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• Under the supervision of the Livelihoods
  Coordinator, coordinate with stakeholders, DRC livelihood related linkages
  representing the organization within its internal guidelines/standards and
  those of donors/partners in the districts of jurisdiction.
• Attend and represent the interests of DRC
  in all Livelihood related meetings with the District Local Governments,
  lower local governments, and other stakeholders
• Actively coordinate within the
  jurisdiction of your responsibility
• Contribute and actively participate in
  internal and sector coordination meetings

• Contribute to concept and proposal
  development in the livelihood thematic areas, with key focus on market development
  and cash based interventions
• Contribute to the gap analysis in the
  areas of Livelihoods and contribute in the development of new thematic
  areas according to analysis
• Develop market-based interventions and
  tools to guide market development
• Provide key accountability, documentation
  and assessments to guide cash based interventions
• Responsible for day to day activity
  implementation (with cash based interventions being a core activity)
  through efficient and effective ways
• Contribute to the design of capacity
  building syllabi and materials and effectively implement the trainings at
  all levels
• Manage the day-to-day livelihood
  activities, including activity finances while bearing in mind DRC’s/Donor
  financial regulations.
• Monitor and document DRC’s livelihood and
  cash activities, ensuring all processes, results and lessons learnt are
  documented and shared within the sector and with Management
• Prepare/contribute to weekly, monthly,
  quarterly, annual, donor and other reports in the area of livelihoods

• Supervise and mentor Livelihood Assistants
  in the district of jurisdiction, providing hands-on and real time training
  to ensure growth and development in performance of the Assistants
• Uphold DRC’s code of conduct and
  principles of accountability. Provide technical and informed programmatic
  leadership for the livelihood staff members and community based mechanisms
  in Kyaka II operational area as needed.
• Develop staff performance measurement and
  targets for staff under direct supervision and appraise them based on the
  set targets.
• Conduct daily field visits to support
  field staffs – mentoring – through technical back stopping and to train
  duty bearers

• Keenly monitor financial commitments and
  expenditures against budgets and provide timely feedback on budget follow
  ups.
• Plan and coordinate proactively logistics
  and movements of staff from and to different activity locations.
• Initiate procurements and ensure their
  timely execution
• Ensure the delivery of supplies in the
  right quantity and quality
• Contribute to grants management of all
  livelihood projects through management of day to day project expenditures
  with strict adherence to internal finance policies and donor guidelines

• The ideal candidate for the Danish Refugee
  Council (DRC) Livelihoods Officer (Market Development) job placement
  should have four years of experience working with market and community
  development and livelihoods, preferably in a refugee setting
• Proven experience in developing and
  implementing cash based interventions
• Ability to speak local languages
  (Kiswahili a key asset)
• Proven experience managing community
  dialogues and working directly with beneficiaries
• Desirable: experience working with or
  implementing ECHO projects

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