Key Expert, Women's leadership and participation in political and public sphere

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  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Government
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: Remuneration not disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 04/02/2024
  • Location: Lebanon 
Leadership / governance Political participation
Position’s Overall Objective and reporting lines
The Key Expert 1 is responsible of the implementation of all the activities of Component 1 “Women’s leadership and participation in political and public sphere” under the supervision of the Project Leader.

The Key Expert will be part of a team composed as follows:
·       On the field: Project Manager, Key expert 3 (gender-based violence policies), grants officer, MEAL officer and will work in close relation with the staff of EF office in Beirut.  
·       Headquarters level: project officer and project assistant.
 
The main responsibilities of Key Expert 1 are (but are not limited to) :
Ensuring the planification, correct implementation and the monitoring of all activities under Component 1, under the supervision of the Project Manager;
  • Together with the Grants Officer, writing the Call for projects rules for the grantee in charge of activity 1.2 and assessing the proposals;
  • Animating a multi-actor policy-dialogue in favour of gender equality: conducting a mapping of main actors and allies, identifying main topics of discussion (according to the baseline study), organizing roundtables...;
  • According to the budget of the project, monitoring the financial execution of activities, reporting over/underspending and proposing corrective measures together with the Grants Officer and the Project Manager;
  • Reinforcing and supporting the Lebanese National Gender Observatory : accordingly to the needs assessment, deploying, coordinating and following-up the short-term expertise;
  • Writing the terms of reference of the short-term experts and service providers working on the activities of this Component;
  • Supervising and coordinating the work of the short-term experts, service providers and grantees mobilized under Component 1 and ensuring the quality of their deliverables;
  • Ensuring data collection of activities implemented under Component 1, in close coordination with the MEAL officer ;
  • Ensuring, under the supervision of the Project manager, the global coherence of component 1 with the whole WE HUB project; 

  • Contributing to the visibility and communication activities regarding component 1;
  • Carrying out any other activity directly related to those mentioned above and component 1 of the WE-HUB project.
  • Providing expertise and support both to the field and headquarters team (Gender Equality Unit) as per the need : contributing to the draft of concept notes regarding gender equality issues in Lebanon, identifying project opportunities, etc.


Profil souhaité

  • Master’s degree in Political or social science, international development, gender studies or any related topic ;
  • A minimum of 7 years proven experience in gender equality issues, or supporting civil society and institutional actors working on gender equality;
  • Very good knowledge of Lebanese legislative framework related to gender equality (personal status, nationality laws), stakeholders, institutional reforms formulation and decision making processes ; 
  • An excellent understanding of the Lebanese context regarding gender equality and mainly women’s political engagement;
  • Proven ability to cooperate and negotiate with local and institutional partners as well as government representatives and CSOs.
  • Excellent command of English (oral and written) and Arabic. French would be an asset;

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