Community Communications And Accountability Team Leader Consultant

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Manage all aspects of the AAP Pilot Project in Lebanon.

Lead project implementation and identify operational, administrative, financial and other constraints which may affect project implementation and propose solutions to ensure quality, timeliness, and cost effectiveness of deliverables.

Develop and adjust the project’s work plan in coordination with donors and management, ensuring that the project outputs are aligned with the project design and the partnership agreement and providing advice and guidance as required.

Assess needed institutional changes to support systematic mainstreaming of people-centered approaches.

Ensure existing interagency AAP guidance and learning is taken into account to ensure that the lessons learnt, good practices and tools developed inform UNRWA’s approach to AAP.

Identify opportunities with the Protection program for aligning AAP with the need to reinforce protection mainstreaming.

Ensure that UNRWA’s teams in Headquarters are kept abreast of the project’s progress and that it informs the agency’s implementation of its AAP work.

Coordinate a Project Board at LFO level, to keep colleagues abreast of the pilot’s development, help them build their support on the basis of the lessons learnt and good practices, and make recommendations to the LFO Front Office.

Draft or oversee the preparations of regular reports and updates on project activities to donors (i.e. narrative reports and financial reports) in coordination with UNRWA Donor Relations Unit and the UNRWA Programme Support Office.

 

Develop refugee community engagement to inform UNRWA’s strategy, planning, programmes and projects in Lebanon.

Review, in consultation with Programs and the Department of Internal Oversight, existing forms of engagement with the refugee community, including complaints mechanisms such as the grievance process, and establish new ones as appropriate, with a view to ensuring their integration and compliance with best practice standards including in terms of accessibility, effectiveness and confidentiality where needed. 

Facilitate community inputs into the annual planning process in the fourth quarter of the year, in order to ensure that community priorities are taken into account. Review the Camp Improvement Plan in Rashidieh camp and support community engagement in projects with Nahr El Bared and Beddawi camps.

Facilitate feedback to the community on what UNRWA has accomplished during the annual programme cycle and what priorities have been set, with meetings in the first quarter of the year, and communicate community concerns to departments and projects.

Support and document participation of management in meetings in each of the five areas in Lebanon, targeting representatives of political factions, camp committees, main NGOs and community-based organizations in the camps, youth and women’s committees, and other relevant community organizations including those involving Palestine refugees from Syria. 

Enhance communications with the community with specific efforts towards vulnerable groups, including through using social media and other tools to communicate outcomes.

Demonstrate UNRWA’s commitment to accountability to affected populations by ensuring that feedback and accountability mechanisms are integrated into planning, programmes, monitoring and evaluations, staff inductions, trainings and partnership agreements, and are highlighted in reporting.
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Based on the priorities decided, assist programs in analyzing current programmatic response gaps and opportunities identify the strategic and operational actions needed to address prioritized needs and issues and define objectives and milestones they will be accountable to.

Support programs in diagnosing barriers and opportunities to people-centered programming. Using the agreed methodologies, help analyze, identify and prioritize the specific affected groups and issues that require particular attention in their sectorial response. Some of this work follows on from current protection mainstreaming work and should build on upon it.

Translate identified priorities into programmatic approaches and tools.

Provide hands-on support to programs in implementing a tool / approach that improves the quality and accountability to affected populations mechanisms within their response. This could include the questionnaires for Annual Operational Plan [spell out] consultations by departments / areas and projects with community engagement requirements.

Develop questionnaires for Annual operational planning consultations by departments/areas and for projects with community engagement requirements.

Document methodology used, lessons learnt and good practices.

Elaborate a system to design and implement a people-centered approach that helps demystify, simplify and operationalize AAP at all steps (identify needs, analyses, priorities, program operation, monitor). 

Organize or support field visits, assisting in the preparation of visibility material/activities as required.

Contribute to monitoring and evaluation

Develop managerial tools for monitoring, evaluation and reporting; produce regular reports on implementation and achievements; ensure compliance with relevant standards including UNRWA’s ‘Framework for Accountability to Affected Populations’ and the Inter-Agency Standing Committee ‘Tools to assist in implementing the IASC AAP Commitments’.

Perform any other duties as required.

Expired

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Last modified: 
17 Oct, 2017
Intervention Sector(s):
N/A
Application Deadline:
Monday, 30 October 2017
Contract Type:
Consultancy
Period of Employment:
6 months extendable subject to availability of funds, needs and performance.
Salary
P4 relevant to salary scale
Salary Range:
Education Degree:
Masters Degree
Education Degree Details:
An advanced university degree in social research, communications, public relations or other related discipline.
Experience Requirements:
Arabic Language:
English Language:
Excellent
French Language:
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