Deputy Country Director - Programs

Requirements:

• Good experience in program development, donor rules and regulations, validation procedures, coordination of processes and donor liaison.
• Training and capacity building experience.
• Experience in Project Cycle Management and Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Lessons Learned tools..
• Team management
• Degree and/or Master’s Degree in Humanitarian Action or any related field

Action Against Hunger – Lebanon seeks to promote gender equality and is committed to empowering women to participate effectively in their communities, we strongly encourage women to apply.

We Strongly encourage people with disabilities to apply.

ACF has a zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, and abuse (SEA)

Action against Hunger is an international non-governmental, private, apolitical, non-religious and non-profit organization created in 1979. Its goal is to combat hunger and dangerous situations that threaten men, women, and children. Currently 500 expats and more than 5,000 employees are working for Action against Hunger in more than forty-six countries working in projects concerning four areas of focus: nutrition, health, food security and water and sanitation. 

In Lebanon, the Syrian crisis continues to generate political, social, and economic pressure due to the war in Lebanon and keeps more than 1.5 million refugees in a situation of increasing vulnerability. In this environment of political, economic and social uncertainty, our teams have maintained their high levels of humanitarian response and aid to Lebanon. Likewise, our interventions have been maintained in the Bekaa and northern areas, as well as in the south of the country, with a special focus on working in partnership or in consortium with other organizations and on institutional strengthening of the relationship with both donors. institutional, such as with local authorities and entities.  

The Deputy Country Director - Programs will be responsible:

Under the overall strategic direction of the Country Director and in very close coordination with the DCD Support, s/he will be a key member of the Senior Management Team (SMT), contributing to the development and implementation of the overall Country Program Strategy. S/he may be acting as Country Director as may be required and contribute to the strengthening of the SMT. 

This role implies the supervision of relevant program coordinators as defined by Country Director, currently the FSL Coordinator, WASH Coordinator, Health and Nutrition Coordinator and MEAL Coordinator. This may change depending on modifications to the mission structure. 

The DCD Programs is expected to work closely together with the DCD Support, thereby ensuring a cohesion between their focus on program implementation, and the DCD Program’s focus on program development and quality. Coordination with other coordinators as Logistics, Admin, and HR Coordinators are also crucial, as well as to ensure that programs can feed Advocacy initiatives with the support of the Advocacy Coordinator.

 

Objective 1: Oversee the integration of cross cutting themes into ACF Lebanon’s programmatic portfolio with an emphasis on gender, protection and conflict sensitivity 

• The DCD will ensure that sufficiently integrate and incorporate key points regarding cross cutting themes in their design. This will be done with close coordination with the Grants Coordinator, and the relevant Technical Coordinators.  
• The DCD will sign off on major proposals prior to submission, thereby ensuring quality of program design and development once they are completed by the Technical Coordinators. 
• The DCD will actively contribute within program design workshops and will steer the coordinators to consider multisectoral integration and elements of geographical cohesion in design.  
• The DCD will be responsible for overseeing the development of high quality, innovative programs, assuring the inclusion of crosscutting approaches as gender, protection and resilience

Objective 2:  Strengthen Quality of Programmes providing strategic guidance to program teams (at base and capital level), facilitating process of program development  

• The DCD will ensure the program team gets high quality technical support and revision of all reports and proposals.
• The DCD will ensure the sharing and learning of Action Against Hunger experiences and coordinate with the Advocacy Coordinator for collecting evidence-based advocacy
• The DCD will be in direct line of communication with the Technical Department in Madrid, the MEAL unit, and any other relevant staff.  
• The DCD will be actively involved in the definition of the Country Program Strategy and Mission Annual Planning under the overall supervision of the Country Director. 
• The DCD will support the implementation of the “means of verification” archiving policy of ACF

Objective 3:  Ensure adequate institutional relationships with external stakeholders (national/international), donors and different actors in country, as well as identifying potential fundraising opportunities

• The DCD ensure that the Technical Coordinators and the Bases provide an adequate level of representation and coordination at the Coordination system and other relevant coordination bodies in Lebanon
• The DCD supports the Country Director on donor institutional relationships as requested
• The DCD will identify potentials opportunities and call for proposals for a wide variety of donors in coordination with the Grants Coordinator 
• The DCD will prepare (with support of the Advocacy And Comms teams) key materials to capitalize the programmatic approach of ACF Lebanon mission for further dissemination amongst the donor community 

Objective 4:  Management of the MEAL Department  

• The DCD will oversee the MEAL Department and will directly manage the MEAL Coordinator, providing technical support and managerial guidance  
• The DCD will ensure that the MEAL department is able to adequately balance between the programmatic needs coming from the field, as well as the close coordination with the DCD Support and the HR team on the Feedback and Complaints mechanism  
• The DCD will ensure adequate follow up on the Data Management processes by the MEAL Coordinator and the application of the annual MEAL plan for the ACF Lebanon Mission

Objective 5:  Security

• Respect the security rules specified in the mission and capital base security plan, see to it that the team under his/her responsibility complies with the security plan and perform the security management tasks that can be assigned in its protocols.
• Communicate to the security managers of the working location any security related information or noncompliance with the security plan.
• Keep the confidentiality and security of all ACF records and information gathered in the course of employment with ACF.

Objective 6 : Gender & Safeguarding

• Promote safe and equitable environments, through knowledge and application of the protocol against harassment and gender policy.
• Knowledge and compliance with safeguarding policy.