Danish Refugee Council Training Officers, Training Assistant and Livelihood Officer Jobs in Kenya

The Danish Refugee Council is an international non-governmental organization that promotes and supports durable solutions to the problems faced by refugees and internally displaced people all over the world. DRC has been providing relief and development services in the Horn of Africa region since 1997. 

The DRC Kenya Program is seeking qualified candidates for the following positions:
 

Training Officers
 

2 Positions - 1 based in Dadaab Refugee Camp, 1 based in Nairobi
 

The focus of the role is to design and implement participatory needs assessments and identify appropriate training interventions to increase knowledge and practical skills at different needs levels, identify and select credible training institutions that DRC can partner with to provide training products and serve as the liaison with these educational institutions as well as the relevant government and county education departments and assist in the development of MOUs with the identified training institutions.

Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Education with a minimum 3-years’ working experience both as a professional teacher/tutor in a government institution and/or with INGOs in the field of education and scholarship administration at Graduate Teacher/Officer level with supervisory responsibilities. 
• Possess a good understanding of the relationship between skills development and general livelihoods, excellent skills in preparing progress reports, monitoring and evaluation. 
• Solid management/leadership skills with multidisciplinary teams; team-player with excellent networking skills and a capacity for intellectual leadership when working with colleagues and collaborators of different nationalities and cultural backgrounds.

Training Assistant

Based in Dadaab Refugee Camp
 

Working under the supervision of the Training Officer, the holder will support the livelihoods scholarship component in Dadaab which includes professional, technical and vocational training.

Key responsibilities include: Support the implementation of learning needs assessments for the identified target groups, support the identification and selection of credible training institutions that DRC can partner with to provide training products and conduct institutional visits and feedback sessions with students to ensure ongoing learning.

Requirements:  

• Bachelor’s degree or Higher National Diploma in Education with a minimum 2-years’ working experience both as a professional teacher/tutor in a government institution and/or with INGOs in the field of education and scholarship administration. 
• Possess a good understanding of the relationship between skills development and general livelihoods, team-player with solid networking skills and a capacity for intellectual leadership when working with colleagues and collaborators of different nationalities and cultural backgrounds.

Livelihood Officer 

Based in Dadaab Refugee Camp
 

The focus of the role is to support the development and implementation of livelihoods programming that is efficient, and accountable. 

Key roles include supporting the implementation relevant livelihoods and financial activities including group savings and loan activities and training beneficiaries in the local communities living around Dadaab Refugee camps and promote collaboration and synergy between the DRC host community project and other similar projects/groups in the Dadaab refugee camps

Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Entrepreneurship or Community Development with a minimum 2-years’ experience setting up and implementing livelihoods or income generating projects preferably with an NGO in a refugee/IDP setting. 
• Possess capacity building skills with a keen understanding of business and development issues including group’s savings and loan approaches; hands-on community mobilization skills with experience in working in harsh climatic conditions and ability to communicate in the Somali language will be an added advantage.

Please note that the above positions are on a 1-year contract with possibility of extension.
 

Qualified candidates are invited to submit their applications which should include a 1-page cover letter clearly stating their motivation, qualifications and a CV. 

Applications should include salary expectations and contact details of three professional referees. 

One referee must be the applicant’s most recent manager. 

Applications should be sent to: drcjobs@drckenya.org and have the subject heading and location of the position that is being applied for.

Deadline for receiving applications is 6th December, 2013

Only short listed candidates will be contacted.