Jordan River Foundation Hiring for Economist senior coordinator at Amman, Jordan Full Time

Core Responsibilities

• Facilitate focus group discussions and community market surveys for assessing economic needs of the communities and translate them to socio-economic development plans.
• Support assessment of the target groups’ existing capacities and opportunities for economic/business development.
• Integrates effective marketing and outreach programs and activities with business development; communicates with local businesses to identify business needs and issues facing local enterprises, including barriers to growth; identifies and implements service
• Undertake feasibility studies, preparing business plans by the communities, with special consideration to innovative and creative opportunities;
• Support communities to gain access to financial resources
• Design and develop need-based training programs on financial and business management, technical and life skill development, social and economic development.
• Contribute to project identification, development, appraisal, monitoring, review and evaluation, ensuring that all initiatives clearly contribute towards poverty reduction. Minimum of 5 years of experience in technical assistance or project implementation in the socio-economic field in countries with economies comparable to that of Jordan

 Qualifications :

Bachelor Degree in economy , business or any related field 

Strong English and Arabic language skills (written and spoken)

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in technical assistance or project implementation in the socio-economic field in countries with economies comparable to that of Jordan

Minimum of 2 years of experience in the socio-economic field and pro-poor targeting activities in Jordan