Jobs at International Rescue Committee

• The Climate Analyst supports the integration of climate forecasts into IRC existing suite of crisis analysis products (annual Emergency Watchlist, risk monitoring & emergency classifications). The Climate Analysis will be working within the Global Crisis Analysis team within the Emergencies and Humanitarian Action Unit (EHAU) and working closely with the Anticipatory Action Specialist (ERD), and Climate Advisors. The role involves liaising closely with Country Programs & Regions to interpret and action the forecasts that the analyst produces. A significant focus of the position is to ensure regular and timely production of reports. This is also a new role so its responsibilities may evolve as we build greater understanding of IRC needs in this area.

Conduct Regular Climate Analysis

• Review monthly forecasts from Columbia University International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) to identify critical time periods based on livelihood calendars for regions where IRC has on-going programming.
• Identify countries at high risk of above or below average rainfall (i.e. at risk of flood or drought), particularly where this could impact existing IRC country programs and/or may increase needs in a place aligned with IRC entry criteria.
• Produce & disseminate clear & concise regular analysis identifying at risk Country Programs.
• Explore options for automating monthly forecast analysis & reporting.
• Flood Risk Analysis & Forecasting: in counties identified as being at high risk of a specific, forecast high rainfall event.
• Run flood forecasts and disseminate reports as frequently as required during periods of heightened risk.
• Drought Risk Analysis & Mapping: in counties identified as being at high risk of a specific, forecast low rainfall event.
• Map historical drought extent & frequency
• Run regular precipitation analysis based on CHIRPS data (or similar source)

Engage colleagues to ensure they understand the climate analysis and support them to apply it to their work:

• Host monthly call with Deputy Director of Programs (DDP) of climate hot-spot countries & Regional Emergency Directors (RED) to discuss monthly forecast and implications for utilization of established Crisis Modifiers, initiating Anticipatory Action / Early Action & preparing for a Humanitarian Response
• Host regular call with Country Program Emergency Response Coordinator & Regional Emergency Director to discuss implications of flood and precipitation forecasts

Collaborate With GCA, Wider Technical Excellence Team And External Partners To Build The IRC’s Expertise On The Intersection Of Climate And Other Crisis Risks

• Contribute climate analysis to IRC annual Emergency Watchlist.
• Support integration of climate risks to the Global Crisis Analysis team’s ongoing risk work and development of the risk radar.
• Support relevant updates to the IRC’s Emergency Classification System and explore possible connections between the IRC’s Emergency Classification System and anticipatory action work.
• The GCA team maintains the IRC's Emergency Classification system, which is a critical first step in all IRC emergency responses. Most classification requests are handled during working hours by other members of the team, but all team members participate in a roster system to share responsibility for handling classification requests at weekends. The Climate Analyst may, very occasionally, be involved in processing and issuing a classification at weekends where this is crucial to ensure a timely response to a new emergency.
• Explore potential for automating CHIRPS analysis & integration with Household Economy Analysis (HEA) in collaboration with IRC’s Anticipatory Action Specialist
• Explore potential for strategic partnership with IRI, or other similar institutions and organizations, such as GLOFAS or other NGOs.

Key Working Relationships

• Position reports to: Management in partnership between the Crisis Data Specialist on the GCA team, and the Anticipatory Action Specialist
• Position directly supervises: N/A
• Internal contacts: ERD & Education Technical Unit teams, Airbel and IRC country office staff.
• External contacts: IRI, GLOFAS, other NGOs involved in Anticipatory Action

Minimum Technical Requirements: experience with at least 3 of the following technical areas and interesting in learning

• Experience with climate forecast (e.g. IRI)
• Experience with GIS tools & analysis (e.g. QGIS).
• Experience with flood forecasting (e.g. GLOFAS)
• Experience with Google Earth Engine, in particular for:
• Surface water mapping
• Precipitation time series analysis and short-term (CHIRPS)
• Flood mapping using SAR imagery
• Drought mapping usings long-term MODIS NDVI

Minimum Professional Requirements

• Demonstrated experience of partnership management.
• Excellent critical thinking skills to problem-solve independently.
• Excellent organizational skills: the ability to multi-task, learn quickly, and work independently and productively in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills: the ability to effectively collaborate with and motivate a variety of people in a multi-cultural environment.
• Excellent digital literacy: MS Word, Excel. Proficiency in Excel strongly preferred.
• Dedication to diversity, equity and inclusion and a passion for IRC’s mission.
• Excellent written English, including the ability to synthesize information and draft high-quality reports.

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Job Overview

• Violence Prevention and Response (VPR) Asia Regional Lead provides coherence and direction to the provision of technical support for Women’s Protection and Empowerment, Child Protection, and Protection - Rule of Law in Asia. As a member of both the regional team and the technical unit senior management team, the VPR Asia Regional Lead has accountability for technical quality and responsibility for assuring the advice from Technical Advisors is taken into appropriate action by the country office.
• The VPR Asia Regional Lead will lead a highly effective, strategic violence prevention and response regional team to ensure the Asia Region has high quality, sound technical support needed to deliver on global program goals and effectively serve our clients. The role will serve as a functional leader, advisor, and a thought partner to both TU leadership and Regional leadership, with a particular focus on leading the operationalization of the Safety strategy in Asia, multi-sector and sub-sector program integration, mainstreaming of Gender Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion across programming, evidence-based design, business development, and quality assurance for high-impact and scale strategic projects. The VPR Asia Regional Lead will coordinate across individuals and projects, ensuring clear priorities are set and communicated, and navigating the challenges inherent in being an advisory function. They will be an excellent people manager, with great team building/animation skills, able to help technical staff succeed and grow in their careers. The VPR Asia Regional Lead will invest deeply in understanding the context and dynamics of the country and regional teams and the challenges they face. They will ensure coherent ways of working within and across the regional technical team, as well as within the wider VPRU, to align high quality technical support with the operational realities of the country offices. The VPR Asia Regional Lead will champion technical external representation in regional fora for promoting learning, advocacy and showcasing IRC's programming as well as engage with regional colleagues on donor facing engagement. By doing so, the Regional Lead will ensure high quality programming across the Child Protection, Protection – Rule of Law, and Women’s Protection and Empowerment practice areas in Asia, high quality coordination and partnership with regional teams, effective team performance, and efficiency and impact of technical excellence service offering to the Asia region and country programs.

Major Responsibilities
Functional Leadership, Coordination and Implementation Support:

• Provide technical leadership across the region, including by contextualizing the Safety Strategy at the regional level in partnership with Technical Advisors, Deputy Regional Director (DRD), + Deputy Director of Programs (DDP) and in line with Country Program Strategic Action Plans
• Promote programming coherence and strategic direction of the VPR programming portfolio including identifying opportunities for intra and cross-sectoral integration.
• Closely coordinate with Global Practice Leads and HQ functions to facilitate translation of global standards to the region and of country-generated innovation and learning to global practice.
• Support regional Technical Advisors to address implementation bottlenecks and critical quality concerns in the region’s programming portfolio, in partnership with the Deputy Regional Director (DRD)
• Increase quality of technical collaboration across the region by fostering cross-regional dialogue with other regional technical teams
• Provide technical oversight of regional strategic projects in collaboration with the Global Practice Leads as appropriate and/or budgeted, escalating quality assurance challenges as needed.
• Foster relationships with a wide range of both internal and external stakeholders to make strategic connections and identify opportunities.
• Provide stop-gap direct implementation support as/if appropriate and budgeted on CP-grants.

Staff management, learning, and development

• Lead and line manage a high performing team of VPR Technical Advisors and GEDI in Programs staff to design and support VPR programming across the region, and generate evidence and learning for local and global strategies.
• Accountable 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 and Business Development

• Provide technical leadership and oversight to region-led (multi-country) business development, as well as particularly large single-country opportunities, together with the Technical Advisors, Global Practice Leads and others as relevant.
• Support and promote technical and programmatic innovation in the region, based on technically-sound and contextually grounded creativity and/or insights.
• Collaborate with other technical area Regional Leads and Technical Advisors to promote regional uptake of solutions that are proven to increase scale and deepen impact, with close attention to where integrated programming would multiply efficacy and efficiency.
• Work with DRD, Director of Awards Management and DDPs for country programs to understand the region’s donors for the protection sectors, the donors’ priorities in the region, and the regional funding priorities of Country Programs for the Safety Outcomes
• Support regional donor engagement to deepen donor understanding of IRC’s work the region, strategically foster and develop new donor relationships in close coordination with the regional team, and support the development of regional business development opportunities.
• Support the development and growth of strategic partnerships with mission-aligned organizations at the regional level who share commitments towards scale and impact and have complementary areas of expertise for collaboration towards delivering better outcomes for clients.
• Accountable for coordinating across expert staff to better integrate cross-cutting issues into VPR programs (e.g., safeguarding, gender equality, diversity and inclusion, climate adaptation, etc.).

Knowledge Management, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning

• Lift up program learning for sharing across the region and to inform global strategic direction of (relevant) Global Practice Areas
• Facilitate interpretation and use of sector data in regional learning routines and put in place routines and accountability mechanisms to encourage uptake of data-driven recommendations made by TAs.
• Collaborate with Regional Measurement Advisors to ensure that Regional Technical Advisors support good MEAL practice for VPR programming in Asia, including the use of high-quality indicators, the use of IRC standard data tools, and the inclusion of MEAL activities in project plans.

External Influence and Representation

• Engage in regional sector coordination groups and bilateral relationships as appropriate, to represent IRC, showcase learning from our client-centered program implementation, and support priority policy and practice shifts.
• Support regions in addressing policy & practice shifts needed to enable program impact and scale.
• In close collaboration and partnership with the DRD, regional Awards Management and Advocacy focal points, ensure effective networking and representation in relation to Child Protection, Protection – Rule of Law, and Women’s Protection and Empowerment, through mobilizing input from global practice leads.

Key Working Relationships

• Position Reports to: Dual reporting line to Deputy Director, VPRU and DRD, Asia
• Direct Reports:
• 1 Women’s Protection and Empowerment Technical Advisors
• 1 Child Protection Technical Advisor
• 1 Protection Rule of Law Technical Advisor
• Regional GEDI in Programming staff, if applicable

Key Internal Relationships

• VPRU Senior Director
• Global Practice Leads for Child Protection, Protection – Rule of Law, and Women’s Protection and Empowerment
• VPR Regional Leads across 5 other regions
• Regional Measurement Advisor
• Regional Leadership Team, Country Directors, DDPs, CRRD colleagues across multiple roles
• Regional Advocacy and Comms leads
• Regional Safety & Security lead
• Regional Safeguarding Advisor
• Asia Awards Management Unit team
• 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, INGOs, Red Cross/Crescent Movement counterparts, International Protection Coordination Platforms and Coalitions, Donor and policy makers, GBV counterparts in relevant UN agencies.

Desired Experience And Skills

• Highly seasoned professional with at least 8+ years of progressive technical and management experience leading and managing technical teams.
• Established technical expertise in at least one of the VPR Global Practice Areas relevant to Asia. Professional and/or lived experience in Asia context and sound understanding of the region is a huge advantage.
• Excellent management and leadership skills including coaching, mentoring, and performance management.
• Strong track record of leading multi-location technical programs
• Strong track record of driving uptake of evidence-based practice
• Experience managing multiple projects with multi-disciplinary collaborators.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across a wide range of diverse stakeholders internally and externally.
• Strong track record of identifying and converting business development opportunities (when leading and managing the leader)
• Knowledge and understanding of the respective regional context.
• 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.
• Fluency in English required. Any other regionally spoken language is an advantage.
• Ability to travel regionally and globally up to 35% of the time, occasionally on short notice.

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Job Overview

• Health Unit Central Africa Regional Lead provides coherence and direction to the provision of technical support for Health Unit in the Central Africa Region. As a member of both the regional team and the technical unit Leadership team, the Regional Lead has accountability for technical quality and responsibility for assuring the advice from Technical Advisors is taken into appropriate action by the country office.
• The Health Unit Regional Lead (RL) will lead a highly effective, strategic Health Unit regional team to ensure the Central Africa Region has high quality, sound technical support needed to deliver on global program goals and effectively serve our clients. The role will serve as a functional leader, advisor, and a thought partner to both TU leadership and Regional leadership, with a particular focus on leading the operationalization of outcome strategies in Central Africa region, multi-sector and sub-sector program integration, evidence-based design, business development, and quality assurance for high-impact and scale strategic projects. The Regional Lead will coordinate across individuals and projects, ensuring clear priorities are set and communicated, and navigating the challenges inherent in being an advisory function. They will be an excellent people manager, with great team building/animation skills, able to help technical staff succeed and grow in their careers. The Regional Lead will invest deeply in understanding the context and dynamics of the country and regional teams and the challenges they face. They will ensure coherent ways of working within and across the regional technical team, as well as within the wider Health Unit, to align high quality technical support with the operational realities of the country offices. By doing so, the Regional Lead will ensure high quality programming across the Health practice areas in Central Africa region, high quality coordination and partnership with regional teams, effective team performance, and efficiency and impact of technical excellence service offering to the Central Africa region and country programs.

Major Responsibilities
Functional Leadership, Coordination, and Implementation Support:

• Provide technical leadership across the region, including by contextualizing the Health Outcome Strategy at the regional level in partnership with Technical Advisors, DRDs, + DDPs and in line with Country Program Strategic Action Plans
• Promote programming coherence and strategic direction of the Health programming portfolio including identifying opportunities for intra and cross-sectoral integration
• Closely coordinate with Global Practice Leads and HQ functions to facilitate translation of global standards to the region and of country-generated innovation and learning to global practice
• Support regional Technical Advisors to address implementation bottlenecks and critical quality concerns in the region’s programming portfolio, in partnership with the Deputy Regional Director
• Increase quality of technical collaboration across the region by fostering cross-regional dialogue with other regional technical teams
• Provide technical oversight of regional strategic projects as appropriate and/or budgeted, escalating quality assurance challenges as needed
• Foster relationships with a wide range of both internal and external stakeholders to make strategic connections and identify opportunities
• Provide stop-gap direct implementation support as/if appropriate and budgeted on CP-grants

Staff management, learning, and development

• Lead and line manage a high performing team of Health regional Technical Advisors, to design and support Health programming across the region, and generate evidence and learning for local and global strategies
• Accountable 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 and Business Development

• Provide technical leadership and oversight to region-led (multi-country) business development, as well as particularly large single-country opportunities, together with the Technical Advisors, Global Practice Leads and others as relevant.
• Support and promote technical and programmatic innovation in the region, based on technically-sound and contextually-grounded creativity and/or insights
• Collaborate with other technical area Regional Leads and Technical Advisors to promote regional uptake of solutions that are proven to increase scale and deepen impact, with close attention to where integrated programming would multiply efficacy and efficiency
• Work with Deputy Regional Directors, Directors of Awards Management and Deputy Directors of Programs for country programs to understand the region’s donors for the Health sector, the donors’ priorities in the region, and the regional funding priorities of Country Programs for Health Outcome area
• Support regional donor engagement to deepen donor understanding of IRC’s work the region, strategically foster and develop new donor relationships in close coordination with the regional team, and support the development of regional business development opportunities
• Support the development and growth of strategic partnerships with mission-aligned organizations at the regional level who share commitments towards scale and impact and have complementary areas of expertise for collaboration towards delivering better outcomes for clients
• Accountable for coordinating across expert staff to better integrate cross-cutting issues into Health programs (e.g., gender equality, diversity and inclusion, climate adaptation, etc.).

Knowledge Management, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning

• Lift up program learning for sharing across the region and to inform global strategic direction of (relevant) Global Practice Areas
• Facilitate interpretation and use of sector data in regional learning routines and put in place routines and accountability mechanisms to encourage uptake of data-driven recommendations made by TAs
• Collaborate with Regional Measurement Advisors to ensure that Regional Technical Advisors support good MEAL practice for Health programming in Central Africa including the use of high-quality indicators, the use of IRC standard data tools, and the inclusion of MEAL activities in project plans

External Influence and Representation

• Engage in regional sector coordination groups and bilateral relationships as appropriate, to represent IRC and support priority policy and practice shifts
• Support regions in addressing policy & practice shifts needed to enable program impact and scale
• In close collaboration and partnership with the Deputy Regional Director, regional AMU and Advocacy focal points, ensure effective networking and representation in relation to the Health Technical Unital practice areas, through mobilizing input from global practice leads.

Key Working Relationships

• Position Reports to: Dual reporting line to Deputy Director, Health Unit and DRD, Central Africa
• Direct Reports: Technical Advisors

Key Internal Relationships

• Health Unit Leadership Team
• Health Unit Global Practice Team(s)
• Health Unit’s Policy and Advocacy, Partnership and Program Development, MEAL leads
• Regional Leads and Technical Advisors supporting the region from other Technical Units
• Regional Measurement Advisor
• Regional Leadership Team, Country Directors, DDPs, CRRD colleagues across multiple roles
• Regional Advocacy and Comms leads
• Regional Safety & Security lead
• Central Africa Awards Management Unit team
• CRRD Senior Management Team and Leadership Group; Regional Leadership Teams
• Global HQ and AMU focal points

Key External Relationships

• Regional Health Programming Cluster leads and stakeholders, INGOs, Red Cross/Crescent Movement counterparts, Donor and policy makers, counterparts in relevant UN agencies

Desired Experience And Skills

• Highly seasoned professional with at least 8+ years of progressive technical and management experience leading and managing technical teams.
• Established technical expertise in at least one of the Health Global Practice Areas relevant to Central Africa. Professional and/or lived experience in Central Africa context and sound understanding of the region is a huge advantage.
• Strong track record of leading multi-location technical programs with excellent management and leadership skills including coaching, mentoring, and performance management
• Strong track record of driving uptake of evidence-based practice
• Experience managing multiple projects with multi-disciplinary collaborators
• Demonstrated ability to influence across a wide range of diverse stakeholders internally and externally
• Strong track record of identifying and converting business development opportunities (when leading and managing the leader)
• Knowledge and understanding of the respective regional context
• 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
• Fluency in English and French is required.
• Ability to travel regionally and globally up to 35% of the time, occasionally on short notice

Education: Masters’ degree in 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.

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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.

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Job Overview

• Health Unit East Africa Regional Lead provides coherence and direction to the provision of technical support for Health Unit in the East Africa Region. As a member of both the regional team and the technical unit Leadership team, the Regional Lead has accountability for technical quality and responsibility for assuring the advice from Technical Advisors is taken into appropriate action by the country office.
• The Health Unit Regional Lead (RL) will lead a highly effective, strategic Health Unit regional team to ensure the East Africa Region has high quality, sound technical support needed to deliver on global program goals and effectively serve our clients. The role will serve as a functional leader, advisor, and a thought partner to both TU leadership and Regional leadership, with a particular focus on leading the operationalization of outcome strategies in East Africa region, multi-sector and sub-sector program integration, evidence-based design, business development, and quality assurance for high-impact and scale strategic projects. The Regional Lead will coordinate across individuals and projects, ensuring clear priorities are set and communicated, and navigating the challenges inherent in being an advisory function. They will be an excellent people manager, with great team building/animation skills, able to help technical staff succeed and grow in their careers. The Regional Lead will invest deeply in understanding the context and dynamics of the country and regional teams and the challenges they face. They will ensure coherent ways of working within and across the regional technical team, as well as within the wider Health Unit, to align high quality technical support with the operational realities of the country offices. By doing so, the Regional Lead will ensure high quality programming across the Health practice areas in East Africa region, high quality coordination and partnership with regional teams, effective team performance, and efficiency and impact of technical excellence service offering to the East Africa region and country programs.

Major Responsibilities
Functional Leadership, Coordination, and Implementation Support:

• Provide technical leadership across the region, including by contextualizing the Health Outcome Strategy at the regional level in partnership with Technical Advisors, DRDs, + DDPs and in line with Country Program Strategic Action Plans
• Promote programming coherence and strategic direction of the Health programming portfolio including identifying opportunities for intra and cross-sectoral integration
• Closely coordinate with Global Practice Leads and HQ functions to facilitate translation of global standards to the region and of country-generated innovation and learning to global practice.
• Support regional Technical Advisors to address implementation bottlenecks and critical quality concerns in the region’s programming portfolio, in partnership with the Deputy Regional Director
• Increase quality of technical collaboration across the region by fostering cross-regional dialogue with other regional technical teams
• Provide technical oversight of regional strategic projects as appropriate and/or budgeted, escalating quality assurance challenges as needed.
• Foster relationships with a wide range of both internal and external stakeholders to make strategic connections and identify opportunities.
• Provide stop-gap direct implementation support as/if appropriate and budgeted on CP-grants.

Staff management, learning, and development

• Lead and line manage a high performing team of Health regional Technical Advisors, to design and support Health programming across the region, and generate evidence and learning for local and global strategies
• Accountable 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 and Business Development

• Provide technical leadership and oversight to region-led (multi-country) business development, as well as particularly large single-country opportunities, together with the Technical Advisors, Global Practice Leads and others as relevant.
• Support and promote technical and programmatic innovation in the region, based on technically-sound and contextually-grounded creativity and/or insights
• Collaborate with other technical area Regional Leads and Technical Advisors to promote regional uptake of solutions that are proven to increase scale and deepen impact, with close attention to where integrated programming would multiply efficacy and efficiency.
• Work with Deputy Regional Directors, Directors of Awards Management and Deputy Directors of Programs for country programs to understand the region’s donors for the Health sector, the donors’ priorities in the region, and the regional funding priorities of Country Programs for Health Outcome area
• Support regional donor engagement to deepen donor understanding of IRC’s work the region, strategically foster and develop new donor relationships in close coordination with the regional team and support the development of regional business development opportunities.
• Support the development and growth of strategic partnerships with mission-aligned organizations at the regional level who share commitments towards scale and impact and have complementary areas of expertise for collaboration towards delivering better outcomes for clients.
• Accountable for coordinating across expert staff to better integrate cross-cutting issues into [sector] programs (e.g., gender equality, diversity and inclusion, climate adaptation, etc.).

Knowledge Management, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning

• Lift up program learning for sharing across the region and to inform global strategic direction of (relevant) Global Practice Areas
• Facilitate interpretation and use of sector data in regional learning routines and put in place routines and accountability mechanisms to encourage uptake of data-driven recommendations made by TAs
• Collaborate with Regional Measurement Advisors to ensure that Regional Technical Advisors support good MEAL practice for Health programming in East Africa including the use of high-quality indicators, the use of IRC standard data tools, and the inclusion of MEAL activities in project plans

External Influence and Representation

• Engage in regional sector coordination groups and bilateral relationships as appropriate, to represent IRC and support priority policy and practice shifts
• Support regions in addressing policy & practice shifts needed to enable program impact and scale
• In close collaboration and partnership with the Deputy Regional Director, regional AMU and Advocacy focal points, ensure effective networking and representation in relation to the Health Technical Unit, through mobilizing input from global practice leads.

Key Working Relationships

• Position Reports to: Dual reporting line to Deputy Director, Health Unit and DRD, East Africa
• Direct Reports: Technical Advisors

Key Internal Relationships

• Health Unit Leadership Team
• Health Unit Global Practice Team(s)
• Health Unit’s Policy and Advocacy, Partnership and Program Development, MEAL leads
• Regional Leads and Technical Advisors supporting the region from other Technical Units
• Regional Measurement Advisor
• Regional Leadership Team, Country Directors, DDPs, CRRD colleagues across multiple roles
• Regional Advocacy and Comms leads
• Regional Safety & Security lead
• East Africa Awards Management Unit team
• CRRD Senior Management Team and Leadership Group; Regional Leadership Teams
• Global HQ and AMU focal points

Key External Relationships

• Regional Health Programming Cluster leads and stakeholders, INGOs, Red Cross/Crescent Movement counterparts, Donor and policy makers, counterparts in relevant UN agencies.

Desired Experience And Skills

• Highly seasoned professional with at least 8+ years of progressive technical and management experience leading and managing technical teams.
• Established technical expertise in at least one of the Health Global Practice Areas relevant to East Africa. Professional and/or lived experience in East Africa context and sound understanding of the region is a huge advantage.
• Strong track record of leading multi-location technical programs with excellent management and leadership skills including coaching, mentoring, and performance management.
• Strong track record of driving uptake of evidence-based practice
• Experience managing multiple projects with multi-disciplinary collaborators.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across a wide range of diverse stakeholders internally and externally.
• Strong track record of identifying and converting business development opportunities (when leading and managing the leader)
• Knowledge and understanding of the respective regional context.
• 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.
• Fluency in English required; any other regional language is a huge advantage.
• Ability to travel regionally and globally up to 35% of the time, occasionally on short notice.

Education: Master’s degree in 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.

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Scope of work

• As a member of both the Global Finance Team and the Regional Leadership Team, the Regional Finance Director provides the leadership and management necessary to ensure that the organization has the appropriate financial infrastructure and systems in place at the country programs to support the strategic vision and mission of the organization. S/he will contribute to the development of the country programs strategic and operational plans and be accountable for ensuring and monitoring delivery against the financial plans through targeted and comprehensive financial analytical review. The Director is responsible for overseeing the financial and accounting management of the country programs and regional office within an assigned region. Emphasis will be placed on maintaining financial management practices and systems that are compliant with US and local laws across the Central Africa region, as well as donor requirements but are also conducive to effective implementation of country programs.
• As Regional Finance Director, s/he will have responsibility for all aspects of strategic and operational finance across the region, acting as the principal finance business partner to the Regional VP, as well as conforming to IRCs financial control environment and CFO standards and objectives.
• Based in Nairobi, Kenya, the Regional Finance Director will have dual reporting to the VP Program Finance and the Regional VP. S/he will work closely with the field-based Deputy Directors, Finance, Country Directors, as well as regional counterparts in AMU, GSC, HR, IT and other functional departments.

Key Areas Of Accountability
Strategic Planning & Analysis

• Provide financial information which supports the Regional VP in making business decisions in line with IRC, Regional & Country Program strategies.
• Provide analysis on the overall financial health of the country programs to the RVPs and HQ Finance and collaborate across the regional teams and with country programs on corrective actions and support plans.
• Contribute and provide feedback to the development of Country Programs Strategic Annual Plans and annual operating budgets.

Financial Management Oversight

• Provide high quality financial and accounting support to IRC to ensure:
• Country Programs provide accurate and timely recording of accounting transactions.
• Country Programs financial controls are in place and adhered to
• Country Programs comply with IRCs financial standards.
• Regional team has visibility on financial health of country programs.
• Prepare and review internal financial reports and ensure that management at headquarters and the regional and country office level are kept abreast of financial related issues of the country programs.
• Provide technical guidance and support as requested by the country offices.
• Ensure timely dissemination of new initiatives and polices to the field and monitoring of implementation.
• Develop an expertise and maintain current on the rules and regulations of all donors and provide guidance in the area of donor compliance.

Financial Systems & Business Process Improvement

• Contribute to discussions on financial policy issues including the maintenance and development of the International Finance Manual.
• Serve as Integra Super user and support the roll-out of the new system which will include training and technical support.

Regional Finance Support and Risk Mitigation

• Conduct periodic support visits to the country programs following an approved scope of work.
• Review non-USG final financial reports, and European donor financial reports prior to submission to either the donor, IRC Germany or IRC-UK.
• Respond to ad hoc requests.
• Monthly Reviews of the financial health and risk identification shared with the Regional VP and VP Finance Programs for action.
• Proactively identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies in conjunction with the Regional VP.
• Internal/External Audit closure and corrective action plan development and tracking
• Attend all audit opening and exit meetings for audits conducted in region.
• Perform the final financial review of the proposal document prior to approval and submission to the donor.
• Participate in regional SMT with strategic thinking, risk analysis and other engagement as needed.
• Collaborate with other Regional functional leads/members of the SMT in flagging risks, identifying solutions and jointly contributing to improved support to Country Programs.

People Management

• Contribute to establishing and strengthening capacity, systems and processes at the country level directly or through direct reports.
• Maintain shared accountability with country program leadership (DDFs, CDs, DDPs, etc.) for improved financial management outcomes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance - Master’s Degree, CPA or equivalent experience a plus.
• Minimum five years progressive finance/accounting experience in the non-profit sector.
• Previous work experience in a multi-cultural international environment abroad is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated familiarity with GAAP and proven general knowledge of Fund Accounting.
• Previous work experience with a major general ledger software package – experience with MS D365 preferred.
• Proven knowledge of US Government and European Union regulations highly desirable.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively in a multi-cultural environment and diplomatically manage collegial relationships.
• Solid organizational skills: the ability to be flexible and work well under pressure in a fast-paced team environment.
• Experience coaching, mentoring and capacity building in complex financial systems and financial management.
• Flexible work attitude: the ability to work productively in a team environment & independently and ability to meet unexpected demands.
• Strong Computer skills: facility with MS Word, Excel, various accounting software, and email/internet software.
• Demonstrated ability to thrive in a matrix management environment.
• Ability to present complex financial information in a succinct and compelling manner.
• Experience of solving complex issues through analyses, definition of clear way forward and ensuring by in.
• The ability and willingness to travel to country programs.
• English and French fluency required.

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Job Overview

• Violence Prevention and Response (VPR) East Africa Regional Lead provides coherence and direction to the provision of technical support for Women’s Protection and Empowerment, Child Protection, and Protection - Rule of Law in East Africa. As a member of both the regional team and the technical unit senior management team, the VPR East Africa Regional Lead has accountability for technical quality and responsibility for assuring the advice from Technical Advisors is taken into appropriate action by the country office.
• The VPR East Africa Regional Lead will lead a highly effective, strategic violence prevention and response regional team to ensure the East Africa Region has high quality, sound technical support needed to deliver on global program goals and effectively serve our clients. The role will serve as a functional leader, advisor, and a thought partner to both TU leadership and Regional leadership, with a particular focus on leading the operationalization of the Safety strategy in East Africa, multi-sector and sub-sector program integration, mainstreaming of Gender Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion across programming, evidence-based design, business development, and quality assurance for high-impact and scale strategic projects. The VPR East Africa Regional Lead will coordinate across individuals and projects, ensuring clear priorities are set and communicated, and navigating the challenges inherent in being an advisory function. They will be an excellent people manager, with great team building/animation skills, able to help technical staff succeed and grow in their careers. The VPR East Africa Regional Lead will invest deeply in understanding the context and dynamics of the country and regional teams and the challenges they face. They will ensure coherent ways of working within and across the regional technical team, as well as within the wider VPRU, to align high quality technical support with the operational realities of the country offices. The Regional Lead will champion technical external representation in regional fora for promoting learning, advocacy and showcasing IRC's programming as well as engage with regional colleagues on donor facing engagement. By doing so, the Regional Lead will ensure high quality programming across the Child Protection, Protection – Rule of Law, and Women’s Protection and Empowerment practice areas in East Africa, high quality coordination and partnership with regional teams, effective team performance, and efficiency and impact of technical excellence service offering to the East Africa region and country programs.

Major Responsibilities
Functional Leadership, Coordination and Implementation Support:

• Provide technical leadership across the region, including by contextualizing the Safety Strategy at the regional level in partnership with Technical Advisors, DRD, + Deputy Director of Programs (DDP) and in line with Country Program Strategic Action Plans
• Promote programming coherence and strategic direction of the VPR programming portfolio including identifying opportunities for intra and cross-sectoral integration.
• Closely coordinate with Global Practice Leads and HQ functions to facilitate translation of global standards to the region and of country-generated innovation and learning to global practice
• Support regional Technical Advisors to address implementation bottlenecks and critical quality concerns in the region’s programming portfolio, in partnership with the Deputy Regional Director (DRD)
• Increase quality of technical collaboration across the region by fostering cross-regional dialogue with other regional technical teams
• Provide technical oversight of regional strategic projects in collaboration with the Global Practice Leads as appropriate and/or budgeted, escalating quality assurance challenges as needed
• Foster relationships with a wide range of both internal and external stakeholders to make strategic connections and identify opportunities
• Provide stop-gap direct implementation support as/if appropriate and budgeted on CP-grants

Staff management, learning, and development

• Lead and line manage a high performing team of VPR Technical Advisors and GEDI in Programs staff to design and support VPR programming across the region, and generate evidence and learning for local and global strategies
• Accountable 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 and Business Development

• Provide technical leadership and oversight to region-led (multi-country) business development, as well as particularly large single-country opportunities, together with the Technical Advisors, Global Practice Leads and others as relevant.
• Support and promote technical and programmatic innovation in the region, based on technically-sound and contextually-grounded creativity and/or insights
• Collaborate with other technical area Regional Leads and Technical Advisors to promote regional uptake of solutions that are proven to increase scale and deepen impact, with close attention to where integrated programming would multiply efficacy and efficiency
• Work with DRD, Director of Awards Management and DDPs for country programs to understand the region’s donors for the protection sectors, the donors’ priorities in the region, and the regional funding priorities of Country Programs for the Safety Outcomes
• Support regional donor engagement to deepen donor understanding of IRC’s work the region, strategically foster and develop new donor relationships in close coordination with the regional team, and support the development of regional business development opportunities
• Support the development and growth of strategic partnerships with mission-aligned organizations at the regional level who share commitments towards scale and impact and have complementary areas of expertise for collaboration towards delivering better outcomes for clients
• Accountable for coordinating across expert staff to better integrate cross-cutting issues into VPR programs (e.g., gender equality, diversity and inclusion, climate adaptation, etc.).

Knowledge Management, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning

• Lift up program learning for sharing across the region and to inform global strategic direction of (relevant) Global Practice Areas
• Facilitate interpretation and use of sector data in regional learning routines and put in place routines and accountability mechanisms to encourage uptake of data-driven recommendations made by TAs
• Collaborate with Regional Measurement Advisors to ensure that Regional Technical Advisors support good MEAL practice for VPR programming in East Africa, including the use of high-quality indicators, the use of IRC standard data tools, and the inclusion of MEAL activities in project plans

External Influence and Representation

• Engage in regional sector coordination groups and bilateral relationships as appropriate, to represent IRC, showcase learning from our client-centered program implementation, and support priority policy and practice shifts
• Support regions in addressing policy & practice shifts needed to enable program impact and scale
• In close collaboration and partnership with the DRD, regional Awards Management and Advocacy focal points, ensure effective networking and representation in relation to Child Protection, Protection – Rule of Law, and Women’s Protection and Empowerment, through mobilizing input from global practice leads.

Key Working Relationships

• Position Reports to: Dual reporting line to Deputy Director, VPRU and DRD, East Africa
• Direct Reports:
• 2 Women’s Protection and Empowerment Technical Advisors
• 1 Child Protection Technical Advisor
• 1 Protection Rule of Law Technical Advisor
• Regional GEDI in Programming staff, if applicable

Key Internal Relationships

• VPRU Senior Director
• Global Practice Leads for Child Protection, Protection – Rule of Law, and Women’s Protection and Empowerment.
• VPR Regional Leads across 5 other regions
• Regional Measurement Advisor
• Regional Leadership Team, Country Directors, DDPs, CRRD colleagues across multiple roles
• Regional Advocacy and Comms leads
• Regional Safety & Security lead
• East Africa Awards Management Unit team
• 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, INGOs, Red Cross/Crescent Movement counterparts, International Protection Coordination Platforms and Coalitions, Donor and policy makers, GBV counterparts in relevant UN agencies

Desired Experience And Skills

• Highly seasoned professional with at least 8+ years of progressive technical and management experience leading and managing technical teams
• Established technical expertise in at least one of the VPR Global Practice Areas relevant to East Africa. Professional and/or lived experience in East Africa context and sound understanding of the region is a huge advantage.
• Excellent management and leadership skills including coaching, mentoring, and performance management
• Strong track record of leading multi-location technical programs
• Strong track record of driving uptake of evidence-based practice
• Experience managing multiple projects with multi-disciplinary collaborators
• Demonstrated ability to influence across a wide range of diverse stakeholders internally and externally
• Strong track record of identifying and converting business development opportunities (when leading and managing the leader)
• Knowledge and understanding of the respective regional context
• 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
• Fluency in English required. Additional regionally spoken language is a huge advantage.
• Ability to travel regionally and globally up to 35% of the time, occasionally on short notice

Education: Masters’ degree in Social Sciences, International Law 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.