وظائف أخصائي عيون في لبنان

<h2 class="h5">Job description</h2> <div class="t-break" data-jb-field="description"> <p><strong>ROLE PURPOSE:&nbsp;</strong></p><br><p>The Food Security, Livelihoods, and Social Protection Technical Advisor (TA) is a critical position for Save the Children in Lebanon and will play the lead role in ensuring the design, implementation and monitoring of high quality social protection, food security, livelihoods, and integrated nutrition programming for thousands of children and their families across the country. This role covers all thematic priorities under Save the Children’s global ambition to end Child Poverty.</p><br><p>The TA provides technical leadership to all our work in the sectors of Child Sensitive Social Protection and Basic Assistance, Food Security, Livelihoods, and Nutrition, with responsibility for developing clear strategic and operational plans, identifying fundraising needs and leading the development of technical proposals, forging strong partnerships with Government, UN, NGO and local civil society counterparts, as well as providing technical support to our implementing teams across three different field locations in Lebanon.</p><br><p><strong>CHILD SAFEGUARDING:&nbsp;</strong></p><br><p>Level 3 - the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.</p><br><p><strong>SCOPE OF ROLE:</strong></p><br><p>Reports to:&nbsp;Director of Program Development and Quality (DPDQ)</p><br><p>Dimensions: Save the Children Lebanon Country Office currently has a large portfolio of Social Protection, Food Security, Cash &amp; Voucher Assistance (CVA) and Livelihoods work across the country, with a strong pipeline of future funding and opportunities to further expand given the complexity of the economic context of Lebanon and the growing focus on integrated cash plus and nutrition programming.&nbsp;</p><br><p>Staff reporting to this post: None&nbsp;</p><br><p><strong>KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:</strong></p><br><p><i>Strategic Planning and Leadership</i></p><br><ul> <li>Provide overall strategic leadership to Save the Children’s work in the Social Protection, Basic Need Assistance, CVA, Food Security, Livelihoods, and Nutrition sectors in Lebanon.</li> <li>Lead the development and rollout of these sector strategies for Save the Children in Lebanon, including cross cutting issues related to Nutrition within other sectors</li> <li>Provide technical input to the development of country annual plans, area plans, sector strategies and other planning documents.</li> <li>Maintain a clear overview of program progress across the sector portfolio to be shared with senior managers.</li> <li>Ensure integration of FSL and CVA with other sectors at program design level and within the developed tools and approached when relevant.&nbsp;</li></ul><p><i>Program Quality and Standards</i></p><br><ul> <li>Provide technical expertise, quality assurance and support for Save the Children’s SP&amp;FSL and CVA programs, ensuring they are of high quality with reliable data and outcomes.&nbsp;</li> <li>Coordinate the development of technical capacity building resources and plans for SP&amp;FSL staff, in Save the Children and our partners in Lebanon, working with field teams to prioritize training needs and resource these appropriately.</li> <li>Develop and implement capacity-building resources and plans on CVA for Save the Children technical advisors, operations teams, and partners in Lebanon. Work closely with the DPDQ and the Director of Operations to ensure the effective implementation of Save the Children's CVA procedures, standards, and framework.</li> <li>Develop and maintain central database of tools and guidance to support program quality and support the development of technical tools, guidance and documentation as required.</li> <li>Oversee knowledge sharing across FSL &amp; SP teams and ensure that monitoring and evaluation results are understood and used to improve programs.</li> <li>Ensure FSL, SP and CVA programmes are designed and monitored to support children’s outcomes and integrated with other sectors and gender and disability inclusive, when appropriate.</li> <li>Manage the technical knowledge repository and supervise the virtual library of manuals and approaches per type of program, including tools and best practice documentation and evidence to improve and manage program quality.</li> <li>Ensure documentation of case studies and dissemination of these both internally and externally working with the Media and Advocacy team.</li> <li>Lead in technical assessments including Labor Market Assessments, Market System and Value Chain Analysis, CVA Situation and Response Analysis, Livelihoods Assessments, Household Economy Analysis, and other evidence generation.</li> <li>Participate in external workshops or research as needed, including the Integrated Poverty Classification Targeting exercise done at the national level.&nbsp;</li></ul><p><i>Programme Development and Resource Mobilisation</i></p><br><ul> <li>Provide active leadership in Save the Children’s relationships with key donors for the Social Protection and Basic Assistance, Food Security, Livelihood, and Nutrition sectors</li> <li>Ensure clear identification of fundraising needs and priorities in these sectors</li> <li>Identify and assess appropriateness of fundraising opportunities.</li> <li>Lead technical development of high-quality proposals in line with strategic ambitions.</li> <li>Develop set of “off the shelf” concept notes for new or pilot activities.</li> <li>Lead donors and partner mapping for these sectors.</li></ul><p><i>Technical Support to Programme Implementation</i></p><br><ul> <li>Line-manage project components aimed at technical support to third parties at the national level, such as project implementing partners</li> <li>Lead the technical assessment, selection, and monitoring of SP&amp;FSL and CVA implementing partners</li> <li>Support the development of monitoring, information management, and reporting systems that provide information for reporting and program improvement (in conjunction with Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) and field staff), such as Post-Distribution Monitoring and Quality Benchmarks</li> <li>Support high quality reporting by field staff through timely review and guidance.</li> <li>Screen technical field manager candidates (and others as appropriate) and support recruitment as needed.</li> <li>Assess (in conjunction with line management) and support technical work of Program Managers and sector focal points and support their professional development.</li> <li>Promote and facilitate synergies with other thematic programs</li> <li>As needed, lead in technical inputs to procurement of program goods or services involving multiple locations, large-scale use of resources, and/or a high level of risk to the agency to ensure program relevance, quality, adherence to technical guidelines, and efficient use of resources.</li> <li>Conduct regular field monitoring of activities</li> <li>Where external consultants (local or international) are required to technically support or monitor and evaluate projects, lead the recruitment and subsequent management of contracted consultants as per the recruitment guidelines and Terms of Reference.</li> <li>Analyze and provide feedback on program implementation to ensure gender equity, child participation, and child safeguarding.</li></ul><p><i>Partnerships</i></p><br><ul> <li>Ensure timely support to Partnerships manager on technical identification, selection, and adequate assessment of FSL&amp;SP and CVA strategic &amp; implementing partners,&nbsp;</li> <li>Ensure appropriate, relevant, and timely provision of technical capacity development including through mobilization of internal and external opportunities and sharing of all relevant materials/documents, etc.&nbsp;</li> <li>Promote joint program design for the advancement of mutual strategic priorities when relevant</li> <li>Commit to joint regular monitoring of implementation progress and achievement towards results, and feeding into programmatic adaptations</li> <li>Maintain strong coordinated working relationships with partners, including relevant government stakeholders such as MoSA and Ministry of Agriculture.</li> <li>Promote Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child protection, child safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures with implementing partners&nbsp;</li> <li>Improve/strengthen coordination and technical support to local partners including National NGOs, CSOs, and Governmental bodies on child protection.&nbsp;</li> <li>Lead the identification of strategic partners for potential consortia projects. &nbsp;</li></ul><p><i>Advocacy and Representation</i></p><br><ul> <li>Lead external representation of Save the Children’s Child Sensitive Social Protection and Basic Assistance, CVA, Food Security, Livelihood, and Nutrition work in Lebanon in front of government and other agencies.</li> <li>Represent Save the Children in technical forum and sector working groups in Lebanon, as: Cash Working Group, Livelihoods Sector Working Group and Nutrition WG.</li> <li>Serve as technical liaison with Save the Children Members, Regional Office, Global Team, FSL,SP and CVA Technical Working Groups, and other relevant fora within SCI.</li> <li>Represent SCI at the level of relevant governmental entities such as the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Ministry of Labor.</li> <li>Represent Save the Children on other national/international technical networks as requested.</li> <li>Contribute to development of advocacy messages and materials in the relevant sectors</li> <li>Support and respond to media requests in the relevant sectors&nbsp;</li></ul><p><i>General</i></p><br><ul> <li>Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child safeguarding, anti-harassment, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.</li></ul><p><strong>QUALIFICATIONS&nbsp;</strong></p><br><ul> <li>Development professional with a relevant Masters’ Degree or equivalent professional experience.&nbsp;</li> <li>Fluency in written and spoken Arabic and English</li></ul><p><strong>EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS</strong></p><br><p><i>Essential</i></p><br><ul> <li>Minimum of 7 years’ experience in Food Security and Livelihoods programming and Cash &amp; Voucher Assistance in humanitarian and developmental contexts in an NGO, UN or Government institution.</li> <li>Solid experience in designing, implementing and overseeing Food security and Livelihoods&nbsp; &nbsp;programs, CVA and other market-based programming, in both humanitarian and development contexts;&nbsp;</li> <li>Demonstrated experience in leading Food Security and Livelihoods Assessments, CVA Situation and Response Analysis.</li> <li>Understanding of employability programmes, labor market assessments, and market systems development, including value chain development.</li> <li>Knowledge of climate change adaptation and evidence-based approaches to designing and implementing food security and resilient livelihood programmes in vulnerable and crisis-affected contexts such as Lebanon.</li> <li>Understanding of Social Protection Policies and Programmes in Lebanon.&nbsp;</li> <li>Demonstrated experience to represent organization in Technical Working groups, national or international coordination forum.&nbsp;</li> <li>Ability to link micro-level impacts on children with macro trends at national and regional level in employment and livelihoods;</li> <li>Demonstrated experience in leading successful proposals in the area of FSL, CVA and/or SP with international donors as ECHO, FCDO, USAID, UN etc.&nbsp;</li> <li>Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, capacity to communicate path of action and ensure the commitment of stakeholders; excellent coordination and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and negotiate clearly and effectively at all levels;</li> <li>Strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mindsets;</li> <li>Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures;</li> <li>Ability and willingness to dramatically change work practices and hours, and work with incoming emergency surge teams. Proven ability to work in insecure or hardship environments and to work under tight deadlines;</li> <li>Ability and willingness to travel extensively to field sites and work independently;</li> <li>Previous Work experience in Lebanon</li> <li>Commitment to Save the Children values, including willingness to abide by and enforce the Child Safeguarding policy.</li></ul><p><i>Desirable</i></p><br><ul> <li>Previous work experience in other Middle East countries;</li> <li>Experience in the specific frameworks of Household Economy Approach (HEA), Cost of Diet (CoD), Integrated Food Security Phased Classification (IPC), Emergency Markets Mapping and Assessment (EMMA), Rapid Market Assessment (RAM) and/or Minimum Economic Recovery Standards (MERS).</li> <li>Experience in leading Labour Market analysis and youth employability Programmes.</li> <li>Experience in climate resilience livelihoods and/or agricultural based livelihoods&nbsp;</li> <li>Experience in designing and implementing cash plus programming for nutrition and/or protection and/or education outcomes&nbsp;</li> <li>Experience in designing and implementing Child Sensitive Social Protection programming.</li></ul><p><strong>ADDITIONAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:</strong></p><br><p>The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.</p><br><p><strong>EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES:</strong></p><br><p>The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.</p><br><p><strong>CHILD SAFEGUARDING:</strong></p><br><p>We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.</p><br><p><strong>FRAUD PREVENTION:</strong></p><br><p>The role holder is expected to uphold high standards of integrity and transparency, and will have access to financial, operational, or programmatic resources that require strict compliance with SCI’s Anti-Fraud and Corruption Policy. This includes responsibility for preventing, identifying, and reporting any suspected fraud, corruption, or misuse of resources in the course of their work.</p><br><p><strong>SAFEGUARDING OUR STAFF:</strong></p><br><p>The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy.</p><br><p><strong>HEALTH AND SAFETY:</strong></p><br><p>The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.</p><br><br> </div>

<h2 class="h5">Job description</h2> <div class="t-break" data-jb-field="description"> Result of Service<br>ULTIMATE RESULT OF SERVICE · The report prepared should be in Arabic in electronic format. · Minimum report submitted should not be less than 30 pages minimum. · The report must be supported by reliable figures and numbers. · A 2 to 4 pages executive summary of the report. · Final National Open-Source Software Policy, with annexes and an implementation roadmap. The completed parts should be edited and saved in MS-Word (*.docx file) or an alternate compatible format. PDF format will not be accepted. It should include a table of contents to be automatically updated followed by a list of all tables and figures. The various parts should be submitted in electronic form and sent to the email address of the designated focal point. Attention is kindly drawn to the need to ensure that the final draft of the outputs be thoroughly reviewed prior to submission and to indicate the sources of tables and diagrams. References to reports and other substantive material should be clearly indicated within the text and noted at the end. It is also essential to send, with the completed output, photocopies or scans of at least the first page of books, reports and bulletins, used as reference material as well as copies of the pages quoted. The content of the generated document shall be the sole property of ESCWA. The content cannot and must not be presented, discussed or published by the consultant without the express authorization of ESCWA and MoTDE. The consultant shall keep in mind that UN-ESCWA routinely checks all deliverables for plagiarism, using readily available electronic tools. All previously published content, even if written by the selected consultant, must be clearly referenced where required within the text and end-noted at the end of the study. The report submitted by the consultant must not contain quoted and/or previously published text equalling more than 20 per cent of the total number of pages. The consultant shall not publish or announce or reveal the content of the report, partly or entirely, on social media or any other public channel, without ESCWA and MoTDE permission.<br> Work Location<br>Remote<br> Expected duration<br>16 weeks<br> Duties and Responsibilities<br>I. GENERAL SCOPE Open-source software policies provide a strategic framework governing how public institutions assess, procure, use, develop, reuse and share software whose source code can be inspected, modified and redistributed under an appropriate open licence. Their importance for sustainable development extends well beyond the possibility of avoiding licence fees. When properly implemented, such policies can reduce the duplication of public investments, facilitate interoperability among government systems, increase transparency and auditability, enable solutions to be adapted to local languages and needs, and reduce excessive dependence on individual technology suppliers. They can also allow governments, universities, local companies and civil society organizations to collaborate on shared digital solutions, thereby strengthening national technological capabilities, creating opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises and supporting local digital employment. Open-source software solutions are particularly relevant to lower- and middle-income and crisis-affected countries because they can be reused and adapted rather than developed repeatedly from the beginning. The United Nations recognizes open-source software as an important category of digital public goods and calls for greater investment in such goods to advance the Sustainable Development Goals1. In this sense, open-source policies can contribute directly to SDG 9 on innovation and resilient infrastructure, SDG 16 on effective, accountable and inclusive institutions, and SDG 17 on partnerships, while also supporting digital services in health, education, social protection, agriculture and local government. Nevertheless, open-source adoption should not be treated as an automatic or purely cost-saving choice. Effective policies should address total cost of ownership, cybersecurity, software maintenance, licensing compliance, accessibility, data protection, documentation, technical support and long-term community governance. Several governments have institutionalized these principles. The European Commission’s Open Source Software Strategy promotes a “Think Open” approach through which European institutions are encouraged to use, share and contribute to open-source solutions, increase software reuse and strengthen technological control and collaboration across administrations. France has established a dedicated government open-source function, the code.gouv.fr platform and the Socle Interministériel de Logiciels Libres, a reference catalogue of open-source software recommended for use across the public administration. Within the Arab region, Saudi Arabia’s Digital Government Authority published a Free and Open-Source Government Software Strategy and an implementation guideline aimed at improving technology leadership, increasing efficiency in government IT spending, encouraging software and source-code reuse, and supporting the growth of the national digital economy. Egypt has also, since several years, adopted a national strategy supporting free and open-source software, while the Software Engineering Competence Center under the Information Technology Industry Development Agency serves as the government’s focal point for this field. For Palestine, an open-source software policy could become an important instrument for building affordable, resilient and nationally sustainable digital government. In a context of severe fiscal constraints and service-delivery arrangements, the systematic reuse of secure and proven software components could help reduce repeated development and licensing expenditure, while improving interoperability among ministries, municipalities and public institutions. Furthermore, requiring donor-funded digital projects to use open standards, provide adequate documentation and consider publication under suitable open-source licences could improve national ownership and prevent isolated systems from being abandoned after project financing ends. These benefits would require a phased implementation model based on an inventory of existing systems, open and interoperable technical standards, procurement rules that evaluate open-source and proprietary options fairly, security and privacy assessments, capacity-building programmes, and a central open-source programme office or coordination unit responsible for governance, licensing, reuse and sustainable maintenance. The United Nations is involved in enhancing the use of emerging technologies for sustainable development. In September 2024 during the Summit of the Future, world leaders adopted the Pact for the Future and its annexes: the Global Digital Compact (GDC) and Declaration on Future Generations. The GDC4 mandates UN Regional Commissions to provide support to Member States to advance digital transformation. Most recently, the Ministry of Telecoms and Digital Economy (MoTDE) in Palestine requested UN-ESCWA’s assistance to develop the national policy for open source software. The provision of this advisory service is the subject of these terms of reference. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES The consultant shall propose to the designated ESCWA focal point a detailed version of the report outline. The proposed report should include the following sections: (1) Review best regional and international practices on Open-Source software policies, strategies and frameworks (at least 2 international and 2 regional practices); (2) Analyse the different existing policies and frameworks related to digital technologies in Palestine; (3) Review and further develop the draft National Open-Source Software Policy, including its technical annexes on Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and Cloud Computing, ensuring consistency between the main policy and its annexes and alignment with relevant national, regional and international good practices (4) Conduct interviews with the various stakeholders and summarize their remarks and observations, including representatives of public and private sectors to better capture the needs of all segments of society; (5) Suggest a draft policy based on international and regional practices, the background doc and the conducted interviews/meetings; (6) Present the draft policy in a consultative workshop/meeting. (7) Update the policy based on received comments from ESCWA, MoTDE and other stakeholders participating in the workshop. ESCWA promotes gender equality and integration of youth through its publications and therefore the consultant should pay attention, with the help of ESCWA staff, to gender considerations and youth dimension throughout the research work and thereby ensure that the narrative language should be gender sensitive.<br> Qualifications/special skills<br>An advanced university degree in digital technologies, software engineering or a related field is required; a Ph.D. is desirable. All candidates must submit a copy of the required educational degree. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed. At least 10 years of professional experience and research in digital technologies/software engineering is required Demonstrated professional experience in open-source governance and licensing, digital-government architecture, API governance and interoperability, cloud governance and procurement, cybersecurity and data protection is desirable.<br> Languages<br>English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat; and Arabic is a working language of ESCWA. For this position,- Fluency in written and spoken Arabic and English is required. Note: “Fluency” equals a rating of ‘fluent’ in all four areas (speak, read, write, and understand) and “Knowledge of” equals a rating of ‘confident’ in two of the four areas.<br> Additional Information<br>Not available.<br> No Fee<br>THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.<br><br><br> </div>