Senior Livelihood Coordinator

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Employee Contract Type:
Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)
Job Description:
The Senior Livelihood Coordinator is responsible for overall livelihood recovery portfolio of RISE Rapid Activation project in coordination with other inter and cross-sectional departments. This position provides technical and managerial leadership for RISE projects economic and livelihood recovery portfolio, leading quality programme planning, market and livelihood assessments, implementation, monitoring and adaptive management to restore and diversify household livelihood including incomes, enterprises, employment, productive assets and market systems while strengthening resilience to future shocks, managing and provide technical oversight to the ER coordinator, Cash Coordinator and partners, ensure effective resource and budget management, and maintain strong coordination with government, private sector, financial institutions, communities and other recovery actors.
Furthermore, the incumbent will manage government and other stakeholder relationship to foster the strong collaboration, particularly related to early recovery, food security and livelihoods for the project activities, collaborating with identifying the gaps and needs that project intends to support and coordinating with like-minded agencies for coherent implementation. Additionally, the position will maintain the strong relationships with private sector actors, financial institutions, communities, and other stakeholders to promote sustainable, inclusive and market-oriented recovery outcomes.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES
Technical and project management and support
Lead planning, implementation, monitoring and completion of all Early Recovery project activities.
Oversee project objectives, outputs and outcomes are achieved within approved timelines and budgets.
Review annual, quarterly and monthly implementation plans.
Monitor and provide technical inputs for implementation of livelihood initiatives across Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts.
Provide overall technical and operational backstopping to project staff and partners.
Ensure quality programming aligned with Sphere Standards, CHS/humanitarian principles, and World Vision standards.
Identify implementation risks and develop mitigation measures.
Facilitate adaptive management based on emerging needs and lessons learned.
Regularly update the Early recovery cluster and represent World vision in district/province's livelihood settings.
Necessary assessments are conducted and reports are prepared/drafted/endorsed which will lead to efficient, effective, and resilient recovery & rehabilitation outputs.
Leadership in the Assessment and Technical Support
Lead and oversee integrated recovery assessment and interventions with strong strategy in both districts including:
Initial livelihood loss & damage assessment
Work closely with Local Government (LG), agriculture and livestock units, enterprise development units and Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FNCCI) to collect the initial loss and damage information.
Prepare and endorse the initial assessment from LG to prepare for early recovery actions
Prepare market assessment report post disaster
Work closely with FNCCI and LG to prepare market disruption, inflation and opportunity loss report to inform the WV's livelihood team on necessary injection required to support immediate and long-term recovery/rehabilitation status.
Lead assessment on employment loss and new employment opportunities post disaster
Work closely with enterprise development unit, FNCCI and other relevant stakeholders to study the employment loss status and look for new employment/enterprise development opportunities created post disaster.
Assess the status of current job opportunities and provide necessary conducive environment for scale up or level up of such opportunities in the communities and in district.
Lead Business recovery and livelihood recovery program with fixed assets value under each category.
Prepare business case to support high-value schemes to support immediate livelihood upliftment of the community people including modes like CASH/Kind.
Formal documentation of the immediate livelihood need assessment is developed, shared and integrated into planning and budgeting.
Lead on the cash support modality with the information received from the market assessment and coordination group.
Oversee household and Community Recovery and Rehabilitation (Lead, monitor and provide necessary technical back stopping)
Recovery of household income sources.
Productive asset replacement and restoration.
Livelihood recovery initiatives.
Small enterprise recovery support.
Market-oriented recovery approaches.
Community Recovery and Rehabilitation
Community asset rehabilitation.
Community infrastructure restoration.
Small-scale recovery projects.
Community-based resilience strengthening initiatives.
Employment and Cash-Based Programming
Cash-for-Work activities.
Temporary employment opportunities.
Community rehabilitation schemes.
Environmentally responsible recovery approaches.
Resilience and Recovery Strengthening
Disaster-resilient recovery practices.
Community preparedness integration.
Recovery planning with affected communities.
Strengthening local recovery capacities.
Stakeholder's contribution including Partner NGO is acquired during the project interventions
Partnership, Stakeholder Management & capacity building
Orient and provide technical guidance to Partner NGO staff on the programming tools and materials to ensure they are utilized correctly and applied during programme implementation;
Develop and deliver training and capacity building for Partner NGOs staffs to ensure adequate competencies at field/partner level to deliver all necessary components of the given projects/programme to ensure performance targets achieved;
Provide in-field support to Partner NGOs during key events to strengthen programming quality and results;
Lead in providing appropriate tools and techniques to Partner NGOs in order measure and update on the projects progress
Provide necessary training to WV and Partner NGO staff on various livelihood initiatives including CVP/CFW/ER/BR/alternative livelihood approaches (on-farm, off-farm), etc
Facilitate the vocational training required in the field on need and time-frame basis (categorize the type and number of days required for VT)
Ensure partner compliance with project agreements and donor requirements.
Build partner capacity in recovery programming, reporting and quality assurance.
Conduct regular review meetings with partners.
Facilitate collaborative planning and implementation processes.
Strengthen relationships with local stakeholders and community institutions.
Promote community participation throughout the project cycle.
WVI Nepal has strong relationship with the LG, various government units, stakeholders, private institutions and other relevant line agencies, take lead wherever necessary, particularly in the sector of livelihoods, food security and rehabilitation
Coordination and Representation
Represent WVI Nepal in district, cluster, livelihood and livestock service meetings/sectors and municipal recovery coordination mechanisms.
Support LG/livelihood cluster for phase and support categorization, business support plan, develop value voucher quantity and amount, description of criteria for conditional livelihood cash support, etc
Maintain close coordination with local governments, line agencies and humanitarian actors.
Participate in Early Recovery, Livelihoods and Recovery-related working groups and forums.
Strengthen collaboration with private sector and market actors where appropriate, validate data received from various sources and ensure effective representation of the affected communities.
Promote visibility of project achievements and learning.
The data and result appropriately depict the field level achievement, accountability mechanism is established and functional; the success and outcome of the program is demonstrated in stories and figures/data.
Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning
Work with WVI MEAL team and partner NGOs to ensure appropriate analysis and programme results, including sharing of results and continuous improvements of programme design, research and implementationEnsure data driven decision making approach is mainstreamed in the program planning, implementation, analysis and result sharing.