Area Manager – BML & South Lebanon At Norwegian Refugee Council

All NRC employees are expected to work in accordance with the organisation’s core values: dedication, innovation, inclusivity and accountability. These attitudes and believes shall guide our actions and relationships.

NRC Lebanon is looking to hire 2 Area Managers for its Area Offices in Beirut Mount Lebanon (BML) and the South Area Office.

Purpose of the role

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

• Line manage senior staff in the area (programmes, supports, M&E, Protection and HSS).
• Member of the Country Management Group (CMG)
• Ensure compliance with and adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures.
• Provide area specific input on Programme Strategies, Country Strategy and Plan of Action.
• 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).
• Assess needs, develop emergency response and implement response plans.
• Ensure optimal use of resources within the allocated project budgets and programmes strategies.
• Represent NRC and networking on area level.
• Ensure that capacity building is provided to all staff in the area and 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.

Specifically you will;

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Minimum 5 years of programming experience working as a Senior Project Manager in a humanitarian/recovery context
• Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Knowledge of cash-based interventions and market based programmes
• Understanding of the context (Syria crisis) is essential
• 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

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: BML & Tyre, Lebanon

Duration of contract: 12 months, full-time, in accordance with local labour laws.

Grade 10 in NRC’s grading structure

Reporting line: Head of Operations