Overview
The Livelihood Delegate provides specialized technical guidance on livelihoods in alignment with IFRC policies and programme objectives. The role ensures livelihood standards and protection-linked approaches are integrated and supports National Societies in strengthening their capacities.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical livelihoods and market-based programming support.
- Support analysis of migration trends, risks, vulnerabilities, and opportunities.
- Provide strategic and operational technical support to National Societies (NSs) related to livelihood activities.
- Support the development and application of livelihood frameworks, SOPs, and tools.
- Ensure regular technical review, monitoring, and quality assurance of livelihood interventions.
- Ensure livelihoods interventions systematically integrate protection, gender, and inclusion (PGI), conflict sensitivity, and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS).
- Promote the use of participatory and accountable approaches.
- Support NSs to review, develop or update livelihood strategies, policies, guidance and organisational procedures.
- Provide technical advice on livelihood specific components of NS capacity strengthening.
- Assist NSs in identifying gaps in access to services for migrants and returnees.
- Facilitate cross-country learning, peer exchange, and communities of practice.
- Support NSs in systematically collect, analyze and generate evidence.
- Ensure impact evidence is contributing to the Migration and Displacement Platform.
- Analyze health and MHPSS-linked findings to inform technical recommendations.
- Provide evidence-based analysis and technical briefs.
- Support NSs in building partnerships with labour authorities, vocational training centres, MSME agencies and private sector actors.
- Work closely with other technical teams to ensure coherent, integrated support to NS.
- Represent programme team as livelihoods expert in relevant technical forums.
- Ensure timely, accurate, and high-quality reporting.
- Ensure results-framework products meet required quality standards.
- Maintain strong knowledge-management systems.
- Support safe and inclusive programme design and reporting.
- Identify risks within the migration areas and ensure mitigation measures.
- Uphold principled humanitarian action and the Fundamental Principles.
Required Experience
- 5 years of progressive professional experience in livelihoods / socio-economic empowerment programming and cash-based interventions, including design, planning, implementation and monitoring, in humanitarian, early recovery or development contexts.
- Experience in developing LLH frameworks, guidelines, tools and training materials, and delivering capacity building trainings/workshops/awareness sessions for staff, volunteers and other stakeholders.
- Experience in labour market analysis and use of relevant tools.
- Experience working with migrants, returnees and/or displacement affected populations, including in reintegration contexts.
- Experience in proposal development, budgeting and reporting for institutional donors.
- Experience in designing and implementing targeting strategies, including appropriate approaches, criteria, and mechanisms to collect the information.
- Previous experience working with or within the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement, including with National Societies.
- Experience working in multi country or regional technical roles.
- Experience in developing and using MEAL systems (including data management) to track and evaluate livelihoods or economic inclusion interventions.
- Experience documenting lessons learned, good practices, case studies and stories of change, and producing learning materials to support cross learning and evidence based decision making.
Qualifications
- University degree in Development Studies, Economics, Socio Economic Development, Rural Development, Business Administration, or related field.
- Livelihoods Programming training (RC/RC or equivalent).
- Training on Cash and Voucher Assistance / Cash and Markets (RC/RC or equivalent).
- RCRC Basic Delegate / IMPACT or equivalent.
- Movement induction training.
- Security management training for field operations.
