Capacity Building Officer
Chemonics - USAID Contract
Total years of experience :14 years, 1 Months
Support the successful delivery of capacity building/technical assistance interventions.
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Conduct frequent field visits to the regions of CSP operations to establish relationships with local partners and beneficiaries, in close coordination with CSP’s field-based staff.
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Contribute to the design of capacity building/technical assistance interventions during the initial design of community stabilization and development assistance interventions.
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Deliver trainings directly or engage the services of external training services providers, as needed.
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Provide dedicated support to both municipalities and civil society organizations and may shift their focus (geographic and/or partner type), as needed, to address the identified capacity building gaps.
- Contribute to the analysis and evaluation of capacity building needs and make recommendations for targeted interventions;
- Make recommendations for follow-up capacity building activities that could sustain and enhance the delivery of essential services or enhanced economic opportunities;
- Conduct field visits to monitor progress of capacity building activities and provide support as needed;
- Regularly and thoroughly report to the capacity building managers all success, challenges and concerns; Actively engage with the MEL team to communicate progress of capacity building activities, interventions, and techniques;
- Follow up with the experts, service providers, local communities and CSP/TO3 team to make sure that all supporting documents demonstrating the implementation of the technical assistance activities and the outcomes achieved are complete, adequate, and properly saved;
- Draft the technical assistance completion report detailing all the activities undertaken in the field along with the results and outcomes achieved
• Playing a key role in implementing various Economic Recovery programs, and especially responsible for the technical oversight of the skills training component
• Provide counselling to persons of concern, and refer them to the related program.
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• Improving access to quality vocational training and work based opportunities for vulnerable populations and on improving the capacity of Technical and vocational Education and Training institute to deliver training in line with the market need.
• Conduct outreach for the employers, creating a network in the market with several businesses
and potential employers.
• Provide placement opportunities in vocational training work based learnings and job
opportunities.
• Raise a logistical arrangements and plan.
• Perform other related duties as required
• Follow-up on referred protection cases from time of submission to final project.
• Oversee the successful implementation of program activities, ensuring that assistants are
following work plans, activities are on schedule, program deliverables are completed as planned.
• Coordinate financial and operational feasibility studies
• Lead selection, assessment and training of beneficiaries for different activities based on market
needs
• Conduct livelihoods assessments including market analysis, socioeconomic assessments, institutional mappings, etc;
• Support project team and integrate with other programs for timely and quality achievement of
project objectives by serving as additional level of quality assurance;
Conducting daily conflicts research, running timely, analyzing conflicts reports, maintaining data in a conflicts database.
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Responsible for data integrity.
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Interaction with attorneys and staff pertaining to the Conflicts Group and its processes.
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Conduct Interviews, Community workshops and key informant interview.
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Provide training on Conflict Sensitivity and Do No Harm and how to apply it in work and daily life.
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Capacity building to the staff.
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Developing work plan and timeline.
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Oversee the implementation and quality assurance
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Daily management and supervision of staff and activities.
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Taking the lead in identifying operational areas, target groups and stakeholders.
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Support Strategy and programme development including budget.
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Coordinate and conduct quality assurance.
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Implement a community Safety plan based on the need of the community.
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Ensure a positive working environment and promote cross - sectoral coordination
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Establishing committees in the concerned villages
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Promote conflict sensitivity and community led approaches throughout programs
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Compile and exercise quality control of reports
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Oversee the preparation of relevant documentation related to procurement, logistics, administration, safety and human resources in line with project needs and DRC internal procedures
Coordinated all livelihood projects in the Bekaa area and coordinate with peace building
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Supported and organized all Bekaa regional meetings related to Livelihood projects
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Participated in national and international events (workshops and working group) that involved local economic development activities.
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Responsible for the monitoring and evaluation of all livelihood projects in Bekaa.
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Advice on shortfalls and recommend corrective action.
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Acted as lead for the Bekaa office in the formulation of projects that fall under LHSP’s work plan covering various sectors which required not only drafting of project proposals from different funding agencies and donors, but also preparing data and tracking sheets and conducting field visits and meetings with local stakeholders.
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Developed and maintained tracking system for project proposals and related status
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Reported on the status of projects on a weekly basis to the monitoring and evaluation expert at UNDP’s Country office.
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Put in place the different project management tools: detailed work plan, M&E plan, detailed budget projection, communication plan and other needed tools for the project implementation.
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Monitor project activities and react accordingly
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Coordinate with different government and local actors the project activities.
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Prepare comprehensive reports on the project activities on regular basis and upon request.
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Review implementing partners reports and deliverables
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Contributes to a thorough mapping of local stakeholders.
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Contributes to the conflicts and needs analysis
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Work on the identification of their local community’s challenges
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Validate the level of inclusivity and representation
Validate the collected data and identified entry points
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Develop the locally tailored mechanisms for stability following the detailed conflict analysis process
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Prepare comprehensive reports on the implementation of the projects detailing the LHSP progress and provide recommendations for improvement, advice on shortfalls and recommend corrective action.
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Establishing committees
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Follow up on previous community support projects ensuring timely implementation
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Establish committees and train them and design projects based on needs.
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Supervise the assistant and the Municipal support assistant in any assessment activity.
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Analyse the needs assessment with host and refugee communities including municipality and community representative.
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Submit weekly and monthly reports.
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Assist the manager in developing, planning and organizing trainings, workshops, and meeting between municipalities and community members.
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Propose new activities according to identified needs and suggest solutions for problems encountered evaluate performance and quality of interventions and provide constant feedback
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Doing small-scale projects with an immediate impact aimed at easing the tension on the Lebanese host communities - under pressure from the large influx of Syrian refugees.
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Working with the collaboration with UNHCR funding a certain number of Community Support Projects proposed by the local community consisting of local NGOs, youth clubs, charities, dispensaries, cooperatives, and personal benevolent initiatives depending on the criteria set by DRC and UNHCR and available budget/funding.
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Communication with local partners and authorities to discuss the implementation of activities and projects.
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Supervision and management of the activities and ensuring participation from local and refugee communities.
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Follow up and capacity building on partners tasks and responsibilities in the implementation of the activities.
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Reporting to the higher management.
