Senior Economic Recovery and Development Manager

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world's largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. A force for humanity, IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you're a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future.

Job Overview/Summary:

IRC seeks a dynamic individual to support the expansion of livelihoods, food security, income generation and CVA programming in Myanmar. With XX cash first approach, we ambition to expand the emergency livelihood recovery and restoration and CVA programing in different outcomes areas to enable the crisis-affected communities meet their basic needs as they defined and prioritized them in a resilient and dignified manner and reduce the resorting of negative coping mechanisms by supporting them with conditional, unconditional cash supports, livelihoods support for self-reliance with foods security and income generation skill-building opportunities. While CVA program is contributing to different outcomes areas of country programs as a part of current emergency response, IRC aims to bring more sustainable impacts to communities with recovery and rehabilitation supports. Additionally, partnership is at the core of IRC value, where we work together with multiple local agencies in responding to the needs of the communities to relief the impacts of the shocks and bring more resilience outcomes for the clients we serve around Myanmar. This position is based in Yangon with occasional travel to field office to support the field activities.

Major Responsibilities: Under the supervision of Cash and Basic Needs Coordinator, Snr ERD Manager will be responsible for performing the following,

Program Quality and Implementation

• Provide technical support to ERD program across the country in Northwest, Southeast, Rakhine and others where IRC present for humanitarian intervention
• Conduct regular follow-up with ERD field sector leads regarding the project planning, implementation and achievement against the plan
• Conduct quality assurance and relevancy of the CBN tools against each context and projects in coordination with relevant field ERD sector leads, ERDMEAL focal and partners
• Lead the partner engagement process during the project designing stage including the development of partner SoP, Workplan and SoW
• Support in the development of concept notes and proposals relating to the ERD programming across the country, and continuation from emergency to long-term response, including budgets, logical frameworks, relevant indicators
• Review the program related reports released by MEAL department and partner such as assessment reports, On-Site Monitoring, PDM and Indicators result reports, and ensure that all the reports are verified and good quality
• Support the field team in identification of target communities, selection, and monitoring of the most feasible CVA and livelihood modalities and mechanisms, according to the needs and operational context
• Engage with the field team and finance in preparing the spending plan and spending forecast
• Lead the preparation of the capacity building plan for the team and partners and arrangement of all the required workshops and events
• Support in FSP, partner, livelihood technical resource person mapping for potential CVA and economic recovery efforts intervention in the country
• Co-lead the engagement with various interagency coordination forums including Cash Working Groups and identification of strategic partnerships aligned with IRC approach
• Coordinate with MEAL team in keeping track of program achievements and preparation of the required reports
• Coordinate with other IRC’s sectors (Protection, WASH, Health & WPE) focal to develop capacity building plan for integrated programming
• Ensure that all the program related files are systematically and safely stored according to IRC’s data protection protocols
• Contribute to monthly Stripe reporting writing for ERD programming in Myanmar
• Perform other duties as required by the supervisor

Partnerships and Representation

• Overall technical support to the partners across all programing areas
• Arrange necessary technical support training to partners such as CVA Core-Concepts, CASH Toolkits and other capacity building training relevant to the program
• Lead the engagement of partner SoP development prior to the project implementation and making necessary adjustments on Toolkits
• Take lead in engaging with partnership team for the partner capacity assessment, SoW preparation and follow up on the partnership agreement status and payment  
• Conduct regular follows with the partner and team for activities updates, key challenges to provide required technical support in the process starting from assessment, distribution to learning phases
• Deliver capacity-building sessions to partners/ new team members and community mobilizers as needed

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL)

• Ensure required reports for programmatic decisions are released in timely and quality manner by ERD MEAL focal
• Ensure that appropriate monitoring and control systems are in place throughout the implementation both by partner and internal IRC team
• Ensure data collections across programming areas are completed in the quality manner and conduct the data validation, ensuring they are done properly in collaboration with MEAL
• Ensure the planned and achieved targets for all programming areas are reflected in the tracks and dashboards in coordination with MEAL Focal
• Review assessment's reports, narrative and case studies and keeping track of the all the program related documentation throughout the implementation

Reporting

• Assist the CBN Coordinator in narrative and donor reporting and preparation of monthly spending plans and expenditures
• Provide a timely report about arising needs, implementation progress, partner updates, distribution progress and key challenges across all ERD programing areas

Professional Standards

• Complete other duties as assigned by the supervisor to enable and develop IRC programs.
• Adhere to the IRC Way Standards for Professional Conduct and the IRC country employment policies.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Education:

• A bachelor’s or master’s university degree, preferably in Agriculture, International Development, Business Administration, Economics, or Development Studies

Work Experience:

• At least 5–6 years of relevant work experience in livelihood and development sectors
• Experience with cash and voucher assistance programming and/or other humanitarian programmes
• Demonstrated experience in both direct implementation and working with local partners
• Knowledge and experience in implementing humanitarian or development projects, especially in conflict-affected contexts (an advantage)

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

• Proven ability to manage tasks under pressure with different priorities
• Strong coordination and engagement skills and experiences
• Proven ability to work with attention to detail and promote teamwork
• Comfortable in a multi-cultural environment, flexible and able to handle pressure with professional grace
• Ability to work independently and perform duties with minimal supervision
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, including Word, Excel, and Outlook

 Language Skills:

• Fluency in English and Myanmar (written, spoken, comprehension)

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to: Cash and Basic Needs Coordinator

Closely Work with – ERD Mangers from field offices, Grants & Partnership Team, IRC partner organizations, Finance and Other Sectors in IRC for integrated programming purpose

PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS

All International Rescue Committee workers must adhere to the core values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. Our Standards are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Safeguarding, Conflicts of Interest, Fiscal Integrity, and Reporting Wrongdoing and Protection from Retaliation. IRC is committed to take all necessary preventive measures and create an environment where people feel safe, and to take all necessary actions and corrective measures when harm occurs. IRC builds teams of professionals who promote critical reflection, power sharing, debate, and objectivity to deliver the best possible services to our clients.

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