Economic Recovery (Rural Livelihoods) Team Leader

Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a leading protection agency with a mandate to protect, advocate and promote durable solutions for displacement affected populations.

DRC has been operating in Ukraine since 2014,currently DRC employs over 800 staff in Ukraine and will continue significant scale-up in 2024 to implement emergency response in the Protection, Livelihoods, Shelter/NFIs and Humanitarian Disarmament and Peacebuilding (humanitarian mine action) sectors, using direct interventions, support to duty bearers and civil society organizations (CSOs), and partnerships with CSOs. DRC will continue and adapt its durable solutions portfolio to the evolving context. 

DRC is currently looking for an Economic Recovery (Rural Livelihoods) Team Leader  for its activities in Dnipro.   

Your main responsibilities will be: 

• Line management of Economic recovery team, including division of work plan, roles and responsibilities, performance and development:
• Lead on development of Economic Recovery work plan for agriculture project activities  according to the project proposal, timeline. Including operational, people management, work planning and budget in agriculture activities;
• Support Economic Recovery Manager in maintaining qualitative programme implementation, including development, review, and adaptation of relevant operational and technical tools;
• Support Economic Recovery Manager in project kick off and close out, including resource planning, geo-targeting, and lessons learned identification;
• Support Economic Recovery Manager in the identification on current gaps and needs from the field. Providing qualitative and quantitative data to ensure current programming is relevant to the needs of the community;
• Lead on tracking and management of progress for relevant project activities, including planning field activities, timeline, budget spent etc.;
• Lead on meeting the procurement need of the project activities, including drafting ToR, raising PR, liaising with relevant department;
• Support Economic Recovery Manager in budget follow up, forecasting, cash booking;
• Coordinate agricultural livelihoods programming with relevant departments and internal stakeholders;
• External representation at sub-national cluster and working group meetings, and sharing pertinent points and minutes with relevant colleagues;
• Lead on external stakeholder engagement, including liaising with local authorities, duty-bearers, identifying partnership opportunities with CSOs, private businesses and duty bearers;
• Support the Economic Recovery Manager in identifying opportunities for partnerships with CSOs, private businesses and stakeholders;
• Provide technical inputs on and review of agriculture-related assessments, including advising on contextual agricultural information and needs in the areas of implementation of DRC;
• Develop, review, and adapt training materials for staff and persons of concern, and lead in developing staff capacity to implement high-quality agriculture programming;
• Delivery of technical mentoring in agricultural activities to the internal DRC team;
• Carrying out capacity and training needs assessments of target groups and provision of tailored technical advice and engagement session to beneficiaries as part of the DRC agriculture project intervention, including farmer field school approach, agricultural practice training etc.;
• Responsible for maintaining programme implementation quality of agriculture activities. Including overseeing accountability and transparency of implementation.

About you:

To be successful in this role we expect you to have at least 2 years of experience in economic recovery programming and implementing cash-based intervention and / or micro-grant activities.

  Moreover, we also expect the following:

• University degree in related field or relevant work experience.
• Secondary education in the field of agriculture, agronomy, technology of production and processing of livestock products, or agro-engineernig.
• Full professional proficiency in Ukrainian and advanced level of English required.
• Computer literacy: Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office (with focus on Excel and Word).

In this position, you are expected to demonstrate DRC’ five core competencies: 

• Striving for excellence: You focus on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process. 
• Collaborating: You involve relevant parties and encourage feedback. 
• Taking the lead: You take ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation. 
• Communicating: You listen and speak effectively and honestly. 
• Demonstrating integrity: You uphold and promote the highest standards of ethical and professional conduct in relation to our values and Code of Conduct, including safeguarding against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment.

We offer

• Contract length: One-year contract after successful completion of three months’ probation period (renewable depending on performance and funding) 
• Band: G management 
• Designation of Duty Station: Dnipro
• Start date: November, 2024

Salary and conditions will be in accordance with Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment for National.

Application process

All applicants must upload a cover letter and an updated CV (no longer than four pages) in English. 

Applications sent by email will not be considered.

Closing date for applications: November 01st, 2024

We encourage candidates to apply as soon as possible, interviews might be conducted on a rolling basis. DRC reserves the right to select candidate before the vacancy close date.