Country: Lebanon
Closing date: 30 Nov 2016
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.
Find out about our history and values
Humanitarian situation and needs
As the Syrian Crisis is in its fourth year, the number of Syrians seeking refuge in other countries has reached an unprecedented scale. Lebanon is the first host country for Syrian refugees with over 1.2 million refugees registered for an overall population of less than 4.5 million. 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[1]. The Security Council also expressed concern over border violations including the presence of terrorists and violent extremist groups in Lebanese territory[2]. 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 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 unregistered. This means it is now much harder for Syrians to enter the country, while those residing in Lebanon are also facing difficulties in renewing their residency or having access to humanitarian aid or public facilities. 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.
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.
[1] UNFPA Regional Situation Report For Syria Crisis, Issue no. 31, 1-31 March, available on linehttps://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/documents.php?page=1&view=grid&Org... consulted on 22/04/2015
[2] Ibid.
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 2015/2016, PUI aims to reinforce the ability of each vulnerable community to become self-reliant and resilient to crisis, through 2 programs:
- Humanitarian Assistance Program: to provide a protection-based humanitarian material assistance and services for the most vulnerable refugees and host communities affected by the Syrian crisis.
- Resilience Program: to develop and strengthen community-level infrastructures and support household-level economic survival and well-being with regards to specific poor and vulnerable groups.
Click here for more information about our response to the crisis
As part of our activities in Lebanon, we are looking for a Deputy Head of Mission for Programmes.
Under the supervision of the Head of Mission, the Deputy Head of Mission for Programs (DHoMP) is responsible for the development and the steering of a pertinent, appropriate and technically sound program strategy ensuring a quality intervention all through the project cycle management. Managing a team of technical coordinators and effectively liaising with the operations and support teams he/she contributes to the overall strategy development of the mission and to the quality of its operations. He/She supports the HoM within the technical representation and positioning of PUI in the country.
- Strategy: He/She leads the development of the technical country strategy, strongly contributing to the operational strategy and suggests new operations according to needs identified in direct coordination with the Field and Technical Coordinators
- Programs: He/She is in charge of the technical intervention, ensuring that programs and project progress in accordance with PUI charter and complying with internal and contractual procedures.
- Human resources: He/She manages directly the technical coordination team and ensures that the Field Coordinators and Base Programme Coordinators are properly supported by them.
- Representation: By delegation from the Head of Mission, he/she ensures and coordinates PUI’s technical representation at national level among partners, donors and authorities.
- Coordination: He/She ensures the effective interaction between the technical coordination team and the bases. He/She also ensures that the technical coordination department is properly liaising with the support coordinators.
- Logistics, administrative and financial monitoring: He/She is involved in direct collaboration with the technical coordinators in the global oversight of links between programs departments and logistics and administrative departments. He/She guarantees that the implementation of all activities is done while respecting all internal and external logistics and administrative frames.
To stay up to date with our new job offers, join our Facebook groupMy Job In The Field**.**
Training and Experiences
Training:
Project management
Professional Experiences:
5 years managing humanitarian projects (among which at least 2 years in coordination role)
Very strong experience in donor project management (formats, guidelines etc.)
Experience in assessing needs
Successful experience in expatriate team management and the management of multisectorial programs
Knowledge of WASH and/or Shelter and/or Food Security and/or Public Health
Knowledge and Skills:
Excellent writing skills
Project management
Team management
Detailed knowledge of donors (BPRM, ECHO, UN agencies etc.)
Software:
Pack Office
Languages:
English is mandatory
Arabic and French are a plus
Proposed Terms
Employed with a Fixed-Term Contract – 12 months
Starting date: 15th October 2016
Monthly gross income: from 2 420 up to 2 750 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
Housingin collective accommodation
Daily living Expenses (« Per diem »)
Break Policy : 5 working days at 3 and 9 months + break allowance (600€)
Paid Leaves Policy : 5 weeks of paid leaves per year + return ticket every 6 months
To know more about our job offer, look at the complet job description on our website!
How to apply:
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 subject :**«DepHoM–Lebanon»**.