Job Description

• Ensure the technical quality of a range of IRC Basic Needs Assistance and Livelihoods Programming including VSLAs, cash and voucher assistance, agricultural and livestock and micro enterprise support.
• Design and seek funding for livelihoods programming that bridges emergency and recovery/resilience needs.
• Conduct extensive partner mapping and value/chain and market assessments to inform activity design
• Refine a comprehensive strategic approach to ERD programming for IRC Chad
• Ensuring effective implementation of project activities.
• S/he will provide overall managerial oversight and leadership for the ERD project, including oversee operational functions for achieving the goals of the project.
• Ensure that gender, protection and environmental stewardship are mainstreamed in all programming under direct responsibility.

  RESPONSIBILITIES:

  Program quality/Management and implementation

• The ERD coordinator is responsible for the overall project coordination in all provinces and in line with the IRC Country Strategic Action Plan within IRC international priorities, frameworks and policies.
• Provide technical leadership and direction for all ERD activities; define and implement activities to achieve the greatest coverage and impact possible. This includes providing technical guidance on contextually appropriate methodologies for delivering livelihoods activities.
• Ensure that ethical and sound data collection and information management systems are in place for appropriate program analysis, planning, evaluation, and advocacy in line with the overall program M&E.
• Ensure regular communication with technical coordinators within IRC Chad, and headquarters-based Technical Advisors for Economic Recovery & Development, Protection and Health (including WASH and Nutrition) to integrate appropriate technical unit priorities in program design and implementation.
• Provide overall leadership, mentoring, quality control and coordination to strengthen program outcomes.
• Lead the development of detailed implementation plans along with Project Managers, flowing from annual strategic work-plans, and ensure program implementation is on time, target and budget, using effective M&E systems and adaptive management principles to reach desired impacts.