Operations Manager Handicap International Experience: 3 to 5 Years Beirut, Lebanon Apply By: 01-12-2024

• 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).

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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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

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