Economic Recovery Assistant

The Economic Recovery Assistant supports project activity implementation, monitoring, and evaluation in the Dadaab refugee complex and neighboring communities. The role involves collaboration with stakeholders and provides technical support for skills development, microenterprise, financial inclusion, and drylands agriculture aligned with market systems.

Responsibilities

• Assist in effective project component activity implementation oversight, monitoring and evaluation in one of the camps in the Dadaab refugee complex and neighboring communities
• Work closely with other Economic recovery team colleagues to ensure an integrated approach in beneficiary targeting, activity execution, assessments and feedback
• Liaise closely with stakeholders located in international and national NGOs, county/national governments and community leadership structures to ensure effective service-delivery, participation and added value
• Provide technical support for skills development, Microenterprise development, financial inclusion and Drylands Agriculture and value chain development aligning to the market systems designs in one camp and the neighboring host community locations

Requirements

• 3 or more years’ experience working with I/NGOs within humanitarian/development contexts
• Demonstrable experience in livelihoods/food security programming within refugee/host community settings
• Demonstrate experience in dryland agriculture
• 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
• Knowledge and skills in Microenterprise development/MSME/BDS/entrepreneurship/financial literacy
• Knowledge and demonstrated experience in financial inclusion/VSLA
• Bachelor’s Degree/Diploma in Education, Business Administration, Commerce, Agribusiness, Agriculture, Sociology, International Development/Relations or Economics
• Further short trainings in drylands agriculture, entrepreneurship, technical education, value-chain development, making markets work for the poor (M4P), community-managed microfinance/savings groups, MIS for savings groups or agricultural production highly desirable for this role
• Fluency in written and spoken English
• Fluency in local spoken languages is an added advantage

Skills

• Livelihood Programming
• Food Security Programming
• Dryland Agriculture
• Project Cycle Management
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Excel
• Planning and Organization
• Conflict Management
• Cultural Awareness
• Microenterprise Development
• MSME Development
• Business Development
• Entrepreneurship
• Finance Literacy
• Financial Inclusion Knowledge
• Village savings and loans associations
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Stakeholder Collaboration
• Skills Development Support
• Market Systems Development

Languages

English