Economic Recovery Team Leader _ Resilience (Gadaref) – DRC

Job Description

Organization	The Danish Refugee Council
Job Title	Economic Recovery Team Leader _ Resilience
Location	Gadaref
Closing Date	17 Jun 2026

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC), one of the world’s leading NGOs, with a focus on responding to displacement, have been registered in Sudan since 2004, delivering life-saving programming in protection, emergency response, shelter, food security and livelihoods, disaster risk reduction, camp management, and humanitarian mine action. DRC has implemented projects in Central Darfur, South Kordofan, Gedaref, Port Sudan, and White Nile. Sudan hosts one of the largest displaced populations in Africa, with over 3.7 million internally displaced people and over 1.1 million refugees from South Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Central African Republic, Chad, Yemen and Syria. Against a background of political crisis, Sudan faces economic and social turmoil, with sharp increases in food and energy costs, further exacerbated by disease outbreaks and ongoing conflict.

POSITION PROFILE

Under the direct supervision of the Economic Recovery Manager, the Economic Recovery (Resilience) Team Leader has a base focus and ensures compliance to DRC procedures and guidelines at base-level. The role contributes to the development of base strategies, which are translated into action plans and day-to-day tasks.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Management

• Lead, supervise, and mentor the Economic Recovery field teams, ensuring clarity of roles, planning, performance, well-being and professional growth.
• Develop and monitor detailed work plans, procurement plans, and field activity schedules.
• Oversee the planning, implementation and monitoring of livelihoods and market development activities in line with project objectives and donor requirements.
• Facilitate regular team meetings and coaching sessions to strengthen field team efficiency and motivation.
• Ensure a safe, inclusive, and respectful team culture aligned with DRC’s Code of Conduct and Core Values.

• Leading the EcRec team in activities implementation, providing guidance and technical support, and ensuring to provision of administrative management to the team, including appraisals, leaves, etc.

Programming & Operations

• Provide technical guidance on market-based livelihoods, MSME and cooperative development, vocational training, value chain strengthening, and CVA programming, including beneficiary identification.
• Provide technical support on Entrepreneurship & Youth Businesses, and lead the Business training, Start-up support (kits/grants), Coaching and mentoring systems, and facilitate B2B networking and entrepreneurship hubs.
• Conduct/validate labour market and value chain analyses.
• Ensure smooth integration between CVA and economic recovery and protection outcomes.
• Oversee the implementation of vocational skills training, business development support, and market linkage activities for MSMEs and cooperatives.
• Supervise technical inputs related to value-chain strengthening, community-based micro-infrastructure, and local sourcing promotion.
• Review and validate project tools and technical documents, ensuring adherence to quality and gender-sensitive standards.
• Oversee the financial Inclusion, which includes VSLA formation and strengthening, Linkages to MFIs and financial services, and Promote financial literacy and sustainable access to capital.
• Promote climate-smart and inclusive approaches in livelihood interventions.
• Submit timely field reports, success stories, lessons learned, and progress updates to the EcRec Manager.
• Provide daily monitoring to DRC’s implementing partners at the field level.
• Ensure compliance with DRC and donor requirements and procedures at all times during implementation.

Coordination and representation

• Ensure coordination with other humanitarian actors operating in the area and representation in state-level humanitarian coordination mechanisms.
• Represent DRC at humanitarian meetings and other relevant technical coordination meetings.
• Ensure integration with other DRC sectors.
• Coordinate with DRC’s sector teams (Protection, WASI, MEAL, Supply Chain, and Safety) to ensure a harmonized, multi-sectoral approach.
• Represent DRC at relevant cluster and coordination forums (FSAC, CMWG, and Protection WG).
• Maintain active engagement relevant stakeholders including authorities, community leaders and government institutions, local partner in close cooperation with Area Manager /APM.
• Foster collaboration with financial service providers (FSPs) to ensure timely and transparent cash transfer implementation.
• Strengthen partner capacity through coaching, monitoring, and joint activity planning.

Logistics/Finance

• Responsible for ensuring the team’s compliance with DRC safety procedures and guidelines as established by DRC Safety team, APM and Area Manager.
• Support the monitoring of financial commitments and expenditures against budgets and provide timely feedback on budget follow-up.

• Plan and coordinate proactively logistics and movements of staff from and to different operational areas.
• Initiate procurements and ensure their execution.
• Ensure distribution plans are prepared and shared with all relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure accurate financial and stock reconciliations after cash or in-kind distributions.
•  Ensure that all needed beneficiary information is accurately collected and reported through established mechanisms.
• Ensure accurate data collection for all activities and support the MEAL team with beneficiary data reconciliation, post-distribution monitoring, and pre- and post-training assessments.
• Ensure compliance with DRC and donor financial and procurement guidelines, particularly for cash and in-kind distributions.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES

• At least 4-5 years of professional experience in humanitarian assistance, including livelihoods, market systems, enterprise development programming, and CVA.
• Experience implementing early recovery or transition programs linking CVA and livelihoods support to sustainable market outcomes.
• Strong experience working with and building the capacity of local partner organizations.
• Knowledge of climate-smart agriculture and inclusive market facilitation is an asset.
• Demonstrated experience in partner management, community mobilization, and coordination with government entities.
• Strong communication, coordination, and representation skills.
• Excellent knowledge of compute