Special Projects Coordinator
SABIS® Educational Services
Location: Beirut, Lebanon
Baghdad, Iraq & Erbil, Kurdistan Iraq
Currently based in Iraq but ready to move and relocate within the legal notice periods.
Main functions and duties
Projects Management
- Direct responsibility for the planning, implementation and management of project activities, ensuring accurate and timely reporting.
- Implement approved project plans (including the establishment of milestones.
- Provide supervision, guidance, coordination and monitoring of the project staff, ensuring clarity over project plans and priorities and encouraging effective teamwork for the project
- In collaboration with the Program Coordinator and the Partner, contribute to the development, upgrade and implementation of an appropriate and effective strategy for the involved sectors of intervention
- Supervise quality and transparency of the data reported.
- Provide with regular action plans/project updates and advice on any change to the plan
- Outlining a budget based on requirements and tracking costs to deliver project on budget.
Communication, coordination and representation
- Participate in relevant working groups or external meetings as required.
- Develop and maintain appropriate, regular, transparent and supportive communication structures with the assigned project staff, and the Programme Coordinator as well as other relevant stakeholders (e.g. beneficiaries, community leaders, local and national government officials), to ensure good cooperation and partnerships
- Maintain concurrent, timely, efficient and supportive communication with the Head of Regional Unit, as well as with the relevant staff in the HQ as required by the Head of Regional Unit.
Team Management and HR
- Ensure the appropriate staffing of the project, planning and implementing specific actions to recruit, manage and motivate staff
- Ensure that directly line managed staff have clearly defined objectives, understand their responsibilities and receive meaningful feedback on their performance
- Provide support and advice to project staff, ensuring clarity over project plans and priorities and encouraging effective teamwork
- Establish and maintain a collaborative and high performing working environment
Other tasks
- Provide inputs for the update strategies, by conducting needs assessments when relevant
- Contribute to the development of competitive and responsive project proposals
