Overview
The Livelihood and Economic Recovery Analyst supports the Peace Support Facility in designing, implementing, and learning from area-based recovery interventions in conflict-affected woredas. The role focuses on assessment, planning, and technical support across programme areas.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the design and implementation of area-based economic recovery and livelihoods assessments.
- Lead and coordinate the collection, consolidation, and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data.
- Facilitate structured consultations and participatory planning processes.
- Support local authorities and communities to prioritize recovery actions.
- Contribute to the drafting and consolidation of Integrated Woreda Action Plans (iWAPs).
- Ensure iWAPs are aligned with regional and national recovery frameworks.
- Translate approved iWAP priorities into Annual Work Plans (AWPs).
- Provide technical guidance and quality assurance.
- Support capacity strengthening of woreda and kebele counterparts.
- Document key findings, planning assumptions, and decision points.
- Provide technical accompaniment to regional and woreda authorities during implementation.
- Support the operationalization of income-generating activities.
- Assist local authorities in the preparation of implementation packages.
- Conduct regular field visits to monitor progress.
- Provide technical advice on market-based approaches.
- Ensure that interventions integrate conflict sensitivity.
- Support coordination with relevant actors.
- Contribute to monitoring and reporting.
- Capture implementation lessons.
- Support the design and implementation of data collection systems.
- Collect, validate, and analyze implementation data.
- Contribute to the preparation of high-quality knowledge products.
- Document good practices, operational innovations, and effective delivery models.
- Identify implementation challenges, constraints, and enabling factors.
- Prepare human-interest stories and field-based narratives.
- Contribute to the preparation of annual reports, donor updates, and internal progress reports.
- Support structured learning processes.
- Ensure systematic storage, organization, and accessibility of livelihoods-related data.
- Feed evidence, lessons learned, and field insights into policy dialogue.
- Provide flexible technical support to PSF teams across sectors.
- Contribute to joint assessments, planning processes, and field missions.
- Support the integration of livelihoods and economic recovery considerations into non-economic interventions.
- Provide surge support during peak planning, implementation, or reporting periods.
- Contribute to internal coordination, information sharing, and quality assurance processes.
- Support the preparation of cross-sectoral reports, briefing notes, presentations, and donor-facing materials.
- Act as a technical resource person for economic recovery and livelihoods within PSF.
- Promote coherence and complementarity across PSF-supported interventions.
- Support capacity strengthening of government counterparts and partners.
Required Experience
- 3 years of progressive experience in the implementation and management of multi-donor and multi-sector post-conflict recovery and development programmes/projects focusing on the most vulnerable people, including internally displaced persons (IDPs ), at national or international levels is required.
- Experience in designing and delivering peace support, post-conflict recovery programmes/projects or related areas.
- Experience working in United Nations Development Programme (UNDP ) and United Nations (UN ) system policies and programming.
Qualifications
Master's degree in Livelihoods and Food Security, Business development, Development studies, Economics, or other social sciences or related fields of study.
