Position Purpose
The Project Manager leads the full planning, implementation, monitoring, reporting, and adaptive management of GASCF's humanitarian health Project for warinjured individuals in Lebanon. This is GASCF's most senior Project leadership role, requiring both strategic vision and hands on operational drive. The PM is the primary focal point for donor compliance, team leadership, partner engagement, and Project quality, and serves as a key member of the organizational senior leadership team.
Key Duties, Tasks and Responsibilities
- Provide strategic and operational leadership across all Project activities, ensuring delivery is on time, within budget, and aligned with agreed targets, quality standards, and humanitarian principles.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive implementation plans, work plans, and risk registers; lead timely corrective actions when deviations are identified.
- Oversee budget monitoring, expenditure forecasting, and variance analysis in close coordination with the Finance and Operations Manager; ensure procurement and financial transactions comply with organizational and donor procedures.
- Ensure full compliance with donor contractual requirements, grant conditions, Lebanese law, and GASCF organizational policies at all times; maintain audit-ready documentation standards.
- Lead and manage a multidisciplinary Project team, set clear performance expectations, conduct regular reviews, and provide coaching and capacity-building support to direct reports.
- Conduct technical baseline and risk assessments for prospective partners to evaluate institutional capacity, financial internal controls, and operational readiness prior to agreement signing.
- Lead collaborative joint field monitoring visits with partner organizations to align service delivery protocols, resolve operational bottlenecks, and verify quality standards at health implementation sites.
- Design and facilitate targeted capacity-building plans for local partners, focusing on donor compliance, reporting rigor, safeguarding, and sustainable health program management.
- Promote a culture of accountability, psychological safety, safeguarding, PSEA compliance, and continuous learning across the team.
- Represent GASCF in coordination mechanisms, cluster forums, and stakeholder meetings, maintain relationships with donors, UN agencies, government authorities, health facilities, and implementing partners.
- Lead the preparation and timely submission of high-quality donor narrative and financial reports, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and alignment with Project evidence.
- Oversee partner agreements and subgrant arrangements, actively managing partner performance and compliance.
- Work closely with the MEAL Officer to ensure MEAL system is operational, accurate, complete and use monitoring evidence to drive adaptive management and Project learning.
- Ensure beneficiary feedback and complaints mechanisms are functional and responsive across all sites.
- Contribute to proposal development, organizational learning, and strategic planning as a member of GASCF's senior leadership.
Qualifications, Experience & Competencies
- Education: Master's degree in International Development, Public Health, Humanitarian Studies, or a related field.
- Professional Experience: Minimum eight (8) years of progressive experience in humanitarian or development Project management, with at least three (3) years in a senior leadership role.
- Project Scale: Demonstrated experience managing complex, multi-sectoral Projects with budgets exceeding USD 1 million and teams of ten or more staff.
- Compliance & Audits: Strong donor compliance record, including financial reporting, audit management, and contractual adherence for institutional donors.
- Sector Knowledge: Experience in health, rehabilitation, or psychosocial programming in Lebanon or the MENA region, including familiarity with the Lebanese health system, NGO landscape, and Projects for persons with disabilities or war-injured individuals.
- Languages: Excellent analytical, written, and verbal communication skills in English and Arabic. Knowledge of French is an asset.
Prevention Against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
GASCF has a strict policy of “zero tolerance” for sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA). THE EMPLOYEE affirms that it has received, read, and understood this policy and has undergone relevant training to ensure compliance. THE EMPLOYEE and its employees, staff, and/or subcontractors shall not be involved in any act of sexual exploitation or abuse.
For the purposes hereof, sexual exploitation means any actual or attempted abuse of a position of vulnerability, differential power, or trust, for sexual purposes, including, but not limited to, profiting monetarily, socially, or politically from the sexual exploitation of another; and sexual abuse means the actual or threatened physical intrusion of a sexual nature, whether by force or under unequal or coercive conditions. THE EMPLOYEE shall take all necessary measures to prevent sexual exploitation or abuse by any of its employees or other individuals engaged and under its control and shall take immediate corrective action in the event that any such situation occurs.
Preventive and responsive measures shall include, but are not limited to:
- a clear prohibition against any involvement in acts of sexual exploitation or abuse;
- mandatory background checks for all personnel prior to recruitment;
- PSEA (Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) training for all personnel;
- mandatory reporting of all allegations of SEA;
- referral of all survivors of SEA to immediate and professional assistance;
- thorough investigation of all reported allegations of SEA and implementation of appropriate corrective actions. Any breach of this provision by THE EMPLOYEE shall entitle GASCF to terminate the contract with immediate effect.
