The European Union Delegation to Lebanon, Beirut is looking for: Project Officer in the Cooperation Section.

Under this post, the recruited person will be attributed functions depending on the needs of the Delegation, and on the changes of these needs. The successful candidate will serve under the supervision and responsibility of the Head of Cooperation Section and the Team Leader providing support, expertise and assistance in projects field.

The following main tasks and duties are currently required: 

Duties:

• Identify, analyze, negotiate and instruct proposals for programmes/projects, sector support, etc. in close co-operation with all relevant internal and external stakeholders;
• Prepare and present the programmes/projects for internal approval.

Function Type: PROCUREMENT and CONTRACT MANAGEMENT

Duties:

• Launch, manage and monitor calls for proposals/tenders, evaluation and selection of projects;
• Manage technical and financial aspects of contracts linked to the projects;
• Ensure the follow-up of the implementation of the projects and the performance of project managers and partners, monitor contractual obligations (via periodic reviews, audits, reporting and assistance, etc.) and gather and handle external expertise;
• Deal with horizontal activities, concertation and networking aspects of the programme and its projects;
• Takes responsibility for the quality of encoded data in all relevant management information systems for which he/she is responsible, even when the encoding of these data has been delegated to another agent;
• Supervise, co-ordinate and / or act as operational initiator of contracts;
• Monitor the financial expenditure as reported in cost statements and provide reasonable assurance that claimed costs correspond to the work accomplished;
• Validate payments requests;
• Verify that projects in Lebanon are managed in accordance with the rules set out by the Commission on financial and contractual management;
• Provide the necessary information for audit and control by the Commission services or the European Court of Auditors.