Overview
The Economic Recovery Team Leader will manage and technically oversee DRC's Economic Recovery portfolio, ensuring timely, accountable, and high-quality delivery of activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the Economic Recovery field team, including workplans, staff planning, coaching, performance follow-up and capacity building.
- Oversee field implementation of KFW and other assigned EcRec/MPCA activities, ensuring targets, budgets, procurement and reporting deadlines are met.
- Track implementation risks, delays and quality issues, and propose timely corrective actions.
- Coordinate closely with implementing partners and service providers, supporting partner workplans, field supervision, documentation and capacity building.
- Lead and quality assure beneficiary identification, verification, registration and prioritization for livelihoods, cash-plus and MPCA activities.
- Oversee gender-sensitive market assessments, community consultations, business/vocational skills, life skills/literacy, CSA/FFS, post-harvest handling and market linkages.
- Supervise implementation of business grants, consumption support, MPCA and cash assistance, ensuring documentation, reconciliation, complaints handling and compliance.
- Support establishment and follow-up of savings/financial inclusion groups, WUCs/SWUCs and community structures.
- Provide field-level oversight for NRM and community-based infrastructure activities.
- Review technical inputs such as BoQs, specifications and implementation plans for infrastructure/NRM activities.
- Feed into programme strategy, identify opportunities for integrated programming, local partnerships and adaptive management.
- Ensure protection, gender, safeguarding, AAP and conflict-sensitivity are mainstreamed throughout all activities.
- Ensure close coordination with Protection, CCCM and WASH teams.
- Represent DRC in coordination forums, local authority meetings and technical discussions.
- Maintain strong working relationships with local authorities, partners, community committees, financial service providers and humanitarian actors.
- Initiate and follow up procurement, distribution and service requests.
- Ensure accurate data collection, documentation and archiving for all activities.
- Support MEAL with monitoring, beneficiary reconciliation, PDM and training assessments.
- Ensure compliance with DRC and donor financial, procurement and programmatic requirements.
Required Experience
At least 3 years of professional experience in humanitarian assistance, including livelihoods, economic recovery, cash assistance, resilience, early recovery or integrated programming. Experience managing or supervising field teams, workplans and activity delivery in complex emergency or early recovery contexts. Experience in livelihoods, market-based programming, business/vocational skills, cash assistance, financial inclusion, agriculture, WASH/NRM or community-based programming. Experience in partner coordination, local authority engagement and community-based implementation is required. Previous experience in the West Coast/Al Khawkhah, Taiz or a similar field context is highly desirable. Experience implementing protection and gender mainstreaming and working with women and vulnerable groups in conservative contexts.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Development Studies, Social Sciences, Business Administration, Agriculture, Engineering, Economics, Management or other relevant field. Relevant technical training/certification in livelihoods, CVA/MPCA, project management, MEAL, agriculture, WASH/NRM or partner management is an asset.
