Refugee Investment Facility Coordinator job at Danish Refugee Council | Apply Now

Key Duties and Responsibilities:   Your main duties and responsibilities will be:

Refugee Investment Technical Assistance

• Lead the scoping and development of technical assistance activities both prior to and during investment under the RIF, which seeks to offer patient investments of up to 5 years to local companies and start-ups that have the potential to positively impact refugees and host communities. This includes:

Pre-Investment Technical Assistance

• Identify companies with potential refugee impact through networks and country programming and refer such to the RIF /iGravity Investment Officers for screening

• Lead on identification of potential enterprise impact within target displacement affected communities, aligning with community needs as part of screening of potential investees

Investee Technical Assistance:

• Lead the design and defining of focus for technical assistance allocations for each investee, in line with the Technical Assistance Facility framework, and in cooperation with the DRC country teams, DRC RIF Global Lead, Regional Specialists and the RIF in-country Investment Officer

• Identify business capacity building needs, opportunities for impact and ways to further connect businesses to displacement-affected communities

• Identify key refugee impact metrics relevant for each company and define an impact framework for each investee

• Prepare and submit proposals for technical assistance grant allocations to the RIF Investment Committee

• Provide technical assistance and advice to investees on refugee impact, such as support developing impact management and monitoring systems, assistance engaging effectively with refugee communities and their needs, analysis of markets and ecosystems within refugee hosting areas to enhance business engagement, and support in development of best practice around refugee-inclusive business approaches

• Manage impact monitoring for RIF investees, through annual review of impact reports of investees, meeting with investee management teams, on-site monitoring, and on this basis make recommendations for strengthening the impact of investees

• Identify links between investees and DRC’s other economic recovery programming in country to build complementarity in approaches

Coordination and MEAL Activities

• Coordinate DRC RIF country activities and priorities with the Global DRC HQ RIF Lead and iGravity’s RIF Country Lead

• Support the development of learning and community impact monitoring alongside DRC’s MEAL teams, gathering data and feedback from communities on RIF impacts

• Support baseline, reporting and evaluation processes

Private Sector Partnerships and Innovative Finance Concept Development

• Support DRC Uganda’s work with private sector partners, including identifying and exploring partnerships with companies with potential positive impact on refugees and host communities, including job creation, employability and technical training, access to relevant services and products

• Support the Regional Innovative Financing Specialist’s work developing innovative financing approaches and investment partnerships to mobilize new types of capital for refugees and host communities, including idea and concept development, partner and donor outreach, proposal writing and external representation

• Contribute to business development processes.

Finance and Administration:

• Ensuring that technical, financial, and administrative activities, including reporting are carried out accord Assume responsibility for the effective management of the programme’s budget. This entails regularly monitoring spending and ensure timely utilization of funds in accordance with agreed spending plans.

• Contribute to monthly Budget Review Meeting.

• Ensure Value-for-Money in decision makinging to DRC and donor policies and procedures and that deadlines are met