Overview
Responsible to implement economic recovery activities and provide technical assistance to local partners, ensuring achievement of project objectives, reporting, and coordination with other agencies in Kachin State.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct field visits to identify livelihood needs and opportunities, register beneficiaries, and mobilize target communities.
- Develop yearly and monthly plans for assigned targets.
- Coordinate with internal and external sectoral teams, finance, supply chain, and HR teams.
- Implement Economic Recovery (EcRec) activities including CVA, agriculture, livestock, IGA, and financial inclusion.
- Act as the EcRec focal person in the area and assist with joint monitoring visits.
- Facilitate logistics and procurement requirements.
- Contribute to funding proposals and donor reports.
- Assist in developing monthly cash forecasts and monitoring program budgets.
- Record activity and output data, update project databases, and collect success stories.
- Coordinate team planning and review meetings.
- Provide oral and written monthly updates on EcRec activities.
- Act as a technical focal point for local partners, authorities, and humanitarian organizations.
- Establish and maintain relationships with community representatives, government counterparts, and other humanitarian agencies.
- Coordinate with EcRec PM and Partnership Specialist to support local partners.
- Assist in the SGA process and project management with local partners.
- Provide EcRec technical support and advice to local partners.
- Visit and meet with local partners regularly to ensure successful funding implementation.
Required Experience
- At least two years previous experience in similar positions or above.
- Previous humanitarian experience with an INGOs, or Local NGO.
- Experience of implementing and monitoring livelihood (EcRec) programmes.
- Experience of implementing CVA, income generating activities (IGAs), agriculture-based livelihood activities, livestock activities.
- Experience of monitoring progress of planned programmes and reporting on programme activities.
- Experience of working and supporting the local partners.
- Experience of providing technical support and capacity building to partner staff.
- Experience of working with other relevant stakeholders including local governments, and other NGOs / INGOs.
- Experience in training people.
- Experience in working in townships in Kachin and in hard-to-reach locations.
Qualifications
- Education bachelor’s degree level in a relevant field; in business management, agriculture, animal science, etc.
- Relevant educational and/or professional backgrounds in either rural/agricultural and/or urban (e.g. income generating activities, small enterprises, vocational skills training, apprenticeship training) livelihood fields is preferred.
