Overview
The Economic Recovery Coordinator will provide high-quality strategic guidance, capacity strengthening, and technical leadership to DRC ALT’s Economic Recovery portfolio across three sub-sectors. The role promotes self-reliance and resilience for conflict-, climate-, and displacement-affected populations.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design and refinement of DRC’s Economic Recovery portfolio in ALT across two programmatic platforms.
- Update and implement the Economic Recovery strategy for ALT.
- Provide technical design and review of relevant proposals, concept notes, frameworks and reports.
- Engage in bilateral coordination with local and international NGOs, international public organizations and private sector actors.
- Foster strategic private sector engagement.
- Oversight and monitoring of overall sector budget.
- Collaborate with other sector leads to explore options for integrated programming.
- Liaise with Regional and Global Economic Recovery Team on innovative initiatives.
- Technical supervision of DAPP project manager and commercial contract implementation.
- Coordinate DRC ALT’s Economic Recovery programme and provide technical guidance, mentoring, coaching and support.
- Support in the recruitment, onboarding and capacity strengthening of technical staff members.
- Identify technical and/or programmatic gaps and provide training and capacity building.
- Guide Economic Recovery staff in conducting regular market assessments.
- Lead on the development of relevant and appropriate beneficiary selection criteria and identification process.
- Lead the development and review of Economic Recovery tools, SoPs and guidelines.
- Ensure compliance with DRC standards and procedures and alignment with global strategy.
- Ensure that programming is integrated with other DRC sectors.
- Work closely with Economic Recovery Teams and Partnership Coordinator in the development of partnership models.
- Quality assurance & compliance for Economic Recovery programming.
- Oversight of overall program implementation progress and quality.
- Map donor priorities and identify new opportunities.
- Support identification, assessment, and development of strategic partnerships.
- Act as the main sector-level point of contact with donors.
- Oversight and coordination of sectoral projects.
- Lead on developing assessments.
- Visit regularly programme activities in ALT and provide support and feedback.
- Represent DRC in relevant internal and external coordination forums.
- Liaise with local, regional, and national government authorities and relevant stakeholders.
- Maintain close working relationships with technical leads within DRC ALT, WANAL hub, and HQ.
- Develop and maintain DRC ALT’s network of private sector partnerships.
- Ensure adherence to DRC’s Age, Gender, and Diversity policy.
- Ensure compliance with zero-tolerance to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse policy.
- Ensure documentation and consolidation of success stories.
- Ensure compliance with DRC guidelines and policies on HR, admin, finance, and supply chain.
- Perform other relevant tasks as requested.
Required Experience
- At least 5 years proven and successful track record as technical advisor or project manager with strong resilience background in the field of livelihoods/economic recovery.
- Proven experience working in economic recovery programming in a fragile middle-income country, and preferably within a displacement setting.
- Experience in developing country level technical economic recovery strategies and rolling them out.
- Experience and expertise in conducting market assessments, in particular value-chain assessments and relevant analysis for program design.
- Experience of working in projects with strong financial inclusion components (i.e. micro-finance institutes, insurance companies, and informal financing approaches).
- Experience with emergency economic recovery and cash and voucher assistance (CVA) a strong asset.
- Experience in working in multi-cultural context and cross-border programming.
- Excellent skills in programme development and proposal writing.
- Experience with project cycle management and project management tools such as logical frameworks, work plans, and monitoring plans.
- Strong experience in working with local and international partners, local/government authorities, and donor guidelines.
- Cultural sensitivity and adaptability.
- Willingness to travel to in an insecure and high stress environment.
- Knowledge of the North African context is an advantage.
Qualifications
• Master’s degree in international development, social science, civil society, law, or a related field.
