CASH and Livelihoods Technical Assistant Iraq Nineveh

Overview

Assist in the implementation of cash and livelihoods projects in Iraq.

You have:

• 2 years’ experience in Cash and livelihood projects in a humanitarian/recovery context
• University degree or higher education relevant to the assignment (social services, agriculture, relevant engineering)
• Experience working in complex and volatile contexts
• Experience conducting beneficiary identification, verification and registration
• Experience supporting referrals and/or identifying service providers
• Experience conducting focus groups, questionnaires, and surveys
• Competencies in all computer related tasks including Word, Excel, and Outlook
• Strong communications skills, with good verbal and written English and fluent in local Arabic language
• Ability to work under pressure and with limited supervision in a challenging environment
• Good understanding of community participation and ability to communicate with beneficiaries
• Overall good knowledge of geography, local population and local language in operational areas

Contract

This is a Professional contract, Grade 4 (NRC) contract. More about Professional contract, Grade 4 (NRC) contracts.

Role and responsibilities

• Ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
• Implement delegated Cash and Livelihoods project portfolio according to plan of action
• Prepare and develop status reports as required by management
• Ensure proper filing of documents
• Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need, and explore and asses new and better ways to assist
• Assist the Project Officer in registration of beneficiaries; verification of needs based on home visits, post distribution monitoring; and/or distribution of assistance in line with NRC policies and donor requirements.
• Ensure that the most vulnerable beneficiaries are selected in line with the approved beneficiary selection criteria
• Verify and update the beneficiary registers and report back to the project officer
• Facilitate the distribution of in-kind assistance/supplies/cash to selected beneficiaries and monitor utilisation of the items distributed
• Follow up on all beneficiaries regularly to ensure that they implement activities in line with schedules provided
• Participate in the preparation of weekly and monthly plan and schedules to be submitted to the immediate supervisor within given deadlines;
• Actively promote community participation in project activities with particular attention to gender representation in all activities;
• Facilitate the training of beneficiaries
• Prepare and submit reports and other updates as required
• Support with referrals to other NRC sectors or through external referral mechanisms

Competencies

• 2 years’ experience in Cash and livelihood projects in a humanitarian/recovery context
• University degree or higher education relevant to the assignment (social services, agriculture, relevant engineering). Proven work experience will be considered as a substitute for formal education.
• Previous experience working in complex and volatile contexts
• Experience conducting beneficiary identification, verification and registration
• Experience supporting referrals and/or identifying service providers
• Experience conducting focus groups, questionnaires, and surveys
• Competencies in all computer related tasks including Word, Excel, and Outlook
• Strong communications skills, with good verbal and written English and fluent in local Arabic language is a requirement
• Ability to work under pressure and with limited supervision in a challenging environment.
• Good understanding of community participation, and very good ability to communicate with beneficiaries.
• Overall good knowledge of geography, local population and local language in the areas of operational interests

Other information:

• Contract Duration: 12 months ( with the possibility of extension)
• Duty Station: Nenawa - based Mosul with traveling 80% to other intervention areas.
• Health Insurance is provided
• Salary: G4/S1, According to NRC’s Iraq salary scale and terms and conditions.
• Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• NRC is an equal opportunity employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability.
• For more information please read Job Description

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