Overall purpose of the role:
The
Economic Recovery Officer, in conjunction with the Team Leader, will ensure
effective project component activity implementation oversight, monitoring and
evaluation in Dagahaley Camp and the neighboring communities. This position
works closely with other livelihoods team colleagues to ensure an integrated
approach in beneficiary targeting, activity execution, assessments and
feedback. The role also liaises closely with stakeholders located in
international and national NGOs, county/national governments and community
leadership structures to ensure effective service-delivery, participation and
added value. This position provides technical support for Vocational Skills
Development and Drylands Agriculture across all the camps and host community
locations.
Responsibilities:
R1. Project Management and Development:
- Participate in project planning &
implementation including activity, budgeting and procurement/logistics
planning
- Develop and maintain detailed
implementation plans to deliver program to agreed timeline and milestones
- Ensure all project activities are
implemented on time and in line with the set-out work-plans
- Promote collaboration and synergy between
refugee focused interventions and the host communities
- Prepare and conduct community
sensitization forums/meetings with community leaders and beneficiaries in
the refugee and host community set up
- Document lessons learned from training
activities, community meeting and assist in preparing training reports
- Promoting business/farm group development
through support, coaching, mentoring, regular feedback and identification
of investment needs and opportunities.
- Supervise core components namely
education scholarships, drylands agriculture & vocational skills as
well as the supportive sectors namely, micro-enterprise development,
savings groups, financial literacy and value-chain/market-development in
conjunction with colleague technical officers.
- Organize and coordinate livelihood
related stakeholders’ meetings/workshops/forums to enable the active, free
and meaningful participation of project beneficiaries in the design and
implementation of project activities within refugee and host communities
- Assist in developing livelihoods concept
notes and proposals
- Offer technical support in vocational
skills and drylands agriculture to colleagues in other locations.
R2. Monitoring, Reporting and
Evaluation:
- Keep accurate records of events and
activities including meeting/class/training attendance.
- Collect and analyze livelihoods data on a
monthly basis
- Participate in periodic field level
programme review and planning meetings
- Support with weekly, monthly, quarterly
and annual donor/internal reporting
- Develop case studies, human interest
stories, et cetera, for use in communications and monitoring reports
- Ensure project staff supervised adhere to
CHS Principles in the day-to-day project implementation and participate in
CHS audits
- Support in implementing M&E plans
- Participate in/facilitate baseline
surveys, needs assessments and conduct consultative meetings with the
project stakeholders
- Organize and conduct education
scholarships monitoring sessions and collect data.
R3. Coordination &
Partnerships:
- Serve as the liaison with stakeholders
and relevant Government of Kenya departments from the location to
divisional levels
- Promote collaboration and synergy between
the DRC host community projects and the similar projects/groups in the
Dadaab refugee camps
- Ensure and maintain mutual linkages with
the County and Sub-county offices especially with any related line
ministries to enhance their understanding of program needs in the assigned
area of operation.
- In the absence of the Team Leader –
Livelihoods, represent DRC in livelihood and education inter-agency
coordination meetings
R4. Budget Management:
- Monitor the related budget-lines in order
to maintain programme expenditure within budget parameters, ensuring
adherence to DRC financial procedures and donor requirements with the
support of the Team Leader
- Take parts in periodic budget review
meetings to ensure effective budget implementation
R5. Staff Supervision:
- Line supervision of national and
incentive livelihoods staff
- Staff performance monitoring
Experience and technical competencies:
- 4 or more years’ experience working with
I/NGOs within humanitarian/development contexts
- Demonstrable experience in
livelihoods/food security programming within refugee/host community
settings
- Demonstrates a good understanding of
Project Cycle Management
- Has excellent communication (spoken and
written) skills
- Working knowledge of MS Office, Excel and
other relevant computer applications
- Good planning and organizational skills
coupled with problem-solving ability
- Possess good level of conflict management
skills
- Possess a sense of cultural awareness,
sensitivity and respect for diversity
- Strong organizational, team spirit and
team work skills
- Knowledge of the key issues and trends in
livelihood/food security interventions
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Education, Business
Administration, Commerce, Agribusiness, Agriculture, Sociology,
International Development/Relations or Economics
- Further short trainings in drylands
agriculture, entrepreneurship, technical education, value-chain
development, making markets work for the poor (M4P), community-managed
microfinance/savings groups, MIS for savings groups or agricultural
production highly desirable for this role.
Languages:
- English – Advanced
- Kiswahili – Intermediate
- Somali (added advantage)
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