{"id":2624313,"url":"https://alion.io/job/worldrenew-country-program-manager-lebanon","title":"Country Program Manager – Lebanon","company":{"id":721764,"name":"Worldrenew","domain":"worldrenew.org","url":"https://alion.io/company/worldrenew-2","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Breezy","truth_index":null},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Beirut, Lebanon"],"countries":["LB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":54000,"max_usd":121000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":6387},"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Microsoft Office","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-15T13:59:04Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-15","last_verified_at":"2026-10-24T19:42:33Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":9,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":9},"description":"Position Title: Country Program Manager - Lebanon\nDepartment: Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs - International Disaster Response\nReports to: Director, International Disaster Response\nStatus: 100% FTE\nContract Type:Initial One-Year Contract; with the possibility of extension.\nLocation: Beirut, Lebanon. Regular field travel within Lebanon may be required, subject to security and access conditions. This is a national position open to candidates who are legally authorized to work in Lebanon.\nPURPOSE OF POSITION\n The Country Program Manager - Lebanon provides day-to-day leadership, coordination, and oversight for World Renew’s humanitarian programming in Lebanon. The position is responsible for supporting effective program planning, implementation, monitoring, reporting, partner engagement, donor compliance, and responsible stewardship of project resources.\nWorking closely with the Director, International Disaster Response, World Renew technical and support teams, local partners, donors, and other stakeholders, the Country Program Manager helps ensure that World Renew’s Lebanon portfolio is well coordinated, responsive to changing humanitarian needs, and implemented in accordance with organizational standards, donor requirements, and humanitarian principles. The position supports effective relationships and coordination with institutional donors and other funding partners at the country level.\nThe position also serves as a key in-country coordination focal point, supporting effective communication across program, finance, MEAL, safeguarding, operations, and partner functions; representing World Renew in appropriate routine coordination forums; monitoring operational risks; and escalating strategic, security, compliance, or reputational matters through established channels.\nWe do not discriminate based on disability, culture, ethnicity, or gender, and welcome and encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply.\nMAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES\nR1. Program Management & Implementation (35%)\nCoordinate the day-to-day implementation of World Renew’s Lebanon program portfolio and ensure activities progress against approved work plans, budgets, indicators, and timelines.\nTranslate approved program strategies and donor commitments into practical implementation plans, team priorities, and partner follow-up actions.\nCoordinate regular program reviews and follow up on deliverables, deadlines, decisions, risks, and corrective actions.\nEnsure programming remains relevant to changing humanitarian needs and operating conditions and support appropriate program adaptations.\nCoordinate the preparation of narrative reports, donor updates, briefing notes, monitoring visit materials, and other program documentation.\nSupport assessments, proposal development, project start-up, modifications, closeout, and new program opportunities as required.\nPromote program quality, accountability to affected populations, safeguarding, and adherence to humanitarian standards throughout implementation.\nR2. Partner Management & Capacity Strengthening (20%)\nServe as a primary day-to-day program contact for local implementing partners and maintain respectful, accountable, and collaborative relationships.\nCoordinate partner work-plan reviews, implementation follow-up, reporting, problem-solving, and action-point tracking.\nMonitor partner performance and identify implementation challenges early, working with partners and World Renew colleagues to address concerns.\nSupport partner capacity strengthening in project management, reporting, MEAL, safeguarding, compliance, financial stewardship, and other identified areas.\nPromote locally led approaches and ensure partner perspectives inform program planning, adaptation, and learning.\nR3. Country Coordination, Representation & Risk Monitoring (20%)\nSupport effective coordination of World Renew’s in-country program activities, staff functions, partner relationships, and operational priorities.\nRepresent World Renew in appropriate donor, government, UN, NGO, cluster/sector, partner, and humanitarian coordination meetings within delegated authority.\nCoordinate with institutional donors and funding partners on program implementation, monitoring visits, project reviews, reporting follow-up, and other operational matters, in consultation with the IDR Director and relevant World Renew colleagues.\nDocument significant external commitments, decisions, and follow-up actions and keep the IDR Director informed of issues with strategic, donor, security, or reputational implications.\nMonitor operational, security, access, partner, safeguarding, compliance, and implementation risks and escalate significant concerns promptly through established channels.\nSupport coordination of field travel, program visits, stakeholder meetings, and other operational requirements in collaboration with relevant colleagues.\nSupport World Renew’s organizational registration, regulatory requirements, and related country-level administrative processes, coordinating with relevant authorities, legal advisors, and World Renew leadership as required.\nMaintain constructive relationships with donors, relevant authorities, humanitarian actors, peer organizations, and other stakeholders to support effective program implementation, coordination, and partnership development.\nR4. Financial Management, Compliance & Operational Coordination (15%)\nMonitor program progress alongside budget utilization and participate in regular budget-versus-actual and forecasting reviews with Finance.\nEnsure program plans and implementation decisions are realistic and aligned with approved budgets, donor requirements, and partner agreements.\nCoordinate with Finance to follow up on partner financial reporting, fund requests, documentation, and program-related budget variances.\nSupport procurement planning and ensure program teams follow applicable organizational and donor requirements.\nIdentify and escalate potential donor compliance, fraud, safeguarding, procurement, or financial management concerns.\nSupport audit readiness and ensure program documentation is complete, organized, and maintained in accordance with donor and organizational requirements.\nR5. MEAL, Learning & Team Coordination (10%)\nWork closely with MEAL colleagues to ensure monitoring, accountability, data quality, and learning are integrated into program management and partner follow-up.\nUse program and MEAL information to identify implementation issues, support adaptive management, and strengthen program quality.\nPromote community feedback and complaints mechanisms and ensure feedback is considered in program decision-making.\nFacilitate regular internal coordination and planning among relevant country-based staff and ensure roles, priorities, and follow-up actions are clear.\nPromote a team culture of collaboration, accountability, safeguarding, learning, and responsible stewardship.\nSUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES\nProvides day-to-day coordination and functional leadership to country-based program and support staff as assigned. May have direct supervisory responsibilities based on the approved country staffing structure.\nQUALIFICATIONS\nPersonal Attributes\nDemonstrates commitment to World Renew's mission, vision, and values and an ability to work respectfully and effectively within a Christian faith-based organization.\nDemonstrates and promotes World Renew's organizational values, including service, justice, compassion, stewardship, dignity, integrity, and respect for all people.\nStrong collaborative team player with the ability to work respectfully across cultures, functions, and stakeholder groups.\nDemonstrated initiative, flexibility, resilience, and ability to adapt to changing priorities and operating conditions.\nStrong organizational skills with attention to detail and accountability for follow-through.\nSound judgment, integrity, discretion, and a commitment to ethical and responsible programming.\nExcellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.\nAbility to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced humanitarian environment.\nEssential Skills\nStrong project and program management skills, including planning, implementation, monitoring, reporting, risk management, and adaptive management.\nDemonstrated ability to coordinate across program, finance, MEAL, safeguarding, operations, and partner functions.\nStrong partner relationship management and capacity strengthening skills.\nWorking knowledge of institutional donor compliance, grant management, budgeting, and financial monitoring.\nAbility to represent World Renew professionally and build constructive relationships with donors, government authorities, humanitarian coordination bodies, partners, and other stakeholders.\nStrong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and report-writing skills.\nGood understanding of humanitarian principles, accountability to affected populations, safeguarding, and localization.\nProficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and common collaboration and data-management tools.\nProfessional proficiency in Arabic and English is required.\nEDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE\nTo perform this position successfully, the individual should have:\nBachelor's degree in International Development, Humanitarian Assistance, Project Management, Social Sciences, Public Administration, or a related field. A master's degree is an asset.\nEducation\nExperience\nMinimum five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in humanitarian, international development, recovery, or related program management.\nDemonstrated experience managing projects through local partners and coordinating multiple program stakeholders.\nExperience with project planning, budget monitoring, donor reporting, compliance, and performance tracking.\nExperience managing humanitarian or development programs in complex, conflict-affected, or displacement-affected contexts.\nStrong knowledge of the Lebanese humanitarian context, including relevant stakeholders, coordination structures, and operational dynamics.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with institutional donor-funded humanitarian programs, including U.S. Government, Global Affairs Canada, UN, or comparable donors.\nExperience participating in humanitarian clusters, sector working groups, or NGO coordination mechanisms.\nExperience with food security, livelihoods, cash assistance, protection, or other relevant humanitarian sectors.\nExperience working with local civil society organizations, faith-based organizations, and partner-led programming.\nProject management or humanitarian-sector certification is an asset.\nPHYSICAL DEMANDS\nThe physical demands described here are representative of those required to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions.\nAbility and willingness to travel regularly within Lebanon, including to field locations where infrastructure and services may be limited, subject to security and access conditions.\nThe position may require work in challenging physical and emotional environments, including engagement with communities affected by conflict, displacement, and humanitarian crisis.\nFlexibility to work occasional evenings or weekends during urgent program needs, donor deadlines, or emergency response periods may be required.\nWORK ENVIRONMENT\nThe work environment characteristics described here are representative of those encountered while performing the essential functions of this position.\nThe incumbent will operate within a dynamic humanitarian environment requiring flexibility, collaboration across teams and partners, and the ability to respond to changing priorities, operational constraints, and deadlines.\nWorld Renew requires permanent work authorization at time of hire. 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