Head of Economic Recovery Programs for North-East Syria

Country Programme: Syria

Base: Raqqa, North East Syria, with travels within the region

Line Manager: Programs Director (PD) for Northeast Syria

Starting date: ASAP

About PIN:

People in Need (PIN) delivers assistance in Northern Syria addressing the needs of IDPs and hosting communities in several sectors, spreading in between capacities in emergency response and early recovery, namely: food security, livelihoods, shelter, protection mainstreaming, education and WASH. PIN is a well-established organization in NES with several field offices, direct implementation and more than 300 employees. PIN’s contribution to the Syria humanitarian response is amongst the largest, with an annual turnover of over USD 20 million and funding from humanitarian donors including ECHO, BHA, DG NEAR and SDC.

Sectors and objectives for this position:

1) Improved and sustainable access to shelter and WASH, 2) Supported recovery through rehabilitation of public assets and capacity building, 3) Improved economic recovery and livelihoods, both rural and urban.

General Position summary:

With supervision from the PD and technical guidance from the technical support from PIN´s Knowledge & Learning department, the Head of Economic Recovery will be responsible for:

• Development of new livelihoods projects in NES, building upon PIN’s current efforts a) to develop market-driven technical and vocational skills, support transition towards market recovery, inclusive rural areas, and b) to grow the agricultural livelihoods portfolio;
• Providing quality and technical supervision to the programme managers of the respective line managed sectors & bringing broader early recovery (ER) technical perspective and climate resilience perspective into the individual sectors under ER portfolio and making linkage in between these;
• Maintaining synergies and integrated pathways with other sectors implemented by PIN;
• Leading on early recovery projects’ implementation, where the project design steps aside the regular ongoing repetitive programming (often with new donors);
• Leading on project design, technical donor communication, project adjustments and reporting that concerns outcome/objectives level and crosscutting topics for early recovery projects and/or early recovery components of multisectoral projects;
• PIN representation amongst relevant external parties: coordination mechanisms (Working Groups) on Livelihoods, Early Recovery (including its subgroups) and Durable Solutions Task Force and coordination with partners and other relevant actors present in NES.

Duties and responsibilities:

Programme & Project Development:

• Working in coordination with Grants Unit on further development of the Economic recovery/livelihoods sectoral and resilience strategy, identifying new geographical areas, ways of implementation, sub-sectors, activities and partnerships;
• Technical standardisation in implementation: responsibility over and contribution to written guidance framing PIN regional early recovery/resilience programming (SOPs, relevant tools, guidelines, etc. in place – internally created or externally identified);
• Coordination with the emergency team for complementary programming, enabling “graduation” approaches in programming, both towards beneficiaries and communities;
• Following upon relevant project progress: specifically, achievements against objectives, outcome indicators/targets;
• Operationalizing the use of data (MEAL) findings in programming: identifying lessons learned/best practices, feedback tracking – ensuring PDMs, other MEAL reports are used to improve implementation;
• Identifying potential areas for studies, evaluations, secondary data to feed into proposals (evidence-based programming).

Team Management

• Line management of senior program staff within programs with designated early recovery and resilience expertise;
• Capacity development of program team in ER and resilience topics to meet related project, activity and strategy objectives and ensure quality programming.

Cooperation with grants department

• Consolidating/reviewing program reports per project and/or sector to ensure accuracy of the inputs (objectives, outcomes, overall project achievements, cross-cutting topics);
• Preparing technical design for new project proposals within the areas of expertise and relevant donors’ portfolio;
• Co-responsible (alongside MEAL) for ToR content, feedback and revisions to relevant project evaluations & taking further action on relevant findings.

Education / Academic background:

University degree in a relevant field such as Agricultural Sciences, Food Security, or a related discipline. MA/MS preferred

Requirement for Application

• At least 3 years of professional experience at a senior level (project and program management) within a humanitarian and/or development organization
• Proven field experience in complex livelihood, and/or agriculture, early program development and implementation
• Proven experience in the local business and market system development
• Experience representing organization in high-level technical platforms, and ability to identify new opportunities with other agencies / organizations
• Excellent Communication and facilitation skills;
• Fluently spoken and written English is required. Good command of Arabic is a plus
• Strong grasp of all stages of programme cycle management and quality standards in humanitarian programming including safeguarding and accountability mechanisms
• Strong organizational, critical analysis and problem- solving skills
• Experience of working in complex and volatile context, including the humanitarian context of Syria or the middle East, would be an advantage

Living Conditions/Environmental Conditions

• This position is an unaccompanied position. The position is based in Raqqa. Location of the position may change, as the security situation in Syria is fluid.
• PIN has a guesthouse to accommodate all the international staff with individual rooms being available
• The position is expected to be able to travel to other PIN locations/offices.
• Mobile phone and cellular service are widely available. Internet is available in all PIN’s offices and guesthouses. There are a number of health services available with medevac mechanism for INGO’s members. There is reasonable access to most consumer goods.
• Team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner and respect local laws, customs and PIN’s policies, procedures, and values at all times and in all in – country venues
• Internet is available in all PIN´s offices and guesthouses. There is limited access to international goods/supplies in NES.
• Head of Economic Recovery is expected to occasionally travel to Erbil for meetings.

People in Need offer:

• Salary as per PIN salary scale (subsistence allowance of 1 350 EUR and hardship allowance of 400 EUR is already included): 4 000 – 4 400 EUR
• Accommodation in PIN’s guesthouse on PIN’s expenses;
• 25 days of paid leave annually;
• Reimbursement of travel expenses with travel to the country of residence once per every 6 months of completed work;
• R&R benefits according to PIN’s policy (additional 12 paid R&R leave days per annum and a contribution towards an additional quarterly flight for every 8 weeks spent inside NES)
• Reimbursement of the costs of visas and vaccinations; assistance with visa application procedure;
• Free 24/7 medical helpdesk and psychological consultation available online;
• Reimbursement of the medical check-up before and after the deployment;
• Travel health insurance;
• Hostile Environment Awareness Training
• In addition, team of dedicated colleagues who foster friendly and fair work atmosphere.