Title: Economics Recovery Team Leader – Cash Distribution – Re-advertised

Location: Jijiga – Deridewa with frequent travel to Siti zone

Employment Category:  G

Reporting To: Livelihood Manager (Resilience and durable solutions Manager-Jijiga/Dollo)

Direct Reports:

Unit/Department: Programmes

Start of Contract & Duration:  8 Months (until the 31st of December 2022)

Re-Posting date: July 19, 2022

Closing date: July 26, 2022

Overall Purpose of the Role:

The role of the Economics Recovery Team Leader- Cash Distribution is to lead in the planning and implementation of the cash and distribution activities under the Jijiga Area Office and Derdewa Base office and to support the Resilience and durable solutions Manager and economic recovery coordinator in designing and providing technical oversight. The team leader will ensure that the cash intervention is implemented in accordance with DRC standards, methodologies, and tools for cash-based intervention and in line with DRC and donor policies and guidelines

RESPONSIBILITIES

Technical Responsibilities

• Ensure high-quality implementation of the cash and distribution activities applying DRC’s methodologies, tools, and standards for cash interventions and in line with project standards;
• Plan and follow up the implementation of humanitarian activities as per the donor contract and proposal documents;
• Ensure community engagement and effective communication throughout the process (from identification, registration, verification to distribution) and ensure that feedback is collected and responded to;
• Ensure thorough review of field reports and distribution lists received from Cash Distribution Officers before granting approval to respond;
• Follow up with field teams to ensure data received through digital data collecting tool is submitted timely and good quality;
• Follow up with field teams to ensure direct assistance to eligible displaced beneficiaries is done within recommended timeline;
• Follow up with Cash Distribution Officers, MEAL Team, Resilience, and durable solutions Manager, Program Manager and Area Manager to ensure post-distribution monitoring (PDM) is done within timelines;
• Provide technical or programmatic support to grants as requested;
• Ensure consistent, standard approaches across all responses applying humanitarian standards and approaches
• Collaborate and coordinate with the Protection Team in order to mainstream protection and ensure protection integration in the cash response;

Data storage:

• Ensure proper and safe data storage of the emergency cash and distribution responses -in collaboration with the IT Coordinator, Resilience, and durable solutions Manager, and provide technical support and training (where/when needed) to field teams;

Technical Support:

• Provide support to the field teams, by assisting with technical issues regarding cash programming and the quality of humanitarian assistance being delivered under the respective projects;
• Assist in developing and documenting key methodologies and approaches for core components of DRC humanitarian programme, ensuring compliance with the DRC programme handbook and other relevant DRC programme methodologies;
• Provide support in drafting designing and implementing needs assessments and analyzing the data;
• Contribute in the technical capacity building for emergency cash units also through on-sites trainings where/when needed;

Reporting:

• Ensure timely and compliance donor and internal reporting, by collecting and compiling information from the field;
• Feed into the internal reporting system by providing regular consolidated and concise update on the Cash program;

Donor Liaison and External Representation:

• Support the Resilience, and durable solutions with donor liaison and humanitarian external representation responsibilities, with a focus on DRC Ethiopia’s primary humanitarian donors;
• Be the primary focal point for DRC at CWG meetings, upon the Resilience, and durable solutions manager.

Programme Development:

• Support the program development unit by providing strategic and technical inputs into the design and development of new programs and proposals;
• Facilitate data collection from field offices to aid in proposal developments;

Team Management

• Provide technical support and management of emergency program officers;
• Overall technical supervision of the Cash Distribution Team activities