Project Officer

The Project Officer will coordinate day-to-day project activities implemented through a local partner in Tyre, Lebanon, ensuring alignment with objectives, quality standards, and donor requirements. The role involves partner coordination, monitoring, reporting, capacity strengthening, and representation in coordination forums.

Responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day coordination of the project implemented by the partner, ensuring activities are delivered according to the approved project proposal, workplan, and budget.
• Serve as the main project focal point with the implementing partner and maintain regular communication to monitor progress, address implementation challenges, and ensure timely follow-up.
• Review partner workplans, implementation plans, activity schedules and provide guidance to ensure alignment with project objectives and targets.
• Track project progress against agreed indicators, deliverables, milestones, and targets, identifying delays, gaps, or implementation risks and proposing corrective actions.
• Conduct regular partner monitoring visits (jointly with the relevant IRC technical staff where needed), fill observation tools and implementation reviews to assess progress, quality, compliance, and adherence to agreed standards.
• Ensure effective coordination between the partner and relevant internal IRC departments to facilitate timely implementation.
• Act as the single-entry point for the partner on IRC requests, so that technical, MEAL, finance, and compliance requests are consolidated, sequenced, and communicated in a coordinated way.
• Coordinate with Finance and Grants on partner budget monitoring, financial reporting timelines, and donor requirements, escalating issues to the relevant manager.
• In coordination with the ERD technical unit, contribute to the identification and mapping of women-led community initiatives, applying agreed selection criteria for group cash transfers, while coordinating with the senior field manager, local partner and local authorities/community.
• Process group cash transfers in line with the Group Cash Transfer guidance and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), working in close coordination with the Finance team to ensure accurate documentation, and timely disbursement.
• Design and maintain the program control checklist for the group cash transfers, in close coordination with the ERD Coordinator and the Cash Technical Advisor and use it to verify compliance at each stage.
• Work with MEAL colleagues and partners to ensure appropriate data collection, verification, documentation, and reporting mechanisms/MEAL tools are in place.
• Conduct regular meetings with the IRC’s MEAL focal point to track partner achievement.
• Review partner reports and raise any concerns to the technical senior managers.
• Coordinate the assessment of partner capacity and identify areas requiring additional support, coaching, or technical assistance with input from technical teams.
• Coordinate with Senior Managers to develop and follow up on partner capacity-strengthening plans and track their implementation against the agreed timeline.
• Coordinate access to coaching, training, and technical support for partner project staff from the relevant IRC technical teams (MHPSS, SRH, Protection) and provide day-to-day operational and project-management support to the partner project team.
• Participate in relevant internal coordination meetings.
• Maintain effective coordination with relevant Protection and Health actors, authorities, UN agencies, and other stakeholders at field level in Tyre and South Lebanon where appropriate.
• Represent the project and IRC professionally in relevant meetings, workshops, and coordination platforms when needed in close coordination with the Head of Department.
• Promote integrated, cross-sector referrals within IRC, especially between Protection and Health.

Requirements

• 3-4 years’ experience with an NGO and/or international organization with proven experience coordinating with local implementing partners.
• Familiarity of case management and management of community-based activities.
• Excellent organizational skills, timeliness, ability to determine priorities and great attention to detail.
• Familiarity with program design, including budgeting.
• Familiarity with M&E system design and implementation.
• Proactive, flexible, team spirited and willing to learn.
• Demonstrated contextual knowledge and relevant experience working in South Lebanon, with a strong understanding of the local context, communities, and specific project needs.
• Excellent computer skills including MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to work as a team, as well as independently.
• Fluency in Arabic and English.

Skills

• Partner Coordination
• Case Management
• Community-Based Activities Management
• Program Design
• Budgeting
• Monitoring and Evaluation System Design
• Monitoring and Evaluation Implementation
• Project Reporting
• Capacity Strengthening
• Donor Compliance
• Organizational Skills
• MS Word
• Excel
• Power Point
• Contextual Knowledge South Lebanon

Languages

Arabic, English