Associate Livelihood Officer

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About the Organization

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, takes the lead in protecting people forced to flee wars and persecution around the world, providing life-saving aid including shelter, food and water to ensure their basic safety, rights and dignity. With 18,879 women and men working in 137​ countries, we work tirelessly to make a difference in the lives of 89.3 million forcibly displaced people worldwide.

Our dedicated and professional staff work around the clock in roles including legal protection, community services, public affairs, health and more. Despite the challenges they can face, our staff are proud to work for UNHCR and determined to make a positive impact.

Job Description

The Associate Livelihood Officer will work closely with multi-functional teams in UNHCR on matters including but not limited to protection, education, cash, partnerships, research and analytics, GBV and solutions. S/he will work with relevant external stakeholders from government line ministries, development actors, private sector, financial service providers, UN agencies, international organisations, NGOs, research institutions and universities. S/he will ensure effective implementation of livelihood projects and cash-based interventions, with the focus on strengthening the self-reliance of refugees and asylum seekers.

UNHCR is seeking candidates with demonstrated experience in livelihoods and economic inclusion of marginalized groups as well as developing and managing differentiated cash-based programming.  The candidate should be proactive, always looking for new opportunities and persuasive in mobilizing public institutions, donors and other partners around new models of economic and social inclusion.

Job Responsibilities

• Maintain close contact and cooperation with partners to facilitate the economic inclusion of refugees, such as line ministries, private sector and development actors in accordance with UNHCR Global and Country level policies, priorities, and strategies, in particular the Global Compact on Refugees. This includes advocating with public and private sector services providers to include UNHCR POC in supporting services (business development, micro-finance, training, saving accounts, poverty alleviation and social protection, etc.).
• Work with the multi-functional team, more specifically with the Protection Unit, to assess the legal framework for the right to work and rights at work and recommend/implement advocacy initiatives and policy reforms to improve UNHCR POC's economic inclusion, rights and access to work.
•  Build on UNHCR databases to support regular information sharing and coordination among different humanitarian, developmental and governmental stakeholders. This includes supporting the implementation of socioeconomic and wealth ranking surveys utilising community-based strategies to inform targeting, monitoring and facilitation of development programmes.
• Conduct necessary assessments in collaboration with relevant private and public stakeholders, including impact assessments on local economies and surveys that help to identify investment and funding opportunities that enhance the economic inclusion of UNHCR POC.
   In case UNHCR is implementing specific livelihoods activities, strengthen, guide and monitor the livelihoods interventions to help ensure they are market-based, and that the role of UNHCR has been strategically determined in consideration of its comparative advantage vis-à-vis other partners.
• Support the identification and management of risks and seek to seize opportunities impacting objectives in the area of responsibility. Ensure decision making in risk based in the functional area of work. Raise risks, issues and concerns to a supervisor or to relevant functional colleague(s).
•  Perform other related duties as required.

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• For P2/NOB - 3 years relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or 2 years relevant experience with Graduate degree; or 1 year relevant experience with Doctorate degree

Field(s) of Education

• Business Management;
• Socio-Economics Development;
• Economics/International Economics;
• Rural Development;
• Financial Management; or other relevant field.

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