Livelihood Assistant – Sinjar

Terms of Reference

Title:                          Livelihood Assistant – Sinjar

Duration:                   2024

Duty Station:             Sinjar City

Brief description of the organization

Al Mesalla for Human Resources Development is a non-governmental organization established in 2004 registered in Baghdad and Erbil with headquarters located in Erbil. The organization is working at disseminating a culture of human rights and peace building in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region. The organization is currently working along 3 programs: a non-violence and peace building program developing peace capacities within the community; a women and Gender program empowering women to take an active role in the community and a Human Rights Program which focuses especially on enhancing freedom of expression. Since June 2014, Al Mesalla developed services to the growing refugee and displaced community settling in the Kurdish Region of Iraq by participating to distributing emergency support and establishing empowerment and livelihoods programs for displaced women in particular.

IRC Cooperation with Al Mesalla Organization will provide the project, Improving Safety and Economic Opportunities for Vulnerable IDPs and Returnees in Iraq This program aims to improve service access, socio-economic empowerment and enhance recognition for Iraqi IDPs, Returnees and Host community

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSABILITIES:

• Carry out mobilization activities with IDPs and host communities to ensure they understand the project objectives and activities.
• Support ERD Officer to carry out transparent beneficiary selection in close coordination with other team members, local authorities, communities, IDPs and other Humanitarian agencies working in the area.
• Support preparation of beneficiary list and registration form with relevant project staff prior to the distribution.
• Carry out beneficiary verification in the field to ensure most vulnerable beneficiaries receive the IRC support.
• Support organizing the activities of ERD program including site selection, site preparation, distribution plan, stock management, documentation etc.
• Actively work in distribution sites to implement ERD activities, crowd control, and registration and to ensure to security of IRC properties.
• `Prepare and update all necessary documents on daily basis without delay.
• Conduct regular site visits to the project activities: Small/Micro Businesses and Apprenticeships.
• Provide information to jobseekers on employment options, including self-employment and training courses.
• If assigned, supervise volunteers on-site.
• Participate and actively contribute to rapid need assessments in the area.
• Fully comply with IRC safety and security procedures and provide input to security monitoring and assessments to enable and promote a safe and secure environment for program implementation
• Grant Monitoring & Reporting Conduct daily project site visits and write reports accordingly.
• Livelihood project assistant is responsible in communicating and mobilizing for the livelihood’s projects with the target communities according to the IRC SOPs, project objectives and processes.
• Support for recording all required documents related to ERD procurement, beneficiary selection, distribution, and post-distribution monitoring.
• Support ERD Officer to update beneficiary tracking sheet soon after each distribution carried out.
• Support compilation and preparation of process monitoring and end-line reports.
• Participate in monitoring and evolution activities directly or by providing feedback to the monitoring and evaluation team.