Project Coordinator - Inclusive Markets at Danish Refugee Council

DRC Kenya is looking for an experienced Inclusive Market Systems Coordinator who will provide targeted and high-quality strategic guidance, capacity strengthening and technical leadership to DRC Kenya’s Market Systems and Economic Recovery portfolio, with the aim of promoting and reinforcing DRC Kenya and its local partners’ leadership and expertise in building self-reliance and resilience for conflict-, climate- and displacement-affected populations in Kenya and the wider region.

A specific focus for the Inclusive Markets Systems Coordinator will be related to the use of Market Systems Approaches (MSA) to improve access to essential goods, services and livelihood opportunities for displacement-affected populations by leveraging local actors and systems. In particular, they will support of developing DRC’s growing portfolio of modern, decent and sustainable (waged and self-employed) livelihoods programs. They will be working in environments where interventions may need to continue to address immediate needs whilst working towards and/or protecting development gains.

Due to the nature of displacement in the region, the Coordinator will need to be able to adapt to working creatively within thin, nascent and distorted systems. They will seek to promote the use of holistic intervention strategies utilising a combination of market-based programming and market systems development interventions in parallel to navigate the nexus challenges of working in fragile contexts.

Whilst the primary focus will seek to support economic recovery objectives around income-generation, financial inclusion and business development, a secondary focus for the role will be to support the development of integrated programming across DRC’s core sectors of intervention (including with Humanitarian Disarmament & Peacebuilding (HDP), DRR/Climate Change and Protection) acknowledging that working within systems will require a cross-sectoral approach in many instances.

This role will be on the frontier of driving MSA within DRC in the region and candidates must be comfortable with working through this transition and adapting, as required, to navigate organisational constraints whilst attempting to showcase the potential of new ways of working.

The Inclusive Markets Systems Coordinator reports to the Head of Programmes and works in close collaboration with the Regional Office Technical Team, including across DRC’s core sectors, such as Environment and Climate Adaptation, Protection and HDP, as well as DRC’s platforms Emergency, Root Causes and Durable Solutions.

Only motivated applications that address the stipulated duties and meet the required qualifications, sent together with a CV, will be considered.

DRC only accepts applications sent via our online-application form on www.drc.ngo under Vacancies. Please remember to upload both a letter of application and your CV and do not attach any written recommendations.

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