Livelihoods Assistant – National Position

[Basrah,Iraq ]

The purpose of the assistant position is to assist in the day to day implementation of the Livelihoods and cash projects, conducting community-based activities, ensuring community-involvement and assisting with open dialogue/communications between NRC and targeted communities

Generic responsibilities

1. Ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
2. Implement delegated Livelihoods and cash project portfolio activities according to plan of action, developed by Livelihoods team
3. Community Dialoguing and meeting
4. Responsible for gathering daily/site-specific project documentation – collection, verification – of technical activities of Livelihoods projects
5. Adhere to NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
6. Prepare and develop weekly update reports
7. Work alongside implementing partners and/or contractors based on activity plans; implement directly where required
8. Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need, and explore and asses new and better ways to assist

Specific responsibilities

• Work directly with enumerators and community focal points in conducting vulnerability assessments to host community, IDPs and returnees using tablet based questionnaire and livelihoods needs and market assessments.
• Implement beneficiary targeting and verification process for various activity streams under livelihoods and cash projects.
• Preparation and distribution of project inputs
• Establish strong working relationship with targeted communities, including local leaders and identification of local focal points
• Support partners/contractors/trainers to implement business-focused training programmes, soft skills, vocational and technical agriculture trainings,
• Communicate with beneficiaries on project objectives, targeting criteria and beneficiary entitlements
• Ensure protection mainstreaming in implementation of cash program activities
• Participate in market monitoring and JRAMs data collection
• Ensure accountability mechanism are embedded in project implementation
• Participate in M&E activities

Professional competencies

• 2 years previous experience as an assistant in a humanitarian/recovery programme
• Previous experience working in complex and volatile contexts
• Experience conducting beneficiary identification, verification and registration
• Experience supporting referrals and/or identifying service providers
• Experience conducting focus groups, questionnaires, and surveys
• Some knowledge of English (basic proficiency)

Context/ Specific skills, knowledge and experience:

• Experience working directly with vulnerable groups; able to demonstrate conflict-sensitivity, compassion, discretion
• Overall good understanding of the political context in Iraq, with focus on conflict zones.
• Overall good knowledge of geography, local population and local language in the areas of operational interests.
• Experience working with livelihoods and cash distributions in an NGO.
• Experience with conducting multi sectoral assessments; experience with mobile data collection and KOBO.
• Fluent in Arabic both spoken and writing.
• Competencies in all computer related tasks including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Good understanding of community participation, and very good ability to communicate with beneficiaries.
• Ability to manage high/low workload depending on emergencies.
• Ability to work under pressure and with limited supervision in a challenging environment.
• Ability to work in a multi-cultural team

Interested candidates can apply through below link:

Livelihoods Assistant Iraq Basra – NRC and NORCAP Careers Careers (oraclecloud.com)