Economic Recovery Officer - Life skills /Digital trainer at Danish Refugee Council

Overall purpose of the role: 

• The Economic recovery/Life skills Officer – Digital opportunities project, will report to the economic recovery team leader, h/she will also closely work with the economic recovery and the digital opportunities team. The position will support the digital opportunities trainees in linking them to the aspect livelihoods, offer a wide range life skills training, entrepreneurship training, business plan development and support in livelihoods mentorship.  
• The position is aimed developing the digital opportunities project participants to able to gain skills in negotiation, good communication, developing their CV`s and online profiles, create their own business plans and bid for online jobs successfully. 
• The position holder will work with a team of digital opportunities staffs which include an officer, assistants, digital trainers and a digital opportunities consultant.

Duties & Responsibilities:
Project Management and Development: 

• Participate in project planning & implementation including activity, budgeting and procurement/logistics planning 
• Develop and maintain detailed implementation plans to deliver program to agreed timeline and milestones
• Ensure all project activities are implemented on time and in line with the set-out work-plans
• Document lessons learned from training activities, community meeting and assist in preparing training reports
• Participate together with the digital team to prepare/adopt training manuals E.g lifes skills, entrepreneurship, work readiness/skills for work success  
• Establish and Maintain the digital training database.
• Keep inventory of all the ICT equipment’s under your supervision
• Support needs assessment and propose new ideas to improve the digital learning and on-line jobs for youth.

Mentorship;

• Provide both financial literacy and life skills training to the trainees.
• Provided entrepreneurship training, business plans development skills 
• Support the beneficiaries in bidding for online jobs by providing skill in developing good online profiles and helping in development of winnable bids 
• Lead and manage the mentorship sessions offered to the beneficiaries 
• Coordinate closely with Ajira Kenya and Dadaab collective who provide mentorship to the trainees 
• Support in the review the mentorship curriculum and strategies in place.
• Support acculturation, priority setting, networking, career planning, and counseling related to the individual's (mentee's) identified goals toward advancement in their freelancing career.
• Support freelancers in client engagement and contract management strategies
• Watch out for trends on the online platforms and advise the program team on ways to align implementation 

Monitoring and Reporting

• Monitor the mentorship program 
• Keep accurate records of special events and training activities including meeting/class/training attendance  
• Collect and analyze livelihoods data on a monthly basis
• Participate in periodic field level programme review and planning meetings
• Support with weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual donor/internal reporting 
• Monitor the linkages between digital learning and livelihoods especially the growth of earnings by the online freelancers 
• Record the progress on learning in building their life skills and entrepreneurship skills 
• Report the general growth and the progress of the beneficiaries 
• Submit weekly/monthly project updates to the digital learning officer

Planning and Budgeting

• Prepare weekly, monthly and quarterly plans and share with your supervisor with the aim of implementing them

Experience and technical competencies: 

• Four or more years’ experience working with I/NGOs within humanitarian/development contexts 
• Demonstrable experience in livelihoods programming in a refugee and host community 
• Experience in providing life skills training 
• Has an understanding of digital and online job opportunities 
• Demonstrates a good understanding of Project Cycle Management  
• Has excellent communication (spoken and written) skills 
• Working knowledge of MS Office, Excel and other relevant computer applications 
• Good planning and organizational skills coupled with problem-solving ability
• Possess good level of conflict management skills 
• Possess a sense of cultural awareness, sensitivity and respect for diversity
• Strong organizational, team spirit and team work skills
• Knowledge of the key issues and trends in livelihood/food security interventions
• Ability to tolerate diverse cultural, educational and religious diversity in the workplace

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Agribusiness, Agriculture, Sociology, Development Studies or Economics.

Language: 

• Written and spoken fluency in English and Kiswahili 
• Working knowledge of the Somali Language is an advantage.

Key stakeholders: Internal & External

• All staff
• Technicians
• Assistants