Job Title: Economic Recovery Officer
Hiring Organization: Danish Refugee Council
Location – Locality: Nairobi
Location – Region: Kenya
Industry: NGO
Job Type: Full Time
Salary: KES
Date Posted: 05/29/2024
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:
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.
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.
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
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
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.
