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• Oversee the development and launch of a
  new regional resilience and livelihood policy and programme guidance,
  including developing training and materials 
• Ensure high quality and timely resilience,
  market, food security, and livelihood assessments and provide prioritized
  recommendations for program interventions to the Regional team and Country
  programmes 
• Design effective response programs in
  resilience, food security, agriculture and livelihood, with an emphasis on
  cross-sectoral program responses and strategy, in collaboration with
  country teams
• Engage proactively with donors and
  regional institutions to promote and align DRC strategies towards
  political and funding environment, 
• Tasked with campaigning DRC’s livelihood
  and resilience findings, best practice and evidence around displaced
  communities
• The incumbent will also draft technical
  proposals and budgets for international donors, work in close
  collaboration with DRC grants and finance staff to finalize proposals and
  respond to any requests for additional information 
• Select and implement appropriate
  monitoring systems; ensure consistent reporting and analysis of results to
  enhance program effectiveness and quality in collaboration with the
  dedicated regional Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) personnel
• Provide technical support on cash or
  voucher programming design and implementation, market strengthening, and
  internal collaboration among operational and programmatic stakeholders
  involved in cash/voucher programming to existing country programs remotely
  and through in-country visits or short-term deployments, in close
  collaboration with regional cash expert
• The incumbent will also facilitate and/or
  participate in relevant meetings, workshops, seminars and trainings;
  support technical coordinators from other sectors to apply a resilience,
  livelihoods and market-sensitive lens to cross-sectoral assessments and
  program design
• Build DRC staff capacity in the
  utilization of economic recovery methodologies and resources, 
• Offer technical support as needed to
  existing country programs remotely and through in-country visits and
  short-term deployments

• The applicant for the Danish Refugee
  Council (DRC) Regional Resilience and Livelihoods Coordinator job opportunity
  must hold a Master’s degree, in resilience/international development, food
  security, agriculture, nutrition or related field 
• A minimum of seven years’ experience in
  developing resilience and/or livelihood strategies
• At least seven years’ managing technical
  projects including at least two years in complex humanitarian and
  development settings
• Broad knowledge and understanding of
  resilience, food security and livelihoods technical concepts and
  experience conducting detailed market, food security and livelihood needs
  assessments. 
• Proven ability to work across functions
  and sectors to design and implement high-quality market-based programming,
  and in-depth knowledge of supply chain and financial management and
  controls of cash and/or voucher programs 
  
• Demonstrated ability to communicate technical
  expertise and standards and implement best practice approaches to
  implementing rapid, consistent, high quality emergency projects as well as
  protracted displacement situations
• Previous experience managing donor funded
  programs and grants; including staff management, budget oversight,
  monitoring and evaluation systems, and technical input to proposal-budget
  development and donor reports.
• Experienced with conflict related
  displacement issues
• Excellent internal and external
  communication and coordination capabilities and excellent team building
  and management skills
• Continuous Learning; a colleague who
  promotes continuous learning for self and others;
• Creativity and Initiative; someone that
  actively seeks new ways of improving Programmes, services and partnership
• Performance Management; a person who
  identify ways and implement actions to improve performance of self and
  others
• Fluent and articulate in spoken and
  written English.

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