Project Coordinator - CAMEALEON Lebanon

All NRC employees are expected to work in accordance with the organisation’s core values: dedication, innovation, inclusivity and accountability. These attitudes and beliefs shall guide our actions and relationships.

Purpose of the role

The Cash Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning Organisational Network (CAMEALEON) is a research initiative in support of the large-scale cash and voucher assistance (CVA) response for extremely poor and vulnerable Syrian refugees and Lebanese. Established in December 2017, CAMEALEON is a consortium of three international NGOs, namely the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Oxfam and Solidarites International (SI). CAMEALEON contributes to strengthen the large-scale CVA response for extremely poor and vulnerable Syrian refugees and Lebanese by conducting research, generating evidence and contributing to learning on cash programming in Lebanon and globally. CAMEALEON adopts a soft approach based on advocacy to inform and influence CVA-related policy-making with research and evidence. It offers the safe space for implementing agencies to reflect on and learn from evidence. CAMEALEON is accountable to its Steering Committee, which includes the EU and the Country Directors of the member agencies. CAMEALEON has a strong focus on accountability to affected population and has the ambition to raise the voices of the programme participants. CAMEALEON aims to inform the design of large-scale programmes with the feedback of CVA recipients.

CAMEALEON’s work is articulated in three pillars. Under pillar 1, CAMEALEON aims to generate evidence related to the effectiveness of cash and voucher assistance on the well-being of Syrian refugees. CAMEALEON will conduct a large-scale comparative assessment of the effectiveness and coverage of different CVA packages. Ultimately, CAMEALEON aims to provide insights regarding the right balance between vertical and horizontal coverage, i.e. assisting more people with lower transfer value or fewer people with a higher transfer value. Under pillar 2, CAMEALEON aims to generate evidence related to the systems for accountability to affected populations (AAP) of large-scale CVA programmes. CAMEALEON will conduct three studies related to: inclusion of disability into large-scale CVA programmes, the impact of rumours related to CVA on social cohesion between the refugee and host communities and the AAP systems of social protection schemes for Lebanese host communities. Under pillar 3, CAMEALEON aims to contribute to knowledge-sharing and learning related to large-scale CVA programmes in Lebanon and globally. CAMEALEON will produce a learning brief on the links between humanitarian CVA and social protection systems and disseminate the learning and evidence generated in the first two pillars by organizing learning events, producing multi-media materials (such as podcasts and video infographics) and participating in external fora, such as the CaLP Community of Practice.

What you will do

•  Responsible for overall project administration and grant management.
• Support the project governance, including Steering Committee and other coordination meetings.
• Support the drafting of donor narrative and financial reports. 
• Support the budget monitoring.
• Ensure adherence with NRC systems and policies.
• Responsible for overall project compliance with NRC project cycle management.
• Ensure that NRC’s related activities are implemented within NRC’s Protection mainstreaming guidelines and report any breaches/concerns to the line manager and/or focal point for proper action.

Specifically you will;

• Review the monthly budget monitoring tools; ensure spending plans are in line with budget.
• Support the project procurement processes, including research consultants and service providers, by producing supporting documentation, participating to evaluation committees, reviewing contracting documentation, supporting vetting;
• Maintain project record keeping by maintaining filing tree; taking minutes of coordination meetings; coordinate signature of contracting documentation;
• Ensure information sharing within consortium members by: disseminating minutes of meetings and signed contracts; facilitate bi-monthly grants and finance meetings, CAMEALEON Steering Committee and Board meetings;
• Support project reporting by contributing to the development and revision of co-funding proposals, budgets and donor reports; coordinating the development and distribution of internal reports;
• Ensure compliance with NRC project cycle management by: facilitating project review, opening and closure meetings; monitoring and updating project logframe;
• Act as focal point for NRC support functions, including finance, compliance, procurement, ICT and HR.
• Support CAMEALEON secretariat office functions by renewing project ICT licenses; supporting team members’ onboarding and capacity building;

Professional competencies

Generic professional competencies for this position:

• Between 3 to 5 years of relevant experience within field of expertise
• Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts.
• Good understanding of donor rules and regulations
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal

Context/Specific skills, knowledge, and experience:

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Applications including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or another relevant field

Behavioral competencies

• Working with people
• Communicating with impact and respect
• Planning and delivering results
• Coping with change
• Handling insecure environments

What We Offer

NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality and physical ability.

We offer an opportunity to match your career to a compelling cause and a chance to meet and work with people who are the best in their fields.

We are also looking for people who share our values:

• To be dedicated in what we do;
• To be innovative with our solutions;
• To act as one unified and inclusive team;
• To be accountable to the donors that make our work possible; the people we exist to serve, and to each other… the members of our NRC family.

Kindly note that empty or incomplete applications as well as CVs received via email will not be considered official and will not be processed.