Livelihood Technical Officer Level 2

Responsibility 1: Support the development of the project’s methodological framework and contribute to quality control in the field of livelihood through technical guidance and field support to the team

Tasks: 

• With the project teams and under the supervision of the Regional BaNEREI Specialist, contribute to the identification of the most appropriate modalities of intervention in compliance with HI technical framework.
• Contribute to develop and/or adapt methodologies in close collaboration with the Regional BaNEREI Specialist
• Develop technical tools, including full training packages (training needs assessment tools, training manuals and materials, pre-post training tests), users guidelines, etc.; ensure active contribution from the project team to their development whenever relevant;
• Ensure tools are tested and validated by the Regional BaNEREI Specialist before implementation and that the team  is capacitated to apply them;
• Provide ad-hoc support to the team during tools use including field coaching;
• Regular field visits to project areas to provide feedback and support to the teams;
• Collaborate with theProject Manager and MEAL Officer to develop tools to collect data to track and measure progress of indicators and to analyse the collected data;
• Contribute to projects’ quarterly review and to the production of donor reports;
• Develop tools for collecting information measuring the project impact in close collaboration with the Regional BaNEREI Specialist and the Regional MEAL Manager; 
• Provide regular report to the Project Manager and regular updates to Regional BaNEREI Specialist

Responsibility 2: Develop the technical competencies of the HI project team and/or project partner

Tasks:

• Assess HI project team and/or project partner capacity building needs, define suitable training plan and training package under the supervision of the Regional BaNEREI Specialist
• Provide trainings of trainers to the HI project team and partners;
• Identify available external and local skills and expertise that could contribute to the quality of future intervention in the in the areas of professional competency;
• Coordinate with the Regional BaNEREI Specialist to gain from other programmers knowledge and experience;
• Support the PM in recruitment from a technical perspective; 
• Regional role: in collaboration with RTU, provide training to other MEReP staff on specific skills.

Responsibility 3: Facilitate project lessons learning and its dissemination and support the field implementation of researches.

Tasks:

• Identify, analyse and document the good practices/lessons learnt of the project
• Organize dissemination among the project stakeholders and among national stakeholders (government, NGOs, donors) involved into similar field of expertise;
• Participate to professional network at national level in the field of expertise of the project in collaboration with Regional BaNEREI Specialist
• In coordination with the Country Manager, participate to relevant Clusters and/or Working Groups related to the field of intervention at national and/or local level, exchange good practices in the field of expertise and provide technical inputs to  the development of Clusters’ and/or Working Groups’ technical documents when relevant;
• Under the technical supervision of the Regional BaNEREI Specialist, facilitate the field implementation of researches (data collection, analysis, etc.), contribute to the production of research reports and to the dissemination of their findings.

Regional role: 

• in collaboration with RTU and MEAL, contribute to MEReP’s knowledge managent in the areas of professional competency;
• Coordinate with the Regional BaNEREI Specialist to share MEReP learning and gain from other programmers knowledge and experience.

Responsibility 4: Inform the development of new projects

Tasks:

• In coordination with the Country Manager, collect Government policies and technical materials produced by government departments and NGOs in the field of expertise;
• Participate to the development of new projects into the field of expertise;
• Regional role: support technical assessments in other countries of MEReP program in his/her field of expertise.

Responsibility 5: Under the technical supervision of the Regional BaNEREI Specialist and in coordination with the Country Manager, participate actively in the design of the mission’ strategy of intervention in the Basic needs economic recovery and economic inclusion

Tasks:

• Participate to external technical coordination meeting (cluster/working groups) and flag potential opportunities for program development/evolution;
• Carry out needs assessments for strategic purposes;
• Contribute to strategic response design workshops;
• Contribute to the strategy writing with the Project Manager and/or Operational Manager/Country Manager;
• Ensure all HI staff understand the strategy and are able to implement and promote it through proposing internal information or awareness sessions, training, tools, etc. depending on the needs at each level.