Senior Livelihoods Officer-Phase 1 and Phase 2 (Socio-economic Self-Reliance) - National Contract

Senior Livelihoods Officer

Kilis, Turkey

We are looking for a highly qualified Senior Livelihoods Officer for Phase 1 and Phase 2 (Socio-economic Self-Reliance) for our program in Kilis-Turkey

Who are we?

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a humanitarian, non-governmental and non-profit organization, founded in 1956, that works in more than 35 countries around the world. DRC has been operating in Turkey since early 2013, working with by and large with non-camp Syrian refugees and affected host communities. DRC is committed to basic humanitarian principles; including impartiality and neutrality, and offers the highest standards of accountability to the people it serves. The overall objective for DRC in Turkey is the protection and promotion of durable solutions to displacement affected populations on the basis of humanitarian principles and human rights with more immediate objectives focusing both on the immediate subsistence needs, protection and self-reliance support as well as a more long term focus on capacity building. In Turkey, DRC works partially through partners, also providing intensive capacity building support, while also conducting direct implementation.

About the job

DRC’s livelihoods programming aims to build the capacities and assets of vulnerable Syrian and host community individuals to enhance their social and economic self-reliance. Programme activities include; counselling, provision of transferrable skills, referral to vocational skills training, linkage with private sector and/or provision of home-based small business grants.

The Senior Livelihoods Officer – Phase 1 & Phase 2 (Socio-economic Self-Reliance) develops the strategy to increase the beneficiaries’ social self-reliance, identifies and manages the relationships with external service providers through which transferrable and soft skills trainings are provided, provides regular and tailored technical and operational guidance to the implementing partners to ensure quality implementation and oversees daily activities to ensure expected results and targets are met.

The Senior Livelihoods Officer – Phase 1 & Phase 2 (Socio-economic Self-Reliance) also develops the strategy to increase the beneficiaries’ economic self-reliance, identifies and manages the relationships with external service providers through which technical and vocational skills trainings are provided. The Senior Livelihoods Officer – Phase 1 plays an essential role in building the capacity of the implementing partners’ staff and in ensuring smooth coordination between DRC and its implementing partners.

Duties and Responsibilities

General Programming & operations (40%)

• Provide oversight of all Phase 1 activities taking place at the Livelihoods/Training centres through close coordination with implementing partner as well as the phase 2 activity of technical & vocational trainings
• Develop the strategy for social self-reliance and economic self-reliance in the respective area (counselling and provision of high range of transferrable and soft skills & counselling and provision of high range of technical and vocational skills and on-the-job trainings)
• Map, identify and develop relationships with relevant external service providers providing transferrable and soft skills trainings as well as the technical & vocational trainings
• Maintain and manage the relationships with the external service providers and communicate all relevant information to the implementing partners in a structured and timely manner
• Work in close collaboration with the Senior Officer Phase 2 & Phase 3 to identify ways of referring beneficiaries to the relevant career path, either employment (job referrals) or self-employment (income generation / entrepreneurship)
• Follow-up the budget for relevant budget lines, with the support of the coordinator
• Manage the contracts with and payments to the external services providers
• Analyse at all times the changing needs amongst Syrians and refugee groups to ensure DRC provides relevant activities
• Analyse and identify, with the team of the implementing partners, new approaches for transferrable skill trainings and technical & vocational trainings to ensure implementation is relevant to the needs of beneficiaries
• Identify the need for assessments as well as focus group discussions with beneficiaries and support the team of the implementing partner in undertaking them
• Participate in facilitating and coordinating activities within the team and with other DRC’s departments

  Technical support – interactions with implementing partner (40%)

• Work closely with the Livelihoods Officer – Training of the implementing partner to identify capacity building needs for the implementing team
• Provide capacity building to the staff of the implementing partner based on jointly developed capacity building plans
• Support, guide and coach implementing partner’s staff on technical and operational issues for quality implementation and follow up on recommendations to ensure quality control throughout implementation
• Provide guidance on how to integrate cross-cutting protection considerations into planned interventions
• Promote an open and supportive environment for implementing partner’s staff
• Ensure that the implementing partner produces detailed report on activities weekly
• Ensure and plan with the implementing partners project monitoring visits

   

  Coordination (10%)

• Proactively seek for new partnerships for transferrable & soft skills training as well as the technical, vocational & on-the-job trainings
• Promote and ensure at all times a pragmatic and efficient dialogue as well as networking with local institutions and authorities, private Institutes, workshops, national and international NGOs, etc.
• Coordinate with the rest of DRC Turkey team whenever needed

   

  Monitoring & Evaluation (5%)

• Provide regular reporting on indicators, achievements and challenges related to the project in close coordination with the implementing partner
• Facilitate the qualitative and quantitative monitoring of the project through team meetings, focus group, post-assistance visits, regular reporting and any other monitoring tools.
• Participate in the internal evaluation of the programme.

Representation (5%)

• If requested by the Livelihoods Coordinator or the Livelihoods Manager, represent DRC in livelihoods working groups and interagency planning workshops.

   

  Additional Duties

• Any other duties as agreed with the Livelihoods Coordinator, Livelihoods Area Manager, Are Manager and Livelihoods Program Manager

About you

• To be successful in this role you must have Bachelor’s degree or higher in international human rights, law, sociology, social work, or other relevant field.

Moreover, we also expect the following:

Required qualifications

• At least 2 years of relevant professional livelihood experience with a humanitarian aid organization.
• Minimum 1 year in a similar position.
• Fluency in English, and either Arabic or Turkish both written and verbal.
• High-level of knowledge and practice with Word, Excel, Outlook, etc. required.
• Experience working in the field (preferably experience from Southern Turkey).
• Experience with managing partnerships with local organizations.
• Experience engaging with the private sector.
• Willingness to relocate to south/south-eastern Turkey, and to travel within and between provinces.
• Proven analytical and writing skills.
• Proven communication, interpersonal, representation, negotiation, promotion and diplomacy skills.
• Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships in a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary environment.
• Ability to provide capacity building support to members of a different organization.
• Flexible, enthusiastic and willingness to learn from others.
• Strong initiative and self-motivated.
• Ability to multi-task and cope with competing demands under tight deadlines.

  Desirable qualifications

• Project Management (including budget / contract management).
• Project monitoring (including reporting and data management).
• Understanding of the rights and protection issues of refugees, children and women - experience working with Syrian refugees is an advantage.
• An understanding of humanitarian/civil society issues in Turkey and the region

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. 

We offer

DRC will offer the successful applicant a 3 Months’ contract, renewable dependent on both funding and performance. You must be available to start work from 01 October 2017 and be willing and able to work in Kilis.

We offer a fair compensation package depending on your qualification and experiences as well as additional allowances such as relocation allowance and living allowances, if applicable. DRC Turkey is income tax exempted.

Application process

Interested? Then apply for this position by clicking on the apply button. 

If you have questions or are facing problems with the online application process, please contact recruitment@drc-turkey.org 

Applications close 23 September 2017. The interviews are expected to take place within 1 week after the application close date.

Need further information?

For more details on this position please contact HR team at recruitment@drc-turkey.org.

Please note that applications sent directly to [contact name] will not be considered.

For further information about the Danish Refugee Council, please consult our website www.drc.ngo