Economic Recovery Manager

Danish Refugee Council, one of the world’s leading humanitarian NGOs, is currently looking for a highly qualified Economic Recovery Manager to lead the program team in south Tunisia.

 Your main duties and responsibilities will be:

Project Management:

• Develop a detailed work plan identifying and sequencing the activities necessary to successfully complete the project.
• Create a project implementation schedule that efficiently allocates resources to activities.
• Review the project schedule with the Incubator Manager and other project team members.
• Ensure efficient and effective implementation of project respective activities including but not limited to entrepreneurship training, development and evaluation of business plans, linkage to finance opportunities.
• Conducting comprehensive market assessment to identify the sectors with high potential of employability.
• Monitor project progress and make adjustments as necessary to ensure successful project completion.
• budget projections for planned activities in the coming months and quarters for validation with the project team.
• Revise the schedule as needed.
• Working with agriculture cooperatives as well as small business to scale up and create new jobs.
• Carry out Economic Recovery activities according to work plan and allocated budget.

Partners Management

• Provide direct support to DRC partner organization in project implementation.
• Maintain strong relation with the DRC implementing partners under the DAPP YIEP.
• Maintain regular communication with implementing partners, including carrying out coordination meetings and tracking progress of assigned tasks.
• Ensure responsiveness to client requirements.
• Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting
• Ensure the monitoring of activities, progress and the collection of data throughout the implementation of project.
• Lead on the DAPP YIEP reporting process.
• Document case studies, best practices and lessons learned from the YIEP.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

About you

To be successful in this role we expect you to have :

• Minimum of 4 years of experience in project management and fieldwork in the region,
• Previous experience working with public institutions is an asset
• Ability to develop and maintain partnerships related to entrepreneurship,
• Experience in budgeting and reporting,
• Strong planning, organizational, analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work both independently and within a team;
• Excellent skill in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Professional fluency in English, French and Arabic is required.

Moreover, we also expect the following:

Required

• Master’s degree in international development, social science, civil society, law, political science, Human Rights or a related field.
• Or Bachelor’s degree in relevant fields with at least 5 years’ working experience in similar protection positions.

Source: https://job.drc.ngo/jobs/job?id=170680