Economic Support Technical Officer

Job Description

Position: Economic Support Technical Officer –Level 1

Salary range: 7,748 ILS – 8,716 ILS

Location: Based in Gaza

Responsible to: Project Manager

Closing date: 28 February, 2021

THE ORGANIZATION

Handicap International (which runs projects under its operating name, Humanity & Inclusion- HI -), is an independent and impartial international aid organisation working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. Working alongside persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups, our action and testimony are focused on responding to their essential needs, improving their living conditions and promoting respect for their dignity and their fundamental rights. Handicap International is a not-for-profit organisation with no religious or political affiliation. It operates as a federation made up of a network of associations.

OBJECTIVE OF THE POSITION:

Under the supervision of the Emergency Preparedness Construction and Livelihood Project Manager and in close collaboration with Regional Technical Unit (RTU), the Economic Support Technical Officer (Level 1) accompanies project staff, partners and relevant actors and stakeholders in the implementation of the project and contributes to the project’s MEAL.

REPONSIBILITIES:

Responsibilities

Responsibility 1: Contribute to the development of tools for the project implementation and to the capacity building of the project team and partners.

Tasks:

Participate to the selection and contextualization of the modalities of intervention in compliance with HI technical framework.
Contribute to the development of methodologies and to the development of complexity technical assessment, including full training packages (training needs assessment tools, training manuals and materials, pre-post training tests), users guidelines, etc.;
Develop or adapt low/medium complexity technical tools
Organize and/or participate to the tools testing whenever appropriate and adjust them according to the results dof the test
Provide ad-hoc support to the team during tools use including field coaching
Contribute to assessing HI project team and/or project partner capacity building needs, to define suitable training plan and training package
Train project’s partners and relevant actors and stakeholders on the methodologies and tools.
Produce training and coaching reports and coordinate feedbacks with the service providers for srenghtening continuous staff development

Responsibility 2: Support the implementation of project activities.

Tasks:

Provide ad-hoc support, coaching and follow up to the project’s partners, actors and stakeholders during the implementation of the following activities:

Developing training material on inclusive service provision for multi- sectorial providers and Identification of participants
Monitoring the provision of food assistance to PWDs and their HHs most affected by COVID19 crisis
Review the TOR of Nutrition and Hygiene Counselling and list of PPEs/Cleaning Materials
Support in conduction vulnerability assessment and accessibility audit to identify those in needs for accessibility interventions

Directly carry out the following activities:

Selection of the microfinance organizations participating to disability and inclusion training
Contribute to the training on Disability and Inclusion, including preparation and adaptation of the materialsIdentification of the beneficiaries for accessible adaptation of business premises including definition of critirias for selection
Implementation of provision of food assistance to persons with disabilities in cooridnation with the project partner
Implementation of provision of Economic Recovery support to HHs who receive basic needs assistance in cooridnation with the project partner

Responsibility 3: Contribute to project’s monitoring, lessons learning and reporting

Tasks:

Contribute to the development of complexity data collection tools for documenting indicators, under the lead of RTU and MEAL; develop low/medium complexity data collection tools in collaboration with the Regional Technical Unit (RTU) and MEAL
, collect data in relation with core tasks and contribute to the measurement of the progress made.
Support the Project Manager in analysing the data collected and in identifying necessary adjustments in the project implementation framework to improve the quality and impact of the intervention
Contribute to the identification of good practices under the project
Develop case studies and success stories to illustrate changes induced by the project and for communication use
Contribute to planning and produce activity reports
Contribute to the production of the donor report,
Contribute to the preparation and implementation of project quarterly review
Participate to the organization of technical reviews and technical missions
Participate to professional network at national level in the field of expertise of the project
Contribute to the development of lessons learning exercise, data collection and analysis and the production of dissemination document
Facilitate the field implementation of project’s evaluations and of researches

Job Requirements

THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE

Advanced degree in the area of expertise, in emergency or/ and development context

Minimum 3 years’ experience in the field of expertise, in emergency or/ and development context
Skills in developing training and providing coaching for capacity building
Ability to develop information material
Analytical skills
Ability to work with partners, civil society organizations or public authorities
Skills in users centered approach
Knowledge of referrals mechanisms

PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS:

HI workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in HI Code of conduct. In accordance with these values, HI operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti-fraud, bribery, and corruption.

Initial contract will be for a period of 14 months renewable upon availability of funds.

Handicap International is an equal opportunity employer and

Particularly welcomes applications from persons with disabilities

Job Details

Job Title Economic Support Technical Officer

Deadline 28 - Feb - 2021

Location Gaza Strip

Job Type Full time

Position Level Mid Career

Salary 7,748 ILS – 8,716 ILS

Degree Master's degree

Experience 3 Years

Category Other

Application Instructions

Interested candidates should send their resume with motivation letter to reach on or before 28 of February 2021 to [email protected] indicating your full name and the job title (Economic Support Technical Officer) in the subject line of your e-mail applacation. Incomplete applications or applications received after the deadline will be disregarded.

Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply and those shortlisted will be contacted.

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