Vacancies at International Rescue Committee

Responsibilities

Emergency Response Technical Assistance (50%)

• Manage all ERT and emergency GST Partnerships Coordinators, providing effective backstopping during deployments and overseeing contributions towards strategic emergency partnership actions during non-deployed periods.
• In line with the QiE technical assistance model and in close coordination with Regional Partnerships Advisors, provide advisory support to partnership leads, program leads, and country program SMTs in classified emergency responses.
• Closely coordinate with the global and regional IRC partnerships teams for operational coherence and effective handover from emergency to post-emergency partnerships support.
• Support teams with the analysis of roles, capacities, and strategies of local civil society, government, and private sector actors to define IRC’s added value to local actors and systems in emergency strategy and program design (asking ‘why not partner?’).
• Advise on rapid, emergency-oriented, and conflict-sensitive partner selection processes to identify and build relationships with new and existing partners in crisis-affected areas.
• Advise on vetting and Partner Capacity Analysis (PCA) processes in line with PEERS, providing clear step-by-step guidance to teams to ensure adherence to internal and donor requirements, prevent delays, and enable timely reviews and approvals.
• In coordination with AMU colleagues, guide strategic and pragmatic decisions on donations vs. full partnership agreements and the selection of the appropriate partnership agreement type.
• Guide country teams in the onboarding and orientation of new partners during emergencies, ensuring they have access to required resources and are setup for success.
• Advise on the cross-departmental development and delivery of partner support plans, ensuring that IRC provides appropriate technical and operational support to partners in line with identified needs and requests.
• Guide program and finance teams to achieve timely funds transfers. Determine the root causes of any delays and clearly document issues and recommendations.
• Ensure continuous coaching and guidance for partnership leads, program leads, and country program SMTs on the above functions.
• As needed, travel for in-person emergency partnerships support, approximately 20% of the time and maximum six weeks for a single visit.

Partnerships Strategy & Change Management (30%)

• As the EHAU partnerships lead, oversee day-to-day planning and implementation of the emergency partnerships strategy to facilitate EHAU’s strategic ambition to partner more, better, and faster across all emergency responses.
• Work closely with the Director, Program Quality and Performance and other EHAU leaders to evolve strategy, structures, and competencies across all EHAU teams to facilitate improved partnerships
• Manage the integration of partnership support, routines and principles into the terms of reference and practices of all response-facing EHAU team members.Identify and address any project, operational, or finance business processes that create barriers to emergency partnership ambitions and advise leadership on solutions.
• In collaboration with the Director, Program Quality and Performance, plan and deliver against partnerships actions in the SAP implementation plan.
• Stay abreast of and influence developments related to the organization-wide partnership ambition, ensuring that emergency-specific considerations are incorporated into global partnership strategic initiatives and business processes.
• Represent EHAU in action teams for the implementation of the global partnerships roadmap as required
• Support with the regular review, updating, and completion of strategic tasks in the partnerships workstream of the emergency strategy action plan (SAP).
• Contribute to the development of models for meaningful partner participation in emergency decision-making processes, including emergency response plan development and program design and management.
• Promote and help develop the team culture required to partner first and as equals, including through the direction and tone that EHAU leaders and staff set and the modelling of partnership principles.

Knowledge Management and Training (10%)

• Work with the EHAU MEAL team to ensure the systematic collection of partner feedback on IRC to understand and enable learning from partner perspectives. Develop and implement appropriate actions in response to feedback.
• Support the evolution of knowledge required for effective partnerships in EHAU, including facilitating in-person and remote training on PEERS as required.
• Provide advisory support across EHAU functions to ensure the support we provide to partners in emergencies is timely, high-quality, and aligned with the partnership ambition.
• Facilitate dialogue platforms for EHAU staff to explore opportunities, challenges, enablers, and barriers associated with IRC’s partnerships evolution.
• Contribute emergency-specific inputs to the development of global partnerships/PEERS training curricula.

Systems, Tools, Learning (10%)

• Help inform and contribute to the continued development of PEERS policies, processes, and tools, advising on approaches and adaptations required for emergencies.
• Develop emergency partnership guidance notes as required, documenting best practices and tips for expedited partnership establishment and processing during crises.
• Using the emergency partner satisfaction survey and other tools, ensure the regular collection of feedback in red and orange-classified emergencies to understand and enable learning from partner perspectives.
• Support the development of processes for the inclusion of partners in learning exercises.
• Ensure the routine documentation of lessons learned with emergency partnerships, development of recommendations, and dissemination across relevant teams.

Team Culture

• Build and maintain strong working relationships with EHAU and Regional colleagues and continually promote a culture of partnership and collaboration.
• Cultivate and maintain a positive, collaborative, safe and protective work environment, while additionally setting an example of ‘One IRC’-way of working within the team, EHAU and the wider organization.
• Contribute to efforts across EHAU to promote gender equality, diversity and more inclusive practice across our programming and our ways of working.

Qualifications

• Approximately 8+ years of experience managing or advising humanitarian programs, including substantial experience in partnership and capacity sharing with local and national NGOs and government entities in emergencies.
• Demonstrated genuine interest in and commitment to collaboration and partnership with local actors.
• In-depth knowledge of best practices in partnership and capacity sharing, with demonstrated experience integrating this theme into programming.
• Technical understanding of and experience working with IRC’s PEERS approach is strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of sub-award processes and compliance regulations for key humanitarian donors.
• Ability to transfer knowledge to diverse audiences through participatory training, mentoring, distance learning, and other formal and non-formal methods.
• Demonstrated experience in an inter-departmental coordination role and the ability to communicate with and balance the priorities of a range of stakeholders.
• Experience with strategy development and delivery
• Strong cross-cultural communication skills and comfortable working as part of a diverse team. Sensitive to interpersonal differences and a range of viewpoints.
• Demonstrated advance planning skills. Able to effectively prioritize and follow multiple activities and deadlines simultaneously.
• Flexible and innovative. Able to adapt plans and pivot approaches in response to changes in context.
• Willingness to travel approximately 20% of the time, including to remote and insecure locations.
• Fluency in English; knowledge of another global language (preferably French, Arabic, or Spanish) preferred.

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Job Overview/Summary:

The position holder is responsible for the technical oversight, implementation, monitoring, and regular consultation with project partners on hygiene promotion interventions. Ensure complementarity with other sectorial interventions, i.e. Health, Nutrition, DRR and livelihood as well as proper coordination, consultation and information sharing with partners and other collaborators.

Main Responsibilities

• The WASH Hygiene officer shall be responsible for the technical aspects of hygiene and sanitation promotion. They shall be responsible for planning, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of high quality, innovative Hygiene and Promotion interventions.
• They will ensure that an engagement approach to working with communities, the local authorities, partners other collaborators is employed, and all activities are carried out in a way that is sensitive to community needs and promotes the full and equal participation of women, men, children, and youth.

Primary responsibilities include:

Project Planning and Design

• Support in the planning for and design of the community hygiene and sanitation initiatives and methodology.
• Support in the project assessments and proposal development for potential sanitation and hygiene promotions.

Project Implementation

• Ensure that the hygiene and sanitation promotion activities of the project are implemented according to the approved donor guidelines and humanitarian standards.
• In collaboration with the WATSAN officer, ensure that hygiene and sanitation promotion activities accompany the water supply and sanitation interventions.
• Working with the WATSAN Officer facilitate training WMCs, other Community structures (SMCs, CHWs, CHEWs, Youth Groups) and local authorities on improved hygiene/sanitation practices and management.

Project Monitoring and Evaluation

• Ensure timely delivery of projects activities.
• Ensure that up to date project documents are in place including approved work plans, log frame, detailed project implementation plan and financial forecasts.
• Documentation of lessons learnt and good practices.
• In consultation with MEAL, design and conduct all quantitative and qualitative assessments, KAP surveys, and follow-up assessments with concrete feedback findings.

Fundraising and Networking

• Support in the development of technically sound proposals.

Coordination and Collaboration

• Co-ordinate and network with the relevant County Government ministries and departments. Community based organizations, Faith based organizations and NGOs and other relevant departments in providing technical support and assistance to WASH activities.
• Collaborate closely with communities, and community structures on water supply and sanitation issues as well as other agencies (particularly those carrying out similar activities) regularly to ensure coordination and effective implementation of activities through guidance of the Supervisor/FC.
• Under the guidance of the supervisor (or Field Coordinator) contributes towards strengthening of integration of WASH programming with the other key IRC program Sectors

Reporting

• Develop and deliver in a timely manner monthly, quarterly, semi- annual and end of projects reports.in accordance with donors’ and IRC Kenya requirements.
• Support development, monitoring and evaluation WASH project indicators and standards
• Provide regular update reports on hygiene and sanitation activities and program progress against work plan as may be required.
• Maintain an up to-date activity tracking tool (soft copies and hard copies) of all water supply and sanitation infrastructure related activities.
• Actively participate in inter-sectoral activities
• Support WASH department in other tasks, roles and responsibilities as may be assigned by the supervisor.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Degree in environmental health science, community development, social development public health, or related field. A minimum of Three years’ experience working/programming in WASH, humanitarian work or development.
• Minimum of 3 years relevant work experience in WASH, Public health, community development.
• Strong skills in PHAST, CLTS, sanitation marketing, design for behavior change models essential.
• Experience in community engagement approaches, participatory approaches, and community negotiation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to establish and maintain effective working relations with a team.
• Ability to conduct community WASH needs assessment, program planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of WASH activities.
• Good understanding of SPHERE and other humanitarian standards.
• Good computer application skills (MS-Office, application software to engineering designs)