Economic Recovery and Development Technical Advisor, and Regional Focal Point at International Rescue Committee

As the ERD Technical Advisor and Regional Focal Point for Asia, you are responsible for ensuring high quality ERD technical assistance  to the IRC country offices and regional projects in the Asia region, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Thailand. Additionally, the ERD TA and Regional Lead will  support and line manage the regional technical advisors to deliver high quality, effective technical assistance to IRC Country and Regional programs. You will act as the regional focal point in Asia for the ERD TU and collaborate with relevant stakeholders to achieve high quality, high impact interventions that are informed by evidence, data, and best practice, contextually appropriate, driven by client and partner voices, and are safe, inclusive, and promote equal outcomes for clients.

Staff management, learning, and development

• Line manage a high performing team of at least 2 ERD regional Technical Advisors, to design and support ERD programming across the region, and generate evidence and learning for local and global strategies
• Responsible for ensuring TAs maintain core knowledge and expertise and apply global best practices to their work across health sub-sectors
• Work closely with Regional and CRRD HQ People & Culture colleagues to devise strategies of attracting, onboarding, developing, and nurturing diverse regional technical staff at the Advisor and Coordinator levels, and ensuring an inclusive work environment.  In collaboration with the DRD, Regional and CRRD HQ P&C, and Global Practice Leads, plan and implement professional development for staff ensuring targeted learning.
• Program Design & Business Development:You will support and oversee regional business development in our technical domains, and ensure the design of winning submissions, to deepen donor understanding of IRC’s work in the region, and particularly single-country opportunities together with Technical Advisors and others as relevant 
• Substantially contribute to the development of proposal theories of change and log frames
• Support the Asia regional and in-country technical lead in analyzing relevant information including available M&E and client responsiveness data, to prepare for design meetings/conversations 
• Advise on program modalities and strategic partnership development based on evidence, scale considerations, and how we can best support, complement, and reinforce local systems
• Advise on and/or provide hands-on support on assessments, including application and contextualization of technical standards
• Participate in project design meetings for all relevant proposals (remotely or in person)
• Review and validate design meeting decisions around technical design quality, including alignment of narratives, log-frames, and budgets, to IRC standards and outcomes
• Promote and support design collaboration with partners and clients
• Promote and support gender equality and diversity inclusion throughout project design
• Implementation Support:In conjunction with existing Technical Advisors, you will facilitate and support country program staff and other key stakeholders in implementing technical interventions:
• Support country programs and other stakeholders with the recruitment and training of technical coordinators
• Assess program quality and inform improvements, providing follow up support to country programs as needed
• Collaborate with country program colleagues to monitor and analyze key indicators to inform periodic review, program adaptation, and course-correction as needed
• Provide technical capacity strengthening through ongoing mentoring, coaching, and trainings with country program focal points
• Knowledge & Learning:You will facilitate continuous sectoral learning and IRC technical leadership:
• Increase quality of technical collaboration across the region by fostering cross-regional dialogue with other regional technical teams
• Lift up program learning for sharing across the region and to inform global strategic direction of ERD Global Practice Areas 
• Share cross-contextual learnings with country program staff across the region
• Collaborate with the Quality in Emergencies team and Emergencies and Humanitarian Action Unit (EHAU) counterparts during emergency classifications to support country programs to assess, design and implement high quality programming in acute emergency situations
• Collaborate with other technical advisors within the region to promote integrated programming leadership
• Refresh the sectoral evidence-base in collaboration with global and regional staff to influence approaches
• Contribute to the delivery of the Economic Wellbeing strategic priorities
• Maintain currency with sectoral best practices through continual learning and development

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

• Success in this position requires an individual with expertise in designing and delivering technical assistance to ERD programs, and with a deep understanding of the cultural, societal, and political contexts in at least one of the regions where IRC operates. 

Work Experience: 

• A minimum of 6-8 years of relevant experience in implementing and/or managing economic recovery and development programs, with on the ground programmatic experience in a service delivery organization, NGO or comparable international agency required.
• Progressive experience of managing multi-location technical programs and teams with strong management and leadership skills including coaching, mentoring, and performance management
• Experience and familiarity with related donors, peer agencies and national contexts required, preferably in humanitarian, post-crisis, or climate impacted contexts. 
• Demonstrated expertise in technical program design, monitoring and evaluation, with the ability to turn concepts and strategy into measurable action.
• Demonstrated experience in managing high performing technical advisory staff, fostering an inclusive working culture, and with strong people management skills