Country: Lebanon
Closing date: 31 Aug 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.
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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 Grants Officer.
Under the overall supervision and direct line management of the Deputy Head of Mission Programmes, the Grants Officer is an active key for the development of concept papers, proposals, donors´ reports, and other documents relevant to the programs of PUI in Lebanon.
In constant liaison with the operational and support teams, s/he supports the gathering and compilation of all necessary information on ongoing projects and mission developments, in order to report on PUI’s activities internally and externally, with utmost attention to timeliness and quality.
- Support technical coordinators and operations teams in the bases in the tracking, collection and compilation of information relative to program operational progress;
- Ensures the qualitative and timely production of internal and external reporting;
- Ensures the qualitative production of project proposal and amendment packages, in close collaboration with program teams.
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Training and Experiences
Training:
Master´s degree in project management, political sciences, international development, public administration, business, social science or other relevant areas; or equivalent professional experience.
Professional Experiences:
At least one-year experience in a similar role and/or areas of programme development, project management, donor reporting and grant compliance for an international NGO.
Knowledge and Skills:
Experience writing high quality proposals for major donors and knowledge of major main institutional donors’ rules and regulations (e.g., ECHO, BPRM, EC, DFID, CDC, AFD, UNICEF and the UNHCR.
Experience of writing, reviewing and editing narrative and financial reports and excellent attention to detail.
Software:
Strong computer skills essential, including ability to operate Microsoft Word, Excel, Project and database Management software.
Languages
Excellent writing and edition skills in both English and French.
Working knowledge in Arabic is a plus.
Proposed Terms
Employed with a Fixed-Term Contract – 2 months
Starting Date: 1st September 2016
Monthly gross income: from 1 650 up to 1980 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 (for missions longer than 5 months)
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 : «GrantsOfficer–Lebanon».