% Time

Major Activities

End Results Expected

20%

Ensure Strategic Leadership

• Actively engage & contribute in core team meetings and contribute to the overall WVL country strategy

• Identify strategic programming opportunities within the national and local context including accessing funding and partnering effectively with related stakeholders

• Forge strong relationship with peers in WV partnership, contributing to strategic meetings and translating strategic insights into appropriate local planning

• Actively identify, raise and coordinate additional needs with the core team to address gaps in the support of the field

35%

Ensure Quality of Programs and Projects

High quality of programs and projects are being implemented and are guided by sound developmental and HEA principles

• Provide overall leadership to the implementation of the World Vision’s (WV) programmes across all funding streams and in response to Syrians and host communities program in Lebanon

• Facilitate the programme planning process with all functions to ensure alignment with context, humanitarian needs and response strategy as well as operational feasibility and technical quality.

• Ensure that the development programme approach designed for WVL is followed and staff are able to facilitate good programming, and empower communities by:

  • listening, assessing and engaging the local community;

  • acting appropriately for the specific situation of fragility;

  • mobilizing partners and civil society; and

  • evaluating effectiveness in partnership with the Programme Design & Development (PDQ) team and the Evaluation, Learning & Accountability (ELA) team.

• Serve as the WVL's Disaster Management key focal person unless delegated to someone else within the Operations Team.

• Develop, maintain and review the detailed implementation plan (DIP) to effectively follow implementation schedule, human resources planning and financial monitoring with the involvement of the technical team

• Ensure that sponsorship in programming standards and requirements are followed and that meaningful activities are being facilitated by staff.

• Support Operations Management Team in ensuring high standards of quality programming in alignment with WVL’s strategy, World Vision’s and donors’ guidelines and standards.

• Advise, approve and evaluate operations budgets, operations funding, expenditures and accomplishment of ministry objectives.

• In coordination with the Finance department, ensure program adherence to financial policies and manage overall program budget

• Ensure that recommendations from audit reports and audit findings (relating to program operations) and programme/project evaluations are addressed and implementation plans developed for the recommendations of the reports are in place and accomplished.

• Ensure that operational risks are identified and mitigation measures are in place.

20%

Ensure inter-departmental coordination and Networking

• Support the Operations Management Team to ensure integration of programming, synergies and resource sharing.

• Ensure Operations management staff coordinate and partner with all core team functions, including PD&Q and ELA units, to ensure appropriate targeting of the most vulnerable, quality programming and achievement of sustainable change.

• Ensure quality implementation of grans and ensure that donors’ concerns are addressed (government/private donors and support offices) ensuring proper resolutions for both parties have been reached.

• Support grant ‘Go/No-Go’ process, grant design and start-up meetings. Ensure grant managers organize grant health and performance reviews. Resolve issues in partnership with other relevant departments.

• Initiate and maintain regular contact with other international non-governmental organizations and government officials in an effort to obtain experience and co-ordinate information regarding current and future work in the country.

• Provide external and donor representation at the local level

10%

Ensure security and safety management

• Oversee the security function’s planning and implementation to ensure staff and organizational safety and security

• Ensure that security and safety plans and protocols (security manual, evacuation plan, and risk assessments at national and ADP levels, etc.) are maintained and regularly reviewed.

• Ensure that potential security risks are discussed at the CT level and that proper mitigation measures are taken

10%

Handle Team Management & Development

High caliber program team

• To select, coach, develop and manage a strong operations team, building a culture of empowerment, high performance, openness, transparency, accountability, and mutual support.

• Provide leadership in maintaining positive, constructive and supportive communication with all teams.

• Lead and participate in the recruitment, selection and development of key operations staff.

• Effectively manage the performance of direct reports, ensuring performance agreements, regular performance reviews, and annual appraisal are done. Ensure optimization of subordinates’ potentials through coaching, on-the-job training, and capacity building. Hold staff accountability.

5%

Perform other duties as required

• Attend and participate in capacity building trainings locally and internationally

• Attend and participate in WVL’s spiritual nurture and other organizational events

• Responsible of own security and actively contribute to a positive security culture

• Abide by the security policies and procedures and report any incidents or breaches to line manager and / or security manager

• Perform other duties as assigned by the Line Manager

100%