Livelihoods Field Assistant -Vocational Training (National Contract)

Homs, Syria

Danish Refugee Council, one of the world’s leading humanitarian NGOs, is currently looking for a highly qualified individual to fill-in the vacancy of Livelihood Field Assistant (Vocational Training) to work in Homs 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 AoI; focusing on Complementary Trainings (Business Development Skills, Marketing, Employability, Work Ethics).

TECHNICAL:

• Deliver Beneficiary Induction Sessions
• Monitor Trainers’ performance
• Keep records of Trainers, Beneficiaries, and partner attendance
• Liaise with Trainers or other partner staff to ensure skills development is monitored and tracked
• Organise graduation ceremonies, exhibitions, bazaars
• Followup on beneficiary motivation and engagement including dropouts
• Pay beneficiaries’ transportation allowance; trainers and other partner staff
• Distribute, and keep records and receipts, for toolkits disbursed
• Be responsible for relevant activities supplies, assets and products – storage and management

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 finalise English and Arabic specifications and requirements
• Familiarise 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: Manage 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: deputise 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. 

To be successful in this role you must have:

Required

• Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Finance, Business Administration, Nutrition, or similar relevant education.
• One-year experience in humanitarian relief.

Desirable

• Minimum One year experience in Livelihoods intervention .
• Fluent spoken and written English.

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.