Area Manager Lebanon At Norwegian Refugee Council

Job Purpose

The purpose of the Area Manager position is to ensure high quality and cost effective programme/projects implementation within the designated geographical area.

What you will do:

Generic Responsibilities:

• Provide area specific input on Programme Strategies, Country Strategy and Plan of Action as well as assess needs, develop emergency response and implement response plans.
• Organize grants opening and closure meetings at area level.
• Oversee the implementation of projects (including master support budget and coordinating input for donor proposals and reports) in the area, in compliance with contractual commitments (i.e. quality, synergies, timeliness, use of resources).
• Ensure optimal use of resources within the allocated project budgets and programmes strategies.
• Represent NRC and networking on area level.
• Line manage senior staff in the area (programmes, supports, M&E, Protection and HSS) and ensure that capacity building is provided to all staff in the area.
• Ensure overall security and safety of staff in the area.
• Contribute to the development of holistic and needs based programmes, including cash-based interventions and marked based programmes
• Oversee and be responsible of mainstreaming protection in the NRC’s related activities as per NRC’s Safe Programming guidelines and ensure that all breaches/concerns reported are properly resolved.
• Receive the referral information related to protection cases on a monthly basis from the related focal points and take proper actions to ensure that the referral system is functioning to the best interest of beneficiaries as per NRC’s referral’s SOPs.
• Member of the Country Management Group (CMG)
• Ensure compliance with and adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Actively contribute to organizational development and structural changes (both within and beyond the Area Office) to account for growth and adapt to contextual changes.
• Oversee and manage the timely recruitment of qualified staff for key positions – both existing and newly introduced – in the Area Office.
• Oversee and ensure the implementation of sound and balanced risk management practices, with due consideration for the principle of Duty of Care.
• Liaise regularly with relevant external stakeholders, including authorities, donors, UN agencies and other humanitarian actors – among others through coordination mechanisms.
• Actively contribute to program development, providing area-specific inputs and reviewing/consolidating contributions from Project Managers.
• Ensure programmes in the area are implemented in accordance with relevant (country/regional/global) strategies, donor rules & regulations and NRC policies & procedures, including but not limited to the Project Cycle Management framework, HR Handbook, Logistics Handbook, etc.
• Ensure all of NRC’s activities in the geographical area of operation are implemented in line with NRC’s Safe and Inclusive Programming (SIP) policy.
• Provide regular inputs into advocacy products and external communications initiatives.
• Continuously promote a positive and collaborative working environment characterized by high levels of trust and respect, with due consideration for staff care and wellbeing.
• Ensure the inclusion of cash-based interventions and market based programmes in country and area-based strategies and their implementation across and within NRC’s core competencies
• Provide an enabling environment for the implementation of cash-based interventions, including multi-purpose cash assistance, emergency cash responses

Professional Competencies and Qualifications Required

These are skills, knowledge and experience that are important for effective performance.

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field of study.
• Minimum 5 years of experience from working as a Senior Project Manager in a humanitarian/recovery context
• Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts. Understanding of the context (Syria crisis) is essential.
• Knowledge of cash-based interventions and market based programmes
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal. Proficiency in Arabic would be a major asset
• Demonstrated ability to perform well in a highly fluid environment where both context and organizational structure are subject to continuous, abrupt and substantial change

Behavioural competencies

• Handling insecure environments
• Strategic thinking
• Empowering and building trust
• Managing performance and development
• Managing resources to optimise results
• Influencing

What We Offer

NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality and physical ability.

We offer an opportunity to match your career to a compelling cause and a chance to meet and work with people who are the best in their fields.

Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply and join our work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility: At NRC we think outside the box. We encourage ideas and give responsibility to all employees at all levels, to help solve the complex issues that we face. You will have many opportunities to be heard and take initiative.

We are also looking for people who share our values:

• To be dedicated in what we do;
• To be innovative with our solutions;
• To act as one unified and inclusive team;
• To be accountable to the donors that make our work possible; the people we exist to serve, and to each other… the members of our NRC family.

Additional Information:

Duty Station: Multiple within Lebanon

Duration of contract: Fixed term 12 months full-time with a possibility of extension.

Grade 10 in NRC’s grading structure

Reporting line: Head of Operations

Provides supervision to: Core Competencies Project Managers, Support Manager, Protection Coordinator, M&E Coordinator, Health, Safety and Security (HSS) Team Leader

ABOUT US

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in crises across more than 31 countries, providing emergencies and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. We stand up for people forced to flee, advocating their rights. NORCAP, our global provider of expertise, helps improve international and local ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises. NRC also runs the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, a global leader in reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country.

Employment with NRC may lead to employment in or deployment to Regions, Countries, Areas or Offices that may be host to considerable health, safety and security risks. NRC takes this very seriously and we have procedures in place to reduce known risks, but will never be able to take away all risks.

NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality and physical ability.