Lebanon: Food & Security Livelihoods Coordinator

Dec 16, 2015 | Première Urgence Internationale
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Première Urgence Internationale (PUI) is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-political and non-religious international aid organization. Our teams are committed to supporting civilians’ victims of marginalization and exclusion, or hit by natural disasters, wars and economic collapses, by answering their fundamental needs. Our aim is to provide emergency relief to uprooted people in order to help them recover their dignity and regain self-sufficiency. The association leads in average 140 projects by year in the following sectors of intervention: food security, health, nutrition, construction and rehabilitation of infrastructures, water, sanitation, hygiene and economic recovery. PUI is providing assistance to around 4 million people in 22 countries – in Africa, Asia, Middle East, Caucasus and Europe.

Humanitarian Situation and Needs

In the past two and a half years, Lebanon has experienced unprecedented refugee influx from neighboring Syria. Since the beginning of the crisis in Syria in the first half of 2011, the caseload of Syrian refugees, Lebanese returnees, and Palestinians from Syria has been rising constantly and especially sharply in 2013-2014. In parallel, the spillover of the Syrian crisis into Lebanon compounded pre-existing vulnerabilities among the Lebanese society. Refugee populations have in many cases settled in areas inhabited by impoverished and vulnerable Lebanese communities further stretching limited or non-existent sources of incomes and public services at the local level.

The strain imposed by the sheer duration of the crisis began to tell on the generous welcome to date of Lebanon’s communities. Thus, restrictions on visa renewals were placed on the entry of Palestinian refugees from Syria (PRS) and re-entry of Syrian Refugees, restricting their freedom of movement. As tensions and retaliatory attacks increased between proxy actors to the conflict in Syria, refugee and Lebanese communities began to clash with greater frequency in areas in north Lebanon, south Lebanon and the Bekaa.

PUI has been operating in the Middle East for over a decade, running a combination of Livelihood, WATSan, Shelter, Health, Protection, Advocacy and relief projects. PUI has seven project offices throughout Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Occupied Palestine, Egypt, Yemen and both a country and regional office in Jordan.

Our action in the field

Since November 2012, PUI has been actively involved in the Lebanon emergency response to the Syrian crisis with presence in the North (Akkar), Mount Lebanon and South (Saida) of Lebanon. In 2014, the Emergency sector-based Program is progressively shifting to a holistic approach, combining 5 specific orientations:

  • Provision of life-saving activities: food distribution (E-cards), NFIs distribution (in-kind, vouchers and ATM cards), conditional cash assistance (cash-for-rent, cash-for-work) and unconditional cash assistance (special needs),
  • Strengthening access to Shelter and Community Infrastructure and Services: multi-option shelter intervention, including provision of potable water and sanitation system, for collective shelters, upgrading of individual houses, and rehabilitation of unfinished structures, cash-for rent, sealing off-kits, as well as community support projects with PHC & school rehabilitation/expansion and the rehabilitation of community centers.
  • Strengthening access to Preventive and Curative Primary Health Care: support to existing MoH-affiliated PHCs through the provision of medical equipment and drugs, delivery of trainings to medical staff, development of data collection & monitoring system, extension of outreach care services through Medical Mobile Units when and where relevant, community-based public health awareness raising sessions including hygiene promotion, community-based surveillance system for identification and response to communicable diseases and outbreaks.
  • Developing a Community-based Protection approach: refugee sites management & coordination, individual case management (essentially for child protection and GBV cases), protection monitoring, referral, assistance to Persons with Special Needs, provision of information and social counselling, social rehabilitation through community services (including literacy courses and skills development training), community & school-based psychosocial support.
  • Developing resilience capacity through livelihood support: any feasible livelihood option including cash-for-rent, cash-for-work, vocational training, internship, apprenticeships, tool kits and business creation/development, preferably via support to local Lebanese enterprises and with focus on vulnerable target groups (youths, women and people with disability mainly).

Developing resilience capacity through livelihood support: any feasible livelihood option including cash-for-rent, cash-for-work, vocational training, internship, apprenticeships, tool kits and business creation/development, preferably via support to local Lebanese enterprises and with focus on vulnerable target groups (youths, women and people with disability mainly).

As part of our activities in Lebanon, we are looking for a Food Security and Livelihoods Coordinator.

The Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL) Coordinator develops and supports the Food Security and Liveihoods program development and the mission strategy implementation. S/he supports the project managers of FSL projects jointly with the relevant Base Program Coordinator.

Programmes: S/he coordinates the FSL teams jointly with the relevant PC and ensures the operational and qualitative aspects of programmes are properly implemented (monitoring of objectives, respecting due dates and budgetary provisions, quality control).

Evaluation: S/he develop a high qualitative and quantitative research analysis on FSL opportunities and resilience mechanism to the Syrian crisis response in Lebanon, to offer an adapted response in a challenging context of intervention for the sector.

Strategy & Development: S/he participates, for his/her technical sector, in the design of the operational strategy and suggests new operations according to needs identified at base and mission level. S/he participates actively (in coordination with other national coordinators and the relevant Head of Base) in the design and implementation of assessments and in the design and overall project cycle management of all FSL projects at mission level.

Human resources: S/he supports from a technical point of view the teams operating on FSL (recruitment, objectives definition, and evaluation).

Representation: S/he ensures and coordinates the PUI’s FSL representation at mission level with partners, working groups, donors and different authorities.

Coordination: S/he ensures that information is efficiently communicated between the FSL teams and other teams (support, programs…) and ensures a proper coordination and information sharing with other national level coordinators (Log, Admin, Shelter and Infrastructure…).

Logistical, administrative and financial monitoring: S/he guarantees that logistical and administrative procedures are respected by the FSL teams and alerts/relays this information to the logistical and administrative coordination team.

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Training and Experiences

  • Master in economics, social science, agronomy would be a major asset
  • 3 years as a manager of humanitarian projects
  • Successful experience in expatriate team management and the management of FSL Programs
  • Knowledge of economics both at macro and micro level, agricultural, distribution programmes, market analysis and resilience support programs

Languages

  • English mandatory
  • Arabic and French are assets

Qualities

  • Excellent writing skills
  • Strong knowledge of project management
  • Research experience
  • Ability to work in unstable circumstances
  • Detailed knowledge of donors (OFDA, ECHO, AAP, UN agencies etc)
  • Data analysis and basic statistic background

Proposed Terms

  • Employed with a Fixed-Term Contract (6 months) Salaire / Indemnité
  • Monthly gross income: from 1 980 up to 2 310 Euros depending on the experience in International Solidarity + 50 Euros per semester seniority with PUI
  • Cost covered: Round-trip transportation to and from home / mission, visas, vaccines…
  • Insurance including medical coverage and complementary healthcare, 24/24 assistance and repatriation
  • Housing in collective accommodation

Daily living Expenses (« Per diem ») of 600 Euros

Break Policy : 5 working days at 3 and 9 months + break allowance

Paid Leaves Policy : 5 weeks of paid leaves per year + return ticket every 6 months