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  • Posted: Sep 20, 2024
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    Regional Lead, East Africa

    Job Overview 

    • Economic Recovery and Development (ERD) East Africa Regional Lead provides coherence and direction to the provision of technical support for Cash & Markets; Resilient Food Systems; and Economic Inclusion programming in East Africa. As a member of both the regional team and the technical unit senior management team, the ERD 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 ERD East Africa Regional Lead will lead a highly effective, strategic ERD 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 Economic Wellbeing 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 ERD 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 excellent people managers, with great team building/animation skills, able to help technical staff succeed and grow in their careers. The ERD 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 ERD TU, 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 Cash & Markets; Resilient Food Systems; and Economic Inclusion 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. In East Africa, ERD programming operates in all IRC’s EA countries (Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan and South Sudan) with at least 3 technical advisors working across the 3 practice areas. 

    Major Responsibilities 

    Functional Leadership, Coordination and Implementation Support:

    • Provide technical leadership across the region, including by contextualizing the Economic Wellbeing 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 ERD 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 ERD Technical Advisors to design and support ERD 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 ERD sectors, the donors’ priorities in the region, and the regional funding priorities of Country Programs for the Economic Wellbeing 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 ERD 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 ERD 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 Cash & Markets; Resilient Food Systems; and Economic Inclusion through mobilizing input from global practice leads. 

    Key Working Relationships 

    • Position Reports to:Dual reporting line to Deputy Director, ERD TU and DRD, East Africa
    • Direct Reports:  
      • Cash & Markets Technical Advisor
      • Livelihood Technical Advisors

    Key Internal Relationships: 

    • ERD Deputy Director 
    • Global Practice Leads for Cash & Markets; Resilient Food Systems; and Economic Inclusion
    • ERD Regional Leads and Regional Focal Points 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: 

    • Regional Cash, Food Security, and Economic Inclusion coordination clusters, INGOs, donors 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 ERD 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 economics, business management, international development, agriculture or any other relevant fields or an equivalent professional experience of background is required. Sound training on the use of data and research evidence for programmatic decision making and rigorous analytic skills are an advantage. 

    Compensation:

    • Posted pay ranges apply to UK-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.

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    Regional Lead, Central Africa

    Job Overview 

    • Economic Recovery and Development (ERD) Central Africa Regional Lead provides coherence and direction to the provision of technical support for Cash & Markets; Resilient Food Systems; and Economic Inclusion programming in Central Africa. As a member of both the regional team and the technical unit senior management team, the ERD Central 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 ERD Central Africa Regional Lead will lead a highly effective, strategic ERD 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 the Economic Wellbeing strategy in Central 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 ERD Central 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 excellent people managers, with great team building/animation skills, able to help technical staff succeed and grow in their careers. The ERD Central 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 ERD TU, 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 Cash & Markets; Resilient Food Systems; and Economic Inclusion practice areas in Central Africa, 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. In Central Africa, ERD programming operates in all IRC’s CA countries (Tanzania, DRC, CAR, Cameroon, and Chad) with at least 3 technical advisors working across the 3 practice areas. 

    Major Responsibilities 

    Functional Leadership, Coordination and Implementation Support:

    • Provide technical leadership across the region, including by contextualizing the Economic Wellbeing 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 ERD 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 ERD Technical Advisors to design and support ERD 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 ERD sectors, the donors’ priorities in the region, and the regional funding priorities of Country Programs for the Economic Wellbeing 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 ERD 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 ERD 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, 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 Cash & Markets; Resilient Food Systems; and Economic Inclusion through mobilizing input from global practice leads. 

    Key Working Relationships 

    • Position Reports to: Dual reporting line to Deputy Director, ERD TU and DRD, Central Africa
    • Direct Reports:  
      • 1 Cash & Markets Technical Advisor
      • 2 Livelihoods Technical Advisors

    Key Internal Relationships: 

    • ERD Deputy Director 
    • Global Practice Leads for Cash & Markets; Resilient Food Systems; and Economic Inclusion
    • ERD Regional Leads and Regional Focal Points 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
    • 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 Cash, Food Security, and Economic Inclusion coordination clusters, INGOs, donors 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 ERD 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.
    • 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 and French is 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 economics, business management, international development, agriculture or any other relevant fields or an equivalent professional experience of background is required. Sound training on the use of data and research evidence for programmatic decision making and rigorous analytic skills are an advantage. 

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    Program Development & Award Advisor

    KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

    • The Program Development and Award Advisor will be ‘deployed’ primarily on a remote basis to support specific RPAS teams, and may be responsible for some or all of the following on deployment, as assigned by the RPAS team: 

    Business Development  

    • Support country offices with Donor engagement and intel sharing for positioning; prepare for and participate in Donor calls as needed.
    • Lead or support pre-positioning for specific opportunities
    • In collaboration with the regional Program Development team, support the full proposal lifecycle.
    • Facilitate the identification of consultants, partners and other proposal development support as needed in collaboration with the country team. 
    • Collaborate with technical units, country offices, and other colleagues to support conceptualization of winning proposal and bid designs. 
    • Provide quality assurance and quality compliance support on proposals. Ensure responsiveness to and compliance with solicitation documents and with IRC’s requirements, including the PEER system.
    • Support coordination, communication, and inputs from consortium partners in accordance with donor and IRC processes.
    • Coordinate and support regional reviews and approvals of proposal packages depending on country and regional needs. This includes partners packages if applicable. 
    • Review agreements to ensure accurateness and highlight key compliance requirements, in coordination with post-award, compliance and country grants teams and support in award negotiation and hand-over to regional team as required.
    • Maintain complete and accurate electronic files, including final submission packages and internal trackers.
    • Deploy to country offices to lead on proposal development as needed
    • Awards Management and Compliance 
    • Manage a portfolio of awards for the region, as agreed on the roving basis. Review, provide substantive feedback and ensure timely submission of reports, collaborating with and ensuring input from relevant country/regional technical and financial staff.
    • Guide country offices in partnership with other relevant departments in the design, production, and submission of and revise and quality assure award amendments and modifications.
    • Serve as first point of contact for country program-based awards staff to guide and advise country teams on all post-award issues.
    • Review and lead negotiation of award agreements with donors, other IRC entities and partners according to IRC policies and internal processes.
    • Review and help processing sub-grants/partnership agreements in alignment with internal processes.
    • Provide support to and monitoring of projects to ensure progress against objectives and compliance with donor guidelines and IRC internal requirements. 
    • Provide technical advice to country offices on ad-hoc queries on donor compliance issues in coordination with the Compliance and Policy team.
    • Ensure lessons learned from finalised projects are fed into the Business Development team.
    • Advise country programs appropriately to enable them to successfully follow internal IRC policies and procedures (e.g. OTIS, PEERS).
    • Travel to provide additional support to or cover short-term gaps for awards and partnerships teams in the countries as required and agreed.
    • Coordinate with other members of the RPAS and other AMU members for information sharing and to establish a coherent awards support.
    • Manage donor relationships by maintaining communication on contractual issues, updates on program implementation and following up on compliance queries and securing changes and approvals as needed. 

    Capacity Building and Training

    • Develop training materials and carry out training of relevant staff.
    • In coordination with PAS leaders, develop and maintain work-processes and checklists for award implementation and report review, as well as record lessons learned.
    • Onboard new country office Grants and Partnerships staff and new RPAS team to assigned donors, policies and/or IRC processes, as requested.
    • Ensure sufficient record keeping for efficient handover when deployment ends. 

    Other Responsibilities

    • After each deployment, contribute to cross-regional learning initiatives and feed into after-action reviews, as needed.
    • Support development of systems, processes, and/or resource improvements.
    • Actively participate as a member of the PAS Team, engaging in strategy development and other initiatives as needed.
    • Manage requests and assignments by maintaining a calendar of assignment requests and coordinating support needs across teams.
    • Other duties as assigned by supervisor.

    PERSON SPECIFICATION 
    Essential
    Skills, Knowledge and Qualifications:

    • Fluency in English and Spanish, with additional language skills in French and/or German highly desirable.
    • Significant experience with and a strong understanding of United States Government donor requirements required; experience with European donors highly desirable
    • Good understanding of humanitarian aid and development programming
    • Ability to work collaboratively as part of a diverse team and handle a multifaceted workload
    • Good financial management and budgeting skills
    • Ability to analyze and synthesize information
    • Proven organizational skills, detail-oriented, ability to prioritize tasks, and to learn quickly
    • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills: the ability to successfully and effectively liaise with people within and across departments in a multi-cultural environment.
    • Ability to work independently in a very fast paced environment
    • A flexible work attitude and a calm manner
    • International work experience in the Global South is a plus
    • Excellent IT skills (Word, Outlook, Excel)
    • Ability to travel internationally, sometimes on short notice and to insecure areas

    Experience:

    • Experience in working at a distance and supporting country-based staff
    • Experience writing, reviewing and editing narrative and financial reports and excellent attention to detail

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