Operations Manager – Lebanon

Due to the urgency of this recruitment, we encourage interested candidates to submit their applications as soon as possible. We will be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis.
We need you to support our field teams in deploying this emergency response. Your help can make a difference. Join us!

Humanity & Inclusion is an independent and impartial aid organisation working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. The organisation works alongside people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, taking action and bearing witness in order to respond to their essential needs, improve their living conditions and promote respect for their dignity and fundamental rights.

Since its creation in 1982, HI has run development programmes in more than 60 countries and responded to numerous emergencies. Today, we have a budget of approximately 255 million euros, with 4794 employees worldwide.

At Handicap International-Humanity & Inclusion, we truly believe in the importance of inclusion and diversity within our organisation. This is why we are engaged to a disability policy to encourage the inclusion and integration of people with disabilities.

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JOB CONTEXT:

After almost a year of hostilities across southern Lebanon, the conflict escalated on 23th of September 2024, between IDF (Israel Defense Forces) and LH (Lebanese Hezbollah). Indeed, the IDF (Israel Defense Force) continued its intensive airstrike campaign, focusing mainly on the Nabatieh and South governorates in southern Lebanon, also Beqaa and Baalbek-Hermel. LH (Lebanese Hizballah) has also increased the tempo and range of its strikes, though these remain largely within Israel’s Haifa and Northern district and predominantly target IDF bases. Key top leaders of the LH have been targeted and killed during the last days, including the Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, September 27th.

OCHA reports on September 30th, 211,319 displaced. But the Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Sunday that as many as one million people had been displaced by the violence. Lebanese officials estimate, based on the 2006 experience, that approximately one quarter of the total number of directly affected and/or displaced individuals are in shelters. With many displaced in collective shelters still unregistered, the national Disaster Risk Management (DRM) dashboard is now reporting over 115,000 individuals in more than 660 shelters. The Government has opened a new batch of shelters, mainly in the North and Mount Lebanon. Meanwhile, non-governmental sites were also settled including 4 migrant specific shelters (opened and managed by NGOs); 3 embassy shelters; and 5 UNRWA sites which are now accommodating more than 1,400 displaced. Efforts to map displaced people in spontaneous shelters have also been initiated.

The five main districts from which people departed are located in southern Lebanon (Bent Jbeil, Marjaayoun, Tyre, and El Nabatieh), with one district in the east (Baalbek).

YOUR MISSION:
Reporting to the Country Director, as Operations Manager you have the following responsibilities:

Mission 1: Management

Mission 2: Strategy and steering

• Responsibility 1: Contribute to the development of the programme operational strategy, and to its implementation and annual monitoring
• Responsibility 1: Contribute to project planning and implementation in line with the existing
• Responsibility 2: Implement the project part of the Programme’s Operational Strategy
• Responsibility 3: Contribute to organizational transformation, particularly through changes to managerial practices, continuous improvement, and contribute to the improvement of working processes

Mission 3: Standards and expertise

• Ensure deployment and compliance with HI global frameworks, institutional policies and standards

Mission 4: Operational implementation

• Responsibility 1: Ensure the sound management and monitoring of projects under your responsibility
• Responsibility 2: Keeping both potential opportunities and risks in mind, contribute to the monitoring and analysis done by the line manager, and propose mitigation measures where relevant
• Responsibility 3: Develop HI’s external influence (forums, operational and strategic alliances, etc) and the external representation of the organization (events, media) in your area of responsibility.
• Responsibility 4: Coordinate the teams in your area
• Responsibility 5: Support the Country Manager in monitoring security in your area and ensure adequate resources according to the context

Mission 5: Emergency Preparedness and Response

YOUR PROFILE:

• You have experience in project management in emergency situation and in nexus context,
• You have a good knowledge of emergency donors (strategy, mandate, procedures, etc.) and their submitting platforms
• You have experience in proposal development

CONDITIONS:
At HI, the conditions offered are up to your commitment and adapted to the context of your mission. https://hi.org/en/join-the-team

• 12 months International contract starting from 1st December 2024;
• The international contract provides social cover adapted to your situation:
  • Unemployment insurance benefits for EU nationals;
  • Pension scheme;
  • Medical coverage with 50% of employee contribution;
  • Repatriation insurance paid by HI;
• Salary from 2869 € gross/month upon experience;
• Perdiem: 762 € net/month – paid in the field
• Hardship: 250 € net/month paid with your salary
• Paid leaves: 25 days per year;
• R&R: 5 days every 3 months
• Position unaccompanied**:**
  • Payment for travel costs (air ticket & visa) and transport of your personal effects;
• Housing: Collective, taken in charge by HI;
• If you are resident in the country: local package.