Key Responsibilities

Project Coordination and Management

• Lead the day-to-day coordination and implementation of the assigned project in line with approved objectives, workplans, timelines, budgets, and organizational procedures.
• Develop and regularly update implementation plans, stakeholder engagement plans, activity schedules, and risk mitigation measures.
• Coordinate closely with relevant ABAAD technical, programmatic, MEL, communications, finance, and operations teams.
• Ensure timely delivery of project activities and outputs and proactively address implementation challenges.
• Coordinate external consultants, service providers, and partners, as relevant.
• Contribute to narrative and financial monitoring, reporting, and other project documentation.

Technical Coordination

• Support the integration of gender equality, GBV prevention, protection, social norms transformation, and positive masculinities across project implementation.
• Ensure that activities are implemented in accordance with survivor-centered, do-no-harm, confidentiality, safeguarding, and PSEA principles.
• Apply a nuanced understanding of the intersections between gender, power, family dynamics, social norms, faith, and protection.
• Work closely with ABAAD's technical teams and external experts to ensure the technical quality and contextual relevance of project interventions and materials.
• Support the adaptation of technical concepts and approaches for different stakeholder groups while safeguarding the project's core gender equality and protection principles.

Stakeholder and Partnership Engagement

• Map, engage, and maintain constructive relationships with a diverse range of relevant stakeholders, including community actors, civil society organizations, institutions, subject-matter experts, and other influential actors.
• Coordinate consultations, meetings, workshops, dialogue processes, and other stakeholder engagement activities.
• Navigate diverse institutional, social, cultural, and religious perspectives with diplomacy and sensitivity.
• Identify opportunities for collaboration and knowledge exchange with relevant national and regional actors.
• Represent ABAAD in relevant project-related meetings and coordination spaces, as requested.

Contextual, Legal, and Policy Analysis

• Maintain strong knowledge of Lebanon's social, political, religious, and legal context as it relates to gender equality and protection.
• Follow developments related to Lebanese personal status laws and religious court systems, particularly their implications for women and girls, family relationships, and protection from violence.
• Demonstrate understanding of the relationship between personal status frameworks, civil and criminal legislation, and protection mechanisms in Lebanon.
• Support contextual and stakeholder analysis to inform project implementation and adaptation.
• Identify emerging legal, institutional, social, or political developments that may create risks or opportunities for the project.

Knowledge Management and Learning

• Coordinate research, documentation, learning, and knowledge-development processes associated with the project.
• Support the development and technical review of project resources and knowledge products.
• Document lessons learned, promising practices, implementation challenges, and emerging insights.
• Facilitate internal and external learning processes and contribute to the dissemination of relevant project learning.
• Ensure that knowledge products are technically sound, accessible, contextually appropriate, and aligned with ABAAD's principles and approaches.

Monitoring, Reporting, and Risk Management

• Work closely with the MEL team to monitor implementation progress, results, and emerging learning.
• Support the collection and analysis of qualitative and quantitative project information.
• Prepare high-quality narrative reports, activity documentation, presentations, and other required materials.
• Proactively identify programmatic, protection, safeguarding, reputational, contextual, and operational risks and support appropriate mitigation measures.
• Ensure appropriate documentation while respecting confidentiality and data-protection requirements.

Desired Candidate Profile

• Advanced university degree in gender studies, law, human rights, social sciences, political science, development studies, religious studies, or another relevant field. A bachelor s degree combined with substantial relevant professional experience may be considered.
• Minimum seven years of progressively responsible professional experience in gender equality, GBV, protection, human rights, social development, social norms change, community engagement, or related fields.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating or managing complex development, protection, gender, or social change programs.
• Excellent knowledge of the Lebanese personal status system, including familiarity with the different religious jurisdictions and their implications for gender equality, women s rights, family relations, and protection.
• Strong knowledge of gender equality, GBV prevention and response, and protection principles, including survivor-centered and do-no-harm approaches.
• Strong understanding of the intersection between gender, social norms, family dynamics, religion/faith, and protection within the Lebanese context.
• Good knowledge of Lebanon's religious and confessional landscape and the role of religious and community institutions within Lebanese society.
• Demonstrated experience engaging with a diverse range of institutional and community stakeholders and navigating sensitive or complex stakeholder environments.
• Experience facilitating consultations, workshops, dialogue processes, or other participatory processes with diverse stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to approach culturally, socially, or religiously sensitive issues with nuance while maintaining clear gender equality and protection principles.
• Experience contributing to research, technical resources, knowledge products, curricula, guidance, or similar materials is an asset.
• Strong project management skills, including work planning, budgeting, monitoring, reporting, coordination, and risk management.
• Excellent analytical, facilitation, negotiation, interpersonal, and communication skills.
• Excellent written and spoken Arabic and English. French is an asset.
• Previous professional engagement with religious institutions, faith-based organizations, religious leaders, or interfaith initiatives is a strong asset.
• Familiarity with theological, religious, or faith-based perspectives on gender, family relations, social justice, human dignity, or violence prevention is an asset.
• Experience working on social and gender norms transformation and/or engagement of men and boys and positive masculinities is an asset.
• Experience working across different religious, cultural, or community constituencies in Lebanon is highly desirable.
• Existing familiarity with relevant civil society, legal, academic, religious, and community stakeholder networks in Lebanon is an asset.
• Regional experience in the MENA region is an advantage.