ERD Livelihoods Officer / Baghdad

Founded in 1933, the International Rescue Committee (www.rescue.org) is a world leader in relief, rehabilitation, protection, post-conflict development, resettlement services and advocacy for those uprooted or affected by violent conflict and oppression. The IRC has long-term programs based in Ninewa, Anbar, Kirkuk, Baghdad, and Erbil, as well as emergency response programs supporting Syrian refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs), returnees and host communities.

Working in coordination with the humanitarian community, IRC currently addresses the needs of war affected Iraqi IDPs from several operational bases in the region. Our activities in the region focus primarily on the provision of non-food items, unconditional cash grants, health, early recovery, community protection and child protection and form part of an overarching humanitarian response in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey and the region that seeks to assist IDPs and refugees survive conflict and displacement.

SCOPE OF WORK: The Economic Recovery and Development Livelihoods Officer is a short-term IRC position working to improve livelihoods of youth affected by conflict in Iraq with access to business training followed by apprenticeship, business grants, Job counselling, life skill training, and vocational training. Supervised by the ERD Manager, the ERD livelihood Officer will work closely with the ERD livelihood team. This program aims to improve service access, socio-economic empowerment and enhance recognition for Iraqi youth (IDPs, Returnees and Host community) mainly women.

Location of Work: Baghdad Governorate (including Karkh and Risafa)

Job Responsibilities:

·       Carry out community mobilization, client’s identification, selection and registration processes timely, transparently in accordance with the program guidelines related.

·       Participate in various field assessments and surveys including; market research, needs assessment, baseline surveys, and pre-post training surveys.

·       Develop training schedules in close collaboration with the business trainer.

·       Organize, facilitate and support running of business trainings, Life skill trainings, grants disbursement and IGAs establishment process.

·       Regularly monitor program activities progress against program work plan promptly identifying any current or potential delays and provide timely inputs and feedback to the Management.

·       Establish clear beneficiary’s follow-up mechanisms and ensures that appropriate actions are made.

·       Compile and submit regular project updates/reports to the Management and promptly identify and recommend solutions to technical issues.

·       Prepare purchase and payment requests related to ERD and undertake necessary steps.

·       Ensure all activities are fully documented, including systematic and timely data collection for beneficiary questionnaires, regular market monitoring and pre-post trainings surveys.

·       Establish and maintain transparent, functional and respectful relationships with target communities and partners to ensure the program is well understood and expectations are in line with the program objectives.

·       Fully comply with IRC safety and security procedures and provide input to security monitoring and assessments to enable and promote a safe and secure environment for program implementation.

·       Work with ERD team and program manager on create linkages with Child protection team as well as with other actors delivering curriculum.

·       Support the coordination with the government stakeholders including MOLSA, MOYS, MoE, etc.

·       This position will work with Youth (15-24 Years), and 60% will be young females. The candidate should have experience in working with youth and females mainly.

·       Any other duties as may be assigned by the line manager.

Key Working Relationships

Position Reports to: CYPD Manager.

Position directly supervises:  N/A.

Support and cooperation: CYPD Coordinator, ERD coordinator, and ERD Technical manager.