Ref.
2023/CMDTL/9906
Job offer type
Field staff jobs
Type of contract
Fixed-term contract (CDD)
Activity sectors
Género, derechos y modernización del Estado
Deadline date
2023/09/30 09:21
Contract
Wage portage
Duration
12 mois
Département Gouvernance - GOUV > Pôle Transparence, Gestion et Redevabilité
Published on : 2023/08/30
For the implementation of the project, Expertise France is currently recruiting a Component manager for the Oversight Bodies component.
The Component manager, under the supervision of the Team leader, will hold the responsibility of ensuring the effective execution of activities of the Component 3 of the project. The Component manager, will be in charge of planning and implementing activities, preparing activity reports, monitoring progress, conducting evaluations, and handling communication related to the project's objectives.
The component manager/Deputy Team Leader will be responsible for the following tasks:
Liaison with beneficiaries and local stakeholders:
Project manager:
In addition to these main tasks, the component manager / Deputy Team Leader can be called to perform any other tasks related to the Project’s implementation and to the replacement of the Team Leader during his/her absence or unavailability.
Lebanon has been facing compounded challenges with its largest peace-time socio-economic and financial crisis, aggravated over time and intensified by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on key sectors of the economy, the consequences of the explosion of the Port of Beirut in 2020 and the war in Ukraine in 2022. Owing to the lack of political consensus for pursuing and implementing effective reforms to enhance governance and accountability of public services and to generate State revenues and reduce expenditures, the multi-dimensional crisis continues to persist, although the 2022 parliamentary elections showed growing support for candidates representing civil society and demanding reform.
Public administrations in Lebanon are marked by low quality and accessibility of public services, suffering from weak decision-making processes, absence of clear vision, lack of transparency and accountability leading to increased corruption and weakening the public service delivery. The sectarian regime, nepotism and confessional power sharing running across all government ministries and institutions creates inefficiencies in the public administrations, room for corruption and misuse of public funds. This results in citizens and businesses wasting time and resources undermining the image of public services, distracting officials from achieving good results and advancing on public administrative reform. With the crisis, salaries of civil servants have plummeted resulting in an increasing number of highly qualified Lebanese migrating in search of better opportunities.
Following the explosion of the Port of Beirut in 2020, the European Union launched, jointly with the United Nations and the World Bank, the “Reform, Recovery and Reconstruction Framework (3RF)”. The 3RF addresses the impact of the explosion on affected communities and businesses in Beirut; in addition, it focuses on critical reforms, including enhancing transparency, accountability and integrity of the public administration. These reforms are notably to be achieved through the implementation of the National Anti-Corruption Strategy 2020-2025 (NACS), of which the recent nomination of the members of the National Anti-corruption Commission is crucial to the monitoring of the implementation of reform. In addition, the adoption of the new Public Procurement Law in 2021 was an important milestone in the public administration reform agenda.
The EU has funded for four years a technical assistance project on transparency and the fight against corruption in Lebanon (ACT), implemented by Expertise France. This project ended in May 2023.
. Support national efforts on combating corruption.
. Strengthen public accountability in order to fight against corruption
. Prevent corruption through the improvement of Transparency
. The national authorities in charge of combating corruption are strengthened
. Control bodies' technical capacities are enhanced in order to prevent and fight corruption
. Pilot administrations have operational tools for the implementation of the RAIL
. Public awareness is raised through information campaigns and public service users have better knowledge of their rights
A new EU Program Action will be implemented in 2023 that aims to support progress in key areas of public administration reform in Lebanon through enhancing the integrity, transparency and accountability of its public administration aligned with the principles of a modern public administration. It consists of three outcomes:
The component manager will implement the Outcome 3, and more precisely the Outputs below:
3.1 Central Inspection Board (CIB) modernized and its capacity to fight and prevent corruption enhanced;
3.2 Court of Audit (CoA) modernized and its capacity to fight and prevent corruption enhanced;
3.3 National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) established and its capacity to detect and prevent corruption enhanced;
3.4 Coordination and cooperation between oversight bodies and with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) enhanced, and their effectiveness institutionalized.
Qualifications and skills
Professional experience
The position is available from October 2023.
The Component Manager/Deputy Team Leader will be based in Beirut and will report directly to the Team Leader based in Beirut and the unit manager of the "Transparency, Management, and Accountability" unit at Expertise France headquarters in Paris, which falls under the "Governance" department.
Deadline for application : 2023/09/30 09:21
Expertise France is the public agency of French international technical cooperation. The agency operates around four priorities:
In these areas, Expertise France carries out engineering and implementation missions for capacity building projects, mobilizes technical expertise and acts as an aggregator of projects involving public expertise and private know-how.
With an activity volume of 233 million euros, more than 400 projects in portfolio in 80 countries, and 63,000 days of expertise, Expertise France focuses its action towards France’s solidarity policy, influence and economic diplomacy.