Adel Mezrab Email & Phone Number

Adana, Türkiye

Leading the development and implementation of DRC's Economic Recovery Strategy in Türkiye, ensuring alignment with country, regional, and global strategies. Responsibilities include designing and revising program concepts, particularly in livelihoods and financial inclusion, contributing to fundraising efforts, and coordinating cash and voucher assistance programs. The position also emphasizes building strategic partnerships, providing technical support, and enhancing program quality through regular assessments and evaluations. Additionally, the role includes staff supervision of EcRec team members, capacity building, and representing DRC in external forums, with a focus on advocacy and collaboration with key stakeholders in the economic recovery sector.

Şanlıurfa & Kilis

- Have the overall responsibility for the day-to-day management of DRC’s livelihood sector projects within geographical area of responsibility (Şanlıurfa and Kilis) including relevant sector implementing partner engagement.- Contribute in program design, monitoring and evaluation as well country and program strategy development process,- Responsible for building the capacity, coaching and managing field staff within geographical area of responsibility.- Lead active private sector engagement.

Kilis & Sanliurfa

- Lead all Area Emergency field assessments, surveys, needs assessments, market assessment and monitoring, and other data collection to guide programming;- Identification and development of transparent beneficiary vulnerability criteria and manage beneficiary selection procedures to reach the most vulnerable and marginalized with life-saving emergency assistance. - Lead the organisation and implementation of emergency activities, including cash and voucher programming and other items distributions to deliver life-saving emergency assistance to beneficiaries.- Ensure that Emergency interventions are informed by and integrated with other core sectors of such as Shelter, Protection and Economic Recovery; and provide technical support on Emergency to other DRC sectoral programmes;- Ensure that DRC staff and partners are aware of good practices, particularly in terms of human rights and international humanitarian principles;- Work closely with the Area Manager, Grants and Emergency Coordinator to develop quality proposals, concept notes, and budgets to meet emergency needs in the target areas.- Manage the Area Emergency team including hiring, training, and performance management, and provide overall supervision of their work to ensure timely delivery of project activities.- Ensure compliance with relevant guidelines and DRC commitments.- Ensure upholding of humanitarian principles.- Represent DRC and lead coordination with municipalities, other local government institutions, local NGO partners, other international organizations.- Initiate procurement of emergency programme goods, services and works, and ensure their delivery in compliance with DRC guidelines and SOPs.

Kilis, Turkey

- Manage economic recovery team members to ensure a timely and proper implementation of activities.- Deliver management and technical support and guidance to team to ensure quality of the supportprovided as prescribed in relevant DRC’s policies.- Ensure proper planning, implementation, and follow up of all technical and managerial aspects of the sector activities being implemented by DRC in the scope of geographical responsibility.- Develop and maintain good relations with the persons of concern, relevant stakeholders, private sector entities and other humanitarian actors, to support adequate implementation and coordination of DRC’s sector activities.- Prompt reporting of challenges to Economic Recovery Manager at the Area office level.- Regular reporting to Economic Recovery Manager, Area Manager, and Technical Coordinator.- Leading effective field-level coordination with other departments including MEAL, liaison, and supply chain.- Coordinating closely with implementing partners to co-plan jointly implemented activities and extending technical support when needed.- Following the contextual development as well as local labor market dynamics to inform economic recovery programming.

Şanlıurfa, Turkey

- Coordinating the development, evaluation and implementation of project goals, objectives, and activities related to SMEs and entrepreneurs in the BDC.- Monitoring and forecasting the project budget on an ongoing basis.- Acting as a focal point while dealing with the project partner.- Planning various workshops/networking events/webinars/inspirational talks for the entrepreneurs hosted in the BDC and the existing Turkish & Syrian MSMEs by collaborating with the project partner and relevant stakeholders.- Developing partnerships with other local, national or international organizations and authorities for providing services to the MSMEs; marketing the BDC, sponsorships...etc.- Representing the BDC to the public and outside groups, organizations, and agencies; responding to a wide variety of questions, comments, and/or concerns; resolving related complaints.- Liaising with the governmental bodies and industries to promote the BDC and increase its visibility.- Support, guide and coach implementing partner’s staff on technical and operational issues for quality implementation.- Proactively seek, assess, and report new opportunities to deliver higher quality as far as BDC activities are concerned.- Provide regular reporting on indicators, achievements and challenges related to the project in close coordination with the implementing partner.- Facilitate the qualitative and quantitative monitoring of the project through team meetings.

Kilis, Turkey

- Identify with team leader and partner’s business trainer and coordinator new approachesrelated to skills trainings and entrepreneurship to ensure a flexible and relevant implementation basedon the needs of beneficiaries and market demand/dynamic.- Identify with team leader the need for relevant assessments and focus group discussionsto improve programming.- Work in close cooperation with Partner's career counseling assistants to identify individuals who demonstrate interest, skills, and working experience and want to start-up income-generating activities in their houses.- With the support of the Admin Assistants, and in coordination with the Business Trainer of the partnerorganization, facilitate the planning and organization of business skills training with selectedbeneficiaries.- Assist beneficiaries in developing business plans, addressing their concerns, liaising with the market technical unit and providing relevant market information.- Participate in the grant selection committee to evaluate PAS beneficiaries’ proposals.- Support PAS beneficiaries in procuring productive assets necessary to start-up microbusiness.- Work closely with the monitoring team and team leader on the timely monitoring and evaluation of allcomponents – information, beneficiary selection, beneficiary feedback about activities, etc.- Participate in monthly follow-ups with beneficiaries of productive assets for 3 months after thedistribution, deliver data and report to the supervisor.- Facilitate identification of needs/access to additional training for PAS beneficiaries.- Support the organization of trainings and other events related to the project.- Conduct field visits to monitor beneficiaries’ businesses, income generated, etc.- Participate in the internal evaluation of the program.

Kilis, Turkey

- Conduct market assessment with stakeholders aims at identifying the promising sectors in Kilis province.- Coordinate and manage events with partners, beneficiaries and team members in terms of logistics and place organization and management.- Work closely with the team leader to set-up and plan vocational training.- Track the local market changes and suggest intervention and take action accordingly.- Define the targeted individuals' profiles for selecting potential trainees for each training.- Deal with different different types of stakeholders (governmental institutions, local partners, service providers, and private companies).- Reach out to potential trainees and lead the interviews to assess motivation and background to obtain optimal outputs.- Follow up the procurement process of the needed materials and services which include, but not limited to, transportation, raw materials, and simultaneous translation.- Follow up the vocational training with trainees, trainer and the service provider on daily basis and maintain high-quality service.- Prepare all vocational training related documents like attendance sheets and data entry and maintaining smooth access to Excel data by Livelihoods information management unit.- Provide English-Arabic (and vice versa) and Turkish-Arabic interpretation during a graduation ceremony, follow up visits, cooperation meetings and whenever needed.

Kilis, Turkey

- Deliver Awareness-raising/Psychosocial support /Behavior change community activities to the displaced people in Kilis province.- Work on broaden the topics as needed and creating the content.- Handle research on local NGOs and the associations for potential partnerships for Community based organizations.- Conduct initial assessment on the local NGOs and the associations in terms of programs implementing, administration, documentation and financial operations. In addition, assist respective units for accurate evaluation.- Implement need assessment through facilitating discussion groups by using CBP tools such as FGD, KII and Vision tree…- Report on all the implemented activities.- Through the regular presence in the information desk, disseminate and share information among the targeted groups on their rights and access services and respond to their queries.- Facilitate the interviews with the local NGOs (including the translation).- Identify and referring individuals to other services provided by DRC or other agencies.

Kilis, Turkey

- Under the direct supervision of Risk Education Project Manager, delivering RE awareness-raising sessions, trainings, and workshops about mines, UXO's, IED's, AXO's and landmines to displaced people in Kilis province, stakeholders and local NGOs.- Report on all implemented activities on weekly and monthly basis by statistical reports to RE manager.- Facilitate the monitoring of the implemented activities by RE Manager (including translation).- Coordinate with other DRC departments to deliver RE sessions in GBV and CC centers.- Handle researches for local centers and create communication paths for collaboration.- Working, together with RE Manager, on developing the content of RE sessions and materials in accordance with DDG standards.-Support CBP team in delivering AR sessions and closely cooperate with CBP Officer to reach new local NGOs.

Aleppo, Syria

Monitor and evaluate the distribution process and the distributors.Report the difficulties, challenges and all issues related to the distribution process to the supervisor.

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Adminstration

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemistry