International Rescue Committee (IRC) is looking for Senior Manager – Livelihood 2025 in Ukhia
Job Responsibilities:
Program Management & Quality Assurance:
- Ensure the effective operationalization of IRC’s livelihood and economic recovery programs, aligning program priorities and standards with context-specific needs, gaps, and emerging challenges on the ground.
- Oversee livelihood program implementation in refugee camps and host communities, ensuring alignment with IRC’s strategy.
- Manage project interventions, ensuring technical standards for cash assistance, food security, livelihoods, workforce development, financial inclusion, and market systems.
- Ensure program quality through monitoring, evaluation, learning, and adaptive management.
- Develop and implement work plans, ensuring projects meet targets, budgets, and donor compliance.
- Ensure the safeguarding policy is understood and followed in program delivery.
Technical Leadership & Integration:
- Offer technical support and build capacity in CVA, vocational skills, climate-smart livelihoods, and private sector engagement.
- Supervise and mentor the Manager – Livelihoods and coordinate with other program staff.
- Provide technical support and training to IRC teams and partners on CVA, market systems, and workforce strategies.
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning within the livelihoods team.
- Enhance integration of livelihoods programming with Health, Protection, WPE, and Education initiatives.
- Ensure alignment with food security, livelihood, and skill development sector priorities and Joint Response plan (JRP) in implementation and design the interventions.
- Ensure integration and inclusion in program delivery.
- Contribute and support to proposal development, donor engagement, and strategic planning to expand IRC’s livelihoods portfolio.
Stakeholder Engagement & Coordination:
- Collaborate with IRC sectors to implement integrated programs addressing beneficiaries’ needs, ensuring host community programming aligns with ISCG and government guidelines.
- Collaborate with NGOs, INGOs, UN, government ministries, and private sector to enhance program effectiveness.
- Advocate for vulnerable populations’ livelihoods in policy discussions and coordination platforms to improve service delivery systems.
- Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEAL):
- Oversee program performance, ensuring data-driven decision-making and evidence-based program adjustments.
- Support MEAL teams in assessments, impact evaluations, and knowledge-sharing efforts to improve program delivery.
- Develop project reports to document achievements, challenges, and lessons learned throughout the project lifecycle.
Partner Management:
- Work closely with partners, monitor progress, and provide technical support to ensure high-quality program implementation.
- Identify capacity gaps in partners, provide support, develop plans, and coordinate training implementation with the technical team.
- Participate in coordination meetings to review plans, track expenditures, ensure compliance, and collaborate with IRC departments.
- Develop and review progress reports and data, providing feedback and guidance to partners for continuous improvement and alignment.
Location:
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Eligibilities
Job Requirements:
- Minimum Post Graduation Degree in Agricultural Science, Business management, Development studies, or Social Science along with professional background in livelihood development field.
- A minimum of 6-7 years of experience in management of livelihoods programming with national and or international organizations particularly in the field of Food security and climate-smart livelihood program, market relevant vocational skill development, Financial Inclusion, youth employment, and market system development in a development context and humanitarian context.
- Experience in Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA), Cash for Worker, vocational skill development, climate smart programming and working in complex humanitarian settings.
- Proven experience in developing women’s economic empowerment and youth employment.
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience conducting market scoping, gap analyses and partner mapping for cash and livelihoods programming.
- Sound understanding of the local context and the livelihoods needs of vulnerable populations especially the host community and Rohingya Refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar.
- Experience in dealing with government officials, private sectors, donor agencies, and other NGOs
- Demonstrated experience in working with a multi-cultural team (national and international).
- Experience in partner dealings and management for program implementation.
- Strong facilitation and supervision skills
- Good writing and analytical skills, including the ability to communicate technical matters to a range of audiences.
- Competent in Windows, MS office programs, emails, and relevant database.
- Work well in and promotes teamwork, comfortable in a multi-cultural environment, flexible and able to handle pressure well.
- Good coping strategies in stressful and emergency situations, calmness is a requirement.
- Strong communication skills in written and verbal English.
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