Badael North Project Manager

Shaping a stronger Oxfam for people living in poverty.

About Oxfam

Oxfam is a global movement of people who won’t live with the injustice of poverty. Together we save and rebuild lives in disasters. We help people build better lives for themselves. We speak out on the big issues that keep people poor, like inequality, discrimination against women and climate change. And we won’t stop until every person on the planet can live without poverty.

Oxfam GB is a member of the international confederation Oxfam.

Our Team

The BADAEL (Building Alternative Development Assets and Entrepreneurial Learning) Consortium operating in Lebanon is made up of four organisations dedicated to contribute to promoting social stability and community resilience of vulnerable communities hosting refugees. With the support of the European Union’s Madad Trust Fund, the BADAEL Consortium brings together the technical expertise and capacity of four agencies, including Oxfam (Consortium Lead), Beyond Reform and Development, Association Najdeh and Utopia. The project’s activities are centred on enhancing the understanding and opportunities of communities on resilience assets to conflict and vulnerability and available socio-economic opportunities. 

Job Purpose

Under the supervision of the Steering Committee, and in close coordination with Oxfam’s Country Office, the North Project Manager (PM) is responsible for leading the correct planning, implementation and monitoring of the activities under Oxfam Responsibility in the North Governorate.  Under direct line management of the Oxfam Project Coordinator, She/he will be responsible for the organization of activities at field level and ensure the project meets stated goals and ensures timely and quality delivery of activities and outputs. Furthermore, the PM will take a leadership role in coordinating at local level with key stakeholders and implementing partners.

The PM is expected to work closely with the Active Citizenship & Good Governance and Economic Justice programme teams and the Oxfam Policy team towards common objectives.

Core Details

Location:

Tripoli, with frequent travel to Beirut

Internal Grade:

C2

Contract type:

1 year, renewable based on Performance and availability of funds

This role reports to:

BADAEL Project Coordinator

Staff reporting to this post:

BADAEL NORTH Community Mobilizer

Annual budget for the post:

 N/A

Key relationships/interactions:

Badael Project Manager/Bekaa, Consortium members

Screening checks:

All successful candidates will be screened through Refinitiv World-Check One to comply with counter terrorism and financial sanctions regulations.

Key Responsibilities

Technical

• Under supervision of BADAEL Project Coordinator and in coordination with BADAEL Bekaa Project Manager, develop overall programme guidance in terms of work plans, budgets, procurement plans concerning activities in the North Lebanon Governorate and monitor their implementation in adherence to donor requirements;
• Establish relationships and partnerships with all relevant stakeholders in North Lebanon; work towards building networks and connections to strengthen and sustain the goals of the project;
• Work closely with BADAEL PC, partners, technical advisors and support staff to provide appropriate guidance and managerial support to implement the project in line with the objectives laid out in the donor approved proposal;
• Report regularly, verbally and in writing to the BADAEL PC on programme progress; ensure narrative reporting and financial accounting meet Oxfam and donor’s requirements;
• Support and promote programme quality and project strengthening activities at the field level e.g. data management, project quality meetings, learning events and partnership reviews;
• Monitoring and evaluating the project regularly, ensuring partners’ and community participation as appropriate, as well as accountability towards communities;
• Ensure that risk management and contingency planning is included at all stages of the programmes;
• Ensure project activities have the appropriate visibility in compliance with donor requirements and procedures;
• Ensure a constant and constructive relationship with BRD, Association Najdeh and UTOPIA at field and Beirut level;
• Participate in financial review meetings, involving relevant consortium staff and support staff to plan and monitor the budget, monitor procurement and spending plans, and ensure funds are spent within the time frame acceptable to Oxfam and the donor and ensuring rules and regulations of Oxfam are adhered to;
• Monitor actual financial performance against the budget, and explain variances on a regular basis;
• Responsible for ensuring appropriate monitoring (financial, technical, implementation) of consortium partners at the field level;
• Coordinate with the PC on initiating relevant procurement processes, with support from Logistics, in line with programme spending and procurement planning;
• In coordination with consortium member focal points, develop and maintain positive relations with relevant ministries and other government counterparts, donors, and other relevant external stakeholders at the field level;
• Participate in the Livelihoods and Social Stability working group in the North Governorate representing Oxfam and coordinate concerning BADAEL activities with stakeholders active in the area;
• Promote the values of the consortium, coordinate with external actors and represent the consortium at the field level. Ensure that meetings are documented and results circulated to appropriate staff, and consortium member partner focal points on a timely basis;
• Assist with the coordination of visits of donors, and/or partners related to the project.
• Facilitate, coordinating with the PC, on organizing joint consortium events, such as joint advocacy, research, project launch etc., coordinating closely with the policy and media team;
• Lead on organizing and implementing advocacy and learning events (meetings; town halls; workshops…) in North Lebanon.

Leadership & Management

• Line manage the community mobiliser
• Solicit appropriate training and learning opportunities for team member in line with development objectives and ensure regular coaching of staff (including partner’s staff);
• Ensure the physical welfare, well-being, and professional development of staff directly assigned to the project at field office
• Establish and maintain clear lines of communication with project staff and, at the field level, ensure internal communication among consortium members and project staff is effective;
• Oversee performance management and staff development of team member, and provide necessary and timely feedback to all staff being directly managed;

Other

• Required to adhere to Oxfam’s principles and values as well as the promotion of gender justice and women's rights
• Understanding of and commitment to adhere to equity, diversity, gender, child safety and staff health and wellbeing principles

Skills, Experience & Knowledge

Essential

• Minimum 3 years’ professional work experience in international humanitarian/ development work, including in the MENA region;
• Demonstrated technical expertise and experience in local economic development, livelihoods and/or social cohesion programming;
• Good knowledge of developing and implementing monitoring systems to track the effectiveness of programmes and an ability to build cooperative, professional relationships with donors, partners and peer organisations.;
• Demonstrated project, program and human resource management experience, including in working with local partners;
• Commitment to equal opportunity and gender policies. Demonstrated experience in integrating gender and diversity issues into programmes.
• A Bachelor Degree (post-graduate preferred) in international relations, business administration, management, human rights, social sciences or related field;
• Proven analytical and strategic planning skills;
• High-level communications and people skills;
• Excellent writing and communication skills
• Professional fluency in written and spoken English

Desirable

• Technical Expertise and experience in social entrepreneurship initiatives
• Professional fluency in written and spoken Arabic and/ or French
• Knowledge of EU procedures
• Strong MEAL experience, including in complex programmes with high-profile evaluations;

Key Attributes

• Ability to demonstrate sensitivity to cultural differences and gender issues, as well as the commitment to equal opportunities
• Ability to demonstrate an openness and willingness to learn about the application of gender/gender mainstreaming, women’s rights, and diversity for all aspects of development work
• Commitment to Oxfam’s safeguarding policies to ensure all people who come into contact with Oxfam are as safe as possible

Competencies

Description

Decisiveness

We are comfortable to make transparent decisions and to adapt decision making modes to the context and needs.

Influencing

We have the ability to engage with diverse stakeholders in a way that leads to increased impact for the organisation We spot opportunities to influence effectively and where there are no opportunities we have the ability to create them in a respectful and impactful manner.

Humility

We put ‘we’ before ‘me’ and place an emphasis on the power of the collective, nurture the team and play to the strengths of each individual. We are not concerned with hierarchical power, and we engage with, trust and value the knowledge and expertise of others across all levels of the organization.

Relationship Building

We understand the importance of building relationship, within and outside the organization. We have the ability to engage with traditional and non-traditional stakeholders in ways that lead to increased impact for the organisation.

Listening

We are good listeners who can see where deeper levels of thoughts and tacit assumptions differ. Our messages to others are clear, and consider different preferences.

Mutual Accountability

We can explain our decisions and how we have taken them based on our organizational values.  We are ready to be held to account for what we do and how we behave, as we are also holding others to account in a consistent manner.

Agility, Complexity, and Ambiguity

We scan the environment, anticipate changes, are comfortable with lack of clarity and deal with a large number of elements interacting in diverse and unpredictable ways.

Systems Thinking

We view problems as parts of an overall system and in their relation to the whole system, rather than reacting to a specific part, outcome or event in isolation. We focus on cyclical rather than linear cause and effect. By consistently practicing systems thinking we are aware of and manage well unintended consequences of organisational decisions and actions.

Strategic Thinking and Judgment

We use judgment, weighing risk against the imperative to act. We make decisions consistent with organizational strategies and values.

Vision Setting

We have the ability to identify and lead visionary initiatives that are beneficial for our organization and we set high-level direction through a visioning process that engages the organization and diverse external stakeholders.

Self-Awareness

We are able to develop a high degree of self-awareness around our own strengths and weaknesses and our impact on others. Our self-awareness enables us to moderate and self-regulate our behaviors to control and channel our impulses for good purposes.

Enabling

We all work to effectively empower and enable others to deliver the organizations goals through creating conditions of success. We passionately invest in others by developing their careers, not only their skills for the job.  We provide freedom; demonstrate belief and trust provide appropriate support.

Organisational Values

• Accountability – Our purpose-driven, results-focused approach means we take responsibility for our actions and hold ourselves accountable. We believe that others should also be held accountable for their actions
• Empowerment – Our approach means that everyone involved with Oxfam, from our staff and supporters to people living in poverty, should feel they can make change happen
• Inclusiveness – We are open to everyone and embrace diversity. We believe everyone has a contribution to make, regardless of visible and invisible differences