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<p>ABAAD Resource Center for Gender Equality is seeking a qualified and experienced Senior Project Coordinator to support the implementation of a development initiative addressing the intersections of gender equality, protection, social norms, faith, and community engagement in Lebanon. The initiative forms part of ABAAD's broader efforts to prevent gender-based violence (GBV), promote gender equality, challenge harmful social and gender norms, and strengthen the role of influential community actors in creating safer and more equitable environments for women, girls, families, and communities. The intervention will engage with Lebanon's complex social, cultural, religious, and legal landscape and requires careful consideration of the ways in which gender, protection, family dynamics, social norms, religious structures, and personal status frameworks intersect.</p><p>The Senior Project Coordinator will provide overall programmatic and technical coordination for the assigned project, ensuring high-quality, timely, and context-sensitive implementation. The position requires a strong understanding of the intersection between gender, GBV and protection, social norms, faith and religious institutions, and Lebanon's personal status system, alongside demonstrated experience in project management and stakeholder engagement. Working closely with ABAAD's technical and operational teams, the Senior Project Coordinator will coordinate implementation, manage relationships with relevant stakeholders and partners, support technical and knowledge-development processes, monitor progress and risks, and ensure compliance with ABAAD's programmatic and protection standards. Please note that this position will be effective as of January 1, 2027.</p><h3>Key Responsibilities</h3><h4>Project Coordination and Management</h4><ul><li>Lead the day-to-day coordination and implementation of the assigned project in line with approved objectives, workplans, timelines, budgets, and organizational procedures.</li><li>Develop and regularly update implementation plans, stakeholder engagement plans, activity schedules, and risk mitigation measures.</li><li>Coordinate closely with relevant ABAAD technical, programmatic, MEL, communications, finance, and operations teams.</li><li>Ensure timely delivery of project activities and outputs and proactively address implementation challenges.</li><li>Coordinate external consultants, service providers, and partners, as relevant.</li><li>Contribute to narrative and financial monitoring, reporting, and other project documentation.</li></ul><h4>Technical Coordination</h4><ul><li>Support the integration of gender equality, GBV prevention, protection, social norms transformation, and positive masculinities across project implementation.</li><li>Ensure that activities are implemented in accordance with survivor-centered, do-no-harm, confidentiality, safeguarding, and PSEA principles.</li><li>Apply a nuanced understanding of the intersections between gender, power, family dynamics, social norms, faith, and protection.</li><li>Work closely with ABAAD's technical teams and external experts to ensure the technical quality and contextual relevance of project interventions and materials.</li><li>Support the adaptation of technical concepts and approaches for different stakeholder groups while safeguarding the project's core gender equality and protection principles.</li></ul><h4>Stakeholder and Partnership Engagement</h4><ul><li>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.</li><li>Coordinate consultations, meetings, workshops, dialogue processes, and other stakeholder engagement activities.</li><li>Navigate diverse institutional, social, cultural, and religious perspectives with diplomacy and sensitivity.</li><li>Identify opportunities for collaboration and knowledge exchange with relevant national and regional actors.</li><li>Represent ABAAD in relevant project-related meetings and coordination spaces, as requested.</li></ul><h4>Contextual, Legal, and Policy Analysis</h4><ul><li>Maintain strong knowledge of Lebanon's social, political, religious, and legal context as it relates to gender equality and protection.</li><li>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.</li><li>Demonstrate understanding of the relationship between personal status frameworks, civil and criminal legislation, and protection mechanisms in Lebanon.</li><li>Support contextual and stakeholder analysis to inform project implementation and adaptation.</li><li>Identify emerging legal, institutional, social, or political developments that may create risks or opportunities for the project.</li></ul><h4>Knowledge Management and Learning</h4><ul><li>Coordinate research, documentation, learning, and knowledge-development processes associated with the project.</li><li>Support the development and technical review of project resources and knowledge products.</li><li>Document lessons learned, promising practices, implementation challenges, and emerging insights.</li><li>Facilitate internal and external learning processes and contribute to the dissemination of relevant project learning.</li><li>Ensure that knowledge products are technically sound, accessible, contextually appropriate, and aligned with ABAAD's principles and approaches.</li></ul><h4>Monitoring, Reporting, and Risk Management</h4><ul><li>Work closely with the MEL team to monitor implementation progress, results, and emerging learning.</li><li>Support the collection and analysis of qualitative and quantitative project information.</li><li>Prepare high-quality narrative reports, activity documentation, presentations, and other required materials.</li><li>Proactively identify programmatic, protection, safeguarding, reputational, contextual, and operational risks and support appropriate mitigation measures.</li><li>Ensure appropriate documentation while respecting confidentiality and data-protection requirements.</li></ul><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><ul><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>Demonstrated experience coordinating or managing complex development, protection, gender, or social change programs.</li><li>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.</li><li>Strong knowledge of gender equality, GBV prevention and response, and protection principles, including survivor-centered and do-no-harm approaches.</li><li>Strong understanding of the intersection between gender, social norms, family dynamics, religion/faith, and protection within the Lebanese context.</li><li>Good knowledge of Lebanon's religious and confessional landscape and the role of religious and community institutions within Lebanese society.</li><li>Demonstrated experience engaging with a diverse range of institutional and community stakeholders and navigating sensitive or complex stakeholder environments.</li><li>Experience facilitating consultations, workshops, dialogue processes, or other participatory processes with diverse stakeholders.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to approach culturally, socially, or religiously sensitive issues with nuance while maintaining clear gender equality and protection principles.</li><li>Experience contributing to research, technical resources, knowledge products, curricula, guidance, or similar materials is an asset.</li><li>Strong project management skills, including work planning, budgeting, monitoring, reporting, coordination, and risk management.</li><li>Excellent analytical, facilitation, negotiation, interpersonal, and communication skills.</li><li>Excellent written and spoken Arabic and English. French is an asset.</li><li>Previous professional engagement with religious institutions, faith-based organizations, religious leaders, or interfaith initiatives is a strong asset.</li><li>Familiarity with theological, religious, or faith-based perspectives on gender, family relations, social justice, human dignity, or violence prevention is an asset.</li><li>Experience working on social and gender norms transformation and/or engagement of men and boys and positive masculinities is an asset.</li><li>Experience working across different religious, cultural, or community constituencies in Lebanon is highly desirable.</li><li>Existing familiarity with relevant civil society, legal, academic, religious, and community stakeholder networks in Lebanon is an asset.</li><li>Regional experience in the MENA region is an advantage.</li></ul>
Role Overview
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<br>The Front Office & Customer Care Officer serves as the primary point of contact for JRS Holdings and its affiliated companies, ensuring professional handling of incoming calls, customer inquiries, and visitors. The role focuses on delivering excellent customer service, coordinating communications across departments, and ensuring timely follow-up on client requests and business opportunities.
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<br>Key Responsibilities:
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<br>Call Management: Answer and manage incoming calls for all group companies, ensuring accurate routing, message-taking, and timely follow-up.
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<br>Customer Care: Handle client inquiries professionally, resolve straightforward requests, and escalate complaints or complex issues to the appropriate departments.
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<br>Lead Coordination: Record client inquiries in the designated tracking system, assign leads to the relevant sales representatives, and ensure timely follow-up.
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<br>Front Desk & Reception: Welcome visitors, coordinate appointments, and maintain a professional and welcoming reception environment.
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<br>Internal Communication: Facilitate effective communication between clients, sales teams, and relevant departments to ensure efficient service delivery.
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<br>Complaint Management: Document customer concerns, monitor recurring issues, and coordinate resolutions with the concerned teams.
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<br>Administrative Support: Manage incoming correspondence, couriers, deliveries, meeting room arrangements, and other front-office administrative tasks.
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<br>Reporting & Follow-up: Maintain accurate call logs, visitor records, and inquiry trackers while providing regular updates to management.
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<br>Confidentiality: Ensure the proper handling and protection of client, employee, and company information.
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<br>Qualifications & Requirements:
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<br>Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Hospitality, Tourism, Communications, or a related field. A technical diploma (TS/LT) with relevant experience may be considered.
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<br>Minimum 2 years of experience in call center operations, customer service, or a similar role.
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<br>Previous experience in travel, aviation, hospitality, or front-office operations is an advantage.
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<br>Excellent command of Arabic, English, and French, both spoken and written (mandatory).
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<br>Strong communication, interpersonal, and customer service skills.
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<br>Ability to handle multiple calls, inquiries, and visitors efficiently.
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<br>Proficiency in MS Office, Google Workspace, and customer tracking systems.
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<br>Strong organizational, problem-solving, and follow-up skills.
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<br>Professional appearance, positive attitude, and ability to remain calm under pressure.
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<br>High level of discretion, reliability, and confidentiality
WE’RE HIRING | MEDICAL SALES REPRESENTATIVE
<br>Care Corner S.A.R.L. — Beirut, Lebanon
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<br>Full-time | Based in Hamra | Field sales across Beirut
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<br>Care Corner is seeking an experienced Medical Sales Representative to grow our dental and oral-care business in Beirut. We are looking for a professional who can build lasting customer relationships, manage a territory independently, and deliver measurable sales results.
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<br>Key Responsibilities
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<br>- Develop and execute weekly territory plans, with organized daily visits to dentists, clinics, and pharmacies.
<br>- Identify new opportunities, open accounts, and develop existing customers.
<br>- Present and demonstrate Care Corner products accurately and professionally.
<br>- Prepare quotations, negotiate within approved terms, and convert opportunities into confirmed orders.
<br>- Maintain consistent follow-up after product presentations and trials, secure repeat orders, and introduce additional products suited to each customer.
<br>- Achieve agreed sales, account-development, follow-up, and collection targets.
<br>- Keep CRM records current, document the next action after every visit, and submit clear daily and weekly reports.
<br>- Coordinate with the office on orders, deliveries, customer enquiries, and after-sales support.
<br>- Report customer feedback, competitor activity, and market opportunities.
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<br>Candidate Requirements
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<br>- More than 5 years of proven sales experience in the medical, dental, or pharmaceutical sector is mandatory.
<br>- Dental industry experience and an established network of healthcare professionals in Beirut are strong advantages.
<br>- Demonstrated success in meeting sales targets and developing customer accounts.
<br>- Strong presentation, negotiation, and closing skills.
<br>- Excellent organization, territory planning, and follow-up discipline.
<br>- Fluent Arabic and good English; French is an advantage.
<br>- Valid driving licence and access to a reliable car.
<br>- CRM experience, preferably Odoo, is an advantage.
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<br>Care Corner provides product training and structured field support. Performance is measured through sales growth, active accounts, repeat orders, collections, and consistent execution.
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<br>Apply
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<br>Send your CV to info@carecorner.cc
<br>Subject: Medical Sales Representative – Beirut – Full Name
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<br>Please include your current location, years of relevant experience, and earliest availability.
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<br>Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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<br>Care Corner — Where Health and Beauty Meet
<br>"www.carecorner.cc" (https://www.carecorner.cc)
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<span>Aspire Software is looking for an Infrastructure Specialist to join our team in Lebanon.<br> Here is a little window into our company: Aspire Software operates and manages wholly owned software companies, providing mission-critical solutions across multiple verticals.<br> By implementing industry best practices, Aspire delivers a time sensitive integration process, and the operation of a decentralized model has allowed it to become a hub for creating rapid growth by reinvesting in its portfolio.<br> Role Overview We are looking for a hands-on infrastructure specialist to own, secure and grow the AWS platform behind our software for the UK housing sector.<br> You will keep customer environments reliable and well documented, build new environments as code, and be the person our customers and auditors trust with the difficult infrastructure questions.<br> This is first and foremost an infrastructure role.<br> You will own our AWS estate end to end, from networking, compute and data stores through to identity, monitoring, backups and cost, across shared and customer-dedicated environments.<br> You will work closely with our DevOps engineer, who leads on CI/CD, so that pipelines and environments evolve together.<br> You will also build.<br> When a customer needs a dedicated environment you will stand it up from our Terraform templates, connect it to monitoring, identity and backup, hand it over with clear documentation and manage it through its life.<br> You will be comfortable writing code, whether that is Terraform modules, serverless functions or automation scripts, because at SDS infrastructure and product are built by the same team.<br> Finally, you will be the link between the infrastructure and the people who depend on it: our developers, our ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials auditors, and the IT and security teams of our customers, particularly enterprise housing providers.<br> Key Responsibilities Own and operate: keep every environment healthy, patched, backed up and recoverable across Linux and Windows Server, and administer MongoDB for availability and performance.<br> Build as code: create and evolve environments through Terraform, treat drift as a defect, and move us towards hardened, repeatable builds.<br> Secure the platform: own IAM and least privilege, secrets and certificates, encryption, logging and security tooling, and act on what they tell you.<br> Make it observable: build the monitoring, alerting and dashboards that let us find problems before customers do, and own infrastructure incident response.<br> Support compliance: keep our ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials evidence, asset registers and diagrams current, and present them to auditors and customers on request.<br> Automate and develop: remove manual work with scripts and serverless automation, and contribute to our codebase where infrastructure and application meet.<br> Document and coach: own the infrastructure documentation set, define the standards the team follows, and help developers work safely with the platform.<br> Work with customers: join onboarding and procurement conversations, understand hosting, identity and security requirements, and turn them into clear environment designs.<br> Several years running production infrastructure in AWS, with real depth in networking, compute, IAM, storage and monitoring Strong Terraform: writing modules, managing state and building environments from code Confident administering both Linux and Windows Server Hands-on MongoDB operational experience (replica sets, backups, performance, upgrades) A solid coding background in at least one of Python, PowerShell, Bash or C# / .<br>NET, and the habit of automating anything you do twice Practical understanding of security controls and what ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials expect of an infrastructure team Clear written documentation and the discipline to keep it current The confidence to explain technical decisions plainly to customers, auditors and developer Desirable: AWS certification such as Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator or Security Specialty MongoDB, Linux or Microsoft server certifications Experience with an identity provider and SSO protocols (SAML, OIDC, SCIM) Containers, orchestration or serverless design Experience hosting for enterprise or public sector customers, including supplier assurance and data residency Cost optimisation and FinOps practice Knowledge of the UK housing sector</span> </div>
About the Employer
<br>The Employer is a leading ERP implementation partner in Lebanon, delivering tailored business solutions to clients across various industries. Their mission is to help organizations streamline operations, improve efficiency, and achieve sustainable growth through world-class ERP systems.
<br>Job Summary
<br>We are seeking a talented and driven ERP Implementation Specialist to join our Client’s growing team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work closely with clients, understand their business needs, and deliver tailored Odoo solutions that drive efficiency and growth.
<br>Key Responsibilities:
<br>• Client Engagement & Requirement Gathering
<br>o Meet with clients to understand business processes, pain points, and ERP requirements.
<br>o Document and analyze client workflows and propose Odoo-based solutions.
<br>• Odoo ERP Implementation
<br>o Configure, customize, and deploy Odoo modules (Sales, CRM, Inventory, Accounting, HR, Manufacturing, etc.).
<br>o Migrate legacy data into Odoo, ensuring accuracy and integrity.
<br>o Integrate Odoo with other systems where applicable.
<br>• Testing & Quality Assurance
<br>o Conduct system testing, troubleshooting, and bug fixing.
<br>o Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with clients.
<br>• Training & Support
<br>o Deliver user training sessions and prepare training materials.
<br>o Provide post-implementation support, resolve issues, and optimize system performance.
<br>• Project Management
<br>o Maintain implementation timelines and deliverables.
<br>o Coordinate with internal teams (developers, functional consultants, support) to ensure project success.
<br>Qualifications & Skills
<br>Education & Experience:
<br>• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field.
<br>• Minimum 2–3 years of hands-on ERP implementation experience (Odoo experience strongly preferred).
<br>• Experience in business process analysis and re-engineering.
<br>Technical Skills:
<br>• Solid understanding of Odoo modules and configuration.
<br>• Basic knowledge of Python and Odoo framework (preferred but not mandatory).
<br>• Familiarity with databases (PostgreSQL preferred) and reporting tools.
<br>• Knowledge of API integrations is a plus.
<br>Soft Skills:
<br>• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
<br>• Excellent communication and presentation abilities.
<br>• Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines.
<br>• Client-focused with strong interpersonal skills.
<br>Language Requirements:
<br>• Fluent in English and Arabic (French is a plus)
Duties & Responsibilities:
<br>• Handle incoming customer inquiries through the hotline, phone calls, emails, web application, CRM, and other communication channels
<br>• Respond to customer requests promptly, professionally, and accurately
<br>• Provide complete information about Velvet Services' cleaning, organizing, remodeling, and other services and products
<br>• Build and maintain strong customer relationships through clear, consistent, and personalized communication
<br>• No inquiry is left unanswered and no booking request is forgotten
<br>• Receive, process, and confirm customer bookings and service requests
<br>• Accurately record customer details, service requirements, locations, and special instructions in the CRM
<br>• Coordinate with the Operations and Scheduling teams to confirm availability and ensure smooth service delivery
<br>• Communicate booking confirmations, modifications, cancellations, and relevant updates to customers
<br>• Follow up on pending requests, quotations, and unconfirmed bookings
<br>• Identify potential sales opportunities during customer interactions
<br>• Actively promote and upsell relevant services, packages, and products based on customer needs
<br>• Follow up on quotations and inquiries to encourage booking conversion
<br>• Support promotional campaigns, special offers, and marketing initiatives
<br>• Maintain good knowledge of all company services, products, pricing, and promotions
<br>• Receive, document, and address customer complaints professionally and efficiently
<br>• Conduct post-service follow-ups to collect feedback and identify areas for improvement
<br>• Maintain accurate and updated customer profiles, booking records, and communication history
<br>• Follow up internally to ensure timely execution and resolution of customer requests
<br>• Prepare and submit accurate daily, weekly, and monthly customer service reports
<br>• Work toward achieving individual customer service, response time, and booking conversion KPIs
<br>• Support marketing activities by sharing customer feedback, trends, and potential content ideas
<br>• Maintain confidentiality and comply with company policies and procedures
<br>• Perform other related duties as assigned by management
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<br>Requirements:
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<br>The target is to ensure excellent service standards, respond efficiently to customer inquiries and maintain high customer satisfaction.
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<br>• Positive Attitude
<br>• Excellent Communication & Team Work skills
<br>• Negotiation Skills
<br>• Supervision Skills
<br>• Problem Solving Skills
<br>• Patient and Empathetic with customers
<br>• Ability to stay calm when customers are stressed or upset
<br>• Presentable
<br>• Committed and ready to become part of our growing family
<br>• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and manage time effectively
<br>• Able to work under pressure
<br>• Honest and reliable
<br>• Proactive, uses own initiative
<br>• Self-driven
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<span>Aspire Software is looking for a Risk & Underwriting Analyst to join our team in Lebanon.<br> Here is a little window into our company: Aspire Software operates and manages wholly owned software companies, providing mission-critical solutions across multiple verticals.<br> By implementing industry best practices, Aspire delivers a time sensitive integration process, and the operation of a decentralized model has allowed it to become a hub for creating rapid growth by reinvesting in its portfolio.<br> Role Overview We are looking for a Risk & Underwriting Analyst to sit inside our Risk & Underwriting team and take real ownership of the work that keeps merchants out of trouble.<br> You will own the chargeback function end to end.<br> That is the anchor of the job — but it is not the whole job, and we are not hiring a chargeback analyst who might one day help with other things.<br> Underwriting is the second half of this role, not a stretch goal: you will work the underwriting and boarding pipeline with the Lead from day one, and we expect you to be carrying real weight on it.<br> Alongside both, you will keep eyes on risk and transaction monitoring, and you will be the person who notices when a pattern stops looking normal.<br> Around all of that, you will spend a good part of your week talking to people: Support, Operations, Finance, Partnerships, Product — and, just as often, merchants and partners directly.<br> This is a role with a lot of surface area and very little sitting still.<br> Priorities move, deadlines belong to the card networks rather than to us, and the interesting problems rarely arrive labelled.<br> If that sounds like your kind of day, keep reading.<br> What you'll own Chargebacks & disputes — your function Own the chargeback lifecycle end to end: intake from the networks, merchant notification, evidence gathering, representment, pre-arbitration and arbitration decisions.<br> Build and defend the case.<br> Assemble compelling evidence, write representments that actually win, and know when a dispute is worth fighting versus when accepting it is the commercially smarter call.<br> Manage the chargebacks inbox and dispute queues to SLA — network deadlines are not negotiable and neither are ours.<br> Coach merchants and partners: explain reason codes in plain language, tell them what evidence you need and why, and help the repeat offenders fix the root cause rather than re-fighting the same dispute every month.<br> Track and report the numbers that matter — chargeback ratios, win rates, ageing, loss exposure, top reason codes, worst-performing MIDs — and flag accounts drifting toward network monitoring programmes before they get there.<br> Improve the machinery.<br> Templates, macros, portal workflows, evidence checklists, automation, knowledge- base articles: leave the function better organised than you found it.<br> Underwriting & merchant boarding — the other half of the job Work the underwriting cycle with the Lead and carry your own share of the file: application review, KYC/KYB and document verification, business model and website review, sanctions and adverse media checks.<br> Assess risk on new and existing merchants — industry, ownership, processing history, delivery model, refund and chargeback exposure — and put forward a reasoned recommendation on approval, limits, reserves and conditions.<br> Your view is expected to be part of the decision, not a summary of somebody else’s.<br> Own the boarding pipeline day to day: keep applications moving, chase missing documents, unblock stuck files, resolve boarding errors, and keep merchants and partners informed the whole way through.<br> Run periodic reviews, re-underwriting and account changes as merchants grow, pivot, or start selling something they were never approved for.<br> Grow into the deeper end of it.<br> As you build the reps, take on more of the underwriting book independently — this role is meant to widen, not stay still.<br> Risk & transaction monitoring Monitor transaction activity and alert queues for fraud, laundering, collusion, card testing, velocity spikes, and merchants processing outside what they were approved for.<br> Investigate and resolve alerts with a clear written rationale, and escalate the ones that deserve escalation quickly and unambiguously.<br> Recommend and action risk decisions: holds, reserves, payout blocks, limit changes, offboarding — and communicate them to the merchant with a straight face and a clear explanation.<br> Feed what you learn back into the rules.<br> If a pattern beat us once, help make sure it does not beat us twice.<br> Compliance & the rulebook — a bonus if you bring it Work within card scheme rules (Visa, Mastercard, Amex) and network dispute and monitoring programmes.<br> If you already know this rulebook, you will use it here; if you do not, you will learn it on the job.<br> Support PCI DSS compliance across our merchant base — SAQ progress, validation status, non-compliance follow-up — and help merchants get through it without losing them in the jargon.<br> Keep records that hold up: clean audit trails, documented decisions, and evidence that stands on its own six months later.<br> Working across the business Be the reliable risk counterpart for Support, Operations, Finance, Partnerships and Product — the person other teams are glad to see in the thread.<br> Handle external conversations with merchants, partners, and processing and acquiring counterparts with equal comfort — including the conversations nobody enjoys having.<br> Turn what you learn into something reusable: internal SOPs, merchant-facing guides, training for frontline teams.<br> A risk operator.<br> Somebody who has done this work, not only read about it, and who is comfortable being the owner of an answer rather than the router of a question.<br> We would take a candidate who understands the function cold and adapts fast over one who knows every tool on this page but is slow to move.<br> 3+ years of hands-on experience in payments risk, disputes, fraud, or merchant underwriting — at a PSP, acquirer, processor, fintech, or a merchant with real card volume.<br> Direct, working chargeback knowledge.<br> You have handled disputes yourself, know your way around reason codes, representment evidence and network timelines, and can explain a pre-arb without looking it up.<br> This one is the non-negotiable.<br> A real appetite for underwriting.<br> Exposure to underwriting, KYB/KYC or merchant boarding — enough to know what a file looks like and what makes one risky.<br> We will build on whatever base you have, but you need to want this half of the job, not tolerate it.<br> A feel for monitoring.<br> You have looked at transaction activity or alert queues before and can tell a busy day from a bad one.<br> Sound risk judgement.<br> You can weigh commercial reality against exposure, make a call with incomplete information, and write down why you made it.<br> Quick on your feet.<br> You re-prioritise without drama, pick up unfamiliar tools and rules quickly, and stay accurate when several things land at once.<br> Genuinely good with people.<br> Clear written English, a calm and direct manner with merchants and partners, and the instinct to pick up the phone when a thread is going nowhere.<br> French. A good part of our merchant and partner base works in French — being able to handle those conversations properly matters to us.<br> Comfortable with data.<br> Confident in spreadsheets and dashboards; able to pull a number, sanity-check it, and notice when it looks wrong.<br> Ownership by default.<br> You close loops, you follow up, and you tell people where things stand before they have to ask.<br> Nice to have — genuinely optional, and happily taught Working knowledge of card scheme regulations and network monitoring programmes (VDMP/VFMP, Mastercard ECM/EFM and their successors).<br> PCI DSS and SAQ familiarity, or experience running a merchant compliance programme.<br> Wider regulatory or AML/CTF exposure in a payments context.<br> Experience with a major processor or acquirer platform, dispute managers, or fraud and monitoring tooling.<br> SQL or similar for pulling your own data.<br> Why this role is worth your time A function you actually own, with your name on it, from week one — and a second discipline to grow into right beside it.<br> A direct line to the Risk & Underwriting Lead — real mentorship on underwriting, not a dotted line on an org chart.<br> Breadth most risk roles do not offer: disputes, underwriting, monitoring and compliance in the same job, at a company small enough that you see all of it.<br> Visible work.<br> Risk decisions here reach merchants, partners and the leadership team, quickly.<br> Room to grow into the deeper end of underwriting, risk strategy or compliance as the team scales.<br></span> </div>
Aspire Software operates and manages wholly owned software companies, providing mission-critical solutions across multiple verticals. By implementing industry best practices, Aspire delivers a time sensitive integration process, and the operation of a decentralized model has allowed it to become a hub for creating rapid growth by reinvesting in its portfolio.</p>
<h4>Role Overview</h4>
<p>As a technical customer support specialist, you are often the first person a hotel contacts when something in its property management system is not working—sometimes during check-in and with guests waiting.</p>
<p>You will help customers use our software effectively, answer "how-to" questions, diagnose technical problems, and resolve issues across a broad range of hospitality products and integrations. This includes explaining workflows, guiding users through configuration and operational tasks, reproducing reported problems, and determining whether an issue is related to data, configuration, permissions, an integration, or a software defect. You will resolve as much as possible during the initial interaction. When escalation is required, you will document the issue with enough evidence and context that the next person can continue the investigation without starting over.</p>
<p>Tickets are initially triaged and tagged through AI-assisted workflows. You will assess that triage, correct it when necessary, review drafted responses, and take over the conversation whenever a customer needs direct assistance from a person.</p>
<h4>What You Will Do</h4>
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<li><strong>Work the shared support queue</strong><br>
Pull tickets from the team’s shared queue, prioritize your workload based on severity, customer impact, and ticket age, and take ownership of each issue through resolution. The team works toward shared service and open-ticket goals rather than relying only on individually assigned inboxes.</li>
<li><strong>Support customers across every channel</strong><br>
Provide support through phone, email, and chat. Adjust your communication style to the situation, whether you are answering a straightforward software question or leading a live troubleshooting call with a hotel experiencing an urgent operational issue.</li>
<li><strong>Answer product and workflow questions</strong><br>
Help customers understand how to use the software in their day-to-day hotel operations. This includes explaining features, walking users through processes, helping with configuration, and identifying when a "how-to" question is actually the result of incorrect setup, missing permissions, or unexpected system behavior.</li>
<li><strong>Work with AI-assisted support tools</strong><br>
Review AI-generated classifications and drafted responses before relying on them as our answer. Correct intent, priority, sentiment, language, and product classifications when necessary, and suppress automated responses when they would be inappropriate, including security, legal, or previously escalated matters.<br>
AI output is a starting point. You remain accountable for the accuracy of the response and for confirming that the customer’s issue has been resolved.</li>
<li><strong>Diagnose issues across our product portfolio</strong><br>
Support roommaster Cloud, roommaster Anywhere, our browser-based PMS, Booking Engine and Channel Manager, roommaster Payments, Caretaker/Eventory and many more.<br>
Identifying the correct product, environment, database region, and affected workflow is often the first step in the diagnostic process.</li>
<li><strong>Troubleshoot integrations</strong><br>
Investigate issues involving data moving between connected systems, such as:<br>
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<li>Availability not reaching an online travel agency</li>
<li>Reservations not arriving in the PMS</li>
<li>Rates or restrictions not updating</li>
<li>Transactions missing from reports</li>
<li>Third-party systems returning incomplete or unexpected data</li>
</ul>
Use logs, audit trails, request and response data, and the behavior of both systems to determine where the handoff failed.</li>
<li><strong>Support card payments and terminals</strong><br>
Assist with payment-terminal setup and connectivity, batch and settlement questions, refund, duplicate charges, tokenization, and processor-side issues. Understand what can be addressed within roommaster and when the issue must be escalated to another internal team.</li>
<li><strong>Support distribution and OTA connectivity</strong><br>
Troubleshoot room and rate mapping, availability and restriction updates, and connections with platforms such as Booking.com, Expedia, Agoda, and Airbnb.<br>
Recognize the operational impact of distribution issues. For example, a stalled availability update that could cause a hotel to oversell rooms requires a different response than a routine mapping question.</li>
<li><strong>Maintain accurate support records</strong><br>
Ensure each ticket contains the correct:<br>
<ul>
<li>Ticket form and classification</li>
<li>Customer organization and contact</li>
<li>Product and product-automation fields</li>
<li>Priority and severity</li>
<li>Problem-versus-question classification</li>
<li>Troubleshooting notes and supporting evidence</li>
</ul>
Contacts must be associated with the correct organization, and all required information must be completed before a ticket is resolved.</li>
<li><strong>Reduce repeat contact</strong><br>
When the same question or issue appears repeatedly, help turn the solution into a reusable macro, internal procedure, Help Center article, training opportunity, or product improvement request. Helping customers find answers more easily and preventing repeat issues are core parts of the role.</li>
<li><strong>Participate in our global support schedule</strong><br>
Our customers operate across North America, EMEA, and APAC. Support follows a global, follow-the-sun model, and this role participates in a shift rotation that includes weekend coverage.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>At least one year of experience in technical support, application support, software support, or a comparable customer-facing technical role</li>
<li>A structured diagnostic approach: reproduce the issue, isolate variables, form and test a hypothesis, and escalate with evidence</li>
<li>Ability to distinguish among a product question, data issue, configuration problem, permissions issue, integration failure, and software defect</li>
<li>Comfort using browser developer tools, including reviewing console errors and inspecting failed network requests</li>
<li>Working knowledge of APIs and integrations, including HTTP status codes, request and response payloads, and webhooks</li>
<li>Ability to reconstruct events using logs, audit trails, transaction histories, and customer conversations</li>
<li>Strong written English and the ability to produce clear, accurate responses suitable for customers, hotel management, processors, vendors, and other stakeholders</li>
<li>Clear and confident spoken English, including the ability to lead a live call with a customer experiencing a stressful operational issue</li>
<li>Ability to manage and prioritize your workload without needing to be given a daily task list</li>
<li>Strong ownership and follow-through, including confirming that the customer’s issue has been resolved</li>
<li>Availability to participate in a shift rotation covering a 24/7 support structure</li>
</ul>
<h4>Beneficial Experience</h4>
<ul>
<li>Hotel front-desk, reservations, accounting, or back-office experience</li>
<li>Experience with card payments or payment terminals, including Adyen, or another hotel or retail payment provider</li>
<li>Experience with channel managers, booking engines, or OTA extranets</li>
<li>Experience with Zendesk or a comparable ticketing platform</li>
<li>SQL knowledge or experience building reports from a relational database</li>
<li>Basic networking knowledge</li>
<li>Ability to use AI-assisted tools effectively while critically evaluating their output for accuracy, relevance, tone, security, and appropriateness</li>
<li>Experience supporting SaaS products or connected software platforms</li>
</ul>
<p>Hotel experience is valuable, but it is not required. We can teach hospitality operations to someone who already has strong technical troubleshooting and customer communication skills.</p>
<h4>What We Will Teach You</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>How a hotel operates</strong><br>
You will learn the daily hotel cycle, from reservations and arrivals through check-in, folio management, and night audit. You will also learn hospitality terminology such as rate plans, availability and restrictions, no-shows, walk-ins, room moves, and overbooking.<br>
Understanding hotel operations is essential to determining the true urgency and impact of an issue.</li>
<li><strong>Why certain issues are emergencies</strong><br>
A stalled availability update is not simply a data-sync problem—it may place a hotel at immediate risk of selling rooms it does not have.<br>
You will learn which issues create operational or financial risk, how quickly that risk develops, and how to respond appropriately.</li>
<li><strong>Our products and environments</strong><br>
You will learn how properties are configured across our products, regions, integrations, and database environments, as well as how to identify the systems involved in a reported issue.</li>
<li><strong>Payments from end to end</strong><br>
You will learn how payment terminals, tokenization, authorization, batching, settlement, refunds, and payment processors interact—and, importantly, what data and processes support must never access or modify.</li>
<li><strong>Distribution and connectivity</strong><br>
You will learn how room and rate mapping works, how availability and restriction updates move between systems, and how major OTA extranets behave.</li>
<li><strong>Escalation and incident management</strong><br>
You will learn our escalation process, severity criteria, duplicate-ticket linking, documentation requirements, and communication expectations during active incidents.</li>
</ul>
<h4>How the Team Works</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Our workload follows hotel operations</strong><br>
Support volume is heaviest on weekdays and typically peaks on Mondays as issues from the weekend are reported or followed up. A typical weekday generates approximately 105 support tickets, while a weekend day generally generates 38–40. These tickets are shared across the team.</li>
<li><strong>AI assists the team</strong><br>
AI helps classify, route, and prioritize tickets and can draft suggested responses. Support specialists remain responsible for validating its output, applying judgment, and ensuring that the customer receives an accurate and complete resolution.</li>
<li><strong>We work as one support team</strong><br>
The team shares responsibility for the queue and overall customer experience. Collaboration is expected: team members help one another investigate issues, share product knowledge, and move difficult tickets toward resolution.<br>
Success is not measured by individual ticket volume alone.</li>
<li><strong>Performance is balanced</strong><br>
Performance is evaluated across several areas, including:<br>
<ul>
<li>Resolution quality and accuracy</li>
<li>Responsiveness</li>
<li>Customer satisfaction</li>
<li>Ticket ownership and follow-through</li>
<li>Documentation and ticket hygiene</li>
<li>Appropriate prioritization and escalation</li>
<li>Contribution to the performance and knowledge of the wider team</li>
</ul>
Ticket volume is considered in context and does not, by itself, determine performance.</li>
</ul>
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Result of Service<br>• 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>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 Goals . 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 GDC 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>A Master's 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. Previous experience in policy development 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 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>
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<span>Aspire Software is looking for an Junior Quality Assurance Analyst to join our team in Lebanon.<br> Here is a little window into our company: Aspire Software operates and manages wholly owned software companies, providing mission-critical solutions across multiple verticals.<br> By implementing industry best practices, Aspire delivers a time sensitive integration process, and the operation of a decentralized model has allowed it to become a hub for creating rapid growth by reinvesting in its portfolio.<br> About the Role The Implementation QA Representative is a dedicated quality assurance resource focused specifically on client implementation projects.<br> This role is responsible for validating all customer implementations of the Alessa platform before they are released for client User Acceptance Testing (UAT), with the goal of improving implementation quality and reducing issues identified during UAT.<br> Key Responsibilities Validate all customer implementations for functional accuracy and completeness prior to release for client UAT.<br> Develop and maintain test plans, test cases, and QA checklists specific to implementation projects.<br> Execute functional, regression, and configuration testing against client requirements and solution design documents.<br> Identify, document, and track defects and configuration issues through to resolution.<br> Partner with Implementation Specialists, Product, and Engineering to confirm fixes and revalidate builds.<br> Analyze recurring UAT issues and feed findings back into implementation processes to reduce future defects.<br> Maintain QA documentation, testing evidence, and sign-off records for each implementation project.<br> Support continuous improvement of implementation quality standards, tooling, and testing methodology Experience in software quality assurance or testing, ideally within a SaaS or enterprise software environment Strong understanding of QA methodologies: test planning, test case design, functional and regression testing Ability to read and validate against business/functional requirements and solution design documents Detail-oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving skills Familiarity with defect/issue tracking tools (e.<br>g., Jira, Azure DevOps) Basic SQL skills for data validation an asset Understanding of AML/KYC, financial services, or compliance software is an asset Strong written and verbal communication skills for cross-functional collaboration Working Relationships Works closely with the Implementation/Professional Services team as the final quality checkpoint before implementations move to client UAT, and collaborates with Product and Engineering to resolve issues identified during testing.<br></span> </div>
Consultancy on “Development of a Regional Framework for Post-Quantum Cryptography in the Arab Region”
Information Technology
<h2 class="h5">Job description</h2>
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Result of Service<br>The incumbent will be responsible for: • The final Regional PQC Framework report, in Arabic or English, at least 30 pages; • A 2 to 4-page executive summary of the framework; • A PowerPoint presentation on the framework. The completed parts should be edited and saved in MS-Word (*.docx file) or an alternate compatible format. Note that 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 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. Their contents cannot and must not be presented, discussed or published without the express authorization of ESCWA. The consultant shall keep in mind that 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, 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 permission.<br> Work Location<br>Remote<br> Expected duration<br>4 Months<br> Duties and Responsibilities<br>I. Background Digital transformation is a major focus of national development plans in many Arab countries․ Providing digital services such as e-government‚ digital identification‚ e-payment and online banking‚ e-commerce‚ and other digital infrastructure services‚ including water‚ electricity‚ and communications services‚ relies on encryption to foster public trust․ Advances in quantum computing research and technology pose a risk to these services because a person with access to a sufficiently powerful quantum computer could access many common forms of encrypted communications․ Although there are no commercial quantum computers‚ current and future threats include harvesting encrypted data today for future decryption by quantum computers‚ “harvest now‚ decrypt later․” Government and other information that is stored for 10 years or more is already vulnerable․ Implementing alternative‚ or post-quantum‚ cryptographic systems is difficult and costly for governments and other organizations that use supply chains and other legacy technologies․ International experience shows that implementing PQC can take many years and requires political commitment and other support‚ such as legal authorities and funding for trained staff․ Failure to plan for PQC implementation could cost governments and others business opportunities and cause disruptions to essential services․ PQC research efforts around the world have advanced to policymaking efforts․ The first PQC standards were published in August 2024 by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)․ Other international standards bodies are adopting PQC standards for Internet and other commercial uses․ Deadlines for adoption of PQC standards have been set by governments around the world․ • United States: Proposed federal standards would eliminate or substantially reduce the use of quantum-vulnerable encryption by 2030 and eliminate all such use by 2035‚ with an earlier cutoff for national security applications of encryption․ • EU: The Coordinated Roadmap for Implementation (June 2025) provides national action plans for EU member states to start implementing protections for high-risk systems by the end of 2026 and finish implementation by 2030․ Implementation by 2035 is encouraged but not mandatory․ • Other countries‚ including the United Kingdom‚ Canada‚ Australia‚ Singapore‚ Japan‚ the Republic of Korea‚ and others‚ have produced national migration strategies․ The G7 and other groups representing the financial sector have promoted coordination in migration efforts․ These timeframes will impact other trading partners and financial and technology firms that do business with Arab countries․ Arab States are at different stages of readiness․ Some Arab States have begun to act․ • UAE: In November 2025‚ the government of the UAE approved a National Encryption Policy requiring government entities to prepare approved PQC transition plans․ Implementation of the policy is overseen by the UAE Cybersecurity Council and supported by a National Post-Quantum Migration Program․ • KSA: The National Cybersecurity Authority of the KSA has revised national cryptographic rules‚ and government services are piloting quantum-resistant technologies․ • Other Gulf Cooperation Council nations: Bahrain and Qatar‚ have started working with other groups on PQC pilot projects․ Most other Arab States have not yet begun to develop plans to transition to PQC․ Challenges to transitioning include a shortage of skilled and other personnel‚ use of older and imported technologies‚ and limited finances․ There is no regional mechanism to help coordinate policy efforts among Arab States transitioning to PQC․ If countries in the region adopt new cybersecurity measures at different speeds and in different ways‚ current cybersecurity systems may not be compatible or secure․ A regional approach can help Arab States coordinate cybersecurity policies and implementation plans‚ share research and testing resources‚ provide support to countries with less capacity‚ and gain other benefits in negotiations with technology suppliers․ Other advantages of a regional approach to cybersecurity include preventing harm to other regional digital and economic development goals from cybersecurity threats․ ESCWA will hire a consultant to conduct a survey of international and regional practices and assess PQC readiness in the region and its Member States and develop a framework for institutional PQC in Arab countries․ II. Duties and responsibilities The consultant will be responsible for the following: - Inception: o Hold a kick-off meeting with ESCWA to confirm scope, stakeholders, methodology, timeline and communication arrangements. o Map stakeholders in each Member State and at regional level: national cybersecurity authorities and CERTs, ICT and digital-government ministries, central banks and financial regulators, telecom regulators, national certification authorities and PKI operators, standards bodies, critical-infrastructure operators (energy, water, transport), academia and industry; and regional bodies such as the League of Arab States, the Arab ICT Organization (AICTO), the Regional Cybersecurity Centre (ITU-ARCC). o Prepare an inception report with a detailed workplan, methodology, readiness assessment tools and consultation plan. - Review of international and regional best practices o Review the PQC standards landscape and its maturity (such as Germany's BSI, France's ANSSI, Korea's KpqC, China's national programme) and implications for interoperability in a region that trades with all of them. o Analyze existing PQC strategies and roadmaps, (such as US, EU, UK). o Review existing PQC initiatives in the Arab region (such as UAE, KSA, Egypt). o Identify lessons learned, success factors and pitfalls relevant to Arab States at differing levels of cybersecurity maturity, including fragile and resource-constrained contexts. - Assessment of regional readiness o Develop a PQC readiness assessment framework, aligned where possible with the ITU Global Cybersecurity Index, covering Policy, strategy and legal/regulatory basis, Governance, Awareness and leadership commitment., Technical infrastructure, Human capacity) o Collect data, and desk review of national documents, and interviews or focus groups with key stakeholders, covering priority sectors (such as government, telecommunications) o Analyze gaps, barriers and risks - Drafting the Regional PQC Framework o The framework would include components such as Vision, principles, targets, Governance, phased regional roadmap. o Prepare a model national PQC roadmap template that Member States can adapt. - Consultation, validation and finalization o Present draft findings and the draft framework to Member States and stakeholders and organize (in person or virtually) a regional validation workshop. o Incorporate comments into a revised framework, with comments’ matrix. o Prepare an executive summary and a presentation suitable for senior officials or ministerial endorsement. ESCWA promotes gender equality, disability inclusion, and integration of youth through its publications and therefore the consultant should pay attention, with the help of ESCWA staff, to the inclusion of gender, disability, and integration of the youth dimension throughout the research work to ensure that it gives equal attention to the needs of both men and women, and girls and boys. Writing should use gender-sensitive and inclusive language.<br> Qualifications/special skills<br>A Master’s degree in ICT, computer science, information technology, computer engineering, cybersecurity, public policy 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. A minimum of 10 years of professional experience including 5 years in research on, or the formulation of, digital, cybersecurity or development policies is required Excellent communication and writing skills are required. . Demonstrated experience in cryptography, cybersecurity policy or post-quantum migration planning is required; experience working with governments in the Arab region 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 Arabic and English is required; Knowledge of French is desirable. 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>Recruitment for this position is on a local basis. The incumbent is required to have the legal right to live and work in the specified working location.<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>
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<p><strong>The Position:</strong></p><br><p><span><strong> Scope of work:</strong></span></p><br><p><span> As the lead UN agency mandated to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe, and every young person’s potential is fulfilled, UNFPA recognizes that strengthening the regulatory environment for midwives is essential to delivering high-quality, autonomous Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Adolescent Health (SRMNAH) services. Guided by UNFPA’s commitment to bodily autonomy and gender equality, global evidence shows that well-regulated, autonomous midwives—integrated into strong health systems—can safely meet up to 90% of essential sexual and reproductive healthcare needs and drive progress toward zero preventable maternal deaths. </span></p><br><p><span>In Lebanon, however, the legal governance of midwifery relies on outdated statutory decrees and restrictive policies—such as Decree 2154 of 1979 and Law 249 of 2014 establishing the Order of Midwives—which fail to align with modern clinical capabilities, expanded scopes of practice, or contemporary national healthcare priorities. Overlapping institutional jurisdictions and legal ambiguities continue to restrict clinical autonomy across primary, secondary, and community care levels. Fostering strong, profession-led ownership among Lebanese midwives and navigating these systemic barriers are critical to drafting modernized statutory laws and an expanded scope of practice. Evaluating existing legislative texts against the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) Global Standards for Midwifery Regulation, World Health Organization (WHO) benchmarks, and local realities will establish a clear advocacy roadmap to achieve official parliamentary approval and governmental enforcement. </span></p><br><p><span>The aim of this consultancy is to enhance the quality, safety, clinical autonomy, and legal governance of midwifery practice in Lebanon by reviewing the existing regulatory and legislative frameworks, developing evidence-based statutory recommendations and a modern scope of practice, and creating a targeted advocacy roadmap to support official governmental adoption and policy implementation. Key activities within this consultancy include:</span></p><br><ul> <li><span>Conducting a comprehensive review and comparative gap analysis of existing Lebanese laws, decrees, and ministerial decisions governing midwifery against the ICM Global Standards for Midwifery Regulation, WHO guidelines, national health strategies, and current field practice. </span></li> <li><span>Drafting an updated and modern Scope of Practice for Lebanese midwives that details independent clinical boundaries, prescriptive authority (where applicable), referral pathways, and interprofessional collaboration standards. </span></li> <li><span>Formulating actionable recommendations coupled with key entities that will support updating outdated laws, administrative decrees, and licensing/re-licensing protocols under the Ministry of Public Health and the Order of Midwives in Lebanon.</span></li> <li><span>Designing an actionable, evidence-based Advocacy Roadmap targeting key policy-makers, parliamentarians, professional syndicates, and civil society to drive governmental endorsement and legal enactment.</span></li></ul><p><span>The consultant will work closely with UNFPA, MOPH and LOM to carry out the following tasks:</span></p><br><p><span><u>Inception phase (5 days)</u></span></p><br><ul> <li><span>Inception meeting to clarify terms of consultancy </span></li> <li><span>In coordination with MOPH and LOM, establish an advisory committee to guide and support the consultancy </span></li> <li><span>Delivery of brief 2-3 pages inception report detailing the consultant’s understanding of the required tasks and the proposed approach to work including required tools, proposed stakeholders, and consultation process, and detailed timeline for product delivery.</span></li></ul><p><span><u>Desk Review phase (5 days)</u></span></p><br><ul> <li><span>Desk and literature review covering desk review of current Lebanese legislation (decrees, professional regulations), ICM Regulation Standards, WHO policy briefs, and regional legal reform precedents.</span></li> <li><span>Consultations phase (10 days)</span></li> <li><span>Develop data collection tools.</span></li> <li><span>Execute comparative mapping of existing texts against international standards for autonomy, licensing, registration, and disciplinary oversight.</span></li> <li><span>Conduct Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) and focus groups with legal experts, parliamentarians/parliamentary health committee members, MoPH officials, order of midwives, order of nurses, academia, UN agencies, syndicate of hospitals, order of physicians, Lebanese Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, obstetricians, midwives and other key actors.</span></li> <li><span>Synthesize findings into a comprehensive report.</span></li></ul><p><span><u>Formulation of Revised Text & Scope of Practice (6 days)</u></span></p><br><ul> <li><span>Draft updated regulatory text amendments and legislative proposals.</span></li> <li><span>Formulate the modern, autonomous Midwifery Scope of Practice document.</span></li> <li><span>Develop the strategic Advocacy Roadmap detailing key policy levers, risks, communication messages, and legislative pathways.</span></li> <li><span>National Consensus & Finalization (4 days)</span></li> <li><span>Organize and facilitate a policy validation roundtable with key government officials, legal advisors, professional syndicates, and strategic partners.</span></li> <li><span>Integrate feedback from stakeholders to finalize the legal text proposals, Scope of Practice, and Advocacy Roadmap.</span></li> <li><span>Develop and submit report of the consultancy </span></li></ul><p><span><strong>Duration and working schedule:</strong></span></p><br><p><span>The consultancy entails 30 working days extending from October 19th, 2026 till December 28th, 2026.</span></p><br><p><span><strong>Place where services are to be delivered:</strong></span></p><br><p><span>Lebanon</span></p><br><p><span><strong>Delivery dates and how work will be delivered (e.g. electronic, hard copy etc.):</strong></span></p><br><p><span>Delivery Date: December 28, 2026. All deliverables will be submitted electronically</span></p><br> <span>Milestone</span> <span>Deliverables</span> <span>Timeline</span> <span>Payment</span> <br> <p><span>Inception meeting</span></p><br> <p><span>Desk review </span></p><br> <p><span>Consultation of key actors</span></p><br> <p><span>Progress report of consultancy</span></p><br> <p><span> Legal & Regulatory Assessment Report.</span></p><br> <p><span>November 15th, 2026</span></p><br> <p><span>40% </span></p><br> <br> <p><span>Draft Legislative Proposals & Scope of Practice</span></p><br> <p><span>Conduct round table</span></p><br> <p><span>finalize the legal text proposals, Scope of Practice, and Advocacy Roadmap.</span></p><br> <p><span>Final legal text proposals, Scope of Practice, and Advocacy Roadmap.</span></p><br> <p><span>Final consultancy report (English) submitted.</span></p><br> <span>December 28th, 2026</span> <span>60%</span> <br> <p><span><strong>Supervisory arrangements: </strong></span></p><br><p><span>The consultant will closely work with the SRH programme specialist and Lebanese Order of Midwives</span></p><br><p><span><strong>Expected travel: </strong></span></p><br><p><span>N/A</span></p><br><p><span><strong>Required expertise, qualifications and competencies, including language requirements: </strong></span></p><br><p><span>The consultancy will be led by an SRHR Policy & Regulatory Expert. If needed, the consultant can get support from legal and policy specialists, midwives’ experts and public health officers to bridge international technical standards with Lebanese statutory frameworks.</span></p><br><p><span><u>Main qualifications of the consultant </u></span></p><br><ul> <li><span>Advanced university degree (Master's or Ph.D.) in Law, Public Policy, Public Health, Midwifery, or related SRHR fields.</span></li> <li><span>Minimum of 15–20 years of progressive experience in health systems regulation, professional governance, legal framework reviews, or SRMNAH policy.</span></li> <li><span>Knowledge of ICM Global Standards for Midwifery Regulation and WHO healthcare governance frameworks.</span></li> <li><span>Proven track record leading high-level policy advocacy and legal reform initiatives in healthcare within Lebanon or the MENA region.</span></li> <li><span>Excellent Arabic and English spoken and written skills</span></li> <li><span>Demonstrated ability to deliver quality results with strict deadlines </span></li></ul><p><span><strong>Inputs / services to be provided by UNFPA or implementing partner (e.g support services, office space, equipment), if applicable:</strong></span></p><br><p><span><u>Support to be provided by UNFPA</u></span></p><br><ul> <li><span>Clarify consultancy TORs and expectations</span></li> <li><span>Facilitate organization of meetings and interviews with stakeholders</span></li> <li><span>Provide input, advice and information when and as needed</span></li> <li><span>Review the draft documents and reports</span></li> <li><span>Review final product of consultancy</span><br> </li></ul><p><strong>How you can make a difference:</strong></p><br><p>UNFPA is the lead United Nations agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is intended, every childbirth is safe, and every young person's potential is fulfilled. The UNFPA Strategic Plan for 2026-2029 articulates the organization’s response to a complex global environment, providing a roadmap for resilience and renewal. It is designed to accelerate the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. This mandate is pursued through a focus on four interconnected outcomes: ending the unmet need for family planning; ending preventable maternal deaths; ending gender-based violence and harmful practices; and adapting to demographic change through evidence and rights-based policies.</p><br><p>In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff who embody these international norms and standards and will defend them courageously and with full conviction.</p><br><p>UNFPA is seeking candidates who transform, inspire, and deliver high-impact sustained results, ensuring effective external relations, communications, partnership-building and resource mobilization in a rapidly changing development and funding landscape. We need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them, and who commit to delivering excellence in programme results</p><br><p><br><strong>Compensation and Benefits:</strong></p><br><p><span>The consultant will be paid a lumpsum ranging between </span><span>15,000 and 20,000 USD </span><span>based on the final agreement with UNFPA</span></p><br><p><strong>UNFPA Work Environment:</strong></p><br><p>UNFPA provides a work environment that reflects the values of gender equality, diversity, integrity and healthy work-life balance. We are committed to ensuring gender parity in the organization and therefore encourage women to apply. Individuals from the LGBTQIA+ community, minority ethnic groups, indigenous populations, persons with disabilities, and other underrepresented groups are highly encouraged to apply. Reasonable accommodation may be provided to applicants with disabilities upon request, to support their participation in the recruitment process. UNFPA promotes equal opportunities in terms of appointment, training, compensation and selection for all regardless of personal characteristics and dimensions of diversity. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is at the heart of UNFPA's workforce - click here to learn more.</p><br><p><strong>Disclaimer:</strong></p><br><p>Selection and appointment may be subject to background and reference checks, medical clearance, visa issuance and other administrative requirements. </p><br><p>UNFPA does not charge any application, processing, training, interviewing, testing or other fee in connection with the application or recruitment process and does not concern itself with information on applicants' bank accounts. </p><br><p>Applicants for positions in the international Professional and higher categories, who hold permanent resident status in a country other than their country of nationality, may be required to renounce such status upon their appointment.</p><br><p><span><strong>Application process and deadline </strong></span></p><br><p><span>Interested candidates may apply online by providing: </span></p><br><ul> <li><span>Most updated CV</span></li> <li><span>Updated P11 (click here)</span></li> <li><span>Cover letter mentioning the relevance of past/current experience with the requirements of the consultancy</span></li> <li><span>Mention in the email subject the post title and number</span></li></ul><p><span>The above documents must be sent by no later than <strong>Monday, October 12, 2026</strong></span><br><span>Candidates who fail to submit the required documents above will not be considered for review. UNFPA Lebanon will only be responsible for responding to those applicants submitting the required documents above and for whom there is further interest. ONLY National Individual consultants, not companies, are eligible to apply.</span><br><span>Candidates assessed by the panel and considered to be eligible for the appointment but who are not selected for this vacant post may be offered an assignment to another position at the same/lower grade, provided that they meet the minimum qualifications required.</span></p><br><br> </div>
Role Overview
<br>Build production AI systems for clients. You'll design and ship agentic workflows on Claude and AWS Bedrock AgentCore, retrieval systems backed by Bedrock Knowledge Bases, and MCP-based automations that connect directly into client tool stacks (Notion, Linear, HubSpot, AWS, Google Workspace, and more). This is a hands-on build role. You will write code, deploy infrastructure, and sit in client rooms explaining why the system behaves the way it does.
<br>Tasks & Responsibilities
<br>Design and build applied AI systems on Claude and AWS Bedrock AgentCore: RAG pipelines backed by Bedrock Knowledge Bases, agentic workflows, and multi-tool orchestration via MCP.
<br>Own delivery of AI components end-to-end: architecture, implementation, evaluation, and post-launch monitoring.
<br>Integrate Claude-based agents with client infrastructure and business tools via MCP servers (HubSpot, Notion, Linear, Google Workspace).
<br>Translate ambiguous client problems into scoped technical builds with clear success criteria and numbers attached.
<br>Document architecture and decisions in the client's Notion record so infra details never live only in someone's head.
<br>Work alongside Pre-Sales Engineers during scoping calls to validate technical feasibility before commitments are made.
<br>Select and tune the right model, retrieval strategy, and Knowledge Base configuration per use case.
<br>Build and maintain eval suites (offline test sets, regression checks, LLM-as-judge scoring) that catch quality drift before a client does.
<br>Design agentic control flow: tool-selection logic, retry/fallback paths, and guardrails against runaway loops or unsafe tool calls.
<br>Instrument production systems with logging, tracing, and cost/latency dashboards to debug a bad output from a client.
<br>Write modular infrastructure as code (Terraform) for AI workloads on AWS.
<br>Conduct architecture reviews on other engineers' AI builds and flag failure modes before they ship.
<br>Competencies
<br>Can explain to a client, in plain language, why an agent made the tool call it made
<br>Comfortable debugging a production LLM failure under time pressure, not just in a notebook
<br>Can wire an MCP server into an agent and debug why a tool call didn't fire
<br>Education, Experience & Language
<br>Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
<br>Previous experience building and shipping production ML/AI systems
<br>Fluent in English and Arabic
<br>Tools & Certifications
<br>Strong Python engineering; comfort with AWS
<br>Practical experience with LLM application patterns: RAG, agentic tool-use via MCP, prompt engineering, evaluation design
<br>Hands-on experience with AWS Bedrock AgentCore and Bedrock Knowledge Bases
<br>Nice to have: AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate, AWS Certified Generative AI Developer – Professional, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional, AWS Certified Developer – Associate, AWS Certified Security – Specialty (relevant given our compliance posture)
<br>To Apply visit: https://digicosolutions.bamboohr.com/careers/33
<p>The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) is implementing a project on Improved mapping and monitoring of solar energy access for enhanced climate policy action and socio-economic resilience in ESCWA member States. The project aims to enhance the capacities of government officials and policymakers working in statistics, energy, and GIS-active research centres on using digital and geospatial tools to map and monitor solar energy data, review data snapshots and baselines, and generate KPIs to strengthen data-driven analysis and improve evidence-based policymaking for climate action and socio-economic resilience.</p><p>The GIS and renewable energy data analyst would review the existing data sets on detected solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in Djibouti, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen; apply statistical analysis methods to improve the accuracy of the data sets; and add socio-economic GIS layers to the existing data sets to strengthen data-driven analysis and improve evidence-based policymaking for climate action and socio-economic resilience.</p><p>Under the overall supervision of the Leader of the Climate Change and Natural Resources Sustainability Cluster, the analyst will report directly to the Project Coordinator and be responsible for the following overall duties linked to the outcomes and outputs of the project document, namely:</p><ul><li>Review and assess the existing geospatial datasets of detected solar PV systems in Djibouti, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen to identify inconsistencies, data gaps, duplicates, quality issues, and potential sources of uncertainty.</li><li>Conduct a comprehensive review of the existing solar PV geospatial datasets, including an assessment of data quality, completeness, spatial accuracy, attribute consistency, metadata availability, and reliability.</li><li>Prepare a comprehensive final technical report and presentation summarizing the methodology applied, improvements made to the datasets, analytical findings, limitations, and recommendations for future updates.</li></ul><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><p>A master's degree in statistics, mathematics, GIS or related field is required. A first-level university degree with two additional years of relevant work experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree. All candidates must submit a copy of the required educational degree. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed. A minimum of five years of experience working on data analytics related to energy or renewable energy is required. Demonstrated professional experience working on energy datasets is required. 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 English. Knowledge of Arabic is desirable.</p>
Job Description: Project Architect – Liberia
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<br>Contract: Three months, fixed-term
<br>Location: Liberia; candidates currently based in Liberia are preferred
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<br>[1] is seeking an experienced and practical Project Architect to support a three-month construction and design assignment in Liberia. The role will focus on design development, construction documentation, shop drawings, as-built drawings, site coordination, and project close-out.
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<br>The successful candidate will work primarily from the project site or designated project office in Liberia, with travel within Liberia if required. Remuneration will be agreed based on experience. Applicants should state their expected monthly rate or total fee, availability, current location, and ability to work in Liberia.
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<br>Project Architect – Liberia | Three-Month Contract
Job Description: Project Architect – Liberia
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<br>Contract: Three months, fixed-term
<br>Location: Liberia; candidates currently based in Liberia are preferred
<br>Reports to: Project Manager / Head of Design
<br>Project: [Insert project name and location]
<br>Start date: [Insert date]
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<br>Role overview
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<br>[1] is seeking an experienced and practical Project Architect to support a three-month construction and design assignment in Liberia. The role will focus on design development, construction documentation, shop drawings, as-built drawings, site coordination, and project close-out.
<br>The preferred candidate will already be in Liberia and available to start at short notice. Candidates outside Liberia may be considered if they can mobilize immediately and remain available for the full contract.
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<br>Develop and update architectural plans, elevations, sections, details, schedules, and construction drawings.
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<br>Review the project brief, existing drawings, specifications, site conditions, and design changes.
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<br>Prepare, coordinate, and review architectural shop drawings for doors, windows, ceilings, partitions, joinery, finishes, stairs, façades, and related works.
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<br>Coordinate architectural drawings with structural, civil, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and specialist works.
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<br>Verify site conditions and measurements, record construction changes, and prepare accurate progressive and final as-built drawings.
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<br>Attend site inspections and coordination meetings and respond to technical queries.
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<br>Maintain drawing registers, revision logs, technical queries, site notes, and the final handover package.
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<br>Support the Project Manager, client, consultant, contractor, subcontractors, and suppliers in resolving design and construction issues.
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<br>Bachelor’s degree in Architecture or an equivalent recognized qualification.
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<br>Minimum five years of relevant architectural experience, preferably on building, commercial, institutional, residential, hospitality, or mixed-use projects.
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<br>Demonstrated experience with design development, construction drawings, shop drawings, as-built documentation, and active construction sites.
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<br>Strong AutoCAD skills. Revit, BIM coordination, SketchUp, or similar software is an advantage.
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<br>Good understanding of construction materials, finishes, detailing, site measurement, and document control.
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<br>Ability to work independently, coordinate multiple disciplines, communicate clearly, and deliver accurate work under tight deadlines.
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<br>Professional registration or eligibility for registration is preferred, subject to applicable Liberian and project requirements.
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<br>The successful candidate will work primarily from the project site or designated project office in Liberia, with travel within Liberia if required. Remuneration will be agreed based on experience. Applicants should state their expected monthly rate or total fee, availability, current location, and ability to work in Liberia.
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<br>Please submit a CV, short cover letter, portfolio or relevant work samples, qualifications, and two professional references to [insert email address] by [insert closing date]. Use the subject line: Application – Project Architect, Liberia.
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<br>Short advertisement
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<br>Project Architect – Liberia | Three-Month Contract
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<p><b>About Us</b></p><br><br><p><span><span>We are a global climate technologies company engineered for sustainability. We create sustainable and efficient residential, </span><span>commercial</span><span> and industrial spaces through HVACR technologies. We protect <span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>temperature-sensitive</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> goods throughout the cold chain. And we bring comfort to people globally. Best-in-class engineering, design and manufacturing combined with category-leading brands in compression, controls, </span><span>software</span><span> and monitoring solutions result in next-generation climate technology that is built for the needs of the world ahead. </span></span></p><br><br><p><span><span>Whether you are a professional looking for a career change, an undergraduate student exploring your first opportunity, or recent graduate with an advanced degree, we have opportunities that will allow you to innovate, be challenged and make an impact. Join our team and start your journey today!</span></span></p><br><br>Job Description<br><br><p><b>Job Title:</b> Assembler - DAY SHIFT </p><br><p><b>Salary Grade:</b> <b>1 </b></p><br><p><b>DEPT: </b>HVACR AMER.US.Lebanon Assembly</p><br><p><b>SUMMARY</b></p><br><p>Manual duties related to placing parts on an assembly line process, checking defined machine specifications on the assembly line, or performing other related functions. </p><br><p><b>ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES </b>include the following. Other duties may be assigned.</p><br><ul><li><p>Maintains safe and clean working environment, complying with safety rules</p><br></li><li><p>Execute job tasks as defined in work instructions posted in assigned work area (OMS document)</p><br></li><li><p>Flexibility to perform Non-Standard Work as directed by floor leader</p><br></li><li><p>Placement of component parts on assembly line as required by OMS (Operations Method Sheet)</p><br></li><li><p>Ability to achieve training milestones and complete training protocols</p><br></li><li><p>Acquire knowledge and perform work at multiple work stations or work areas assigned</p><br></li></ul><p><b>QUALIFICATIONS </b></p><br><p>To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.</p><br><p><b>EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE</b></p><br><p>High school diploma or GED required, with previous manufacturing experience is required.</p><br><p><b>PHYSICAL DEMANDS </b></p><br><p>Ability to stand on hard surfaces for extended periods while performing functions of the job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; reach overhead with hands and arms; grasp; stoop; kneel; and/or crouch. Must meet job standards for visual ability, speaking, and hearing in a manufacturing environment. Employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 65 pounds. Environmental conditions include flashing lights on machines and Powered Industrial Vehicles, random noises such as horns and alarms.</p><br><p>The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.</p><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><p><b><span>Our Commitment to Our People</span></b></p><br><br><p><span><span>Across the globe, we are united by a singular Purpose: Sustainability is no small ambition. </span><span>That’s</span><span> why everything we do is geared toward a sustainable future—for our generation and all those to come. Through groundbreaking innovations, HVACR technology and cold chain solutions, we are reducing carbon emissions and improving energy efficiency in spaces of all sizes, from residential to commercial to industrial.</span></span></p><br><br><p><span><span>Our employees are our greatest strength. We believe that our culture of passion, openness, and collaboration empowers us to work toward the same goal - to make the world a better place. We invest in the end-to-end development of our people, beginning at onboarding and through senior leadership, so they can thrive personally and professionally.</span></span></p><br><br><p><span><span>Flexible and competitive benefits plans offer the right options to meet your individual/family needs: medical insurance plans, dental and vision coverage, 401(k) and more. We provide employees with flexible time off plans, including paid parental leave, vacation and holiday leave. </span></span></p><br><br><p><span><span>Together, we have the opportunity – and the power – to continue to revolutionize the technology behind air conditioning, </span><span>heating</span><span> and refrigeration, and cultivate a better future. Learn more about us and how you can join our team!</span></span></p><br><br><p><b>Our Commitment to Inclusion & Belonging</b></p><br><p>At Copeland, we cultivate a strong sense of inclusion and belonging where individuals of all backgrounds, and with diverse perspectives, are embraced and treated fairly to enable a stronger workforce. Our employee resource groups play an important role in culture and community building at Copeland.</p><br><br><p><b><span>Work Authorization</span></b></p><br><br><p><span><span>Copeland will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1 with OPT or CPT, H-1, H-2, L-1, B, J or TN, or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.</span></span></p><br><br><p><b><span>Equal Opportunity Employer</span></b></p><br><br><p><span><span>Copeland is an Equal <span><span><span><span><span>Opportunity/Affirmative</span></span></span></span></span> Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. We are committed to providing a workplace free of any discrimination or harassment.</span></span></p><br><br><p><span><span>If you have a disability and are having difficulty accessing or using this website to apply for a position, please contact: copeland.careers@copeland.com</span></span></p><br><br> </div>
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<span>About Trócaire Trócaire is an international NGO.<br> We work with local partners in the world’s most at-risk communities and with people in Ire-land to tackle the underlying causes of poverty and injustice and respond to the crises they create.<br> Together we bring about positive and lasting change for a just world.<br> Trócaire works in up to 20 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.<br> We work towards five goals: Promote Access to Justice; Achieve Climate & Environmental Justice; Ensure Women & Girls’ Protection, Voice & Influence; Save Lives and Protect Human Dignity and Mobilise the Public on the island of Ireland to achieve Global Justice.<br> Find out more about the organisation at www.<br>Trócaire.org Trócaire works through national and local partners in Lebanon and Syria delivering an integrated humanitarian & development programme that includes the provision of basic assistance, food security, livelihood, and protection assistance and strengthening social cohesion within conflict affected and displaced communities.<br> As a partnership agency, Trócaire works with a portfolio of national and local partner organisations to strengthen their capacities to deliver humanitarian assistance and implement development-oriented programmes in a way that ensures compliance with international standards.<br> What we can offer you: The job opportunity will be offered, initially, on a fixed term contract of one year and is based in Beirut, Lebanon (Hybrid Modality) Trócaire offers a competitive package of salary and benefits.<br> Closing Date: 12:00 PM (local Lebanon time) on 22 September 2026 1.<br> Background The Lebanon National Reference Group (NRG), formerly the Localisation Task Force (LTF), is Lebanon’s civil society-led platform under the Grand Bargain.<br> It was established through the sustained work of Live Love Lebanon and the Lebanon Humanitarian and Development NGOs Forum (LHDF) and has been formally recognised by the Grand Bargain Secretariat as Lebanon’s NRG.<br> The NRG provides a locally led platform for dialogue, learning, reform, and collective action on localisation.<br> It brings together local and national NGOs, international NGOs, UN agencies, donors, the Red Cross Movement, and, where relevant, public institutions and local authorities.<br> The NRG connects national priorities with Grand Bargain commitments and supports collective accountability for progress in Lebanon.<br> 2. Purpose of the Position The NRG Coordinator is responsible for the day-to-day management and coordination of the NRG work in Lebanon.<br> The coordinator supports the Core Group and Plenary, implements the annual action plan, facilitates and supports the organisation of CG and Plenary meetings maintains communication with members, follows up on decisions, and represents the NRG externally as requested, unless the Core Group decides otherwise.<br> The position requires strong coordination, facilitation, policy, advocacy, and relationship-management skills.<br> The coordinator is expected to preserve the NRGs locally led nature, ensure inclusive participation, and help translate localisation commitments into practical country-level actions.<br> 3. Key Responsibilities A.<br> Governance and Strategic Coordination Support the Core Group in developing and implementing the NRG annual action plan, including clear priorities, outputs, timelines, responsibilities, and indicators.<br> Coordinate implementation of Core Group decisions and follow up on agreed action points in a timely manner.<br> Prepare and circulate regular progress updates for the Core Group and Plenary.<br> Support the annual review and rollout of the NRG Terms of Reference and any governance documents.<br> Ensure that the roles of the Plenary, Core Group, Coordinator, and Host Organisation remain clear, active, and respected.<br> Support the facilitation of the Core Group elections, membership selection processes, Expressions of Interest, and other governance procedures as required.<br> Maintain a clear record of minutes of meetings, decisions, approvals, and follow-up actions.<br> B. Meetings, Facilitation and Member Engagement Plan, organise, and facilitate monthly Core Group meetings and at least two Plenary meetings each year.<br> Prepare agendas, background notes, presentations, and decision papers in consultation with the Core Group.<br> Circulate meeting documents in advance and prepare accurate minutes and action trackers.<br> Maintain regular communication with NRG members and ensure timely sharing of updates, opportunities, and relevant documents.<br> Support mapping and ensure voice and influence, hence, meaningful participation of smaller local organisations, women-led organisations, youth-led organisations, Organisations of Persons with Disabilities, refugee-led organisations, and community-based organisations.<br> Organise consultations, workshops, peer-learning sessions, and thematic discussions as required.<br> Ensure members are consulted before major external engagements, or policy positions are finalised.<br> C. Localisation Policy, Advocacy and Learning Track progress on localisation and Grand Bargain commitments in Lebanon, including local leadership, direct and quality funding, equitable partnerships, risk sharing, and accountability to affected people.<br> Coordinate the preparation of policy briefs, position papers, recommendations, evidence summaries, and priority messages.<br> Support the development of Lebanon’s contributions to Grand Bargain Annual Meetings and related global processes.<br> Facilitate dialogue between local actors, donors, UN agencies, INGOs, the Humanitarian Country Team, LHIF, public institutions, and local authorities.<br> Support evidence collection and analysis on localisation progress, barriers, and good practices.<br> Maintain links with other National Reference Groups and relevant Grand Bargain communities of practice.<br> Promote peer learning and document lessons that can inform national, regional, and global advocacy.<br> D. External Representation and Partnerships Act as the NRG’s default external representative, unless the Core Group assigns another representative for a specific engagement.<br> Represent the NRG in meetings with donors, UN agencies, INGOs, the Grand Bargain Secretariat, the Humanitarian Country Team, government representatives, municipalities, and other relevant stakeholders.<br> Prepare briefing notes, talking points, and key messages for external engagements.<br> Build and maintain professional relationships with key localisation and humanitarian stakeholders.<br> Ensure that external representation reflects agreed NRG positions and the diversity of member perspectives.<br> Report back to the Core Group and Plenary following external engagements.<br> E. Work Planning, Monitoring and Reporting Maintain a detailed annual workplan and update it regularly.<br> Develop simple monitoring tools to track activities, outputs, commitments, and results.<br> Prepare narrative reports, donor updates, and learning summaries as required.<br> Maintain organised records of activities, meetings, consultations, evidence products, and external engagements.<br> Identify delays, risks, and implementation gaps and propose practical corrective actions.<br> Support the Core Group in reviewing progress against the annual action plan.<br> F. Funding and Administrative Coordination Support the Core Group in identifying funding opportunities for the Coordinator position and NRG activities.<br> Contribute input and review of concept notes, proposals, budgets, donor reports, and resource-mobilisation efforts.<br> Coordinate closely with the Host Organisation on contracts, procurement, payments, logistics, and financial reporting.<br> Ensure that administrative and financial processes follow agreed procedures while protecting the Core Group’s decision-making independence.<br> Maintaining accurate records and tracking of NRG resources, budgets and activities as directed by the Core group.<br> Ensure that all costs and operational needs are planned in advance and communicated to the Core Group and Host Organisation.<br> G. Communication and Knowledge Management Maintain up-to-date membership and stakeholder contact lists.<br> Manage shared digital folders and ensure that documents are organised and accessible.<br> Prepare short updates, newsletters, and member communications as needed.<br> Coordinate the production and dissemination of NRG knowledge products.<br> Support the NRG’s public visibility in line with Core Group guidance.<br> Ensure that sensitive information is handled confidentially and shared only with authorised parties.<br> 4. Key Deliverables Annual NRG action plan and implementation tracker.<br> Monthly Core Group meeting package, minutes, and action tracker.<br> At least two Plenary meetings organised and documented each year.<br> Periodic updates on localisation progress and challenges in Lebanon.<br> Priority messages and recommendations ahead of Grand Bargain meetings.<br> Policy, advocacy, learning, and evidence products agreed in the annual action plan.<br> Regular stakeholder engagement and documented follow-up.<br> Timely narrative and donor reporting, where applicable.<br> Updated membership, stakeholder, and document-management systems.<br> 5. Reporting and Working Relationships The Coordinator reports functionally to the NRG Core Group and receives day-to-day administrative supervision from the Host Organisation.<br> The Coordinator works closely with the Core Group members, Plenary members, the Grand Bargain Secretariat, donors, UN agencies, INGOs, public institutions, local authorities, and other relevant partners.<br> The Core Group sets the strategic direction and approves the annual action plan.<br> The Host Organisation manages funds and administrative processes but does not direct NRG policy positions or Core Group decisions.<br> 6. Required Qualifications and Experience University degree in humanitarian affairs, development studies, public policy, international relations, political science, social sciences, management, or another relevant field.<br> At least five years of relevant professional experience in humanitarian, development, civil society, localisation, policy, advocacy, or NGO coordination.<br> Demonstrated experience coordinating multi-stakeholder platforms, networks, coalitions, working groups, or similar structures.<br> Good understanding of the humanitarian and development context in Lebanon.<br> Knowledge of localisation, the Grand Bargain, humanitarian coordination, local leadership, quality funding, and accountability to affected people.<br> Experience preparing policy briefs, advocacy messages, reports, presentations, and meeting materials.<br> Experience engaging with local NGOs, INGOs, UN agencies, donors, and government institutions.<br> Experience in project planning, monitoring, reporting, and basic budget follow-up.<br> Fluency in written and spoken Arabic and English.<br> French is an asset.<br> Strong command of Microsoft Office and common digital collaboration tools.<br> 7. Core Competencies Strategic thinking and sound judgement.<br> Strong facilitation and consensus-building skills.<br> Diplomacy and the ability to manage different interests respectfully.<br> Clear written and verbal communication.<br> Ability to work independently and deliver under short deadlines.<br> Strong organisation, follow-up, and attention to detail.<br> Commitment to inclusion, local leadership, accountability, and humanitarian principles.<br> Ability to handle sensitive information with confidentiality.<br> Ability to work in a politically sensitive and multi-stakeholder environment.<br> Flexibility, initiative, and a solution-focused approach.<br> 8. Performance Review The Coordinator's performance will be managed in accordance with the host organisation Performance Management framework and will be reviewed by the Core Group and the Host Organisation as appropriate.<br> Performance will be assessed against the annual action plan, agreed deliverables, quality and timeliness of coordination, member engagement, external representation, reporting, and contribution to the NRG’s strategic objectives.<br> 9. General Conditions The position is subject to available funding.<br> The Coordinator must remain neutral when facilitating discussions among members and must represent only agreed NRG positions.<br> Any actual or potential conflict of interest must be declared immediately.<br> The Coordinator will be subject to the terms and conditions of employment and applicable policies and procedures of the host organisation, including safeguarding, Code of Conduct, Speak Up and Ethical Condict policies, confidentiality and administrative requirements The Terms of Reference may be reviewed and updated by the Core Group in line with the NRG governance framework.<br> Safeguarding Program Participants-Children & Adults Trócaire is committed to safeguarding people within our Programmes from exploitation and abuse and has specific policies on this commitment (including a Global Code of Conduct) which outlines the expected behaviour and the responsibility of all staff, consultants and other organisational representatives.<br> More information on Trócaire’s safeguarding policies available here.<br> Diversity and inclusion We welcome diverse applicants to join our inclusive workforce.<br> Trócaire is an equal opportunities employer.<br> We are an organisation that embraces diversity and inclusion.<br> We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds to bring their experiences and perspectives to Trócaire.<br> Diversity and Inclusion statement available here</span> </div>
Evaluation of Development Account Project – Dynamic Simulators to Address Ranking Deficiencies of International Indices Platforms in the Arab Region
Research & Development
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Result of Service<br>Evaluations at ESCWA strive to demonstrate the difference made by its work and its impact on member States and their citizens. This evaluation will aim to determine how the work undertaken in the Dynamic Simulators to Address Ranking Deficiencies of International Indices Platforms in the Arab Region project contributed to achieving its intended results, the pathway to these results, and the elements that contributed most significantly to their achievement. It will also consider any unintended results — positive or negative — that emerged during implementation. The evaluation will serve three main purposes: • Evidence-based decision-making: Provide a foundation for strategic planning and risk management. • Accountability: Demonstrate performance and results to ESCWA’s Executive and member States, in line with the Commission’s mandate. • Organizational learning: Identify lessons learned and actionable recommendations to strengthen future ESCWA projects in debt management, fiscal policy, and SDG financing.<br> Work Location<br>Remote / Hybrid<br> Expected duration<br>6 months<br> Duties and Responsibilities<br>1. Background and Objective Arab governments are facing a set of unprecedent challenges from ensuring a broad recovery in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic which impacted all sectors and put under pressure all development gains in growth, inequality, labor market, and political participation. Success will depend on the capacity of Arab governments to monitor, encourage, and support entrepreneurial innovation, productivity, and regional economic growth and their ability to harness new technologies to mitigate the negative impact of the pandemic and stimulate the recovery efficiently. To this end, ESCWA has been developing tools that are devised to 1) enhance member States’ capacities to design scenarios for policy change/reforms in various areas and assess their likely economic and social impacts and 2) build capacities in technology indicators and develop national policies in digital technology and innovation. From a practical point of view, one unique platform has been developed to simulate the impact of selected indicators for policy development on a set of international indices which greatly influence countries’ economic and human development outcomes. However, there is a need to 1) extend the user experience in engaging and using these tools (including adding an Arabic interface to the tools) to ensure the largest access possible to all public servants, and to 2) develop and strengthen member States’ capacities to assess and monitor performance, design scenarios, identify bottlenecks and priorities, and learn from international best practices and other countries’ experience by adding new capabilities to the existing tools. 2. Duties and Responsibilities Purpose of the Evaluation Evaluations at ESCWA strive to demonstrate the difference made by its work and its impact on member States and their citizens. This evaluation will aim to determine how the work undertaken in the Dynamic Simulators to Address Ranking Deficiencies of International Indices Platforms in the Arab Region project contributed to achieving its intended results, the pathway to these results, and the elements that contributed most significantly to their achievement. It will also consider any unintended results — positive or negative — that emerged during implementation. The evaluation will serve three main purposes: • Evidence-based decision-making: Provide a foundation for strategic planning and risk management. • Accountability: Demonstrate performance and results to ESCWA’s Executive and member States, in line with the Commission’s mandate. • Organizational learning: Identify lessons learned and actionable recommendations to strengthen future ESCWA projects in debt management, fiscal policy, and SDG financing. The evaluation will be conducted in accordance with ESCWA’s Evaluation Policy (2025), the UNEG Norms and Standards for Evaluation, and the Development Account Evaluation Guidelines. It will integrate best practices for promoting gender equality, human rights, disability inclusion, and environmental sustainability. The primary audiences are ESCWA, RC and UN Country Teams in target countries, and relevant government institutions in ESCWA member States. The evaluation will be facilitated and coordinated by ESCWA’s Strategic Planning, Accountability, Results and Knowledge (SPARK) Section. Scope of the Evaluation The evaluation will be forward-looking and will objectively and systematically assess the performance of the project in terms of its relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability. Furthermore, the evaluation will assess the extent to which gender, human rights, disability inclusion, environmental concerns, and other cross-cutting issues were incorporated or mainstreamed into the project. The evaluation will cover the period from January 2024 to December 2026. Evaluation Criteria The following key evaluation questions per criteria will guide the evaluation. The evaluator is expected to refine evaluation questions where necessary and to include the refinement in the Inception Report. Relevance • How did the project team determine the strategic needs and priorities of member States in its project design? • How were the intended results of the project aligned with the strategic needs and priorities of member States, the sustainable development goals, and national and regional development agendas? • How were the identified results aligned with other stakeholders’ strategic needs and priorities? • How was the log frame translated to ensure that the activities carried out were relevant and contributed to achievement of the intended result(s)? • How were planned and implemented activities designed and sequenced to ensure a conscious consideration of the intended result? Effectiveness • What evidence is available to support the achievement of the results identified? • Which of the activities undertaken by the project team directly contributed to the identified results? How did these activities contribute to the results? • To what degree can the achievement of results be attributed to the intervention? • How did the work of stakeholders contribute to the achievement of the identified results? • Which other factors have contributed to the achievement of the identified results? • Would the results have been achieved regardless of the project being implemented? • How were key partnerships integrated in the delivery of the project to maximise the achievement of results? Efficiency • Were the planned activities considered and delivered with the end results in mind? How did this shape the process? • What, if any, adjustments were made during the project to optimize the achievement of results? • What, if any, considerations were made in terms of the most efficient way of delivering activities (choice of modality, expertise available, etc.) • To what extent were partnerships leveraged and/or enhanced to utilize additional strategic expertise? Impact • What, if any, high-level effects did the project cause (such as changes in norms or systems)? • How did the project ensure that all the intended target groups, including the most disadvantaged and vulnerable, benefitted equally from the intervention? • How transformative was the project – did it create enduring changes in norms – including gender norms – and systems, whether intended or not? • To what extent did the intervention lead to other changes, including “scalable” or “replicable” results? Sustainability • Given a similar context, could the identified results of the project be replicated? • Which of the activities identified as contributing to the identified results of the project provided ongoing benefits for stakeholders? • What evidence is available to indicate that the results of the project can be maintained by stakeholders? Gender, Human Rights, Disability Inclusion, and Environmental Issues • To what extent were issues of gender, human rights, disability inclusion, and the environment incorporated into the design, planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation practices of the project, as well as the results achieved? To what extent did the project respond to and affected the rights, needs and interests of different stakeholders, including women, men, youth, people with disabilities and other marginalized groups? Evaluation Methodology The evaluator is expected to identify the main results achieved through the project, as established by both the project team and key stakeholders, and develop a Theory of Change (ToC) for these results. The causal links postulated in the ToC should then be used to theorise a plausible causal mechanism, which should be tested using all available evidence, to evaluate the influence of ESCWA’s work on results achieved through the project. The evaluator is expected to ensure a mixed method (qualitative and quantitative), inclusive and participatory approach, with adequate triangulation across methods, to arrive at credible, reliable, and unbiased findings. The evaluator will also ensure that all aspects of the evaluation are gender and human rights sensitive (including a special focus on the rights with person with disabilities). In addition, the evaluator must ensure that they always comply with the UNEG Ethical Guidelines for Evaluation during the conduct of the evaluation. The above methodology is indicative. The evaluator is expected to build upon it and present a robust evaluation methodology within the inception report, including addressing and refining the evaluation questions. Management and Governance Arrangements SPARK will oversee management of the evaluation through an evaluation officer/s, who will act as the evaluation manager/s. This role will include recruiting the evaluator/s; serving as the main port-of-call for the evaluator/s and for internal and external stakeholders; recording the feedback of the project team and effectively integrating it into the evaluation exercise; monitoring the budget and the correct implementation of the work-plan; ensuring quality assurance; etc. The support of the organization and project’s senior management is key for the success of the evaluation, particularly during the recruitment of the evaluator/s, collection of documents for desk review, identification of stakeholders and arrangement of interviews, focus groups or surveys. Quality Assurance Mechanism The evaluator will employ a quality assurance mechanism of her/his preference (either an internal or an external system can be used), which will provide quality checks throughout the evaluation process. This quality assurance mechanism will be indicated in the Inception Report and in the Final Evaluation Report. In addition, ESCWA will review the evaluation report prior to finalization to ensure that it aligns with the UNEG Quality Checklist for Evaluation Reports , particularly with reference to the quality of recommendations. Evaluation Ethics The evaluation will be conducted in accordance with the principles outlined in the UNEG Ethical Guidelines for Evaluation; and all rights and confidentiality of information providers will be prioritized and safeguarded as per UNEG Ethical Guidelines for Evaluation.<br> Qualifications/special skills<br>A Master's degree in management, evaluation, or related area is required. All candidates must submit a copy of the required educational degree. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed. A minimum of five years’ experience undertaking impact evaluations, including of projects and/or evaluations working with Arab governmental bodies, is required. Proven competency in quantitative and qualitative research methods, particularly self-administered surveys, document analysis, and informal and semi-structured interviews is required. Work experience in the UN environment is desirable. Excellent oral and written communication skills and the ability to effectively convey complex information in a clear and concise manner to both governmental and UN audiences. Experience in digital transformation 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 English is required. Fluency in Arabic is desirable. 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>
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Evaluation of Development Account Project – Expanding the potential of small and medium-sized enterprises in the Arab region
Research & Development
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Result of Service<br>Evaluations at ESCWA strive to demonstrate the difference made by its work and its impact on member States and their citizens. This evaluation will aim to determine how the work undertaken in the Expanding the potential of small and medium-sized enterprises in the Arab region project contributed to achieving its intended results, the pathway to these results, and the elements that contributed most significantly to their achievement. It will also consider any unintended results — positive or negative — that emerged during implementation. The evaluation will serve three main purposes: • Evidence-based decision-making: Provide a foundation for strategic planning and risk management. • Accountability: Demonstrate performance and results to ESCWA’s Executive and member States, in line with the Commission’s mandate. • Organizational learning: Identify lessons learned and actionable recommendations to strengthen future ESCWA projects in debt management, fiscal policy, and SDG financing.<br> Work Location<br>Remote / Hybrid<br> Expected duration<br>6 months<br> Duties and Responsibilities<br>1. Background and Objective In recent years, especially after the pandemic of Covid-19, several emerging issues pose severe challenges to the region's small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Therefore, tackling the SMEs' problems and challenges is fundamental to expanding and positioning Arab SMEs for future progress and growth that leave no one behind. In this context, ESCWA conducted community workshops and policy roundtables in several Arab countries (Jordan, Lebanon, Algeria, Sudan, Egypt, and Tunisia) to examine the existing government and non-government SME-based assistance programs, map the needed programs to support SMEs, and explore the inclusivity of the existing entrepreneurial ecosystems. The workshops also discussed SMEs' challenges to scale up internationally and ways to help business enablers and incubators support SME growth and sustainability. The outcomes of these workshops elaborated the following SMEs’ needs: access to international markets, overcome financial constraints, benefit from regional and international networks, ability to scale up, access new markets, digital transformation of businesses, support women entrepreneurs and vulnerable groups, among others. And from the policy perspective, there is a need for a reformed legal environment and an enhanced entrepreneurial infrastructure for Member States. This project aims to enhance partnerships and expand SMEs' potential in the region through targeted capacity building to both government entities and Arab SMEs and to provide networking opportunities and strategic alliances with special focus on women empowerment and inclusive entrepreneurship. Furthermore, the project will create a regional platform that would gather regional and international leaders from the public and private sectors to advocate inclusive policies and strategies required to support Arab SMEs. The project will result in engaging Member states for developing improved SME policy frameworks that promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth and build resilient infrastructures to nurture the SMEs of the region. 2. Duties and Responsibilities Purpose of the Evaluation Evaluations at ESCWA strive to demonstrate the difference made by its work and its impact on member States and their citizens. This evaluation will aim to determine how the work undertaken in the Expanding the potential of small and medium-sized enterprises in the Arab region project contributed to achieving its intended results, the pathway to these results, and the elements that contributed most significantly to their achievement. It will also consider any unintended results — positive or negative — that emerged during implementation. The evaluation will serve three main purposes: • Evidence-based decision-making: Provide a foundation for strategic planning and risk management. • Accountability: Demonstrate performance and results to ESCWA’s Executive and member States, in line with the Commission’s mandate. • Organizational learning: Identify lessons learned and actionable recommendations to strengthen future ESCWA projects in debt management, fiscal policy, and SDG financing. The evaluation will be conducted in accordance with ESCWA’s Evaluation Policy (2025), the UNEG Norms and Standards for Evaluation, and the Development Account Evaluation Guidelines. It will integrate best practices for promoting gender equality, human rights, disability inclusion, and environmental sustainability. The primary audiences are ESCWA, UN Country Teams in target countries, and relevant government institutions in ESCWA member States. The evaluation will be facilitated and coordinated by ESCWA’s Strategic Planning, Accountability, Results and Knowledge (SPARK) Section. Scope of the Evaluation The evaluation will be forward-looking and will objectively and systematically assess the performance of the project in terms of its relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability. Furthermore, the evaluation will assess the extent to which gender, human rights, disability inclusion, environmental concerns, and other cross-cutting issues were incorporated or mainstreamed into the project. The evaluation will cover the period from January 2024 to December 2026. Evaluation Criteria The following key evaluation questions per criteria will guide the evaluation. The evaluator is expected to refine evaluation questions where necessary and to include the refinement in the Inception Report. Relevance • How did the project team determine the strategic needs and priorities of member States in its project design? • How were the intended results of the project aligned with the strategic needs and priorities of member States, the sustainable development goals, and national and regional development agendas? • How were the identified results aligned with other stakeholders’ strategic needs and priorities? • How was the log frame translated to ensure that the activities carried out were relevant and contributed to achievement of the intended result(s)? • How were planned and implemented activities designed and sequenced to ensure a conscious consideration of the intended result? Effectiveness • What evidence is available to support the achievement of the results identified? • Which of the activities undertaken by the project team directly contributed to the identified results? How did these activities contribute to the results? • To what degree can the achievement of results be attributed to the intervention? • How did the work of stakeholders contribute to the achievement of the identified results? • Which other factors have contributed to the achievement of the identified results? • Would the results have been achieved regardless of the project being implemented? • How were key partnerships integrated in the delivery of the project to maximise the achievement of results? Efficiency • Were the planned activities considered and delivered with the end results in mind? How did this shape the process? • What, if any, adjustments were made during the project to optimize the achievement of results? • What, if any, considerations were made in terms of the most efficient way of delivering activities (choice of modality, expertise available, etc.) • To what extent were partnerships leveraged and/or enhanced to utilize additional strategic expertise? Impact • What, if any, high-level effects did the project cause (such as changes in norms or systems)? • How did the project ensure that all the intended target groups, including the most disadvantaged and vulnerable, benefitted equally from the intervention? • How transformative was the project – did it create enduring changes in norms – including gender norms – and systems, whether intended or not? • To what extent did the intervention lead to other changes, including “scalable” or “replicable” results? Sustainability • Given a similar context, could the identified results of the project be replicated? • Which of the activities identified as contributing to the identified results of the project provided ongoing benefits for stakeholders? • What evidence is available to indicate that the results of the project can be maintained by stakeholders? Gender, Human Rights, Disability Inclusion, and Environmental Issues • To what extent were issues of gender, human rights, disability inclusion, and the environment incorporated into the design, planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation practices of the project, as well as the results achieved? To what extent did the project respond to and affected the rights, needs and interests of different stakeholders, including women, men, youth, people with disabilities and other marginalized groups? Evaluation Methodology The evaluator is expected to identify the main results achieved through the project, as established by both the project team and key stakeholders, and develop a Theory of Change (ToC) for these results. The causal links postulated in the ToC should then be used to theorise a plausible causal mechanism, which should be tested using all available evidence, to evaluate the influence of ESCWA’s work on results achieved through the project. The evaluator is expected to ensure a mixed method (qualitative and quantitative), inclusive and participatory approach, with adequate triangulation across methods, to arrive at credible, reliable, and unbiased findings. The evaluator will also ensure that all aspects of the evaluation are gender and human rights sensitive (including a special focus on the rights with person with disabilities). In addition, the evaluator must ensure that they always comply with the UNEG Ethical Guidelines for Evaluation during the conduct of the evaluation. The above methodology is indicative. The evaluator is expected to build upon it and present a robust evaluation methodology within the inception report, including addressing and refining the evaluation questions. Management and Governance Arrangements SPARK will oversee management of the evaluation through an evaluation officer/s, who will act as the evaluation manager/s. This role will include recruiting the evaluator/s; serving as the main port-of-call for the evaluator/s and for internal and external stakeholders; recording the feedback of the project team and effectively integrating it into the evaluation exercise; monitoring the budget and the correct implementation of the work-plan; ensuring quality assurance; etc. The support of the organization and project’s senior management is key for the success of the evaluation, particularly during the recruitment of the evaluator/s, collection of documents for desk review, identification of stakeholders and arrangement of interviews, focus groups or surveys. Quality Assurance Mechanism The evaluator will employ a quality assurance mechanism of her/his preference (either an internal or an external system can be used), which will provide quality checks throughout the evaluation process. This quality assurance mechanism will be indicated in the Inception Report and in the Final Evaluation Report. In addition, ESCWA will review the evaluation report prior to finalization to ensure that it aligns with the UNEG Quality Checklist for Evaluation Reports , particularly with reference to the quality of recommendations. Evaluation Ethics The evaluation will be conducted in accordance with the principles outlined in the UNEG Ethical Guidelines for Evaluation; and all rights and confidentiality of information providers will be prioritized and safeguarded as per UNEG Ethical Guidelines for Evaluation.<br> Qualifications/special skills<br>A Master's degree in management, evaluation, or related area is required. All candidates must submit a copy of the required educational degree. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed. A minimum of five years’ experience undertaking impact evaluations, including of projects and/or evaluations working with Arab governmental bodies, is required. Proven competency in quantitative and qualitative research methods, particularly self-administered surveys, document analysis, and informal and semi-structured interviews is required. Work experience in the UN environment is desirable. Experience in SMEs related policy making is desirable. Excellent oral and written communication skills and the ability to effectively convey complex information in a clear and concise manner to both governmental and UN audiences.<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 English is required. Fluency in Arabic is desirable. 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>
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