Lebanon Country Director

• Oversight for Program Implementation of the Lebanon portfolio across the country.
• Leadership for staffing, operations, and employee development Lebanon program.

Contributions

• • • • provide strategic input and guidance on implementation strategies/approaches

• • • • Enforce processes to ensure internal policy and donor compliance; oversee management of organizational legal issues and compliance

• • • • Oversee development of country operational budget; ensure accurate forecasts and revenue projections; enforce finance policies and procedures; ensure program-finance team coordination

• • • • Develop country Quarterly Management Report (QMR); oversee development of country annual report

• • • • Supervise Director-level staff including Head Office Monitor senior-level team management and address management issues
      • Develop country staffing plan
      • Ensure implementation of HR policies and processes
      • Participate in Executive/Director-level recruitments

• • • • Lead engagement with international actors and donors in the region
      • Lead government engagement and relationship building
      • Represent Search at national and international events
      • Ensure Search’s reputation remains strong and relevant to position Search as an excellent potential partner

• • • • Ensure that program portfolio reflects best practices, codified methodologies and embraces reflective practice and adaptive management
      • Monitor program quality, reflection, and learning initiatives
      • Advise on areas to improve program quality, reflection, and learning
      • Amplify outcomes of program quality, reflection, and learning through external engagement
      • Make go/no-go decisions
      • Lead identification of unsolicited opportunities
      • Coordinate input from program teams for new project design and proposal development
      • Ensure new project budgets support the country office needs

• • • • Lead Senior Management Team (SMT)Member of the Leadership Management Team (LMT) for conflict geography structure groupLead strategy development and planning
      • Lead country Objectives and Key Results (OKR) development
      • Ensure strategy is supported by operational structures and across functional areas
      • Ensure projects support strategy implementation
      • Adapt operations and logistics systems to fit the needs of the country
      • Ensure systems can support quality program implementation
      • Ensure safety and security protocols are in place and followed
      • Initiate development of new safety and security measures
      • Management of the operational presence of country team
      • Infuses organizational Values into all work.
      • Other duties that are broadly in line with the above key contributions as assigned.

Competency Behavior Indicators (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

• • • Motivates colleagues and direct reports to develop while resolving problems within the context of a proactive and broad vision set by the organization.
    • Builds and maintains collaborative relationships with vendors, organizations, professional associations, partners, funders, and Search’s network of experts to facilitate work intended to provide a service to Search.
    • Manages and contributes to both routine activities and initiatives while also making progress on continuous improvement efforts.
    • Juggles multiple demands and adapts to new situations with fresh ideas or innovative approaches.
    • Contributes to the development and implementation of the departmental strategy based on organizational goals and objectives.
    • Confirms and socializes standards across functions globally within or in collaboration with Shared Services teams while allowing for thoughtful collaboration in an international context.
    • Practices ethical behavior to meet Search’s expectations for conduct, minimizes ambiguity, and sets an example for others.
    • Builds a framework and sets in motion a plan to overcome challenges by making sense out of complexity and an uncertain future, staying cognizant of the implications of a choice for the department, and being decisive while also applying flexibility for further change as needed and with changing work plans to meet environmental factors.
    • Sets up procedures and team building to ensure high quality of work (e.g., review meetings).
    • Seeks out creative solutions within a complex and international environment while working within an organizational framework of compliance, ethics, best practices, and standards.
    • Shares information, advice, and suggestions to help others to be more successful; provides effective coaching.
    • Sought out as an expert to provide advice or solutions in their technical or functional area.
    • Convenes groups or teams through problem-solving and creative thinking processes, leading to the development and implementation of new approaches, systems, structures, and methods in a Shared Services environment.
    • Involves team members in thought leadership discussions and decision-making to lead to continued growth and development for team, department members, and Shared Services colleagues.
    • Fluency in French and English is required. Knowledge of Arabic is an added advantage.

Type and Nature of Contacts

• • • Routinely coordinates with colleagues and consultants on-site and in the field and resolves problem situations with tact. Has multiple and regular high-level external donor and partner contacts. Is externally branded and visible.
    • Represents, as assigned, selected programs or projects and other organizations, including donors, vendors, and international and local partners.
    • Interacts with the country office and regional staff and Global teams as required.

Education and Experience

• • • Typically BS/BA in Humanitarian development, Project Management or relevant field with minimum 16 years’ experience or Master degree with 14  years of experience.
    • A minimum experience of Senior leadership (Chief of Party, Program Director, Country Director) is required.

Working Conditions and Physical Requirements

• • • Usual office environment conditions; ability to travel domestically at least 20%. Occasional international trips in the region and/or to the headquarters in Brussels and Washington DC may be necessary.

• Salary according to salary scale and profile of the incumbent
• Yearly employment, renewable depending on funding and performance
• 25 days of annual leave per year