Economic Recovery Coordinator at Danish Refugee Council

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Technical Coordination and Advisory

   • Provide technical advisory throughout the project cycle to ensure high-quality Economic Recovery (EcRec) programming across all DRC operational areas.
   • Lead the development, update, and roll-out of DRC’s EcRec technical strategy, with emphasis on affected population needs, innovation, environmental sustainability, and durable solutions.
   • Provide technical inputs to proposal development, donor reports, concept notes, assessments, and evaluations, ensuring alignment with sector strategies.
   • Ensure technical support during implementation of the graduation approach, including:
     • Development of SOPs, tools, and implementation guidance.
     • Development of curricula and training materials tailored to coaches, MEAL teams, and programme participants.
     • Support and quality assurance for profiling, targeting, and monitoring processes.
     • Coordination of technical elements of the graduation approach with JIPS.
   • Support start-up of new EcRec initiatives, including graduation and social protection programming, ensuring strong planning, quality design, and effective monitoring.
   • Provide capacity building, ongoing coaching, and quality monitoring for field teams and partners across all EcRec modalities, including CVA, livelihoods, agriculture, and market systems.
   • Prepare knowledge products such as SOPs, guidance notes, innovative practices, and learning briefs to strengthen sector-wide technical coherence.
   • Conduct analysis of EcRec trends, challenges, and opportunities to inform strategy and programme adaptation.
   • Provide technical support during the recruitment of field and technical staff.
   • Support MEAL in developing appropriate monitoring tools and systems for qualitative and quantitative measurement, including graduation-specific indicators and approaches.

2. Representation, Fundraising, and Advocacy

   • Lead DRC’s EcRec representation at national and area-level coordination platforms, including working groups and relevant technical forums.
   • Engage with donors, government authorities, INGOs, UN agencies, academic partners, and private sector stakeholders to represent DRC’s EcRec portfolio and identify partnership opportunities.
   • Contribute to fundraising efforts by identifying funding opportunities, contributing to concept notes, and supporting full proposal development, particularly for graduation, livelihoods, and social protection programming.
   • Produce advocacy materials highlighting EcRec results, innovations, and needs to support strategic engagement and donor visibility.
   • Liaise with HQ Hub and global EcRec counterparts to ensure alignment with global DRC approaches and learning.

3. Coordination, Representation, and Advocacy

   • Maintain strong collaboration with technical leads across DRC Nigeria, WAAM HQ Hub, and HQ to ensure technical consistency and harmonisation.
   • Participate actively in programme planning meetings and internal coordination processes.
   • Coordinate closely with MEAL, Protection, and other sector technical teams to ensure an integrated and protection-mainstreamed approach.
   • Provide onboarding, handover briefings, and training for new EcRec staff and short-term technical support deployments.

In addition to the above, the EcRec Coordinator may be asked to carry out other duties requested by the Head of Programme, aligned with the scope and purpose of the position.

Experience and Technical Competencies

Essential:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in humanitarian or development programming in at least four of the following areas: food security, livelihoods, agriculture, financial inclusion, cash and voucher assistance, or market systems.
• Strong experience in the design and implementation of livelihood and financial inclusion interventions across the full project cycle.
• Technical experience in graduation programming, social protection, resilience-building, and/or integrated economic recovery approaches.
• Demonstrated ability to develop SOPs, tools, training curricula, and implementation guidance.
• Experience in coordinating and delivering training to diverse audiences (coaches, field teams, partners, community structures).
• Experience in proposal development, donor engagement, and strategic planning.
• Knowledge of market assessment methodologies and ability to support the design of market-based programming.
• Experience coordinating with partners, including INGOs, government authorities, and technical agencies.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and writing skills.
• Full professional proficiency in English.

Desirable:

• Prior experience in Northeast and Northwest Nigeria.
• Experience working with profiling partners such as JIPS or similar data/targeting technical partners.
• Experience with green or climate-adapted livelihood models.
• Knowledge of Core Humanitarian Standards and accountability frameworks.

Education

• Master’s degree in political science, international development, economic studies, or other relevant fields.

We Offer

• Contract length: One (01) year, with a possibility of extension depending on funding availability.
• Workplace: Abuja, Nigeria.
• Start date: When the right candidate is identified.
• Salary and conditions will be in accordance with the DRC National salary structure.
• This position is open to both national and international candidates. Relevant terms and conditions of employment will apply.

General Regulations

Application Process

Are you interested? Then apply for this position online: www.drc.dk/about-drc/vacancies/current-vacancies . All applicants must send a cover letter and an updated CV (no longer than four pages). Both must be in English.

DRC provides equal opportunity in employment and prohibits discrimination based on race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

DRC encourages all applicants to apply and does not discriminate in any recruitment process.

Deadline: Applications close on the 4th of January 2026 at midnight (GMT).