Livelihood Field Assistant - Income Generation
Damascus
- Organization: DRC - Danish Refugee Council
- Location: Damascus
- Grade: Administrative support - Administrative Services and Support - Generally no need for Higher Education
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Occupational Groups:
- Administrative support
- Closing Date: Closed
Livelihood Field
Assistant – income generation
Damascus, Syria
We are looking for a highly qualified
individual to fill-in the vacancy of Livelihood Field Assistant (income
generation) to work in Damascus under service contract.
Who are we?
DRC has been working in
the MENA region since 2003 and is currently one of the few international
organizations registered and operating legally in the countries of Iraq, Syria,
Lebanon, Turkey, Libya and Jordan. Since 2013, DRC has been operating as the
largest INGO responding to the Syrian crisis in Syria and Lebanon and has
assisted over 1 million refugees and IDPs a year. DRC has been actively
operating in Syria since 2008, mainly supporting refugees. In June 2012, DRC
was authorized by the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) to expand its
humanitarian efforts and provide assistance to IDPs and the vulnerable resident
population countrywide. Since then, DRC activities have been focused on NFI
distributions, Shelter, WASH, Protection, Education, Livelihood and Mine Risk
Education in six Governorates (Damascus, Rural Damascus, Dara'a, Aleppo, Hama, and
Homs). Protection/community service activities are provided to beneficiaries through
6 Community Centers.
About the job
Implement DRC Syria’s Livelihoods interventions
in the DRC Area of Intervention (AOI) ; focusing on Microgrants and Asset
Replacements
Available vacancies for this position:
Damascus – Masaken Barzeh Community Center: 1
Duties and
Responsibilities
- TECHNICAL:
- Following business development skills (BDS) training phase and daily activities including attendance and ensuring required logistics support is in place.
- Provide coaching to each Micro Grants/Asset Replacement (MG/AR) beneficiary on regular basis (twice a month for 6 months) using DRC tools.
- Organize and participate in panel selection process.
- Identify other technical support required and how to meet it as part of the coaching plan.
- Visit businesses, where feasible.
- Create mini Communities of Practice between similar Micro Grants/Asset Replacement recipients.
- Conduct contract review meetings with beneficiaries.
- Support the establishment of approval mechanisms and tools for Micro Grants/Asset Replacement
- Prepare comprehensive reports after training closure and finalizing all relevant activities including success stories, recommendations and lessons learnt.
- GENERAL:
- Donors: Understand donor requirements and apply within activity implementation.
- Workplans: Understand, and implement activities agreed workplan/ implementation plan with Field Supervisor.
- Reporting: Produce reporting inputs, per agreed reporting schedule and formats agreed with Field Supervisor; enter beneficiary data into Sigma.
- Delivery of targets: Understand targets agreed with the Field Supervisor.
- Procurement: Liaise with trainers and Field Supervisor to finalize English and Arabic specifications and requirements.
- Compliance: Familiarize with, understand and comply with DRC’s administrative, logistics & procurement & financial SOPs
- Monitoring: Understand and cooperate with monitoring initiatives; use monitoring tools (including FGDs, questionnaires, etc.), and Sigma; produce monitoring reports; amend implementation based on feedback elicited through monitoring and agreed changes with Field Supervisor
- Selection/targeting: Deliver Livelihoods Counselling to beneficiaries and produce a Livelihoods Plan per beneficiary; understand LLHs range of activities; fully cooperate with and support rollout of DRC registration tool; receive training on new tools
- Evaluation, learning and research: engage with field/documentation requirements as agreed with Field Supervisor.
- HR: Monitor the Trainers or subcontractors within the relevant activities
- Internal cooperation: Regularly update Field Supervisor with support requirements at activity level, activity progress/deviation
- External representation and coordination: deputize for Field Supervisor, as requested
About you
In this position, you are expected to demonstrate DRC’ five core
competencies:
Striving for
excellence: You focus on reaching
results while ensuring an efficient process.
Collaborating: You involve relevant parties and encourage
feedback.
Taking the lead: You take ownership and initiative while
aiming for innovation.
Communicating: You listen and speak effectively and
honestly.
Demonstrating
integrity: You act in
line with our vision and values.
General competencies
Flexible
Communication
Teamwork skills
Initiative
Result-oriented/accountability
Stress management
Professionalism
Conflict management
To be successful in this role you must
have:
- Institution degree in commerce, business administration or any relevant field.
- University degree in relevant field is preferable.
- Excellent computer skills, including Excel.
- Minimum two years of work experience with NGO or initiative in related activities/projects in Syria.
- One year work experience in implementing Livelihoods interventions and business coaching is preferable.
- Fluent spoken and written Arabic is a must.
- Very good spoken and written English
- Fluent spoken and written English is preferred but not essential.
- Full respect for client/organization confidentiality is a definite pre-requisite
- Ability to work in a multicultural environment with flexibility and respect for all team members
We offer
DRC will offer the successful applicant a six month
contract, renewable dependent on both funding and performance. Salary
and conditions will be in accordance with Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of
Service contract scale
Application
process
Interested? Then apply for this position, go to
https://drc.dk/about-drc/vacancies/current-vacancies, search for this vacancy
and click on "Apply for position".
All applicants should send a cover letter and an updated CV in the same
language as the vacancy note. Applications close on the 2nd of April
2017.
If you have questions or are facing problems with
the online application process, please contact job@drc.dk
Need further
information?
For further information about the Danish Refugee
Council, please consult our website www.drc.ngo
This vacancy is now closed.
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