Vacancies 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 

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Administrative Support

• Coordinate the daily workflow of the VP, including calendar management, arranging meeting materials, and coordinating with counterparts across functions to effectively schedule internal and external meetings. Provide meeting scheduling support for other EHAU Senior Management at times as needed.
• Liaise inter and intra-departmentally to develop and coordinate VP, EHAU’s media and advocacy requests.
• Coordinate VP travel logistics including booking flights, accommodation, and ground transportation, and prepare travel itineraries; support the Unit and Strategic Initiatives Officer with travel requests as they pertain to cross-unit events.
• Prepare, track, and submit expense reports and raise purchase requests/orders in Integra in compliance with IRC policies for VP and unit related expenses.
• Serve as the main point of contact for administrative inquiries related to the VP, directing requests to the appropriate resources.
• Assist with scheduling and organizing EHAU Senior Management Team (SMT) meetings as well as cross-section meetings as necessary. This includes preparing and sharing agendas, meeting materials in advance, taking minutes, managing meeting recordings, and circulating post-meeting action items.
• Work closely with Unit and Strategic Initiatives Officer to ensure forward planning of bi-weekly SMT meetings and maintaining an up-to-date planning calendar.

Communications and Information Management:

• Maintain EHAU all-staff email distribution lists, Teams channel, and update team organizational charts as staff join and leave the unit to support cross-unit communications and information sharing. 
• Maintain EHAU’s RescueNet page in coordination with relevant focal points within each EHAU section.
• Prepare materials for meetings and presentations, ensuring timely and accurate distribution of documents; e.g., Response Management Calls, Board Meetings, and SMT calls as needed.
• Maintain project management tools for Strategy Team and support with routine status report updates of progress against the Emergencies and Humanitarian Action Strategy implementation plan.
• Support with developing presentation materials for meetings (PowerPoint or other).
• Coordinate VP’s contributions to the EHAU Newsletter.

Operational Assistance

• Assist VP with general administrative tasks, including managing conference rooms, coordinating with ihub services, and helping staff with IT, facilities, and office-related inquiries.
• Provide logistical support for unit-wide events, including coordinating conference calls, workshops, and small internal events, in collaboration with the Unit and Strategic Initiatives Officer.
• Other tasks, as required. 

Key Working Relationships

• Position reports to: Unit and Strategic Initiatives Officer
• Position directory supervises: N/A
• Works closely with: Unit and Strategic Initiatives Officer, VP EHAU, EHAU SMT, P&C

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, with at least 2 years relevant experience
• Proven organizational skills; detail-oriented; ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment 
• Experience interacting and communicating effectively with members of a complex organization at multiple levels and managing internal/external relationships 
• Experience in a humanitarian or development organization
• Good judgement and ability to manage confidential information
• High level of comfort with MS Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Outlook, and MS Teams