International Rescue Committee Careers

Scope of work
The consultant will: -

• Conduct a comprehensive desk review of the current service delivery models for health and nutrition at both health facility and community level.
• Conduct key informant interviews and focused group discussions with IRC staff and key stakeholders.
• Conduct field visits to the IRC health facilities, communities, and stakeholders.
• Review the existing health program and hospital management structures.
• In health facilities where integration has been carried out, assess the immediate lessons learned.
• Analyze the proposed Integrated health and nutrition model to clearly define the points of intersection for service delivery at both community and health facility level.
• Conduct stakeholder mapping and define clear roles and responsibilities for each.
• Triangulate findings from the desk review and KIIs to identify and highlight some of the barriers, opportunities, and potential strategies for adopting and implementing an integrated health service delivery model in the refugee program.
• Facilitate a writing workshop for the IRC integration task force to develop the road map.
• Develop a detailed priority implementation framework for the road map including a monitoring and evaluation plan.
• Develop an orientation package and plan for IRC management, health facility and community level staff on the integrated service delivery model.
• Assess the Cost implication of the integrated service delivery model and develop a costed budget for the implementation of the road map.

Deliverables

• A costed road map.
• Stakeholder mapping matrix.
• Staff and stakeholder training plan.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A health professional with post graduate degree in Public health, Health Economics, Social science or a related science field and a practicing license that permits the clinical practice in Kenya for regulated professions.
• Proven experience in reviewing health service delivery models and proposing integrated approaches that have led to improved efficiency and effectiveness.
• At least 10 to 15 years’ of progressively increasing responsibility working on Integrated health service delivery models.
• Having at least 5 years’ experience in a senior leadership position that provided technical guidance to development of improvement plans in health service delivery will be an advantage.
• A very good knowledge and understanding of the Kenya Ministry of Health service delivery model.
• Familiarity with Government of Kenya health policies, priorities and evidenced-based practices aimed at improving the quality of and access to health services for all.
• Experience in interacting with national and county government, development partners, civil society, and community-based organizations at different levels.
• Demonstratable excellent technical writing skills
• Demonstrated oral and written communication skills, and the ability to develop and deliver technical presentations.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret research findings and apply them to the Kenyan context when required.
• Fluency in English and Swahili
• Prior experience developing strategic plans, workplans, and/or activity plans for health care service delivery programs.

Skills And Competencies

• Excellent skills in quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis. i.e., FGD
• Excellent organizing, facilitating, presentation, and communication skills, including good report writing in English.
• Experience of working with Govt., communities, INGOs, and donor agencies. Strong understanding of relevant networks and consortiums.
• Strong understanding of budget development and management.
• Flexible approach to meet changing and emerging needs as appropriate.

Job Overview/Job Summary

• The Global Partnerships communications team is part of the Marketing & Mobilization (M&M) department. The team supports and highlights the IRC’s high value donors and partnerships with the private and philanthropic sectors.
• Working in collaboration with teams across the organization, this role leads external-facing communication with philanthropic partners to raise brand recognition, engage donor audiences, spotlight sector-leading solutions and innovations, facilitate fundraising through cause marketing and other campaigns, and meet donor visibility requirements.
• This position works directly with the global high value teams to support forward-looking and purposeful communications strategies targeting key audiences and markets. Does this sound like an exciting fit for you?

Major Responsibilities
This communicator will:

• Work alongside our foundation and corporate teams to support grant visibility requirements and proactive profile-building opportunities.
• In particular, focus on expansion of external visibility opportunities, technical program thought leadership in partnership with foundations, and coaching support to local communications staff.
• Lead external engagement strategy around campaigns and key moments with partners, including digital activations, earned and paid media pitches, flagship events, etc.
• Lead thought leadership and executive communications strategy with partners to elevate cross-sector solutions and commitments to the world’s most pressing humanitarian challenges.
• Collaborate closely with, seek input from, and manage opportunities with a wide range of internal stakeholders, including the Media, Experiential Marketing, Events, Entertainment Relations, Fundraising, Digital, Brand, Creative, and other teams.
• Identify and grow key media targets beyond the policy / humanitarian sectors and help to build our profile with new audiences and international markets.
• Ensure that existing partnership materials are kept up to date – such as messaging documents, decks, media lists, etc. and help to the development of messaging, project management systems and processes, strategy planning documents, etc.
• Contribute to quarterly reports on coverage, engagement, and performance using industry standard metrics and bench-marking.
• Manage additional special projects across the Partnerships communications team based on strategic needs of the team.

Key Working Relationships

• Position Reports to: Associate Director, Global Partnership Communications
• Position directly supervises: n/a
• Indirect Reporting: n/a
• Internal: Work with global external relations colleagues, writers, content producers, digital team members, IRC advocates and fundraisers.

Job Requirements

• Genuine passion about the IRC’s work and leading 360-degree communications activations with philanthropic partners!
• 6+ years in communications in the private or NGO sectors; experience supporting communications for technical program areas is a plus
• Strong understating of media landscape and comfort with pitching stories and writing statements, quotes, etc.
• High degree of comfort coaching other team members on communications strategy and supporting adaptation of global communications plans for local audiences
• A generalist who thinks about communications across channels, e.g., video, digital, social, and media and is able to connect the dots!
• Experience with events and activations to build profile and visibility.
• Experience leading complex projects from start to finish.
• Experience handling external relationships, such as with customers, clients, media, or donors.
• Experience with cause marketing preferred.
• Experience working with high value donors preferred, bonus for experience working in the donor landscape in US, EU, and/or MENA.
• A planner and executer. Someone who has a consistent record of project management, taking initiative and driving implementation.
• Self-starter comfortable working with remote, global teams and in ambiguity.

Education: Bachelor’s degree required.

General Responsibility

• The Senior Micro Enterprise Officer reports to the Project Manager-Re:BUiLD and will be responsible for maintaining program quality and compliance across all activities, ensuring program approaches are clearly documented, understood by the program teams, and implemented.

Detailed Responsibilities

• Help conduct outreach to community and local business owners, private sector partners and other collaborators as advised by Re:Build management.
• Conduct info sessions to clients as the main facilitator, and schedule network cohorts or sessions.
• Train Livelihoods Centre Resource staff in delivering self-employment outcomes as per the RCT design.
• Provide introduction sessions to micro enterprise clients, including on attendance requirements and protection related issues, drawing in other staff as necessary.
• Conducts review meetings with Business Training Officer, Research Monitors and Community Facilitators assess the networking process and collect reports.
• Under the direction of the Research Manager, conduct monitoring of Micro Enterprise Officer, Research Monitors and Community Facilitators in following up on individual client's business, business plan and grant application.
• Coordinate closely with M&E and data staff on targeting, data collection, data systems and information management.
• Chip in to baseline, interim and end-line assessment efforts and program reporting, providing clear input on business training, micro-enterprise, and networking activities.
• Assist in the design, collection, and analysis of quality data on research clients.
• Coordinate closely with IRC logistics, Finance, and Grant staff to ensure timely and compliant program activities and expenditures.
• Under the direction of the Project Manager, help collaborate closely with MSMEs and private sector members to provide mentorship services to business clients.
• Coordinate networking sessions for interactive and extensive networks as per the wave 2 research design and offer technical support as per the networks guidelines.
• Support timely and quality development of business grants payment documentation. Provide supervision to BTOs and support their technical development through regular check in and review meetings.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, public or business administration or equivalent.
• At least 4 years of experience in livelihood programs that promote self-employment under business support.
• Demonstrated experience and capacity in training and facilitation and working daily with vulnerable populations.
• Strong ability to work independently, coordinate work, meet deadlines, maintain composure, prioritize work under pressure, coordinate multiple tasks and maintain attention to detail.
• Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills, creativity, and flexibility.
• INGO experience preferred.
• Personal qualities: promotes teamwork and coordination within and across teams, comfortable in a multi-cultural environment, very flexible and adaptable, ability to contribute across multiple activities and departments.
• Fluency in English and Kiswahili required.

Job Overview

• The Vice President of Talent & Organizational Effectiveness is a pivotal leadership position, blending innovative strategic oversight with hands-on operational acumen to reshape and enhance our organizational structure and talent management strategies. This role is at the forefront of driving IRCs productivity and efficiency, aligning with our Strategy 100 to position ourselves as an employer of choice. Tasked with the development and execution of integrated talent and organizational development strategies, the VP will lead a comprehensive suite of initiatives across talent acquisition and onboarding, learning and development, performance management, manager and leadership development, succession planning, organization design and effectiveness, and talent analytics. By attracting, developing, retaining top talent and fine-tuning organizational processes, this position plays a critical role in ensuring IRCs workforce's alignment with strategic objectives and culture, driving excellence and efficiency across all levels of the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Spearhead the design and implementation of organization-wide talent and organization effectiveness initiatives.
• Develop and implement strategies to streamline processes and systems to enhance operational efficiency that ensures IRC is optimally positioned to respond to global challenges swiftly and effectively.
• Lead the design and implementation of an integrated talent management strategy and operating model that reinforces the organizations talent philosophy, connects related talent programs, processes, and practices, and facilitates integrated strategic planning.
• Optimize design, delivery and impact of talent management programs and processes in a manner that drives growth through talent and performance, with a balanced approach to building, buying, and borrowing critical skills and capabilities, and building diverse talent pipelines and pools for critical roles.
• Influence the adoption of a growth mindset anchored in learning and application and a talent-first culture with managers and leaders committed to and accountable for talent identification, development, internal mobility, succession management and employee retention.
• Provide leadership on people and culture implication of organizational change, leveraging leading-edge organization design and change management to unlock organizational performance and effectiveness.

Experience

• 15+ years of functional leadership experience in a complex, global environment.
• 5+ years in a comparable leadership position.
• Demonstrated expertise in integrated talent management, organizational design and transformation, operational efficiency, and engagement models aligned with organizational strategies preferably in an international NGO or complex global organization.
• Proven track record of improving organizational effectiveness and efficiency in a complex, international environment.
• Exceptional leadership and communication skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate teams across cultures and geographies.
• Experience in change management and the ability to navigate and lead through ambiguity and change.
• Proficient in the use of data analytics and performance metrics to drive decision-making and organizational improvements.
• Fluency in English required; proficiency in at least one other relevant language (French, Arabic, Spanish, etc.) is a plus.

Job Overview 

The Global Practice Lead, Environmental Health is the organizational leader for Environmental Health for the Crisis Response, Recovery and Development (CRRD) department and is a core member of the Health Unit’s Leadership Team. They are responsible for devising and leading strategies to raise the quality, impact, and scale of IRC’s Environmental Health programming. 

The Global Practice Lead in Environmental Health will ensure the scope, quality and relevance of global technical standards, including the generation and promotion of evidence in their technical area. Global Practice Lead will closely collaborate with Regional Leads , EH Technical Advisors, and Technical Coordinators in promoting technical best practice in CRRD programming. They will facilitate Technical Unit-led and high impact strategic business development by providing excellent technical insights and developing and maintaining strategic relationships and networks. In line with the Health strategy, the Global Practice Lead will lead strategic planning for the environmental health practice area. The Global Practice Lead, Environmental Health reports into the Senior Director, Health Unit and may manage highly specialized experts/specialists colleagues to generate global evidence and best practice as their portfolio requires. 

The EH lead is responsible for establishing a center of excellence on water and coordinate the Health Unit efforts on addressing climate change in health programming.

Major Responsibilities 
Strategy, Program Design and Business Development

•  Act as the organizational leader for CRRD in Environmental health internally and externally
•  Lead strategic direction and delivery planning for Environmental Health in line with the organizational global strategy (both S100 and Health Strategy)
•  Lead the development of sustainable and scalable water solutions, mitigating the impacts of climate change on water security and human health.
•  Responsible for identifying global areas of programmatic risk in EH and elevating issues to Regional Leads and Health Unit leadership. 
•  Collaborate with other Global Practice Leads to promote integrated program designs within Health, and across all IRC sectors that increase scale and deepen impact, 
•  Facilitate collaboration across Health, Nutrition and EH Practice Areas on the development of climate adaptation, mitigation, and anticipatory actions.
•  Lead Technical Unit led global business development for Environmental Health and support strategic project level proposals.
•  Lead coordination with AMU to drive fundraising from Public and Institutional donors and with ER to drive fundraising from Private donors to meet the Health Unit strategic priorities related to EH 

Global Practice Implementation Support

•  Responsible for drawing on evidence-based best practice to provide technical oversight of IRC’s global technical standards, methodologies, and tools for EH, in partnership with Technical Advisors and specialists
•  Accountable for the development of a limited number of high-value tools and methodologies to better integrate cross-cutting issues into EH programs (e.g., gender equality, diversity and inclusion, climate adaptation, etc.).
•  Accountable for establishing information and knowledge management systems that support Regional Leads and Technical Advisors stay up to date on global technical standards, methodologies, and tools.
•  Establish competency framework for EH practice area and work closely with Regional Leads to identify competency gaps and drive capacity strengthening.
•  Accountable for ensuring Technical Advisors and Technical Coordinators have the tools and resources that are needed to measure EH programs.
•  Oversee Technical Unit-led strategic awards in EH, working closely with regional Technical Advisors as applicable and the Grant Operations and Analytics Team
•  Line manage global specialists, as applicable.
•  Support Technical Advisors and Technical Coordinators with thorny technical problems, career planning support, and mentorship, as appropriate.

Research, Data, Knowledge Management, and Organizational Learning

•  Set up and lead a Community of Practice and other channels for EH to ensure pro-active and inclusive management with sustained learning, development, innovation, and best practice sharing. 
•  Coordinate with Regional Leads and Technical Advisors to lift up program learning for cross-sharing and incorporation into global best practice.
•  Guide research and evidence use efforts in EH, the Climate-health nexus, working closely with colleagues and leaders in Airbel, the Health  Technical Unit, other technical units, and regional colleagues.
•  Provide technical inputs to EH-specific MEAL tools and methodologies, and support data interpretation in learning routines.

External Influence, Relationships and Representation

•  Act as a key strategic advisor to Policy & Advocacy, Research & Innovation, and External Relations teams on advocacy campaigns and priority policy and practice shifts related to EH. 
•  Responsible for identification, development, and maintenance of strategic relationships and global partnerships with relevant stakeholders (e.g. donors, UN agencies, NGOs, research and educational institutions, private sector actors) in EH Global Practice area. 
•  Represent IRC in external forums as relevant.

Key Working Relationships 

•  Position Reports to:Senior Director, Health Unit, CRRD Technical Excellence
•  Member of Health Unit’s Leadership Team
•  Direct Reports:1-2 Technical Experts/Specialists, TU-led Project Directors as applicable

Key Internal Relationships: 

•  Health Unit Senior Management Team
•  Health Unit’s Deputy Director, Enabling Areas Leads and other Global Practice Leads
•  Health Regional Lead team across 6 regions, and regional Technical Advisors
•  Policy Solutions, Advocacy Influence, and Systems Change Global Teams
•  CRRD Senior Management Team and Leadership Group; Regional Leadership Teams
•  Global leaders in the areas of ERD, Education, Governance
•  Global HQ and AMU, EHAU, Airbel Team

 Key External Relationships:

• INGO counterparts; UN Agencies, Public and Private Donors

Desired Experience and Skills 

•  Established or growing recognition as an expert in the practice area, at regional or global level, with a minimum of 12+ years of progressive experience of designing, leading and implementing programs with 7+ years in the Environmental Health
•  Demonstrated experience leading programs in fragile/humanitarian settings and across the humanitarian development nexus.
•  Strong track record of driving uptake of evidence-based practice
•  Demonstrated experience in sectoral strategy design and planning.
•  Experience with sectoral policy and advocacy efforts and campaigns for change (as relevant)
•  Excellent communication, influencing, and storytelling skills. 
•  Excellent management and leadership skills including coaching, mentoring, and performance management.
•  Demonstrated ability to identify and convert business development opportunities for self and staff. 
•  Demonstrated ability to influence across a wide range of diverse stakeholders internally and externally.
•  Demonstrated ability to shape the vision and agenda within the domain area they are working.
•  Ability to work, manage, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment; outstanding business acumen, critical thinking, problem solving and decision-making skills required.
•  Superb inter-personal, written and verbal communication skills with ability to collaborate across countries, cultures, and departments. 
•  Track record of scaled innovations preferred, ideally including experience working on both digital and analog solutions.
•  Fluency in English required; Arabic, French and/or Spanish also strongly preferred.
•  Ability to travel globally up to 25% of the time, occasionally on short notice.

Education:

• Master’s degree in environmental health, Public Health and/or related fields or an equivalent professional experience background is required. Sound training on the use of data and research evidence for programmatic decisions and rigorous analytic skills are an advantage.

Compensation:

• Posted pay ranges apply to US-based candidates. Ranges are based on various factors including the labor market, job type, internal equity, and budget.  Exact offers are calibrated by work location, individual candidate experience and skills relative to the defined job requirements.

Statement of Work:

The Research Assistants will be expected to perform the following roles (not limited to).

• Participate in the training on RCT methodologies.
• Client mobilization, registration, and recruitment.
• Client info sessions, onboarding, and monitoring.
• Maintain communication with the RCT clients including attending to their inquiries.
• Data collection.
• Business verification and spot checks.
• Ensure compliance with organizational performance standards, code of conduct, and safeguarding policy.
• Adhere to confidentiality procedures and policies when collecting, storing, and sharing data.
• Report writing.
• Keep the supervisor appraised of all outputs, feedback and issues arising from the project activities conducted.
• Interaction with Principal Investigators.
• Translation and transcription as required by the research team.
• To perform other duties as assigned and agreed upon with the supervisor.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Degree or Diploma in Education, International Development, Anthropology, Sociology, Linguistics, Community Development, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Experience in data collection, analysis, or research dissemination desirable.
• Minimum 1-year research experience, specifically implementing research activities in Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs).
• Language skills: Strong preference to candidates who speaks Somali, Oromo and French. Refugees are strongly encouraged to apply
• Experience working with refugee communities in urban settings.
• Experience managing data collection and concrete knowledge of open-source tools such as ODK collect, KoBo Toolbox, Survey CTO or CommCare platforms.
• Excellent people skills. Approachable personality and patience to connect with clients and address their unique needs.
• Strong communication and report-writing skills.
• Flexible approach to the changing nature of work and ability to adapt to rapidly changing work demands and expectations.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and within a multicultural team.
• Computer skills, especially Ms. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

The Role:

• The Sr. Officer, Finance & Partnerships is responsible for providing oversight and day-to-day financial management of the partners (including subcontractors) and provide support on financial management more broadly. This position acts as the focal point for financial compliance of our partnerships, including ensuring high-quality budgets, financial reports, and monitoring. This position is also responsible for any financial capacity sharing, guidance and training to partners identified throughout the partnership.
• Additionally, the role will be responsible for providing the quality assurance of GOAT and TechEx finances, reviewing journal entries, program budgets, and monthly transactions. They will work with GOAT members by providing feedback and financial support, ensuring that all financial work is at the highest quality.

Specific Responsibilities

Partnerships Finance (50%)

• Promote Effective Partnerships
• Promote and apply the IRC’s Partnership Excellence for Equality and Results system (PEERS). Contribute to building a strong understanding of PEERS throughout TechEx, and to ensuring the organizational principles, skills and approaches are applied by staff across programs and projects with partners.
• Facilitate systematic partner feedback on IRC’s management of the partnership relationship, including the documentation of, and response to partner feedback.

Program Delivery

• Member of Partnership Working Group (PWG), and co-responsible for delivering the functions of the PWG.
• Lead on financial aspects of the due diligence processes including audit review and completing relevant tabs of the Partner Capacity Analysis (PCA) and collaborative partnership risk management.
• Work collaboratively and supportively with partners to develop and finalize budgets and amendments, and (in the case of milestone-based partnership agreements) in determining the costing of each deliverable
• Review draft partnership financial agreement terms.
• For cost-reimbursable partnership agreements, agree with partners the specific documentation required to support each type of cost, adjusting standard requirements to the operating context and the partner.
• Work collaboratively with partners to ensure the timely provision of funding to partners in accordance with the partnership agreement to ensure program continuity, ensuring clear communication with the partner and efficient resolution where for whatever reason this is not possible.
• Participate in PCM, including to review successes, challenges, and lessons learned with the partner, and capture effective finance practices for future partnerships.
• Collaborate with partners to ensure completeness, correctness, and accuracy of financial reports and cash requests.
• Review partner financial reports (and narrative reports for consistency) to ensure compliance with the partnership agreement, donor regulations and IRC policy, and provide feedback to the partner as appropriate.
• Monitor partner budgets and actual spending in collaboration with technical coordinators, identifying issues and working proactively and collaboratively with partners to resolve them.
• Participate in monitoring and reflection including the leading on the review of partner financial report support documents and identifying appropriate follow up actions.
• Assist in the closeout of partnership agreements, including in relation to financial verification and asset confirmation.
• Participate in the review of the performance of the partner, of the IRC, and of the partnership, including successes, challenges and lessons learned.

Program Support & Capacity Sharing

• Provide finance and accounting training and mentoring support to partners, in accordance with partner project support plans, with a focus on supporting the partner to strengthen financial management systems and capacities that are responsive to the needs of the partner (rather than replicating IRC’s systems and policies).
• Coach, train, and mentor internal with the aim of strengthening their technical capacity, exchanging knowledge within the team and providing professional development guidance.

Other

• Any other duties as assigned by the Sr Partnership Adviser

Finance (50%)

• Review & Ensure Quality Assurance of GOAT Finances
• Review TechEx journal entries/invoice journals in Integra (Microsoft Dynamics 365), ensuring that reclassifications are corrected before submitting for approval from the Associate Director, Program Finance
• Review program budgets in Integra before submitting for approvals
• Review award proposal budgets and realignments and obtain approvals the Finance Dept for submission to donors
• Review and approve of cost center accounting codes of all TechEx timesheets in TETRA (Time & Effort tracking system), ensuring that HQ and country program payroll will process correct cost center
• Assist GOAT Sr. Finance Officer in tracking country program TechEx allocations (TU2%) and transactions, ensuring that our TU2% BvA is as accurate as possible

Financial Management

• Review unrestricted expenses monthly, preparing reclassifications to correct cost center coding errors
• Coordinate with gift processing in the fundraising departments, ensuring that TechEx gifts are coded to the correct accounting codes and budgets, ensuring that the funding is captured and budgeted
• Assist in drafting the departmental Operating Budgets by inputting financial data from various funding streams, ensuring that financial data align with restricted award spending plans.
• Prepare and submit reclassifications as needed.
• Financial Training & Support to GOAT
• Provide training and guidance to GOAT staff on financial issues as needed
• Work with the Pre and Post Award team to ensure that financial and other internal processes are followed

Key Working Relationships:

• Position Reports to:**Senior Partnerships Adviser and the Deputy Director of Business Operations
• Position directly supervises: N/A
• Other Internal and/or external contacts:

Internal:

• Regular contact with Finance, Technical Units, Global Supply Chain team and the Awards Management Unit
• Collaborate closely with country program staff.
• External: Interact with donors, partners, vendors, contractors, and consultants.

Job Requirements

• Minimum 4 years of progressive work experience in a non-profit setting overseeing finances. Experience with managing partners’ projects funded by major institutional donors required.
• Experience of working collaboratively with partners
• Experience in training, capacity building, and mentoring of staff, NGOs/CBOs.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to present to groups of all sizes; exhibiting tact, patience, diplomacy, and appropriate assertiveness
• Self-starter and solutions-oriented, with ability to work independently and part of a team.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively under pressure and handle multiple simultaneous tasks and demands coming from multiple sources.
• Hard-working, sharp and detailed oriented.
• Proficiency in MS Office software suite including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Experience working with databases and/or other tracking systems.
• Fluency in English required, other language skills a plus

Job Overview

• The Global Practice Lead, Protection – Rule of Law is the organizational leader for Humanitarian Protection , Rights and Rule of Law for the Crisis Response, Recovery and Development (CRRD) department and is a core member of the Violence Prevention and Response Unit’s Senior Management team. They are responsible for devising and leading strategies to raise the quality, impact, and scale of IRC’s Humanitarian Protection, Rights and Rule of Law programming.
• The Global Practice Lead Protection – Rule of Law will ensure the scope, quality and relevance of global technical standards, including the generation and promotion of evidence in their technical area. Global Practice Lead will closely collaborate with Regional Leads, Technical Advisors, and Technical Coordinators in promoting technical best practice in CRRD programming. They will facilitate Technical Unit-led and high impact strategic business development by providing excellent technical insights and developing and maintaining strategic relationships and networks. In line with the Safety Strategy, the Global Practice Lead Protection – Rule of Law will lead strategic planning for the practice area. The Global Practice Lead reports to the Senior Director, VPRU and may manage highly specialized experts/specialists colleagues to generate global evidence and best practice as their portfolio requires.
• This role provides overall leadership to policy, sectoral coordination, advocacy, learning and innovation for humanitarian protection, rule of law. It involves representing the IRC in key external engagements and global policy spaces, maintaining strategic partnerships with relevant stakeholders and movements, and relevant networks and campaigns globally.
• This role advances IRC’s work in support of prioritizing protection programing in emergencies, supporting necessary system adaptations and changes, amplifying emerging learning, spearheading sector-wide transformative shifts towards more inclusive, localized, evidence-based programing.
• The Global Lead will help to frame strong collective positioning across Humanitarian Protection and Rights priorities, building consensus and supporting learning and the generation of knowledge across the IRC and the wider Protection sector, in support of realizing the Centrality of Protection in humanitarian programming.
• A key aim of this role is to encourage coherence between IRC’s work at local, national and international levels, seeking to consolidated gains, promote high-impact strategies and policy influencing work. In collaboration with the Airbel Research Lab and the Advocacy, the role will advance ground-breaking research and advocacy work. Close coordination with the Deputy Director of VPRU will ensure local learning feeds into global positioning, advocacy and mobilization.
• This role will develop a strong collaborative relationship with the Global Leads for Child Protection, Women Protection and Empowerment, as well as counterparts in the Health, Economic Recovery and Development, Education and Governance in support of enhanced, integrative protection programming, supporting the overall coherence of IRC’s strategic priorities.
• The Global Lead will lead and coordinate strategic resource mobilization and oversee management of innovation and strategic projects falling within the purview of the role.

Major Responsibilities
Strategy, Program Design and Business Development

• Act as the organizational leader for CRRD in Protection – Rule of Law internally and externally
• Lead strategic direction for Protection – Rule of Law in line with the organizational global strategy (both S100 and Violence Prevention and Response Strategy)
• Responsible for identifying global areas of programmatic risk in Protection – Rule of Law and elevating issues to Regional Leads and VPRU leadership
• Collaborate with other Global Practice Leads to promote integrated program designs within Protection and across all IRC sectors that increase scale and deepen impact
• Lead Technical Unit led global business development for Protection – Rule of Law and support strategic project level proposals
• Lead coordination with AMU to drive fundraising from Public and Institutional donors and with ER to drive fundraising from Private donors to meet VPRU’s strategic priorities related to Protection – Rule of Law
• Oversee Technical Unit-led strategic awards in Protection – Rule of Law, working closely with regional Technical Advisors as applicable and the Grant Operations and Analytics Team
• Line manage global practice area and strategic project staff

Global Practice Implementation Support

• Responsible for drawing on evidenced-based best practice to provide technical oversight of IRC’s global technical standards, methodologies, and tools for Protection – Rule of Law
• Accountable for the development of a limited number of high-value tools and methodologies to better integrate cross-cutting issues into protection – rule of law programs (e.g., gender equality, diversity and inclusion, climate adaptation, etc.).
• Accountable for establishing information and knowledge management systems that support Regional Leads and Technical Advisors staying up to date on global technical standards, methodologies, and tools
• Establish competency framework for Protection – Rule of Law and work closely with Regional Leads to identify competency gaps and drive capacity strengthening
• Accountable for ensuring Technical Advisors and Technical Coordinators have the tools and resources that are needed to measure programs in protection – rule of law
• Support Technical Advisors and Technical Coordinators with thorny technical problems, career planning support, and mentorship, as appropriate

Research, Data, Knowledge Management, and Organizational Learning

• Accountable for establishing and maintaining a Community of Practice and other channels for protection – rule of law to ensure pro-active and inclusive management with sustained learning, development, innovation, and best practice sharing
• Coordinate with Regional Leads and Technical Advisors to lift up program learning for cross-sharing and incorporation into global best practice
• Oversee Technical Unit-led strategic awards in protection – rule of law, working closely with regional Technical Advisors as applicable and the Grant Operations and Analytics Team
• Guide research and evidence use efforts in Protection – Rule of Law, working closely with colleagues and leaders in Airbel, VPRU, other technical units, and regional colleagues
• Provide technical inputs to Protection – Rule of Law specific MEAL tools and methodologies, and support data interpretation in learning routines

External Influence, Relationships and Representation

• Act as a key strategic advisor to Policy & Advocacy, Research & Innovation, and External Relations teams on advocacy campaigns and priority policy and practice shifts related to Protection – Rule of Law
• Responsible for identification, development, and maintenance of strategic relationships and global partnerships with relevant stakeholders (e.g. donors, UN agencies, NGOs, research and educational institutions, private sector actors) in [Global Practice] area.
• Represent IRC in external forums as relevant

Key Working Relationships

• Position Reports to: Senior Director, VPRU, CRRD Technical Excellence
• Direct Reports: Relevant global practice area and strategic project staff

Key Internal Relationships

• VPRU Deputy Unit Director
• VPR Regional Leads across 6 regions, and regional Protection – Rule of Law Technical Advisors
• Global Practice Leads for Child Protection and Women’s Protection and Empowerment
• Prevention and Inclusion Advisers
• VPRU Policy and Advocacy Lead
• VPRU Business Development and Partnership Lead
• Policy Solutions, Advocacy Influence, and Systems Change Global Teams
• CRRD Senior Management Team and Leadership Group; Regional Leadership Teams
• Global HQ and AMU focal points

Key External Relationships

• Global Protection Cluster leads and stakeholders
• Humanitarian protection, IHL, and human rights counterparts at other INGOs
• Humanitarian protection, IHL, and human rights counterparts at Red Cross/Crescent Movement
• International Protection Coordination Platforms and Coalitions
• Humanitarian protection, IHL, and human rights focal points for donors and policy makers’
• Humanitarian protection, IHL, and human rights counterparts in relevant UN agencies

Desired Experience And Skills

• Established or growing recognition as an expert in the practice area, at regional or global level, with a minimum of 12+ years of progressive experience of designing, leading and implementing programs with 7+ years in the areas of humanitarian protection, international humanitarian law, refugee law, rule of law in emergencies.
• Strong track record of driving uptake of evidence-based practice
• Demonstrated experience in sectoral strategy design and planning.
• Experience with sectoral policy and advocacy efforts and campaigns for change (as relevant)
• Excellent communication, influencing, and storytelling skills.
• Excellent management and leadership skills including coaching, mentoring, and performance management.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and convert business development opportunities for self and staff.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across a wide range of diverse stakeholders internally and externally.
• Demonstrated ability to shape the vision and agenda within the domain area they are working.
• Ability to work, manage, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment; outstanding business acumen, critical thinking, problem solving and decision-making skills required.
• Superb inter-personal, written and verbal communication skills with ability to collaborate across countries, cultures, and departments.
• Track record of scaled innovations preferred, ideally including experience working on both digital and analog solutions.
• Fluency in English required - Arabic, French and/or Spanish also strongly preferred.
• Ability to travel globally up to 25% of the time, occasionally on short notice.

Education:

• Master’s/post-graduate degree in International Law, Human Rights Law, international development or relevant field or equivalent combination of education and work experience background is required. Sound training on the use of data and research evidence for programmatic decisions and rigorous analytic skills are an advantage.

• The Investment Lead will be integral to the practice’s growth and development. This position will drive forward current innovative finance investor-humanitarian partnerships, manage project performance, and grow our pipeline through robust prospecting and fundraising. This position requires a range of finance and investment management experience, as well as technical writing and stakeholder management skills. A successful candidate will be able to engage in the technical details of investment, speak to investors with a high level of industry fluency, develop strategic pitches, and manage the day-to-day of project activities.

Major Responsibilities

• Build and manage a portfolio of investment advisory model projects
• Lead operations for a pipeline of advisory model projects by coordinating directly with external investor partners to progress current projects.
• Develop and refine investment performance, impact, and risk monitoring plans including quantitative and qualitative analysis of investment projects.
• Lead communication with donors, philanthropists, and other NGO partners to meet implementation goals; present project findings externally to drive progress across sectors.
• Create technical decks, briefs, and other innovative finance materials to ensure internal and external partners are regularly briefed on progress, strengthen buy-in and accountability, and to support innovative finance external engagement.
• Continuously review the market for new financial models, including grants, blended revenue models, fees, and less orthodox models.
• Oversee prospecting and outreach to new investors
• Win new business and expand the pipeline of investment project opportunities through engagement of financial services network and investment pitch skills
• Work closely with IRC business development teams to socialize achievements of innovative finance and solicit new donor and philanthropist support for the practice.
• Prepare annual reports and documents according to contract requirements and coordinate response to donor, investor, and private philanthropist inquiries.
• Support Airbel Senior Leadership engagement on Innovative Finance
• Support management of Leadership Board debt swap working group including preparing technical presentations and organizing follow up.
• Support management of Airbel Advisory Board Innovative Finance working group, including leading technical research, designing new strategic approaches, and developing pilot outlines.
• Oversee and grow external advisors and investor partnerships
• Lead technical conversations and decision making with innovative finance advisors.
• Convene and lead meetings with investment project partners to develop strategy.
• Collect data on lessons learned and develop analyses for decision making, reporting, and pipeline development.
• Grow external advisor network.
• Manage internal systems to collect information and track deliverables across investment pipeline projects to increase buy-in for work internally and across sectors.
• Coordinate external investor partnerships to ensure projects progress in accordance with investor and donor contractual requirements.
• Guide staff and interdepartmental collaboration
• Guide the technical research and financial modeling of the Innovative Finance analyst.
• Lead coordination with IRC country program staff implementing innovative finance humanitarian-investor partnerships on the ground.

Job Requirements:

• Master’s degree in relevant field or equivalent professional experience.
• 6-8 years of professional experience in financial services, investor relations, or related field.
• Solid understanding of venture capital, private equity, development finance, investor relations, and relevant financial services, ideally with a background in frontier markets and regions.
• Excellent ability to write about financial markets, economics and investment projections.
• Outstanding network in two or more of the following fields: venture capital, private equity, management consulting, development finance, public sector donors.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management competencies including the ability to bring people along with a stated vision, and capacity to communicate effectively with leadership.
• Demonstrated experience in articulating funding needs and cultivating a portfolio of fundraising opportunities from concept through execution, and ongoing donor/partner stewardship.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills: the ability to successfully and effectively liaise with a variety of people in a multicultural environment and work on a virtual team.
• Commitment to humanitarian principles and IRC’s values, including a demonstrable commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.

Preferred Requirements:

• Knowledge of government donor commercial contracts (PRM, DG ECHO) and compliance.
• Excellent digital literacy and ability to develop and understand financial models in Excel.
• Professional fluency in French is preferred, Arabic a plus