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About Danish Refugee Council

Founded in 1956, the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is Denmark’s largest, and a leading international NGO - one of the few with a specific expertise in forced displacement. In 40 countries 7,500 employees protect, advocate and build sustainable futures for refugees and other displacement affected people and communities. DRC works during displacement at all stages: In the acute crisis, in exile, when settling and integrating in a new place, or upon return. DRC provides protection and life-saving humanitarian assistance. DRC supports displaced persons in becoming self-reliant and included into hosting societies. DRC works with civil society and responsible authorities to promote protection of rights and peaceful coexistence. Our 6,000 volunteers in Denmark make an invaluable difference in integration activities throughout the country.

Job Description

The overall purpose of the role:

Supports the coordination and further development of DRC’s emergency program in Afghanistan. Provides technical guidance and support to existing emergency teams in DRCs program locations, starts up new emergency interventions when needed, further develops and documents methodologies for key emergency activities; may act as a central focal point for larger emergency grants to ensure coordination in the allocation of resources and coherency of response between Area Offices; contributes to humanitarian coordination and policy work, particularly with GoA partners.

Responsibilities:

• When an emergency occurs, the ES may be deployed remotely or in person to support the emergency teams within the area offices to respond to that emergency
• The ES will monitor the implementation of the emergency program across the area offices, and the utilization of the associated budgets, in accordance with the donor contract and regulations.
• The ES will produce timely and quality internal (e.g., project monitoring) and external reports (e.g. donor reports) in line with organizational requirements
• Will support the development of DRCs overall emergency response strategy and sector strategies and methodologies
• Ensure that accountability measures are mainstreamed into all of DRC’s emergency interventions.
• Work closely with protection and livelihoods technical staff to ensure that protection is mainstreamed in all emergency response activities and that the emergency response work supports our longer-term durable solution objectives.
• Work closely with the Grants Manager and M&E team to develop M&E tools and monitoring strategies – remotely when required.
• Participate in humanitarian coordination meetings, in order to inform DRC’s emergency response program and advocate on behalf of DRC in line with the organization’s key policy positions.
• Coordinate with humanitarian response actors to promote operational coordination, particularly amongst ECHO-funded response actors.

Key Deliverables:

• Project Monitoring Reports (prepared on basis of pre-approved TORs for field trips and observations on project progress)
• Completion of Project Monitoring Tool updates on monthly basis (when assigned as a Grant Focal point)
• Field Implementation Support Visits (when deployed to assist management of emergency interventions)
• Meeting minutes (when assigned to external representation functions)
• Other tasks as required by Supervisor.
  
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Skills Required

• computer skills

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