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Trainee

Djibouti

  • Organization: DRC - Danish Refugee Council
  • Location: Djibouti
  • Grade: Junior level - Junior - Internationally recruited position
  • Occupational Groups:
  • Closing Date: Closed

Background 
The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a humanitarian, non-governmental, non-profit organization founded in 1956 that works in more than 35 countries throughout the world. DRC fulfills its mandate by providing direct assistance to conflict-affected populations, including refugees, internally dis-placed people and host communities. Under its mandate, the organization focuses on emergency humanitarian response, rehabilitation and post-conflict recovery. 
 
DRC has been providing relief and development services in the Horn of Africa since 1997 and initially focused assisting those who are displaced by conflict, but now works with all those in the region impacted by displacement. DRC has offices across the region, and has been working in Ethiopia in 2009 and Djibouti since earlier in 2015 to address the needs of refugees, IDPs, and migrants in or transiting those countries. DRC has offices in Djibouti-Ville, Ali-Sabieh, and Obock, and implements projects in three refugee camps across Djibouti. 
 
DRC’s operation in Djibouti started to assist migrants crossing the country on the way to Yemen and the Arabian Peninsula beyond. These capacity building, awareness-raising, and livelihoods interven-tions were shortly joined by DRC’s work in the two refugee camps in the southern part of Djibouti that host the existing caseload of primarily Somali refugees, many of whom who have been in the camps for over two decades. DRC’s UNHCR’s, FAO’s and ECHO’s implementing partner in livelihoods in the refugee camps, and is further working on protection issues, specifically SGBV, in the camps, as well as CCCM. The remainder of DRC’s work in Djibouti is focused on responding to the refugee influx into that country from Yemen. In order to be able to host the new arrivals, the government has asked UNHCR to establish a new refugee camp in Obock, a region in northern Djibouti.  
 
Overall objective 
The Djibouti Trainee will work directly with the Area Manager to support the overall implementation and strategic direction of the organization's current and future projects in Djibouti. She or he will provide daily support in the areas of project cycle management, proposal development, and monitoring and evaluation, with opportunities to focus on specific programmatic themes such as protection, mixed migration, livelihood, CCCM, etc.   
 
Responsibilities and tasks 
To achieve the overall objective of the position, and in consideration of the Trainees' backgrounds and interests, the Trainees may be asked to perform the following tasks and undertake the following responsibilities: 
  • Provide general support to the implementation of protection, mixed migration or livelihoods and CCCM related activities in compliance with core protection principles and DRC and dono-harm principles.  
  • Collaborate with the Area Manager, Programme and support teams to contribute to new pro-ject development, including both narratives and budgets, by coordinating and compiling in-puts from technical and support staff. This task may also include providing support to staff conducting needs assessments or research intended to inform project design.  
  • Contribute to timely and quality delivery of organizational and project reports, and monitoring and evaluation to ensure project quality, relevance and accountability to DRC's beneficiary populations.  
  • Depending upon the Trainees' interests, additional responsibilities and tasks could include re-search pertaining to mixed migration or daily responsibility for the implementation of a specif-ic activity (depending upon background knowledge, experience and projects being imple-mented during the time of the traineeship). 
 
 
Qualifications 
  • Current graduate student working towards an advanced degree in humanitarian response, in-ternational development, law, social sciences or education. 
  • Excellent analytical and writing skills. 
 
Additional requirements 
  • Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to establish effective working relation-ships in a diverse workplace. 
  • Willingness to live and work in a remote location with few facilities, or frequent travels across the country. 
  • Experience working with youth and young people.  
  • Ability to work well under pressure. 
  • Fluent in English and French 
  • Knowledge of other languages like Arabic, Somali, etc. as an asset 
 
Conditions  
Contract: A 6 months contract or plus (depending on the interest of the applicant and availability funds). On-job Training and proper coaching in several aspects of project cycle management. 
 
Other conditions will be in accordance with Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment for train-ees; please refer to www.drc.dk under Vacancies. This position is rated as A20 with a salary of DKK10,500
 
Availability:  Immediately
 
Duty Station:  Djibouti Ville
 
General Commitments: DRC has a Humanitarian Accountability Framework, outlining its global ac-countability commitments. All staff are required to contribute to the achievement of this framework. 
 
For general information about the Danish Refugee Council, please consult www.drc.dk . 
 
Application process  
Interested? Then apply for this position by clicking on the apply button.  
All applicants must send a cover letter and an updated CV. Both must be in English. CV only applica-tions will not be considered. Applications close on 25 June, 2016. 
 
 
This vacancy is now closed.
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