Overview
The Team Leader supervises Economic Recovery Officers and Assistants, supports daily planning and follow-up, monitors implementation quality, and ensures effective coordination with local authorities, private sector actors, service providers, and other stakeholders. The role also supports the use of labour market information, decent work standards, beneficiary data systems and field-level learning to inform implementation.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the team (including staff recruitment, planning, performance, well-being and development)
- Ensure effective planning and quality implementation of the sector/support activities
- Ensure daily monitoring of field locations under her/his responsibility
- Assess the quality of provided services.
- Provide guidance to staff of DRC on best ways to conduct activities
- Provide supervision, guidance and monitoring of programme staff, ensuring clarity over programme plans and priorities and encouraging effective teamwork.
- Facilitate regular staff meetings to ensure awareness of programme objectives, and provide opportunities for feedback
- Under close coordination with the programme coordinator, and under the supervision of the area manager, help with building staff capacity on good economic recovery practices based on identified needs and capacity building plans
- Ensure efficient and effective programme implementation while following the budget and work plan
- When requested by the area manager, participate in preparing monthly/quarterly/annual highlights/reports and proposals and budgets for donors
- Lead the team in carrying out programmatic monitoring exercises
- Ensure confidentiality and data security controls processes are in place and complied with by economic recovery staff
- Identify and advocate for opportunities to mainstream and expand economic recovery activities.
- Lead private sector engagement in the field office and local stakeholders to facilitate job creation
- Ensure field teams apply agreed intake, eligibility, scoring, referral, documentation and reporting procedures through the relevant project systems and tools.
- Oversee the delivery and documentation of labour market information sessions and ensure that participants receive clear information on labour market conditions, workers’ rights and available livelihood pathways.
- Ensure the proper application of Decent Work Assessment Tool procedures with employers and follow up on red flags in coordination with the Economic Recovery Coordinator and relevant technical colleagues.
- Follow up on service providers and field-level implementation of training, coaching, employment support, productive asset support and business formalisation activities.
- Represent DRC at meetings and other relevant working group and cluster coordination meetings when requested by the line manager.
- Ensure integration with other DRC sectors as planned by management
- Support Area Manager in liaising with Turkish institutions and local authorities, local NGO partners and CBOs concerning livelihoods activities and project implementation; Promote relations and coordinate activities with other humanitarian actors, donors, UN, and civil authorities in area of intervention in the field level.
- Maintain a strong private sector and stakeholder engagement in the field level
- Support and provide inputs on economic recovery programme development initiatives in coordination with Economic Recovery Programme Coordinator: propose ideas to programme team for feedback and proactively identify opportunities based on needs assessment and gap analysis.
- Analyse and report to AM and Economic Recovery Programme Coordinator, new regulations related to the access to education and job market for Syrians and follow up the implementation of those regulations in the assigned location to design adequate programming and report to Area manager and Economic Recovery Programme Coordinator
- Ensure that a risk analysis in the area of intervention is in place and regularly updated
- Support the monitoring of financial commitments and expenditures against budgets and provide timely feedback on the budget follow-up to Area Manager
- Plan and coordinate proactively logistics and movements of staff from and to different operational areas
- Prepare regular procurement plans and coordinate with supply chain for the timely execution of the plans.
- Review pre-determined supportive documents for Wage subsidy components, initiate payment processes on time and lead tracking of the payments
- Initiate procurements and ensure their execution and regularly report challenges to Area Manager,
- Ensure distribution plans are prepared and shared with logistics in a timely manner
- Follow up and monitor contracts with service providers in close coordination with Economic Recovery Officers
- Ensure familiarity of Economic Recovery Staff with DRC’s Operational Handbook
Required Experience
- Minimum 3 years of management experience at a mid to senior level, with experience in the field of humanitarian response with a special focus on livelihoods intervention, working for an international NGO, UN agency, relevant ministry, or local authority.
- Minimum 2 years of practical experience in sector area working for an INGO
- Proven management skills and a competence in people management
Qualifications
- bachelor’s degree in business administration, economics, social sciences, or development studies.
- Master degree or higher degree in international development, economics, business administration, or other relevant fields.
