مطلوب مدير برامج – Programs Manager للعمل لدى منظمة النساء الآن من أجل التنمية (Ngo)

Women Now defines itself as a feminist, women-led NGO dedicated to deepening and strengthening women’s role in Syrian and host communities by enhancing their political, social, and economic participation. We implement programmes in four Women and Girls Safe Spaces (WGSS): two in Northern Syria and two in Bekaa, Lebanon, reaching thousands of women and girls annually. Among our key strengths lies in our holistic approach to supporting women and girls:

1-) Protection: we provide psychosocial support to women and girls through one-to-one case management, group sessions and awareness-raising sessions.

2-) Empowerment: we facilitate the empowerment of women and adolescent girls through education and vocational training, from literacy, English and IT skills, to basic nursing and small business management.

3-) Participation: we work to increase women’s participation in civil and political life and decision-making processes, by strengthening their leadership skills and providing platforms for them to engage in and influence public discourses and frameworks for change.

4-) Advocacy and Research: we amplify women’s voices by supporting local advocacy campaigns, driven by women at the grassroots level, as well as through our own international advocacy work within transitional justice processes and rights-monitoring mechanisms. We document and collect experiences and testimonials, conduct in-depth research and analysis concerning women’s rights, women-led activist movements, feminist civil society initiatives, gender-based violence and women’s living conditions in Syria and host communities.

5-) Community-mobilization and movement-building: We help build and consolidate the leadership and self-organization skills of women and girls, as well as provide platform/spaces for them to voice their opinions, needs, and concerns and to uphold their human rights.

Type of Contract:

Fulltime position, it can be Hybrid Mode (Online,Physical) if the candidate is located outside Beqaa.

Tasks and Duties:

Local Programs Manager, Under the direct supervision of Country Manager, and technical supervision of Headquarters level. The LPM is responsible for managing programs and Grants complying with WND and Donor’s regulations and Guidelines.

Managing Programs

– Responsible for overseeing  the management of all WND -Lebanon`s projects implementation throughout project cycles and ensuring that projects are implemented in line with work plans and targets, or adjusted in response to changes in the context or needs.

– Contributes to enhancing  the gender-sensitivity and feminist approaches of the organization’s programs implemented in Lebanon.

– Plays an essential role in connecting the gender transformative justice work of WND’s offices and Women and Girl Safe Spaces in different countries, as well as the organization’s affiliated partners.

– Ensures adherence to international standards and other guidance on Protection, GBV Services, Child-friendly spaces,child safeguarding  PSEA, community-lead social action, etc., disseminating such information within the organization and ensuring its application when appropriate.

– Responsible for managing the grants and relationships with donors in all stages, negotiation, preparation and finalizations of agreements and Closing up grants.

– Checking and negotiating contracts; ensuring compliance with non-finance related contractual obligations.

Coordination and Management

– Strengthens internal relationships and consolidated partnerships with relevant actors to advance shared feminist commitments.

– Helps strengthen a participatory and reflective form of leadership, based on an affected community and bottom-up approach, rather than through hierarchical and top-down mechanisms

– Provides guidance, leadership, and support to amplify WND’s voice in all spaces that Women Now participates in and at all levels, local, regional and international.

– Helps to facilitate feminist thinking and knowledge production and the documentation of women’s experiences and feminist activism through the program design and implementation.  Furthermore,  explores ways to disseminate this knowledge.

– Maintains positive professional relations with existing donors, donor networking and builds relationships with new potential donors.

– Acts as a Women Now ambassador and represents the organization at workshops and conferences as necessary.

– Coaches, mentors and trains project’s members on grant’s management, feminist approaches, and implementations.

– Coordinates with M&E department and contributes to the project’s M&E plans and reporting regularly.

– Attends and leads grants management`s regular meetings with HQ various managers/coordinators.

– Prepares kick-off meetings with the relevant team members to introduce the project,clarifies responsibilities and assigns duties

– Acts as the budget holder, which involves assisting the Finance team in preparing the budget forecast, approving purchase orders after checking with the finance team on amount availability for the budget lineand reviewing BVA.

Design & Proposal Writing & Reporting

– Leads on managing the execution of WND`s programs in Lebanon, including innovative and collaborative feminist learning and mentorship programs for colleagues and partners.

– Reviews and finalizes program reports, and provides constructive feedback to ensure high-quality reporting.Reviews narrative and financial reports, ensure completion of activities and reporting within agreed timeframes, and coordinates with the Finance Department regarding relevant financial reports

– Designs new programs in line with the Women Now ethos and strategy in coordination with the technical managers, taking into consideration learning from previous programs, through Feminist MEAL tools.

– Drafts winning proposals, log-frames, MEAL plans, work plans and risk assessments.

– Reviews budget and ensures that they are appropriate for proposed projects.

– Participates in securing diverse and sustainable sources of funding.

– Contributes to donors' reports and organizational reports in its related sections ( M&E, Progress, Challenges, success stories) as needed.

– Facilitating donor visits and meetings, and responding to their enquiries.

Qualifications

• Excellent understanding of the Syrian context in general, and specifically Syrian civil society

• 4+ years’ experience working in either Rights-based NGOs, or Humanitarian NGOs.

• Education in women's studies, social work, social sciences, other relevant fields (desirable)

• Demonstrates a clear understanding of gender-transformative justice, intersectionality, human rights, and broader structural determinants compounding violence against women and girls

• Experience in working on programs/projects specifically for women and/or adolescent girls

• Applicants should also demonstrate a keen interest in Women Now values and strong motivation in putting them into practice.

Personal Skills

• Strong experience in project management, the ability to organize work, meet deadlines, maintain composure,work under pressure, and maintain attention to details.

• Knowledge and experience in developing Arabic language political participation, human rights, and gender training curriculums relevant to women in the Syrian context.

• Experience in planning and executing training workshops and mentoring others.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

• The ability to command respect and to create a sense of community amongst the members of the projects teams

• Sufficient seniority and credibility to advise  projects teams on their tasks in relation to the projects.

• Excellent problem-solving abilities.

• Good report writing skills and attention to details.

• A self-starter with an efficient and hard-working approach.

• Dynamic, creative and driven.

• Good Skills in Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, and Excel, as well as video communication platforms.

Language Skills

• Strong knowledge of written and spoken Arabic and English