Lebanon: Lebanon – A Deputy Administrative Coordinator for Finance

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 190 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 5 million people in 20 countries – in Africa, Asia, Middle East, Eastern Europe and France.

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Humanitarian situation and needs

Since the outbreak of the Syrian crisis in April 2011, according to UN estimations, 6.6 million people have been internally displaced, while 4.8 million refugees have been registered in the neighboring countries as of June 2016. Lebanon is the second host country for Syrian refugees with over 1.049 million refugees registered as of March 2016 for an overall population of less than 4.5 million (representing more than 23% of the population). Prior to this crisis, Lebanon was already hosting half a million Palestinian refugees; the pressure on the Lebanese government and local population is very high.

In April 2015, the United Nations Security Council declared that the international community has to help Lebanon in its efforts to host more than 1 million refugees from neighboring Syria. Since the beginning of March 2015, the government of Lebanon, through the General Security Directorate, is enforcing entry regularization among refugees entering from Syria. The Lebanese government has also asked the UNHCR to temporary stop the registration process, hence new refugees and new born babies cannot be registered anymore and refugees that arrived after the 5th of January 2015 have been deregistered (around 11,319 individuals).

While Palestinian refugees are settled in camps, there are no official camps for Syrian refugees in Lebanon. On a case by case basis, the government may authorize the establishment of formal tented settlements (FTS). However, Syrian refugees are mainly settled in small shelter units (SSU), collective shelters (CS) or informal settlements (IS). 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 income and public services at the local level. This situation will place an increased economic strain on the families, and in addition to the expected decrease in basic assistance due to low funding levels, an escalation in negative coping mechanisms (such as begging, child labor, child marriages, sexual services for food/accommodation, petty crime, etc.) might be witnessed.

Our action in the field

Since 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 2016/2017, PUI´s strategy in the country is based on two programmatic axes:

• Humanitarian Assistance Program: to provide a protection-based humanitarian assistance and services for the most vulnerable refugees and host communities affected by the Syrian crisis;
• Resilience Program: to reinforce the self-resilience and resilience of the affected communities through the development and strengthening of community-based structures.

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As part of our activities in Lebanon, we are looking for a Deputy Administrative Coordinator for Finance.

The Deputy Admin Coordinator for Finance is responsible for budget construction and financial reporting for the mission.

Under the supervision of the Administrative Coordinator, and in cooperation with Admin Managers in the operational bases, the Deputy Administrative Coordinator for Finance will:

1. Supporting the mission and the Administrative and Finance Coordinator in all aspects related to budget proposals.;
2. Ensuring the quality of external financial reporting and the timely production of reports;
3. Ensure information circulation concerning the financial issues regarding the mission, both at a mission level and to headquarter in France, and consolidates internal and external budgets in these same fields

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Training and Experiences

Formation:

• Master’s degree in Finance management or Accounting

Experiences:

• Humanitarian (Minimum 3 year of experience in a similar position in NGOs/private companies)
• International (experience in audit)
• Technical

Knowledge and skills:

• Good writing skills
• Good analytical skills
• Good management capacities and team leadership spirit

Software:

• Pack Office
• Saga
• Excel

Required Personal Characteristics:

• Well organized
• Strong donor knowledge
• Strong training skills
• Strong analysis skills
• Ability to take initiative to deal with difficulties encountered in daily work and suggest improvement
• Ability to adapt or change priorities according to the changing situation within a mission or the organization itself
• Autonomy, neutrality, hard worker
• Able to manage stress and pressure

Languages

• Required: English

• Desirable: Arabic

Proposed Terms

• Employed with a Fixed-Term Contract – 3 months

• Minimum duration of commitment: 3 months

• Starting date: November 2016

• Monthly Gross Income from 1 815 euros up to 2 145 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 »)

• 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

To know more about our job offer, do not hesitate to look at the complete job description on our website !

Please, send your application (Resume and Cover Letter) to Jean- Christophe Ouedraogo, Human Resources Officer for Expatriates at recrutement@premiere-urgence.org with the following subjet: « DepAdCo-Lib ».