Summary
Date Posted: Friday, August 26, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Responsibilities:
Programming & Operations:
• Lead the organization and implementation of Economic Recovery activities, including cash and voucher programming, in accordance with DRC guidelines, program objectives and accountability principles to deliver Economic Recovery assistance to beneficiaries
• Represent DRC with relevant donors, partners and local authorities and coordinate with distribution actors and other DRC programmes when necessary;
• Lead all Area Economic Recovery field assessments, surveys, needs assessments, market assessment and monitoring, and other data collection to guide programming;
• Organize all project studies and research, including Needs Assessments of vulnerable populations and Market Assessments/Analysis;
• Identification and development of transparent beneficiary vulnerability criteria and manage beneficiary selection procedures to reach the most vulnerable and marginalized with life-saving emergency assistance.
• Ensure that Emergency interventions are informed by and integrated with other core sectors of such as protection and emergency; and provide technical support on Economic Recovery to other DRC sectoral programmes;
• Realize project work plans and ensure its timely submission and ensure the concordance of field activities with the work plans;
• Prepare project progress reports as well as preparation of donor reports as per agreed format;
• Establish and manage programme indicators for monitoring and evaluation of project achievements against targets and providing detailed reporting to management, partners and donors;
• Ensure that appropriate systems and methodologies for beneficiary accountability are in place including programme monitoring tools and formats, and a complaints mechanism;
• Responsible for project budgets and financial management, including financial forecasting, timely and compliant expenditure and financial reporting on project activities
• Ensure that DRC staff and partners are aware of good practices, particularly in terms of human rights and international humanitarian principles;
• Provide strategic leadership for all protection related projects, providing support for the current activities while keeping an eye into new areas of development;
• Work closely with the Area Manager, Grants and Economic Recovery Coordinator to develop quality proposals, concept notes and budgets to meet emergency needs in the target areas.
• Manage the Area Economic Recovery team and provide overall supervision of their work to ensure timely delivery of project activities (for example, monitoring against log frames,
• Ensure compliance with relevant guidelines and DRC commitments.
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Staff Management:
• Manage the Economic Recovery Team, including through the recruitment, training, daily supervision and performance management of Emergency Officers and Assistants in the Area Office
• Provide training to the DRC teams and support the capacity development of staff;

Representation:
• Represent DRC in relevant fora;
• Coordinate and maintain constructive relationships with municipalities, other local government institutions, local NGO partners, other international organizations, in coordination with the other team members;
• Ensure DRC’s principles and approaches to emergencies are integrated into the response;
• Follow the humanitarian principles, standards and guidelines that DRC is committed to, and ensure these are adhered to by DRC staff, partner staff and volunteers.
• Ensure DRC is positioned as a leading Economic Recovery actor within the Area, including sharing emergency information to inform and guide the overall emergency response.

Monitoring and Evaluation:
• Ensure transparency and accountability tools, processes and mechanisms to affected communities are in place;
• Ensure equal participation by all segments of the community, taking into consideration issues regarding gender, age, clan and tribal and religious affiliations;
• Regularly monitor project activities and provide timely inputs and feedback to management;
• Work with M&E team to ensure M&E plan is being implemented, data is being collected from the field and regular reports are being produced.

Logistics/Finance:
• Support the monitoring of financial commitments and expenditures against budgets and provide timely feedback on budget follow-up
• Plan and coordinate proactively logistics and movements of staff from and to different operational areas
• Initiate procurement of emergency programme goods, services and works, and ensure their delivery in compliance with DRC guidelines and SOPs.
• Ensure distribution plans are prepared and shared with Finance, Supply Chain and Safety in a timely manner
• Undertake any further duties as the line manager sees fit. The position duties are flexible to a degree to allow the candidate to develop skills they personally identify. This can be arranged in discussions with the line manager.

Experience and Technical Competencies:
• Minimum 2 years of practical experience in sector area working for an INGO or similar organization
• Field experience in the Area
• Experience delivering Business training and SME development, business grants, life-skills training, literacy and numeracy training, vocational training, micro-credit loans, savings groups, group enterprise development and facilitation programming
• Excellent skill in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Education:
• University Bachelor degree (e.g. political science, international development, or economics) or above


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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