Overview
The Programme Team Leader (South) serves as DRC’s primary field-level programme focal point in South Lebanon, overseeing the coordinated implementation of all assigned DRC programme activities in the area.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead field-level implementation of assigned projects, ensuring timely delivery within scope and budget.
- Act as the first management point for day-to-day programme implementation issues, resolving operational challenges.
- Prepare, maintain, and update project work plans, activity schedules, movement plans, procurement plans, HR plans, and relevant Programme Management Tool components.
- Translate guidance from Technical Coordinators and Specialists into practical implementation arrangements.
- Maintain a substantial field presence across DRC locations in South Lebanon.
- Coordinate activities across Protection, Economic Recovery, Shelter and Site Management, emergency response, and other thematic areas.
- Identify implementation delays, access constraints, programme risks, protection concerns, and emerging needs; propose corrective measures.
- Support emergency assessments and response planning.
- Line manage assigned programme staff, providing clear priorities, supervision, coaching, and feedback.
- Develop team and individual work plans, allocate responsibilities, monitor workload, and ensure adequate field coverage.
- Conduct regular team meetings, individual follow-up, performance and development reviews, and capacity-building plans.
- Support recruitment and induction of new team members.
- Promote collaboration across thematic teams and maintain a respectful, accountable, and inclusive working environment.
- Identify staffing, skills, performance, or wellbeing concerns early and address or escalate them.
- Ensure implementation complies with approved proposals, donor requirements, DRC policies, and relevant programme standards.
- Regularly update project BFUs, budget forecasts, and spending plans.
- Initiate and follow up procurement, recruitment, logistics, fleet, administration, and cash-related requests.
- Provide timely and accurate inputs to internal updates, donor reports, assessments, sitreps, and management briefings.
- Ensure programme documentation and supporting records are complete, accurate, appropriately filed, and compliant.
- Contribute field analysis, operational inputs, activity design, targets, staffing structures, work plans, budgets, and risks to concept notes and proposals.
- Coordinate with and monitor implementing partners at field level.
- Maintain regular communication with partners, follow up agreed actions, and escalate concerns.
- Represent DRC at relevant field-level coordination meetings and working groups.
- Maintain constructive relationships with municipalities, unions of municipalities, line ministries and local authorities, community representatives, UN agencies, NGOs, partners, and service providers.
- Coordinate with Technical Coordinators and other DRC teams.
- Maintain an up-to-date understanding of humanitarian needs, displacement trends, community dynamics, available services, access constraints, and operational risks in South Lebanon.
- Provide regular context updates to management.
- Work closely with MEAL and Information Management colleagues to monitor indicators, targets, activity quality, programme participant feedback, and means of verification.
- Review programme data for completeness, consistency, and plausibility.
- Use monitoring findings, community feedback, and field observations to improve implementation quality.
- Ensure communities receive clear information about DRC services, eligibility and selection processes, referral options, and complaints and feedback channels.
- Ensure feedback and complaints are handled or referred safely.
- Ensure protection mainstreaming, conflict sensitivity, do-no-harm, gender, age, disability inclusion, and meaningful community participation are integrated across all activities.
- Ensure teams apply DRC policies and procedures.
- Escalate serious protection, safeguarding, fraud, safety, access, or reputational concerns immediately.
- Support project kick-offs, reviews, learning exercises, evaluations, and close-out processes.
- Identify realistic opportunities for integrated programming and responsible expansion.
- Respond to emergencies and sudden crises.
- Perform any other relevant duties agreed with the Programme Manager.
Required Experience
Minimum four years of relevant experience with a humanitarian or development organization, including at least two years in a formal team leadership or programme management role. Previous experience with DRC, including familiarity with DRC programme management tools, internal procedures, budget follow-up, procurement processes, reporting requirements, and operational systems. Demonstrated experience managing staff, setting priorities, monitoring performance, coaching team members, and addressing day-to-day implementation challenges. Practical project-cycle management experience, including work planning, target monitoring, budget follow-up and forecasting, procurement planning, reporting, and coordination with support departments. Experience overseeing humanitarian or recovery programmes in at least one relevant area such as Protection, Economic Recovery, Shelter, Site Management, Basic Assistance, or emergency response, with the ability to manage multisector delivery under technical guidance. Strong knowledge of the humanitarian, political, socioeconomic, community, safety, and access context in South Lebanon, including experience working directly with local authorities and communities. Currently residing in South Lebanon, with an established and sustainable presence that enables regular travel and rapid field deployment across DRC areas of operation in the South. Demonstrated ability to coordinate with public authorities, partners, UN agencies, NGOs, and community stakeholders and to represent an organization professionally. Experience working in emergency, displacement, collective shelter, or conflict-affected settings in South Lebanon (desirable). Experience working with implementing partners and monitoring partner-delivered activities (desirable).
Qualifications
Bachelor degree in social sciences, international development, business or public administration, economics, engineering, humanitarian studies, or another relevant field. A combination of relevant education and substantial directly relevant experience may be considered.
