Livelihoods Technical Officer Palestine Gaza (re-advertisement)

Contract

This is a Professional contract, Grade 6 (NRC) contract. More about Professional contract, Grade 6 (NRC) contracts.

Rights Respected, People Protected

The Norwegian Refugee Council is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in crises in 31 countries, where we help save lives, rebuild futures and promote the rights of people who are displaced. We deliver high-quality aid where needs are greatest, in both new and protracted crises.

NRC in Palestine

In Palestine, NRC provides humanitarian assistance and promotes respect for international law in one of the longest-running displacement crises in modern history. In the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza, NRC’s work includes emergency preparedness and response, education, ICLA, protection, shelter and WASH.

The Livelihoods Technical Officer is a member of the Urban Displaced Out-of-Camps (UDOC) team under the leadership of the UDOC Programme Coordinator (UDOC PC) in Gaza. The Livelihoods TO supports the development of NRC’s livelihoods ambitions in Gaza, more specifically, leading on livelihood-related assessments in coordination with the UDOC, Education, Protection, Shelter and Cash teams. The TO will also closely track changes in the livelihoods context; support the translation of analyses into action, and contribute to new livelihoods programme design in Gaza. The TO will engage with all Livelihoods and Food Security (LFS) related projects, including those under new Education programming and the Gaza Protection Consortium (GPC).

Specific responsibilities

1. Contribute and support the consideration and inclusion of cash-based interventions and market-based approaches within (and across) NRC core competency responses, where appropriate.
2. Responsible for compiling project documentation – collection, verification, filing – of technical activities of Livelihood assessments and related projects.
3. Recommend livelihoods program priorities and explore, evaluate, and present new opportunities that leverage or complement existing activities
4. Support/Oversee relevant assessments and mapping exercises to collect data that informs program development
5. Design, supervise and conduct needs, market assessments, and price monitoring when required including analyzing and reporting the findings.
6. Support training of NRC staff on cash and markets, and livelihoods programming
7. Work closely with the Education teams on future youth skills programming, informing project design and implementation based on gathered evidence.
8. Contribute to the identification of new activities, areas of intervention, and partnerships.
9. Provide technical input to donor proposals, including contributing to their writing.
10. Prepare projects progress reports and contribute to donor reports
11. Establish strong working relationship with targeted communities, including local leaders and identification of local focal points.
12. Participate in internal and external livelihood, and cash focused coordination meetings, representing NRC at area level based as delegated by line manger
13. Promote and share ideas for technical improvement in design, delivery or monitoring of market based and livelihood-related projects.
14. Undertake any other reasonable task assigned by management.

Our Ideal Candidate must have:

• At least 5 years of previous experience working as a Project Officer/Coordinator in a humanitarian/recovery context.
• At least 2-year experience implementation of livelihood and food security programmes.
• Preferred experience in market-based programming including cash and voucher assistance such as cash for work, small business grants and multipurpose cash assistance
• Preferred experience in running or working in small business establishing and development in various sectors such as agriculture, IT, services, industrial, food, maintenance etc.
• Demonstrated experience with conducting technical and vulnerability assessments, including design and coordination of market assessments.
• Experience conducting focus groups, questionnaires, and surveys.
• Experience working in coordination and liaising with internal and external actors.
• Ability to multi-task and work with short deadlines

• Ability to work independently and proactively with limited daily support and supervision

• Experience working on the topic of labour, specifically for conflict-affected; displaced persons; refugees and/or other vulnerable groups in Gaza.

• Knowledge of the Gaza and broader Palestine human and economic development context.
• Fluency in English and Arabic, both written and verbal

In this position, you will join a highly motivated and experienced team who are making a difference for vulnerable people in one of the world's most complex humanitarian crisis.

Additional Information:

Contract duration: 12 months

Working hours: 40 hours/week, Sun-Thu (5 days per week)

Salary/benefits: According to NRC’s salary scale and terms and conditions

Duty station: Gaza (open to Gaza residents only)

Start Date: ASAP