Economic Recovery Officer

The Economic Recovery Officer is responsible for the timely, effective, and high-quality implementation of livelihoods and economic recovery interventions in Hodeida Governorate. The role includes leading day-to-day implementation, monitoring field activities, providing technical guidance, and ensuring compliance with DRC and donor requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation of Economic Recovery activities, including beneficiary registration, verification, training, distributions, and follow-up visits.
• Ensure transparent beneficiary selection, community engagement, accountability, and safe referrals in line with DRC and donor requirements.
• Coordinate with local authorities, community leaders, service providers, and other stakeholders to support effective implementation.
• Conduct regular field visits to monitor progress, address challenges, and ensure quality delivery.
• Monitor the quality of livelihoods interventions, including business skills and financial literacy training, vocational training, coaching, savings groups (SRFF/VSLA), and cash-plus assistance.
• Review the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of business plans and support the selection of viable enterprises.
• Monitor businesses after grant disbursement, verify appropriate grant utilization, and provide technical support to beneficiaries.
• Facilitate linkages with markets, suppliers, and financial service providers to strengthen business performance and sustainability.
• Provide technical guidance to partners and review key implementation and training records to ensure compliance and quality standards.
• Prepare activity, training, distribution, and movement plans, and supervise assistants, enumerators, and community volunteers.
• Follow up procurement, contracting, payments, and reconciliations in coordination with Supply Chain and Finance teams.
• Maintain complete and accurate project documentation and filing systems.
• Support MEAL activities, including data collection, assessments, PDM, indicator tracking, and output verification.
• Prepare timely field reports, implementation updates, and inputs for donor and internal reporting.
• Identify implementation risks and challenges, and recommend corrective actions.
• Coordinate closely with DRC teams, partners, and stakeholders to ensure effective implementation and achievement of project objectives.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of experience in humanitarian or development programming, preferably with INGOs/NGOs in Economic Recovery, livelihoods, cash and voucher, food security, business development or related sectors.
• Practical experience supporting trainings, beneficiary selection, distributions, partner follow-up, community engagement, data collection and reporting.
• Good understanding of livelihoods and early recovery, Cash plus approaches, including business skills, micro-enterprise and business support, vocational training, saving groups, financial inclusion.
• Experience preparing workplans, procurement/payment documents, reconciliations and activity reports.
• Good skills in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Kobo/ODK or similar data collection tools.
• Ability to draft clear reports and professional emails in English; fluency in Arabic is required.
• Strong communication, coordination, problem-solving and documentation skills.
• Commitment to DRC values, Code of Conduct, safeguarding/PSEAH, AAP and do-no-harm.
• Strong track record of community engagement, participatory planning.
• Bachelor’s degree in agriculture, business administration, economics, development studies, social sciences, engineering or a related field is preferred.
• Good English language (written and spoken).
• Fluency in Arabic language (written and spoken).

Skills

• Humanitarian Programming
• Development Programs
• Economic Recovery
• Livelihoods Support
• Cash Voucher Programming
• Food Security
• Business Development
• Training and Support
• Beneficiary Selection
• Distributions Management
• Partner Follow-up
• Community Engagement
• Data Collection
• Reporting
• Livelihoods and Early Recovery
• Cash Plus Approaches
• Micro-enterprise Support
• Vocational Education
• Saving Groups
• Financial Inclusion Knowledge
• Workplan Development
• Procurement Documentation
• Payment Documentation
• Financial Reconciliation
• Activity Reporting
• MS Word
• Excel
• Power Point
• Kobo
• ODK
• Report Writing
• Email Drafting
• Community-Based Planning

Languages

English, Arabic