Latest Recruitment at International Rescue Committee

Sector: Program Administration

Employment Category: Proposal

Open to Expatriates: Yes

Job Description

IRC is seeking a Senior Technical Advisor for a five-year, large-scale East Africa regional project to increase access to quality educational opportunities for refugee and host communities. IRC is currently working on this funding opportunity to improve the social, emotional, and cognitive development of refugees from early childhood to primary school aged. The Senior Technical Advisor will provide quality technical assistance and leadership to ensure the overall quality of the technical design and implementation across multiple countries, which includes the development of developmentally appropriate teaching and learning materials. The project will consist of a consortium of partners that will focus on active learning. The Advisor will ensure that programs also benefit from lessons learned, promising practices, and evidence generated across the region; as well as represent the project in appropriate global forums to share with the larger education in emergency sector. S/he will also have a specific focus on quality technical assistance to support field programs to test, rigorously evaluate, and scale active learning methodologies to improve children’s outcomes. This position is contingent on the IRC being awarded funding and is anticipated to begin in mid-November 2019.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and assistance on the overall approach with a real focus on teaching and learning material development, training and capacity building for a variety of stakeholders responsible for children’s learning; as well as approaches for testing and scaling up active learning methodologies to improve learning outcomes
• Coordination of technical approaches, content development, and influence across field programs
• Support field staff to use project data to track progress and engage in meaningful course correction discussions at regular and frequent intervals; as well as ensure data is tailored to facilitate similar discussions at the global and senior management level.
• Ensuring lessons learned, promising practices and evidence are shared across contexts.
• Provide ongoing capacity building, training and technical assistance as needed of field staff, government counterparts and partners to ensure high quality programs with a focus on uptake and use of active learning methodologies
• Regular communication and coordination with the Project Director and key home office staff on technical and project management issues;
• Manage a small team of education and content development experts at the global and country level;
• Represent the project’s evidence, lessons learned, and achievements in external meetings, panels and conferences; as well as participate in inter-agency efforts related to improving learning outcomes for refugee children;
• Give input to relevant communication materials such as fact sheets, briefs, papers, and presentations that can be disseminated and used for influence at the national and global level;
• Conduct regular visits to project sites, as possible, to provide technical assistance and ensure proper implementation and monitoring of project activities;
• Produce inputs to monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports for the Head of Project and donors, as needed.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree (PhD or MA) in education, or closely related field;
• At least eight years’ experience in education programming, with at least four years of experience with work specifically in crisis or conflict-affected contexts is required, preferably in East Africa.
• Significant prior experience with material development, active learning methodologies, and capacity building/training;
• Experience in social emotional learning interventions, monitoring and evaluation, and research in relation to Education is highly desired. Experience in strategy development and working across sectors or disciplines is highly desired;
• Strong negotiation skills and the ability to develop relations with local counterparts, donors, and other stakeholders;
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written;
• Fluency in English required;
• Ability to travel at least 30% of the time

Reports to: Deputy Director, Education

Working Environment: This role may require working remotely full or part time (i.e., telecommuting). Applicants must have a home or alternate workspace they can effectively complete their work from during regularly scheduled hours.

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Requisition ID: req6444

Sector: Program Administration

Employment Category: Proposal

Employment Type: Full-Time

Open to Expatriates: Yes

Job Description

IRC is seeking a Project Director for a private foundation-funded five-year project in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda to increase quality educational opportunities for refugee and host community children. The Project Director will be the leader of this groundbreaking initiative, responsible for ensuring the project delivers high impact programming for children. The Project Director will coordinate across multiple partner organizations and IRC staff and be the primary representative of the project to all key stakeholders, government officials, and donors at coordination fora and other related meetings. The Project Director will ensure that the project achieves the expected results and is implemented in accordance with the donor agreement, donor regulations, and internationally recognized quality of assistance standards. This position is contingent on the IRC being awarded funding and is anticipated to begin in mid-November 2019.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and technical leadership and direction, define and implement activities to achieve the greatest impact toward project goals and objectives;
• Develop, review, and monitor in coordination with key project staff, annual work and performance plans to ensure long-term and short-term priorities are on track;
• Oversee technical direction and project delivery to ensure activities are in line with the performance framework and meet all standard operational policies and procedures;
• Oversee management of partners/subgrantees and provide financial and operations support that optimizes resources through sound budgets, consistent financial tracking, and timely submission of reports to the donor;
• Report to donor through both formal and informal debriefings, annual and semi-annual reports;
• Maintain active and cooperative relationships with all key stakeholders, including government officials, project partners, other implementing agencies, and related institutions;
• Represent the project and the organization in public and ensure distribution of information about project achievements and lesson learned;
• Support project staff by creating and maintaining a work environment that promotes teamwork, trust, mutual respect, and empowers staff to take responsibility.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree from an accredited university in education international development, or related field;
• Minimum of 10 years of experience managing education programs for refugees or crisis-affected populations;
• Experience managing large-scale, multi-million dollar, complex, multi-country, multi-partner projects;
• Experience working in East Africa and/or Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda on education programming;
• Demonstrated success in staff capacity-building and in participatory, flexible, and gender-sensitive programming and implementation;
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written;
• Fluency in English required.

Reports to: Regional Vice President, CRRD

Working Environment: This role may require working remotely full or part time (i.e., telecommuting). Applicants must have a home or alternate workspace they can effectively complete their work from during regularly scheduled hours.