Jobs at International Rescue Committee

Job Overview/Summary

Are you passionate about IRC's mission, making a positive impact on engagement and seeing an improvement in people’s work lives? Then join us!The mission of the Learning and Development (L&D) team is to take the IRC’s people to the next level. We improve the capability of IRC staff by providing language, culture and technology-appropriate processes, tools, training, and guidance for individuals to advance their performance, capabilities and contributions.

The Senior Director, Leadership Development strengthens management and leadership practices across the IRC. By identifying, directing, and evaluating offerings that further our Strategy 100 and inclusion aims, the successful candidate will mentor our leaders and managers and impact how they engage with staff at every level and in every geography. They will also serve as advisor to senior leaders for improving and modeling our leadership principles.

Major Responsibilities

• Design and implement the global strategy, principles, program and processes for leadership development at the IRC.
• Engage with organizational, People & Culture, and Learning & Development colleagues to impact broader efforts to influence leadership behavior, design development programs and meet our organizational goals.
• Serve as a member of the L&D senior management team (SMT) and contribute to team-wide strategy, operational planning, and budget efforts.
• Direct a team of program leads, specialists and support staff to implement leadership development offerings.
• Closely collaborate with Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (GEDI) team members to build inclusive programs that help drive GEDI goals through leadership action.
• Collaborate with L&D leadership and regional focal points to address gaps in programming and to adapt global tools and processes to fit language and contextual needs.
• Continuously measure success and seek options to strengthen our management practices and management pipeline.
• Cultivate a diverse and strong network of internal and external partners from around the globe in order to craft and deliver leadership programs that meet the organization’s needs.

Development Value

• Opportunity to shape and impact leadership behavior on a global scale, impacting downward teams and in turn, engagement, turnover, and strategic and DEI goals.
• Lead the design of flagship and foundational programs to inspire and engage leaders to model IRC’s leadership standards.
• Exposure to and collaboration with senior leaders across a highly matrixed, global humanitarian organization.

Job Requirements

• Minimum of 10-15 years of proven experience in scaling and implementing leadership development programs
• Experience achieving strong results through management of others
• Strong communication, project management, and organizational skills
• Global approach, culturally curious and emotionally intelligent
• Ability to interact within a multi-cultural environment and with all levels of the organization
• English fluency required. French, Spanish and/or Arabic a plus.

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The Objective Of The Consultancy Is To

• Objective 1: To identify the scope and gendered impact of the drought's including but not limited to direct and indirect effects on GBV, as well as how women, men, boys and girls can access various services, resources, and information.
• Objective 2: To determine the various coping mechanisms, constraints, capabilities, and unique needs of women and men, including those with disabilities, to respond to the crisis throughout the range of protection and SRH needs, Taking intersectionality into account.
• Objective 3: To identify measures that enhances protection, GBV care and support services and to prevent GBV with clusters/sectors, the government, and other responsibility bearers.

Date and Duration of Consultancy

The consultancy period shall be for 10 days per County. The complete curriculum must be submitted to IRC within 20 days after validation exercise.

Qualifications

The ideal consultant should have: -

• A post-graduate degree in Gender and Development, social sciences or another relevant field.
• Over 5 years of experience conducting gender studies with evidence of publications or field reports on gender issues with experience in women and adolescents programming.
• The consultant must be able to demonstrate experience in conducting a gender analysis of a similar or related assignment.
• Experience in working collaboratively with government and other development partners.
• Experience working with marginalized and special groups.
• Ability to communicate in English and Kiswahili and in local languages in Turkana, Samburu, Kajiado or Garissa is an added advantage.

The Successful Candidate Will Be Required To

• Follow protection guidelines when engaging with all participants in the assessment.
• Adhere to organization policy of different partners that will be involved in the assessment.
• Adhere to human rights, Protection Principles, socio-ecological, systems strengthening and MHPSS approaches.
• Be guided by the spirit of collaboration, cooperation, partnerships, balance of power, meaningful engagement of marginalized voices and women, girls, young people, vulnerable, persons living with disability among others.

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Position Summary
 
The IRC seeks a Communications Manager who will support country program teams in Nairobi, Kenya and Kampala, Uganda in the implementation of the IKEA Foundation funded Re: Build  Program. Re:Build is a five year 30 million Euro program that aims to support urban refugee and host communities in Kampala and Nairobi to achieve economic self-reliance through supporting (1) Access to sustainable livelihoods and (2) Ensuring that strong markets and effective and responsive city services are accessible to all.  The Communications Manager will report to the Public Engagement and Advocacy Coordinator and support in conceptualizing, planning and implementation the program’s internal and external communications. He or she will ensure that the program’s messaging is consistent and engaging. The Communications Manager will prepare detailed media reports, press releases, and other publicity materials for the program.  
 
Job Responsibilities:

Technical Support and Coordination:

• Developing and implementing communications strategies and work-plans, campaigns, events, and other initiatives in support of the program activities 
• Researching, preparing fact-checking, editing, and producing professional media and communications materials for various audiences and ensuring their timely dissemination and amplification via IRC and non-IRC communications channels at country level and, where appropriate, globally. 
• Developing news-worthy messages, organizing press events, handling interviews requests, and providing responses to requests from media relating to Re: Build and its work. 
• Drafting talking points and messages for the Office, and for sharing with communicators at regional level. 
• Creating high quality media and multimedia content for dissemination in country, and via Re: Build platforms. 
• Maintaining through year-round professional interaction strong media relations for Re: Build, ensuring that media (and other important external stakeholders, such as governments, Private Sector, NGOs etc.) have strong awareness of refugee issues and are briefed regularly on upcoming news initiatives  
• Maintaining a prominent position in the news and for advocacy. This includes by initiating and drafting briefing notes, preparing press releases, fact sheets, press lines and guidance notes, social media outputs, etc.  
• Maintaining up to date specialist knowledge of matters pertaining to the region communication trends and issues 
• Maintain an up-to-date database of journalists and media organizations, respond to media enquiries and build dialogue with individual journalists, editors, and news desks. 
• Prepare and manage the organization’s communication budget.
• Ensure photos and videos for external use globally are captured with consent and shared following the IRC's Content process. 
• Liase with the IRC's HQ creative and content team to share photos and videos based on the requirements for the global content library. 
• Coordinate with Global Communications Officer and Partner Manager to ensure partner communications requirements are met. 

 Management:

• Provide day to day management of staff within the Re:Build communication team
• Contribute to the development of program staff in Uganda and Kenya through training and mentoring on Communication related issues.
• Introduce quality assurance initiatives to address efficiency, effectiveness, and compliance concerns. 

Qualification  

• Education: Degree in Communications, Political Sciences, Public Information, International Relations, or a related field. Master’s degree would be an added advantage
• Minimum 4 years of relevant experience working in media, journalism, advocacy, communications and marketing.
• Very good technical affinity for media contexts including knowledge of a wide range of multimedia, web, and digital tools. 
• Outstanding newswriting and editing skills and social media skills. 

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Overview

The primary goal is to reduce vulnerability to gender-based violence among adolescent girls, young women and boys in the Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement and Turkana West Sub-County. With the focus of strengthening  social inclusion, cohesion, and psychosocial well-being of young people through sport-related initiatives . The curriculum developed will broaden participation of adolescent girls, young women, and boys in sports activities through meaningful engagement with community leaders and parents, training of sports coaches and other duty bearers, and provision of psychosocial support.  The sport avenues continue to be utilized by actors as platforms to promote GBV service seeking behavior, mitigate and prevent GBV related risks and provision of psychosocial support. The purpose of the Sport for Protection psychosocial curriculum is to create awareness and build knowledge skills on prevention and response to GBV and ensure that AGYW and boys at risk of GBV are provided with trauma informed psychosocial support

Project Objectives

The Sport for Protection PSS Curriculum aims to realize the following objectives in the Kakuma Refugee Camp and Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement.

• Objective 1: Increase social inclusion of adolescent girls, young women, and boys in targeted communities.
• Objective 2: Increase knowledge about PSS in target communities and create sustained adaption to new skills that promote inclusion, protection and reduce the impact of GBV.
• Objective 3: Increase impact and utilization of acquired knowledge offered in a standardized PSS trainings to promote psychological well-being.

Objectives

To design a psychosocial curriculum on Sports for Protection that will guide project implementation and train ToT, ToF and Adolescent girls’ young women and boys targeted in Sport for Protection Project.

Scope of Work

In liaison with the Women Protection and Empowerment (WPE) Program Team, guidance from UNFPA and input from partners, the consultant will be required to:

• Undertake a desk review of Sport for Protection documents and GBV prevention and response documents to ensure that the curriculum is contributing to the overall goal of sport for protection
• Review the existing adolescents MHPSS curriculums, assess the relevance and ability, and use the findings to develop a curriculum relevant to the target group
• Conduct consultations with relevant stakeholders and use the recommendations to enrich the curriculum.
• Engage the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development to input and later to adopt it for wider use.
• Produce a draft psychosocial curriculum and share it with relevant stakeholders for review and   recommendation
• Pre-test the draft curriculum and use the feedback to improve the final curriculum.
• Appendix evaluation tools to enable facilitators to evaluate the effectiveness of the curriculum.
• Develop a final PSS Sport for Protection curriculum. The final version (with sign off) approved by the relevant stakeholders.
• Submit the approved PSS curriculum to IRC  
• Train 35 ToTs using the developed PSS curriculum

Deliverables / Outputs

• Inception report
• Draft PSS curriculum on Sport for Protection Develop a complete curriculum with the 2 parts: AGYW facilitators guide and ABYM Trainers guide.
• Submit a draft copy for review by the IRC staff
• Facilitate validation and training workshops in Kakuma with participants from the sport fraternity (coaches, youth engaged in sports, agency staff working with youth in sports and mental health and psychosocial support) on the curriculum developed to ensure that it is applicable for target groups in  Kakuma and Kalobeyei context.
• Present the complete curriculum to IRC and UNFPA with the layout ready for publishing.

Qualifications

The ideal consultant should have: -

• A post-graduate degree in social sciences or another relevant field with training in the field of health, Gender, and development.
• Over 7 years’ experience conducting gender studies with evidence of publications or field reports on gender issues with experience in women and adolescents programming.
• Documented experience in developing adolescents targeted curriculum including psychosocial manuals
• Experience in working with adolescents and youths and working collaboratively with government and other development partners.  
• Experience with use of sports and gaming activities to help model behavior of adolescent and youth, address gender issues and build social cohesion and inclusion
• Experience working with marginalized and special groups.
• Ability to communicate in English and Kiswahili and in local languages in Turkana is an added advantage.

The successful candidate will be required to:

• Follow protection guidelines when engaging with all participants in the assessment.
• Adhere to organization policy of different multisectoral partners that will be involved in the assessment.
• Adhere to human rights, Protection Principles, socio-ecological, systems strengthening and MHPSS approaches.
• Be guided by the spirit of collaboration, cooperation, partnerships, balance of power, meaningful engagement of marginalized voices and women, girls, young people, vulnerable, persons living with disability among others.

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Position Summary
 
The IRC seeks a Graphic Designer who will support country program teams in Nairobi, Kenya and Kampala, Uganda in the implementation of the IKEA Foundation funded Re:Build program. Re:Build is a five year 30 million Euro program that aims to support urban refugees  and host communities in Kampala and Nairobi to achieve economic self-reliance through supporting 1) Access to sustainable livelihoods and 2) Ensuring that strong markets and effective and responsive city services are accessible to all.  The Graphic Designer will report to the Communications Manager and supports in creating program’s designs using print, electronic, and film media. This will involve creating brochures, publicity products and designing project reports and other print and electronic materials to promote and communicate Re:Build project needs.  

Job Responsibilities:

• Undertake field visit to collect photos and other contents for design  
• Create a wide range of graphics layouts for program and network which includes illustrations and photography  
• Design and create presentations in PowerPoint – working from concepts, drawings, and very basic instruction from the project team 
• Ensure that the Brand is always executed in a consistent manner across all areas of work , presentation of work all final concepts and projects to the relevant department  
• Design marketing collateral e.g., newsletters, brochure covers, posters and manuals to fit the project identity  
• Design electronic invitations and event related collateral  
• Illustrate concepts by designing examples of art arrangement, size, type size and style and submitting them for approval  
• Review designs for errors before printing or publishing them  
• Review final layouts and suggesting improvements when necessary  
• Create images that convey a message  
• Select colors, images, text style, and layout in line with Brand  
• Plan concepts by studying relevant information and materials  
• Receive, track, and implement all design briefs in accordance with Re: Build and IRC brand  
• Coordinate all work with Brand and Communications team, internal clients, agencies, web designer, marketing, printers, and colleagues as necessary  
• Actively communicate with clients about layout and design  
• Contribute to team efforts by accomplishing tasks as needed  

Requirements:  

• Degree, diploma, or relevant qualification in graphic design  
• Knowledgeable on Adobe creative suites such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign  
• Knowledge of Dreamweaver, HTML and CSS (advantageous)  
• Creating HTML mailers (advantageous)  
• Basic photography and videography skills  
• Video-editing capabilities (advantageous)  

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Position Summary
 
The IRC seeks a Website Administrator who will support country program teams in Nairobi, Kenya and Kampala, Uganda in the implementation of the IKEA Foundation funded Re:Build Program. Re:Build is a five year, 30 million Euro program that aims to support refugee and host communities to achieve economic self-reliance through supporting (1) Access to sustainable livelihoods and (2) Ensuring that strong markets and effective and responsive city services are accessible to all.  The Web Administrator will report to the Communications Manager and has responsibility in a wide range of administrative tasks, including designing, developing, maintaining, and troubleshooting the Re:Build website. The Web Administrator is also responsible for creating and updating content, implementing security protocols, creating backups, sorting out software issues. 

 Job Responsibilities:

• Creates and maintains the Re:Build website in collaboration with web developers.  
• Reviews web content, links, and design; provides necessary updates and enhancements in a timely manner.  
• Identifies useful site performance metrics; collects, tracks, records, compiles, analyzes, and reports site usage data
• Conducts user testing and use analysis to assess usability and effectiveness of site; recommends improvements based on analysis.  
• Monitors site security: reports suspected or actual security breaches and denial of service attacks to appropriate staff.  
• Implements appropriate security measures such as firewalls or message encryption.  
• Manages internet and/or intranet infrastructure including but not limited to web, file transfer protocol (FTP), mail servers, and news.  
• Discusses, analyzes, reviews, and resolves usability issues in conjunction with website development teams.  
• Communicates with site visitors and users regarding site updates, anticipated and unanticipated downtime, and resolution of bugs and outages.  
• Drafts, documents, and implements backup, recovery, and business continuity plans.  
• Maintains knowledge and expertise in web design and development; participates in professional conferences, workshops, and groups.  
• Performs other related duties as assigned by the Communications Manager.  

 Requirements  

• Bachelor degree in Information Technology Computer Science, Business, Web Development
• At least three years of related experience highly preferred.  
• Thorough understanding of website design and administration.  
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.  
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.  
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.  
• Fluency with markup and programming languages including HTML, XML, Java, and CSS.  
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Creative 

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Project Objectives

The project’s overarching objective is to improve adolescents’ boys and girls mental wellbeing, social inclusion, and cohesion using sport-related platforms. Through interaction with parents, community leaders, and other duty bearers, coaching and other duty bearer training, and support for the youth in terms of psychosocial development and life skills, the project will increase the participation of adolescent girls, young women, and boys in sports activities. The goal of this activity of curriculum creation and training is help target groups understand the GBV risks in sports, how to mitigate, improve capacity and increase awareness of GBV prevention while also ensuring that AGYW and boys at risk of GBV continue to engage sports.

Objectives

To develop “Risk of GBV in Sports for AGYW and Boys” curriculum will guide project implementation and train ToTs (Adolescent girls’ young women and boys) targeted in the Project.

Scope of Work

In liaison with the Women Protection and Empowerment (WPE) Program Team, guidance from UNFPA and input from partners, the consultant will be required to:

• Undertake a desk review of Risk of GBV in Sports, Sport for Protection documents and GBV prevention and response documents to ensure that the curriculum is contributing to the overall goal
• Review the existing risks of GBV in Sports curriculums, including Sports for Protection curriculums and assess the relevance, and ability, and use the findings to develop a curriculum relevant to the AGYW and boys.
• Conduct consultations with relevant stakeholders and use the recommendations to enrich the curriculum.
• Engage the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development to input and later to adopt it for wider use.
• Produce a draft play-based curriculum and share it with relevant stakeholders for review and recommendation
• Pre-test the draft curriculum and use the feedback to improve the final curriculum.
• Appendix evaluation tools to enable facilitators to evaluate the effectiveness of the curriculum.
• Develop a final curriculum. The final version (with sign off) approved by the relevant stakeholders.
• Submit the approved curriculum to IRC  
• Train 30 ToTs using the developed and adopted curriculum

Deliverables / Outputs

• Inception report defining the approach, methodology, and tools that will be used to collect information from target groups
• Power point presentation of the summarized curriculum
• Develop a complete curriculum with sections divided into two: for ToTs and AGYW and ABYM Trainers.
• Submit a draft copy for review by the IRC and UNFPA
• Facilitate validation and training workshops in Kakuma with participants from the sport fraternity (coaches, youth engaged in sports, agency staff working with youth in sports and mental health and psychosocial support) on the curriculum developed to ensure that it is applicable for target groups in  Kakuma and Kalobeyei context.
• Present the complete curriculum to IRC and UNFPA with the layout ready for publishing.
• Printed 5 copies of curriculum for “Risk of GBV in Sport for AGYW and Boys”
• Complete training for 50 ToTs using training manual

Date and Duration of Consultancy

The consultancy period shall be for 25 days.

Qualifications

The ideal consultant should have: -

• A post-graduate degree in social sciences or another relevant field with training in the field of health, Gender, and development.
• Over 7 years’ experience conducting gender studies with evidence of publications or field reports on gender issues with experience in women and adolescents programming.
• Documented experience in developing life skills and protection curriculums.
• Experience in working with adolescents and youths and working collaboratively with government and other development partners.  
• Experience with use of sports and gaming activities to help model behavior of adolescent and youth, address gender issues and build social cohesion and inclusion
• Experience working with marginalized and special groups.
• Ability to communicate in English and Kiswahili and in local languages in Turkana or Garissa is an added advantage.

The successful candidate will be required to:

• Follow protection guidelines when engaging with all participants in the assessment.
• Adhere to organization policy of different partners that will be involved in the assessment.
• Adhere to human rights, Protection Principles, socio-ecological, systems strengthening and MHPSS approaches.
• Be guided by the spirit of collaboration, cooperation, partnerships, balance of power, meaningful engagement of marginalized voices and women, girls, young people, vulnerable, persons living with disability among others.

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Overview

The overall purpose of the of the project is to strengthen social inclusion, cohesion, and psychosocial well-being of young people through sport-related platforms. The project aims at broadening participation of adolescent girls, young women, and boys in sports activities through engagement with community leaders and parents, training of coaches and other duty bearers, and psychosocial and life skills support to the youth. pathway. IRC seeks to have a curriculum developed to create awareness to the coaches on social inclusion and exclusion, prevention of GBV and strengthen coaches/facilitators’ capacity on identification and mitigation of GBV risks in sports.

Key Responsibilities

Scope of consultancy

IRC purposes to carry out a curriculum development, adaptation and training for host communities, refugees, and stakeholders to enhance their capacity to on social inclusion and cohesion outcomes, create awareness on GBV in sports and how to respond adequately. The manual must incorporate these sections:

• Overview and critical information providing guidance and how to adapt the different elements of sports.
• Sport sheets for adaptation providing advice to coaches on how to set up and use sports for protection purposes.
• Case studies to guide social issues, GBV prevention and response discussions and should have a format of introduction to objectives, discussion and application.
• Appendices providing examples of sports equipment that can be locally assembled, simplified ways of constructing sporting equipment, photo albums of adapted sports and array of warm up exercises.

Key tasks

Scope of Work

In liaison with the Women Protection and Empowerment (WPE) Program Team, guidance from UNFPA and input from partners, the consultant will be required to:

• Conduct literature review and research on the plussport interventions and use the findings to form basis of adaptation of curriculum.
• Collect data from key stakeholders through meetings, FGDs and Key Informants interviews to establish the desired modules and areas on inclusion.  
• Review the sports for protection tool kit specifically social inclusion and cohesion outcomes which will form the basis for the curriculum
• Conduct validation meeting with the with relevant stakeholders and coordinating structures and use the recommendations to enrich the curriculum.
• Pre-test the draft curriculum and use the feedback to improve the final curriculum.
• Appendix evaluation tools to enable facilitators to evaluate the effectiveness of the curriculum.
• Develop a final curriculum for training coaches on how to use the curriculum adequately. The final version (with sign off) approved by the relevant stakeholders.
• Train the coaches in Kakuma on the developed curriculum
• Submit the approved curriculum

Deliverables / Output

The consultant is expected to

• Provide an Inception report outlining the approach, methodology and tools
• Draft curriculum for training coaches on social cohesion and inclusion, protection, GBV prevention and response.
• Share the draft curriculum with IRC WPE focal persons and UNFPA for review
• Complete validation workshop with key stakeholders of the draft copy
• Train 30 coaches as ToTs on the developed curriculum
• Submission of final curriculum and training guide with layout ready for publishing

Date and Duration of Consultancy

The consultancy period shall be for 25 days. The complete curriculum must be submitted to

Qualifications

The ideal consultant should have: -

• Relevant master’s degree in social sciences or another relevant field with training in the field of health, Gender, and development.
• Over 7 years’ experience in GBV Prevention and Response, Training and supervision
• Experience in working in Refugee settings or post conflict context
• Experience in working with adolescents and youths and working collaboratively with government and other development partners.  
• Experience with use of sports and gaming activities to help model behavior of adolescent and youth, address gender issues and build social cohesion and inclusion
• Experience working with marginalized and special groups.
• Ability to communicate in English and Kiswahili and in local languages in Turkana is an added advantage.

The successful candidate will be required to:

• Follow protection guidelines when engaging with all participants in the assessment.
• Adhere to organization policy of different partners that will be involved in the assessment.
• Adhere to human rights, Protection Principles, socio-ecological, systems strengthening and MHPSS approaches.
• Be guided by the spirit of collaboration, cooperation, partnerships, balance of power, meaningful engagement of marginalized voices and women, girls, young people, vulnerable, persons living with disability among others.