conomic Recovery Officer – Business Skills (Emergency Roster) at Danish Refugee Council

Responsibilities:
R1. Programming & Operations:

• Deliver business training and SME development, business grants, life-skills training, vocational training and other training materials to beneficiaries, in line with project plans and budgets and using tools and training materals developed by DRC
• Deliver micro-credit loans activities, savings groups, group enterprise development and facilitation activities, in line with project plans and budgets and using tools and training materals developed by DRC
• Ensure efficient and effective program implementation while following the budget and work plan
• Participate in preparing monthly/quarterly/annual highlights/reports and proposals and budgets for donors
• Lead the team in carrying out monitoring and evaluation exercises

R2. Coordination and representation:

• Collaborate with relevant internal and external technical experts on sector relevant issues 
• Represent DRC at meetings and other relevant technical coordination meetings
• Ensure integration with other DRC sectors

R3. Project development:

• Develop project plans and budgets for funding 
• Develop projects tools 
• Project implementation and reporting 
• Monitor and evaluate projects

R4. Logistics/Finance:

• Support the monitoring of financial commitments and expenditures against budgets and provide timely feedback on budget follow-up 
• Plan and coordinate proactively logistics and movements of staff from and to different operational areas
• Initiate procurements and ensure their execution
• Ensure distribution plans are prepared and shared with logistics in a timely manner

Experience and Technical Competencies: 

• Minimum 2 years of practical experience in sector area working for an INGO
• Field experience in Economic Recovery or Resilience programming
• Experience delivering business training and SME development, business grants, life-skills training, vocational training, micro-credit loans, savings groups activities.
• Excellent skill in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Education:

• Degree in disaster risk management, Economics, social sciences, international development or other relevant field.

Languages: 

• Somali (fluent)
• English (fluent)
• Other local languages (desirable)