# Senior Recovery Economic and Development Officer **Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC) **Location**: Caracas **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Operations **Industry**: Non-Profit **Apply**: https://theirc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Careers/job/Caracas-Venezuela/Oficial-Senior-de-Recuperacin-Econmica-y-Desarrollo_JR00005844?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_e6e032b2-80c ## Description The Senior Recovery Economic and Development Officer will be responsible for coordinating and implementing the Economic Recovery and Development (ERD) portfolio of the IRC in Venezuela, ensuring technical quality, operational compliance, and achievement of donor-established objectives. The role will contribute to strengthening, coordinating, and implementing market-based assistance and cash transfers interventions, targeting households affected by the humanitarian crisis. Key responsibilities include: - Contributing to the development of the ERD strategy in Venezuela, promoting market-based assistance and cash transfers as a transversal approach across various programs. - Leading feasibility analyses in areas where the IRC operates, including market functionality, price dynamics, supplier replenishment capacity, and household access to payment systems. - Providing technical assistance, promoting, and sharing ideas for improvement and necessary changes within IRC teams and partners. - Ensuring project staff capacity development and transferring key skills. - Guaranteeing the design, monitoring, and support of cash transfer programs, considering established international standards. - Designing and implementing innovative activities for the program in response to emergencies and other attention scenarios. - Evaluating, promoting, and documenting ideas for technical improvements and other program development options. - Supervising and accompanying the team under their charge (officers and assistants), ensuring goal compliance, indicators, and transversal approaches. - Guaranteeing targeting processes, registration, eligibility, enrollment, and participant follow-up conforming to established criteria and operational procedures. - Coordinating logistics and operation of activities, articulating with Supply Chain, Finance, Community Mobilization, Protection/GBV, and CARM/MEAL. - Monitoring project physical and financial progress, ensuring effective budget execution within established deadlines. - Leading the development and updating of regional/multiterritorial work plans and compliance reports for management and donors. - Coordinating the implementation and deliverables of implementing partners when applicable. The ideal candidate will have: - A university degree in Economics, Administration, Social Sciences, International Relations, International Development, Statistics, Industrial Engineering, or related fields, or demonstrable equivalent experience. - At least three years of experience in managing and implementing humanitarian projects, development programs, or livelihoods programs (employability, entrepreneurship, or financial inclusion) targeting vulnerable populations, including technical or operational team coordination. - At least two years of experience in market-based assistance, livelihoods, and/or cash transfers targeting vulnerable populations. - Experience working in emergency contexts, human mobility, or high-complexity territories, articulating with multiple actors (NGOs, private sector, and public institutions). - Experience in project management, planning, budget tracking, indicator monitoring, activity reporting, and report elaboration. - Participation in humanitarian coordination spaces – desirable. - Knowledge of the Venezuelan banking, financial, and regulatory environment – desirable. - Familiarity with monitoring tools and programmatic information systems (CommCare, KOBO, BI platforms, or others) – desirable. Demonstrated skills and competencies include: - Strong organisational capacity, meeting deadlines, coordinating multiple tasks, and maintaining attention to detail. - Understanding of humanitarian principles and programming to support populations with humanitarian needs. - Excellent interpersonal and teamwork competencies. - Strong oral and written communication skills, effective in representation and liaison with external parties. - Results-oriented approach. - Solid leadership allowing remote supervision of field teams. - Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly intermediate Excel. - Capacity to train, supervise, and facilitate other personnel members, articulating with the role's functions. - Leadership and ability to handle multiple simultaneous tasks, including Excel skills, database management, and information analysis. For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - Economics - Administration - Social Sciences - International Relations - International Development - Statistics - Industrial Engineering - Project management - Budgeting - Monitoring and evaluation - Cash transfers - Market-based assistance - Livelihoods - Humanitarian response ### Nice to have - CommCare - KOBO - BI platforms - Venezuelan banking and financial regulations - Humanitarian coordination --- Source: [Apply at theirc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com](https://theirc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Careers/job/Caracas-Venezuela/Oficial-Senior-de-Recuperacin-Econmica-y-Desarrollo_JR00005844?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)