Open Positions at International Rescue Committee

Responsibilities

• Security Risk Management
• Lead and supervise the identification, analysis, and mitigation of S&S risks across the region, ensuring alignment with IRC’s global standards.
• Guide and support Country Directors and field leaders to adapt and implement context-specific security risk management strategies ensuring proactive risk identification, mitigation, and emergency preparedness.
• Review, monitor, and encourage compliance with the Security Minimum Standards (SMS) in all country programs providing follow-up and technical guidance where gaps are identified.
• Drive and champion the development, adaptation, and roll-out of global and regional initiatives on duty of care and safeguarding, embedding these into operational culture and practice.
• Shape and strengthen safety and security policies, procedures, and practices that fully integrate Gender Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (GEDI) principles as well as Partnership Excellence for Equality and Results System (PEERS) commitments.
• Extend IRC’s security capacity to partners, ensuring they receive tailored risk management support, access to systems, and benefit from IRC’s standards relevant to their operational contexts.
• Build and maintain an active network of IRC security focal points across country programs and cultivate strong external relationships with professional contacts, peer agencies, and security counterparts to enhance collective risk management.
• Humanitarian Access Management
• Provide the leadership with necessary geo-political trends and analyses to better understand the potential implications and better preparedness.
• Enable and safeguard principled, secure, and sustained humanitarian access across country programs, ensuring communities can be reached and served in line with IRC’s country Strategy Action Plans (SAP).
• Strengthen and expand humanitarian access teams and capabilities across the region, building skills, systems, and approaches that enhance operational reach and acceptance.
• Develop, adapt, and implement context-specific guidelines for humanitarian access and engagement with state and non-state actors, ensuring alignment with IRC policy, international humanitarian law, and standards.
• Advise and guide country programs in the design of operational and programmatic contingency plans ensuring preparedness for sudden shifts in political, security, or conflict dynamics.
• Collaborate with relevant IRC units to ensure prompt and appropriate follow-up to violations of IRC’s Code of Conduct and breaches of humanitarian principles, reinforcing accountability and ethical operations.
• Performance Management and Development
• Lead and actively contribute to the recruitment and selection of key positions with S&S responsibilities, ensuring high-caliber talent and diverse representation.
• Co-manage and mentor direct-report staff (under the Management in Partnership (MiP) model with Country Directors), setting clear expectations, defining performance objectives, providing regular, timely feedback, and conducting documented performance reviews that drive accountability and growth.
• Promote and safeguard staff well-being, monitoring staff care across the region and supporting appropriate interventions to address the needs of both national and international staff.
• Directly supervise and develop the Regional Humanitarian Access and Safety Coordinators, ensuring progressive and forward-looking S&S plans that align with regional priorities and organizational strategy.
• Learning & Development
• Design, support, and supervise the implementation of regional capacity-building plans, ensuring effective delivery of IRC’s global S&S training programs across Asia country programs.
• Embed gender-sensitive approaches into all capacity development and learning initiatives, addressing gender-specific risks and ensuring inclusivity in staff preparedness.
• Lead and facilitate critical incident management trainings and simulations, in close coordination with the global S&S unit to strengthen preparedness and response capacities across the region.
• Incident management
• Support country programs to ensure timely, accurate, and high-quality incident notification, reporting, analysis, and dissemination of lessons learned.
• Serve as a member of the Regional Incident Management Team actively supporting the RVP in the management and resolution of Tier 2 and Tier 3 incidents.
• Facilitate After-Action Reviews ensuring that corrective measures are clearly defined, documented, and systematically implemented in line with established incident protocols.
• Oversee and monitor the SHIELD incident database producing quarterly trend analyses to inform strategic decision-making and strengthen regional risk mitigation.

Qualifications & Requirements

• At least 10 years’ experience in international humanitarian assistance, with proven ability to plan, organize, and lead security management operations.
• Prior experience in Asia with strong knowledge of regional and country dynamics is preferred.
• Fluency in English required.
• Demonstrated grounding in humanitarian principles, codes of conduct, NGO culture, and proven success in gender-sensitive security management and gender equality.
• Skilled at influencing without authority and building effective relationships across multinational teams, partners, and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to transfer knowledge through mentoring, coaching, and non-formal methods.
• Strong capacity to analyze and present complex security dynamics and incidents clearly and on short notice, highlighting implications for operations.
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 40% of the time.

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Key Responsibilities

Nursing care and patient treatment/Management

• Ensure that care plans for patients are written and updated, and that all observations, documentation and communication are accurate.
• Ensure that planned nursing care is delivered safely and effectively considering the views of the patient and their relatives
• Assess the care needs of patients, develop and implement plans of nursing care accordingly
• Administer prescribed medication and report on patient’s response
• Participate in Hospital calls and Night duties as planned by the Nursing officer in charge
• Collaborating with other Nurses and multidisciplinary teams to develop and implement individualized care plans.
• Manage equipment within the pediatric unit, ensuring proper use, maintenance, and accountability.
• Participate in health education and counselling for patients and families, promoting a supportive and caring environment
• Ensure accurate documentation of patient care and maintenance of medical records.
• Assessing and monitoring pediatric patients’ health status, including vital signs, growth parameters, and developmental milestones
• Responding promptly to pediatric emergencies and participating in resuscitation and stabilization procedures when required.

Infection Prevention and Control

• Ensure strict adherence to injection safety SOP
• Ensure the ward is always clean
• Monitor waste segregation and periodically advise the teams
• Periodically educate the departmental unit staff on IPC practices
• Representing the unit in facility IPC meetings highlighting challenges and areas of improvement
• Participate in IPC comme-care assessment
• Participate in the development of Facility IPC SOP

Reporting and communication

• Compile and submit quarterly inventory return/requisition of all drugs and supplies.
• Conduct regular training sessions for national and refugee staff on basic nursing care/management of various ward cases, documentation and infection prevention.
• Provide individualized health education and counseling related to health maintenance and disease prevention.
• Attend and facilitate Continuous Medical Education.
• Participate in Departmental and facility Data review meetings and implementation of action plans
• Monitor and supervise proper usage of supplies as well as maintain adequate supplies and buffer stock.

Client Feedback and Responsiveness

• Information sharing: Regularly share and discuss timely, accurate and relevant information with communities about; access and eligibility to services, expected staff behavior, and community feedback, safeguarding mechanisms and how to use them
• Feedback Collection and reporting: Promote formal feedback mechanisms to capture, monitor, respond to, and act on feedback and complaints from communities by documenting feedback received from the community through informal interactions, observations, and focus group discussions. Reporting community needs, preferences, and feedback to managers and client responsiveness focal persons

Key Result Areas

• Assessment, Planning, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation of nursing care services and other related activities within the allocated ward/unit.

Required Qualifications:

• Kenya Registered and/or Community Health Nurse from a recognized Nursing Training Institution. Registered with the Nursing Council of Kenya with valid practicing license. At least two years of experience in a hospital setting post registration.

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Key Responsibilities:

Maternal Health:

• Provide comprehensive antenatal care, including health assessments, counseling, and education.
• Assist with normal deliveries and conduct emergency deliveries for clients presenting in second stage at the clinic.
• Provide postnatal care, including counseling on breastfeeding, family planning, and newborn care.
• Identify and manage and/or refer high risk conditions during pregnancy and postpartum periods.
• Perform essential procedures such as blood pressure monitoring, fetal heart rate monitoring, and vaginal examinations.
• Provide Maternal EPI services (Tetanus injections) as per schedule.
• Offer family planning counseling and services, including long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs).
• Provide post-abortion care and cervical cancer screening and treatment services.

Neonatal Health:

• Monitor newborn health and identify any potential complications.
• Monitor breastfeeding and offer guidance on other nutrition options.
• Provide linkage with Nutrition for vulnerable Neonates as per assessment.
• Administer essential neonatal interventions, such as treatment of common ailments and vaccinations.

Child Health:

• Provide immunization services according to the Expanded Program of immunization (EPI) schedule.
• Manage common childhood illnesses, such as diarrhea, pneumonia, and malaria.
• Conduct growth monitoring and promote optimal child development through child welfare clinic (CWC).
• Provide nutritional counseling and support.

Record Keeping:

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date medical records for all patients.
• Submit timely reports on maternal, newborn, and child health indicators.

Training and Supervision:

• Participate in training and capacity-building activities to enhance skills and knowledge.
• Supervise and mentor junior staff.
• Participate in Facility Clinical audits
• Attend an participate in Facility CMES

Community Outreach:

• Conduct in-facility health education sessions on maternal, newborn, and child health topics.
• Participate in community outreach activities to promote health-seeking behaviors on needs basis.
• Together with the nurse and clinician, organize for adequate clinic coverage when required.
• Carry out any other additional duties as may be assigned by the supervisor

Key Result Areas:

• Reduced maternal and neonatal mortality rates
• Increased uptake of antenatal and postnatal care services
• Increased uptake of EPI services
• Reduction of malnutrition through monitoring of children at the child welfare clinic
• Improved family planning utilization rates
• Strengthened community -facility linkage.
• Effective supervision and mentorship of junior staff

Required Qualifications:

• KRCHN, KRN/KRM.
• Registration with the Nursing Council of Kenya    

Required Experience & Competencies:

• At least 1 year of experience in a busy maternal child health department/clinic.
• Emergency Obstetrics and Newborn Care / Respectful maternal newborn competency trainings highly desirable.
• Strong clinical skills and knowledge of maternal and child health
• Ability to work under pressure and in challenging environments
• Good communication and interpersonal skills