Junior Administration Officer

UN Development Programme

UN Development Programme

For over six years, Lebanon has been facing a prolonged economic, financial, and social crisis. The country experienced multiple shocks, including economic and financial collapse, the COVID-19 pandemic, the Beirut Port explosion, and, most recently, more than a year-long armed conflict that caused extensive damage and losses. These developments led to a severe economic contraction, depreciation of the Lebanese Pound, soaring inflation, fiscal imbalances, and a sharp decline in the real value of income, particularly affecting public sector employees. As a result, state institutions have been struggling to deliver on their mandates due to a lack of financial resources and a significant loss of skilled professionals in the public sector. Against this backdrop, the capacity for evidence-based policymaking, regulation, and the delivery of priorities has been severely constrained by the crises.

While the election of a president and formation of a new government mark a positive political turning point, the state continues to face major resource and capacity constraints in responding to the crisis, supporting post- conflict recovery, and addressing structural challenges. At the same time, there is limited visibility over development aid directed to Lebanon. Since the 2019 collapse, most donors have made funding conditional on broad reforms and progress toward an IMF agreement. As a result, only a small share of aid has been channeled through government systems. Most grants and loans remain off-budget, creating a disconnect between aid inflows and national public finance management.

To address the implications of these crises, UNDP has been supporting the Government of Lebanon (GoL) in restoring core functions and in resuming its role in service delivery, and to help in implementing priority reforms, while linking traditional public administration, civil service, and policy reforms with a digital transformation process, with the ultimate aim of reactivating the social contract.

In response, the Office of the Minister of State for Administrative Reform (OMSAR) has launched Reinventing Government 2030 which represents one of Lebanon s most ambitious efforts to modernize the State and rebuild citizens trust in public institutions. The reform vision is structured across three phases:

Phase 1: Stakeholder Aspirations (Listen, Analyze, Prepare)

OMSAR engaged thousands of stakeholders - citizens, youth, diaspora, civil servants, municipalities, civil society, unions, media, political and religious leaders - through surveys, workshops, town halls, and interviews. This participatory phase has produced a unified vision and validated national reform aspirations.

Phase 2: Blueprint Design for Government Restructuring.

This phase aims to reorganize ministries and public agencies by 1) redefining mandates; 2) eliminating fragmentation and duplicated functions; 3) designing a Target Operating Model (TOM) tailored to Lebanon; 4) benchmarking against global governance models; 5) ensuring alignment with stakeholder aspirations and future state needs.

Phase 3: Full Implementation PHONE_NUMBER) Execution of the restructuring plan, introduction of digital and process reforms, reskilling of human capital, and establishing performance-based management across government.

After completion of Phase 1, the OMSAR has launched Phase 2 of the Reform. Central to this phase is Baseline Assessment of the current state of affairs of GoL. The Reform s design is manifested in the Conceptual Framework, which provides basic outline for the Baseline Assessment. It envisages functional analysis of the government of Lebanon along horizontal and vertical axes. The horizontal axis established four universal Functions of the Government: 1. National Directions and Policy Setting; 2) Licensing and Regulation; 3) Service Delivery; 4) Delivery Oversight and Surveillance; The vertical axis provides thematic or area classification of the governance model. In particular, it identified seven clusters, 28 Sectors and around 120 Subsectors in which the GoL has any competences according to the legislation. The latter is a long list of sectors consolidated from the six classification lists (including UN/COFOG, OECD, World Bank, and S&P Global) and two benchmarks (Rwanda and Singapore).

Following to the several rounds of consultations with the OMSAR, UNDP Lebanon has developed and validated a methodology for the Baseline Assessment in line with the priorities enshrined in the Conceptual Framework.

UNDP Lebanon is providing assistance to the OMSAR to conduct the Baseline Assessment. In this context, UNDP Lebanon is supporting OMSAR in conducting a baseline assessment and seeks to recruit a Junior Administration Officer to support OMSAR on ongoing administrative reform initiatives by contributing to planning, diagnostic, and coordination activities across reform areas

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