institutions  and non-state actors including at senior level and to ensure an efficient co-operation with the EU Delegation;
• Excellent knowledge of the Lebanese institutional and/or political context
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both in writing and verbal)
• Excellent commend of English both written and spoken
• Knowledge of Arabic is a strong advantage

General and specific professional experience

• At least 6 years professional experience in managing international donor funded projects in the sector of women empowerment.
• At least 5 year professional experience in staff, financial and administrative management in the framework of international cooperation programme/project.
• Proven knowledge of the European Union’s rules and procedures in management of grant and/or delegation agreements.