Economic Recovery Officer

Job Description

Position Summary

The Economic Recovery Officer – GFD has a base focus and ensures compliance to DRC procedures and guidelines at base-level. The role contributes to the development of base strategies, which are translated into action plans and day-to-day tasks. In addition, the Economic Recovery Officer is in charge of the following:     

• Provides administrative or technical support with the implementation of emergency activities in the area as well as other programs, where needed and relevant
• Ensure the quality of the planning, implementation and follow up of all technical aspects of emergency activities being implemented by DRC emergency team and other programs, where needed and relevant

Develop and maintain good relations with the persons of concern, relevant stakeholders and other humanitarian actors, to support adequate implementation and coordination of DRC’s sector activities.

Responsibilities:

Programming & Operations

• Ensure efficient and effective program implementation while following the budget and work plan.
• Lead on the implementation of basic tasks within sector area, including beneficiary identification, distribution of relief assistance (either cash or in-kind), needs assessments and other sector-specific evaluations.
• Responsible for administrative tasks, including preparation of PRs, POs, service contracts, financial reconciliation and tracking of outputs.
• Ensure compliance to DRC and donor requirements and procedures at all times during implementation.
• Participate in preparing monthly/quarterly/annual highlights/reports and proposals and budgets for donors.
• Support the teams in conducting assessments and carrying out monitoring and evaluation exercises.

Coordination and representation

• Collaborate with relevant internal and external technical experts on sector relevant issues, including coordination with other program departments and support services to facilitate efficient and effective program implementation.
• Represent DRC at meetings and other relevant technical coordination meetings
• Ensure integration with other DRC sectors.

Project development 

• With the support of the Economic Recovery Team Leader, develop activities plans, including assessment and distribution plans.
• With the support of the Economic Recovery Specialist, contextualize and refine projects tools 
• Support with tracking of outputs and with internal/external reporting.

Logistics/Finance

• Support the monitoring of financial commitments and expenditures against budgets and provide timely feedback on budget follow-up 
• Plan and coordinate proactively logistics and movements of staff from and to different operational areas
• Initiate procurements and ensure their execution
• Ensure distribution plans are prepared and shared with all relevant departments in a timely manner
• Ensure accurate financial and stock reconciliations after cash or in-kind distributions 
• Support MEAL team with timely data reconciliation of assistance delivered against planned targets 
• Ensure that all needed beneficiary information is accurately collected and reported through established mechanisms

About you 

Education:

• Degree or Diploma or closely related Degree 

Experience: (include years of experience)

• Minimum 2 years of practical experience in sector area working for an INGO
• Notable practical experience in Administration area, such as drafting reports, leading workshops/meetings, archiving, data entry, … etc.
• Excellent skill in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Advanced English proficiency

Key stakeholders: 

• Base Manager and Area Manager 
• Economic Recovery Manager/Specialists/PMs/TLs
• Economic Recovery team 
• Support service departments
• Other Sectoral teams operating in the same area        

Languages:

• Arabic – fluent
• Advanced English proficiency