The Field Coordinator will oversee the planning, coordination, implementation, and monitoring of FISTA field activities in Akkar. The role includes supervising field teams, coordinating with partners and service providers, ensuring timely and inclusive service delivery, and maintaining accurate.
Responsibilities
- Plan, coordinate, and oversee daily field activities in line with project workplans and organizational priorities.
- Supervise and support field staff, assign tasks, and follow up on implementation and performance.
- Coordinate service delivery across field locations, schools, communities, and partner organizations.
- Ensure activities are accessible, inclusive, safe, and responsive to the needs of children and persons with disabilities.
- Coordinate beneficiary identification, outreach, assessments, and referrals in collaboration with relevant teams.
- Maintain regular communication with local authorities, schools, service providers, and community stakeholders.
- Monitor progress against project targets, activity schedules, and donor requirements.
- Conduct field visits to monitor activity quality, identify gaps, and recommend corrective actions.
- Support case follow-up and timely referral of protection or specialized service needs through approved pathways.
- Coordinate logistical arrangements, staff schedules, materials, and field resources with relevant departments.
- Ensure timely and accurate collection, verification, and updating of beneficiary and activity data.
- Prepare regular field updates, activity reports, attendance records, and other required documentation.
- Escalate operational challenges, safeguarding concerns, and incidents through appropriate organizational procedures.
- Participate in coordination meetings and contribute to planning, review, and continuous improvement of field activities.
- Ensure staff comply with FISTA policies on safeguarding, confidentiality, professional conduct, and accountability.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Education, Psychology, Social Sciences, Project Management, or a related field.
- [Required years of relevant field coordination experience to be confirmed.]
- Experience coordinating field activities, supervising teams, and engaging with community stakeholders.
- Strong organizational, communication, problem-solving, and reporting skills.
- Knowledge of safeguarding, referral pathways, inclusion, and confidentiality principles.
Soft Skills
- Team Leadership: Support, guide, and coordinate field staff to achieve agreed objectives.
- Communication: Communicate clearly with beneficiaries, staff, partners, and management.
- Problem-Solving: Respond constructively to operational challenges and changing field needs.
- Confidentiality: Protect beneficiary information and ensure responsible data handling.
- Empathy and Inclusion: Engage respectfully with persons with disabilities and diverse communities.
- Critical Thinking: Identify operational risks, prioritize needs, and recommend practical solutions.
- Collaboration: Respect professional roles and facilitate multidisciplinary teamwork.
- Flexibility: Adapt to field conditions, urgent needs, and supervisor guidance.
- Accountability: Follow up on commitments, quality standards, and reporting deadlines.
Safeguarding and Safe Recruitment
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FISTA is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children, youth, and vulnerable adults it serves. The organization maintains a zero-tolerance policy toward sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment (SEAH), as well as any form of gift, favor, or hospitality offered to staff by suppliers. All staff are expected to uphold FISTA’s safeguarding policies, Code of Conduct, and ethical standards. As part of its safe recruitment process, FISTA conducts reference and background checks. Shortlisted candidates will be required to provide professional references and, where applicable, a certificate of good conduct or police clearance prior to appointment.
