Supporting Return Preparedness Through Livelihood Study

About the Position

Supporting Return Preparedness Through Livelihood Study

Mercy Corps is seeking a Consultant to support return preparedness for Syrian refugees in Jordan through a livelihood study. This role is pivotal in examining the relationship between livelihood opportunities and durable solutions, aiming to assess how current livelihood interventions respond to existing and future needs, and how this influences return-related decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall project management and technical oversight for the study.
• Ensure compliance with Mercy Corps’ research standards, methodological requirements, and agreed deliverables and timelines.
• Lead on qualitative research methodology and design.
• Develop the inception report and lead the review and revision process through to finalization, incorporating feedback provided by Mercy Corps and UNDP.
• Liaise with the Crisis Analysis team for external stakeholder engagement, to conduct key informant interviews (KIIs), and to validate analytical findings.
• Conduct KIIs with an agreed list of stakeholders.
• Lead the research analysis, in coordination with the Crisis Analysis regional team.
• Produce KIIs transcripts and ensure they are anonymized and imported into a qualitative coding structure.
• Lead the production of the thematic report.
• Present the initial findings internally to Mercy Corps and UNDP.
• Lead review and revision process with multiple iterations of feedback, ultimately leading to a high-quality final product.
• As relevant, produce and present findings within external events (briefings, workshops, panels, roundtables, etc).

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About the Company

Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions into action - helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within. Now, and for the future. To do this, we know our teams do their best work when they are diverse and every team member feels that they belong. We welcome diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be stronger and have long-term impact.

Mercy Corps has developed a Crisis Analysis function to support our programming in the most complex contexts, including Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Ukraine, and others. The Crisis Analysis supports Mercy Corps’ in-country programming as well as the wider humanitarian response in the region through the provision of quality, timely, and relevant analytical products. This analysis is grounded in Mercy Corps’ position as an operational NGO, keeping our products constructive and relevant for humanitarian, early recovery, and development responders and donors within a given crisis.

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