Finnish Refugee Council Vacancy
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Finnish Refugee Council
Finnish Refugee Council (FRC) (www.refugeecouncil.fi) is an transnationalnon-governmental organization with Head Office in Helsinki. FRC advocates for the rights of refugees, displaced populations and migrants, and supports their new beginnings. By reinforcing equality and creating opportunities for everyone to lead a good life, FRC promotes the establishment of stable and peaceful societies.
Project Officer (Cash Transfer)
Position Summary
The main responsibility of this position is to carry out all aspects of program delivery with respect to multipurpose cash transfers response to conflict- affected communities in the region. The position is responsible for identifying priority needs; targeting communities affected by the conflict (mainly IDPs, returnees and host communities); conducting verification assessments; designing and conducting market assessments; designing and conductingpost-distribution monitoring( PDM). The post holder is expected to work closely and in strong engagement with the community, original implementing partners, original government leaders and be an active participant and contributor to the Cash Working Group or related coordination and learning mechanisms
Specific Duties and Responsibilities
• implement functional elements of cash transfer program activities, with the support of the
line manager and program teams ensuring there's a strong link of cash in philanthropic
intervention and leading to recovery and development. The post holder is therefore
expected to build a strong case in cash transfer and livelihood recovery.
• Leads the process of identifying beneficiary communities targeting based on robust and
participatory criteria, and implements cash transfer project at grass root level following
FRC SOP for cash
• Maintain master beneficiaries’ list/ database with detailed information.
• Responsible for establishing and supervising cash delivery mechanisms for FRC in the
designated project area.
• Assess the most doable cash transfer system for the target community and inform the
leadership for implementation.
• Conduct market assessments on a regular basis for the most consumablepre-identified
products on a regular basis and produce reports to inform decisions.
• Ensure that narratives and financial reporting are delivered in accordance with FRC as
well as donor contractual conditions, and within the agreed timescale and budget.
Project Implementation
• Lead community- based targeting and verification of the beneficiary’s program
participants
• Maintains and adapts as required a Master database for all beneficiaries of the programs
in the project location.
• Conduct community awareness on financial payment system, the rate the purpose of
cash- based support
• Conduct social awareness among the target beneficiaries and support the ultimate make
stylish decision and choices on the use of the received cash.
• Maintain individual databases for individual transfer programs including Issues
verification and payment lists.
• Maintains records of payments and follow- up for all beneficiary lists but also for
individual beneficiaries
• Develop a cash distribution plan, supervise and evaluate the on- the- spot cash
distribution process.
• Set up and strengthen beneficiaries’ biddable feedback mechanisms with applicable
internal staff, protection specialists, and GBV officers.
• Provide cash transfer sensitization sessions for targeted households and other partners
• Manage field- level staff similar as cash transfer assistants, if any.
External Coordination
• Participate and contribute to zonal cash coordination and other philanthropic coordination
platforms at the field, indigenous and public level.
• Work with Safety and Security colleagues to develop and implement effective safety and
security procedures for specific cash transfer programming activities, ensuring that these
are updated and revised at regular intervals and that new programs are erected around
security considerations.
• Work with and provide timely specialized support to the FRC’s implementing partners;
maintain regardful and formative relations with partner staff.
• Comply with FRC’s Global policies similar as Whistleblowing, Fraud, and Safety and
other applicable policies.
• In information exchange with the field teams, s he guides the team with regard to data
collection and analysis.
• Identify, map and work very closely with Financial Service Providers (FSP) for effective
cash transfer services.
Internal Coordination
• Maintains acceptable communication and coordination within the team (Field office
fellow and other team members) and with other Assistance departments as well as the
Protection team when required, when planning data collection activities,
• Take part in the set- up and conduct of needs assessments involving focusing on data
collection for cash transfer programs in the project location.
• Updates his/ her direct superior on data collection activities in relation to planned and
ongoing cash activities of other philanthropic actors in Ethiopia.
• Ensure and put in place the vital biddable operation and response mechanisms in
collaboration with mess and Protection staff.
Project Monitoring and Reporting
• help in the collection of data, the conduct of assessments (needs, market, risks, and
security), and provide input for concept note/ proposal development for cash transfer
project in collaboration with the original community structures and community members.
• Supervise progress against the grant work plan; promptly identify any current or implicit
delays.
• Assist his/ her supervisor to ensure all monitoring activities are fully documented,
including detailed and timely data collection as required under the grant and for FRC M&E
purposes.
Capacity Building and Coaching
• Create awareness to communities, government partners, and original stakeholders on
merits of cash response as one modality in philanthropic interventions.
• Capacity building for staff and others on cash Transfer Programming (CTP).
• Support and mentor the FSP to meet the philanthropic principles during the Cash
Response program/ facilitating the payment to the beneficiaries.
• Participate in grassroot level meetings representing FRC and in coordination with the
Field Office Manager
• Perform other duties given by the immediate supervisor.
Accountability
• share in the planning and implementation of a community- based accountability system
establishment.
• Ensure all volunteer facilitators adhere to FRC’s law of conduct and core philanthropic
standards.
• Support target beneficiaries and the community in communicating their requests,
feedback and complaints through devoted channels.
• Ensure that timely response is provided to the any emerging requests, feedback, and
complaints from community members.
• Monitor the overall effectiveness of the Community Based Feedback and Complaints
Response Mechanisms and provide inputs for continual improvement.
Location Dessie with frequent with support to other project locations in Ethiopia
Duration Up to March 31, 2024 – with possibility of extension
Job Requirements
Professional Standards
FRC staff must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the FRC Code of Conduct.
Education & Qualifications
• Bachelor or degree in Agri- economics, Economics, Marketing, Rural Development,
Banking and finance, Project Management.
Experience
• Proven abilities on cash- based program (specific abilities and skills required)
• At least 3 years of work experience in cash/ voucher distribution, protection and inclusion
is a clear advantage.
• Strong experience and ability linking cash transfer to livelihood recovery.
• NGOs work experience is required.
Essential Skills
• Should be flexible, and innovative,
• with good record keeping, report compilation,
• communication, and interpersonal and teamwork skills.
• A self- starter, and suitable to work with minimal supervision.
• suitable to work under pressure with competing deadlines.
• suitable to work with amulti-cultural environment.
• Interpersonal qualities
• visionary and takes initiative
Emergency Response Officer
Education
Position Summary
The main responsibility of the position holder is to ensure adult education course is effectively implemented in the IDP centres. He she ensures the participation of women, people with disabilities (PWD), and other vulnerable groups in adult education programs. Overall, the position holder is responsible for the proper planning, implementation, and monitoring of the learning and provides specialized support to volunteer facilitators who deliver the adult education course. He she will also partake in integrated intervention which includes cash- based support, protection, inclusive WASH, and othercross-cutting issues into the project.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities
• Technical Functional Adult Education Support and Training (40)
• Work closely with FRC team, education sector, community leaders, and applicable
stakeholders to recruit competent volunteer adult education facilitators,
• Take a supereminent part in target learners’ identification with due consideration for
women, PWD, and other vulnerable groups.
• Provide capacity- building specialized support for the volunteer facilitators on adult
teaching methodologies, inclusive education, and other identified capacity gaps.
• facilitate community mobilization and awareness- raising proper targeting of adult
learners (with due consideration for the inclusion of women, PWD, and other vulnerable
groups) in close collaboration with community leaders and other applicable stakeholders.
• Monitor regularly and ensure volunteer facilitators provide the course based on the
advanced curriculum and contextualized thematic topics.
• Arrange the available resources (probative materials) required for the proper
implementation of the adult education course in the separate learning centers.
• Continuously coach/ tutor and build the capacity of volunteer facilitators to step in where
the facilitation gap is identified,
• Support the cash specialized person in the identification, selection, and verification of
beneficiaries for cash distribution,
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (30%)
• Record learners ’ profiles and documents as per FRC requirements.
• Participate in regular project review and reflection exercises.
• Monitor and evaluate the attendance and progress of learners; and report the summary
to your line manager.
• In collaboration with the MEAL Officer, assess the performance and competencies of
volunteer facilitators.
• Periodically review learners’ performance progress and capacitate on identified gaps.
• Participate in baseline, endline, placement tests, and other monitoring similar as PDM
(Post Distribution Monitoring) and evaluation surveys.
• Compile periodic reports, success stories, and stylish practices for your line manager
Innovation (10%)
• Find out applicable participatory adult learning methodologies and share them with team
members to enhance course functionality and learners’ achievement.
• In consultation with volunteer facilitators and learners, design and applyco-curricular
activities that enhance the quality of adult education course delivery and improve the
learning atmosphere.
• Facilitate grassroots reading material development.
• Coordination and Collaboration Community Mobilisation (10)
• Encourage and mobilize adult learners (especially women and persons with disabilities)
to enrol in adult education courses.
• Engage stakeholders in the mobilization and other adult education activities.
• Identify applicable temporary literacy \
- Participate at grassroots-level meetings representing FRC and in coordination with the line manager.
Other (10%)
- Identify and flag to Programs Team any potential humanitarian/development interventions that can be implemented in the intervention locations.
- Perform other duties given by the immediate supervisor.
Location Dessie with frequent travel to IDP centers in South Wollo.
Duration Up to March 31, 2024- with possibility of extension
Job Requirements
Professional Standards FRC staff must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the FRC Code of Conduct.
Education & Qualifications
• Bachelor or master’s degree in Adult Education/ Community Development/ development studies Rural Development and Family Science or related fields.
Experience
• At least 5 years of applicable professional experience in managing adult education with communities.
• At least two years of work experience in the NGO sector
• Working knowledge and practical experience of inclusive adult learning processes
• Practical experience in community mobilization in emergency settings
• Strong experience in provision of training, material development, participatory assessments,
Essential Skills and Qualities
• Demonstrated skills in supervision and capacity structure of community- based workers. participatory group facilitation methodologies
• Practical experience in working with trauma affected communities in post conflict and displacement contexts.
• Good understanding of gender, inclusion, and accountability to affected populations (AAP) • suitable to work with minimal supervision.
• Good communication, interpersonal and teamwork skills.
• suitable to work with amulti-cultural environment.
MEAL Officer
Position Summary
Under the direct supervision of the Field Office Manager( with matrix support from the MEAL specialist), the MEAL officer will be responsible to ensure effective, timely and quality implementation of the project. He she will give specialized expertise and take part in generating and analyzing quality evidence and data through monitoring, assessments, and evaluations for improved programming, and promote evidence- based program management and learning. The job holder with demonstrated experience in results- based thinking and building and strengthening monitoring systems, will be professed in quantitative and qualitative data collection tools and analysis and have excellent communication skills. The special focus of this assignment will be strengthening the logical MEAL capacities in the Field Office ensuring baselines, process monitoring, outcomepost-distribution monitoring surveys, and other qualitative and quantitative surveys are properly managed.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities
Monitoring and Evaluation
• Prepare and coordinate the MEAL plan implementation for the Field office.
• Lead on, and participate in, needs assessment exercises, beneficiary targeting, including the development of assessment protocols, data collection tools, data analysis and results- based reporting.
• Provide capacity development on M&E in the field office,
• Lead in reviews and lessons learnt exercises among the partners and stakeholders including the targeted communities and beneficiaries.
• Lead the project monitoring includingpost-distribution survey.
• Generate evidence, lessons learned and recommendations to the field office based on evaluation and assessment findings.
• In coordination with the MEAL Specialist and project Manager/ Head of Field Office, cover the progress of program implementation as per set objectives, indicators, and desire results.
Accountability
• As a focal point, ensure functioning, use of and improvements to the community feedback and response mechanism, and adherence to cluster standards and expectations.
• Contribute to staff understanding and capacity building of accountability principles.
Learning
• Collaborate with colleagues to ensure learning events are conducted to document learnings and stylish practices on the projects for future implementation.
• Participate on visionary impact data gathering to analyses specific activities or components outcomes.
• Set up reflection practices around evaluation results.
Reporting
• Facilitate the collection and compilation surveys (baseline,mid-term, end- line, PDM etc), and give inputs to ensure FRC standard reporting,
• Gather information and develop case stories, and success stories applicable to programs
• Compile and consolidate periodic MEAL reports and submit them to the Field Office Manager and Head of Field Office as per the template communicated.
Location Dessie with frequent travel to 5 targeted Woredas
Duration Up to March 31, 2024 – with possibility of extension
Job Requirements
Professional Standards
FRC staff must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the FRC Code of Conduct.
Education & Qualifications
• University degree in M&E, Economics, Statistics, Business Management, Social science, or related fields.
Experience
• 5 years and more years of working experience focusing on M&E, results- based design planning and management.
• NGO experience
• Has led participated in surveys, multiple assessments at different levels, including the design, data collection and analysis.
• Experience in both development and humanitarian contexts are requirements particularly cash distribution, GBV,etc.
Specialized skills & knowledges
• Proven knowledge, abilities, and skills in the areas of Monitoring and Evaluation and results- based management.
• In- depth knowledge of monitoring and evaluation methods, statistical applications (excel, PBI, SPSS, kobo tool etc);
• Create/ use digital tools and data visualization platforms.
• Data collection tool development.
Competencies
• Ability to visualize data in creative ways and suitable to see patterns and trends in data for analysis and decision making.
• Commitment to Mission, vision, and values of FRC
• Takes a data- oriented approach to decision making.
• Self- motivated and results acquainted.
• provable ability to work withinmulti-disciplinary teams.
• Willing to work in remote and at times grueling field conditions.
Language
• Fluency in both oral and spoken communication in English and Amharic language is a requirement
How to Apply
Submit (filled FRC Application Form, CV, and cover letter only) shall be sent by email to dispatchrecruitment.ethiopia@refugeecouncil.fi by 25 April 2023
Please refer in the subject line of your email to the following code FRC/ DES/ CASH/07/23
Important Note – Strictly follow the instructions.
Applications that don't follow the instructions of the application process won't be considered. Women candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
