Municipality Support Assistant - Zahle
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Caritas Lebanon is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any Kind. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status
OBJECTIVE:
The municipal support assistant is responsible for providing quality information, counseling and assistance to beneficiaries and, through this work, developing better understanding of the situation for the target communities. He will work on improving relationships between UNHCR and partner’s organizations with municipalities
DUTIES:
- Improve the communication with the municipalities and UNHCR
- Follow up on individual cases, answering enquiries, and also assist municipalities when needed in administrative tasks
- Work to strengthen UNHCR and partner’s relationship with refugees, refugee/host community leaders and municipal actors
- Continue to improve the quality of the information coming out to refugees/ municipalities
- Continue to communicate challenges faced and contextual analysis to UNHCR
- Analyze protection trends and needs
- Bring forward the needs of refugees to the relevant authorities and humanitarian community for a coordinated response
- Understand the practices between the renters and landlords and advocate for fair/ rights guaranteeing documentations between both parties (HLP)
- Report on major findings
- Attend UNHCR and partners information sessions and briefings
SKILLS:
Business Skills
- Knowledge in understanding and implementation of referral systems
- Knowledge of Protection Issues and programming
- Highly approachable
- Trust-worthy
- Understanding of the principles of Confidentiality
- Good Information Analysis Skills
- Fluent in English and Arabic, both spoken and written
Computer Skills
- Microsoft office – all applications
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:
- 2 years of relevant work experience in working either in Local or National Authorities or with community based projects
- Better channeling of refugees’ issues/challenges through a better understanding of the policies in place
RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS:
- Residing in Zahle
NOTE:
Daleel Madani, the civil society network, serves as a platform for organisations to post their professional opportunities, but is not involved in the recruitment process. The hiring organisation is solely responsible for the job and candidate selection.
- Lebanon
- Beqaa
- Zahleh