DRC Economic Recovery Team Leader Jobs in Nigeria
Background
Danish Refugee Council (DRC), and its Humanitarian Disarmament and Peacebuilding technical unit – the Danish Demining Group (DDG), has had an operational presence in Nigeria since 2015. DRC Nigeria is the largest DRC country mission in the West Africa region and one of the largest DRC country missions globally.
Currently, DRC delivers life-saving assistance and protection to vulnerable, conflict-affected populations including internally displaced persons, returnees and host communities in the areas of humanitarian mine action, livelihoods, nutrition and food security, protection, shelter and non-food items (NFI) and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in 30+ Local Government Areas (LGAs) across Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states in northeast Nigeria.
Purpose
The DRC Nigeria is looking to recruit an experienced, highly- qualified and enthusiastic professional to join the Economic Recovery team in Nigeria. Coordinate with partners and other stakeholders in the implementation of food assistance , livelihood programming through supporting market systems development (MSD), improved production practices for farmers’ associations, cash transfer programming (CTP) and village savings and loans associations (VSLA) while developing the social cohesion between members of the target communities.
Duties and Responsibilities
Team Leadership
Produce work plans for the sector staff in accordance with annual planning cycle
Train staff and provide regular updates of work planning and reporting against SMART objectives.
Implementation and Planning
Coordinate with the Finance, Procurement Officers and other sectors of DRC to ensure proper management of livelihood planning and implementation.
Serve as the main contact for Livelihood activities in DRC Maiduguri operations, and work closely with State Government Technical line Ministries and departments in ensuring high quality standards in DRC livelihood sector operations.
Ensure team adoption of technical guidelines, SoPs, handbooks and other programme guidance provided by the Area Programme Manager and the Livelihood Coordinator
Ensure that Livelihood Officers and Assistants implement project activities within the budget limits and in line with good budget management and accountability procedures in consultation with Area Programme Manager
Support Livelihood Officers and Assistant in ensuring activities implementation is done in compliance with DRC/Donor quality procedures
Closely monitor the implementation of livelihood activities to timely identify any problems that may affect the achievement of intended outputs and results; by pragmatically and constructively dealing with them early enough
In coordination with field staff, ensure that vulnerable groups (especially women and youths) are actively involved during group discussion and the decision making process;
Organize and manage workshops, trainings and meetings that are hosted by the sector with relevant partners—beneficiary households, line ministries and CBOs
Sector Reporting & Documentation
Provide regular internal reports and other relevant information on general policy matters and programme activities to the sector staff and other relevant persons.
Ensure that a sound documentation procedure is adhered to, including relevant beneficiary database is developed, maintained and updated regularly.
Ensure update-to-date records (disaggregated by gender/age/diversity) are maintained for all beneficiaries of the livelihoods interventions.
Ensure the use of developed relevant manuals/tool kits and training curriculums that can be used in training beneficiaries
Ensure that a sound complaints handling and feedback mechanism is in place in the project area so that beneficiaries have easy access to DRC and that the Do-No-Harm principle to persons of concern/beneficiaries at the point of delivery is upheld.
Lead the identification of beneficiaries needs using both technical skills and knowledge of the operational context
Engage and build strong and better relations with all community leaders, Local Government Council structures and State Government line ministries for the enhancement of DRC/ Donor overall program objectives.
Stakeholder Coordination
Represent the livelihoods sector during coordination meetings with stakeholders such as local communities, local government officials, Early Recovery and Livelihoods Sector Working Group, Food Security Sector Working Group, Cash Working Group and donors.
Be proactively seeking for new partnerships for SME, VST, Internship, and LH activities
Promote and ensure at all times a pragmatic and efficient dialogue as well as networking with Local Institution, Private Institutes, workshops, National and international NGOs and local authorities
Coordinate with the rest of the country team whenever needed
Liaise with relevant line ministries during project implementation i.e. Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Animal resources and Fisheries, Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Trade etc.
Monitoring and Evaluation
Actively participate in monthly Budget Follow up review meetings and ensure all livelihood activities status are updated and submitted to Area Programme Manager/Livelihoods Coordinator
Work with M&E to manage all livelihood data collection exercises including the conduction of assessment and surveys (e.g. baseline surveys, yield assessment, do-no-harm surveys etc.) in close coordination with the Country M&E unit to monitor and evaluate food security and livelihoods projects activities;
Work closely with M&E unit to identify, document and disseminate relevant project success, challenges and follow up on implementation of project’s action points
Support the undertaking of detailed situational analysis in collaboration with relevant stakeholder and propose appropriate project implementation approaches
Supervise the implementation of all participatory needs/vulnerability and capacity assessments of affected communities
Participate in project evaluations and assist in the analysis of results
Work with M&E to conduct post-distribution monitoring to ensure that beneficiary entitlements have been adequately accounted for and reconcile the results with those issued by the warehouse manager/cash distribution agent and line manager for the supply of goods, cash and vouchers.
Administration & logistics
Ensure compliance with donor requirements regarding programming implementation and asset management.
Support sector team with logistics arrangements to facilitate effective programming.
Provide timely expenditure planning & budget follow ups with guidance from the Area Programme Manager and the Livelihoods Coordinator.
Ensure DRC financial procedures, guidelines and corruption control is maintained among the team.
Initiate procurements and ensuring adherence to correct procurement and logistical procedures and in coordination with the Logistics department. Support the timely procurement of project materials.
Required Qualifications
Essential
Degree in Agriculture, Social Science, political science, international development, business management, economics or other relevant field.
Professional experience of relevant professional livelihood experience, including one year working with a humanitarian organisation;
Understanding of Livelihood programming, trainings and programming issues in the country and the North East Nigeria region
An understanding of humanitarian/civil society issues in the country and the region.
Experiencing of managing teams
Ability to work in a team, independently and under minimal supervision;
Good communication, analysis, and writing skills;
Excellent negotiation and diplomacy skills;
Ability to work in complex environments and under pressure
Proficient with standard software tools (Microsoft Word, Excel, and Power-Point);
Desirable
Understanding of rights and protection issues of IDPs, children and women
Experience working with hosts, returnees and displaced populations.
Previously experience on Market System Development approaches
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; DRC Economic Recovery Team Leader Jobs in Nigeria
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