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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 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.

 

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 neighbouring 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 labour, 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 line https://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/documents.php?page=1&view=grid&Org%5B%5D=196 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.

 

As part of our activities in Lebanon, we are looking for a Base Program Coordinator in Akkar.

The Program Coordinator (de-facto Deputy Field Coordinator) is a key member of the base coordination team (with Field Co, Field Log Co and Admin Manager) responsible for the success of the base’s program strategy and the quality of current and future programs at the definition, implementation and evaluation phases.

He/She provides support to, and coordination between, the technical sector managers (Health, WASH, PCO, Shelter, Infrastructure, as well as the IM and AME Managers), ensuring accountability and strong implementation through programmatic support and program-related tasks by delegation from the Field Coordinator, including proposals and reports, monitoring, information management, provision of trainings to program staff, attending working group meetings and facilitating communication between key program staff at base level.

• Strategy: Working alongside the Field Coordinator and drawing on the input of the Technical Coordinators in Beirut, he/she contributes to the development of new initiatives for the base. He/She liaises with the AME team in order to analyse and make changes regarding strengths and weaknesses of projects.
• Programs: He/She ensures that program(s) are in line with PUI policy and supports sector managers to ensure implementation of funded activities is on track and implementation is of a high quality, making recommendations and supporting managers to improve. She/he task to assure the planning process is followed and respected.
• Representation: He/She represents the organisation to partners, authorities and local stakeholders involved by delegation from the Field Coordinator and relating to programmatic issues or overall operation in the area.
• Human Resources and Training: He/She provides capacity building support to sector managers in project/team management, assists them for recruiting staff and supervises training activities on the basis of identified needs.
• Logistics and Finance: He/She ensures the activities and he/she is responsible comply with logistics and administrative procedures. He/She liaises with the Field Logistics Coordinator whenever a logistics concern is affecting program implementation, advocating on behalf of the sector managers.
• Safety and Security: He/She contributes to compliance with safety rules within the mission and communicates any security/safety-related information to the Field Coordinator.

 

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Expérience

Training:

Relevant university qualification in humanitarian studies, project management or social sciences.

Professional Experiences:

Humanitarian:

• Min. 3 years as a manager of humanitarian projects
• Substantial experience in emergency and post-crisis environments, in addition to conflict and post-conflict zones;
• Strong experience in community based activities
• Knowledge of multisectoral approach
• Understanding of humanitarian coordination mechanisms

International

Technical

Knowledge and Skills:

Demonstrating good knowledge of UN and NGO mandates and programs in the humanitarian responses, refugees, post conflict construction and development/resilience

Excellent planning and organizational skills

Excellent writing skills

Very good Knowledge of project management

Excellent and proven ability to provide capacity building support to teams

Software:

Strong computer skills essential, including ability to operate Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

Google Earth

Langues parlées

Excellent command in writing and editing documents in English

Working knowledge in Arabic and/or French is a plus