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Technical Advisor, Early Childhood Development

Position Overview

The IRC seeks a Technical Advisor (TA) focused on the first education outcome: early childhood development, which is closely aligned with the Nurturing Care Framework with key interlinkages across multiple sectors.
This role will have a global scope and provide direct technical support to countries identified as strategic priorities for ECD innovation, growth, and research, in close collaboration and coordination with the country-facing Education TAs, and other sector-specific TAs relevant to ECD (Child Protection, Nutrition, Primary Health, Mental Health, Economic Development, Women’s Protection, Governance, etc.).
To ensure quality programming towards impacting the lives of young children and families affected by conflict and crisis through IRC’s work, the ECD Technical Advisor will: support country program staff to design programs and projects that are aligned to the IRC’s outcomes and evidence framework / theories of change / core indicators; review technical quality of proposals; input into proposal go/no go decisions; analyze data to inform course correction; conduct technical trainings and ongoing technical coaching, share cross-context learning with country program staff; design, review and share program-specific tools; support senior technical country program recruitment and capacity–building. The ECD TA will also provide guidance to country-facing TAs on strategies to build technical capacity within country teams to design, implement, measure, and continuously improve ECD programs.
As the ECD Technical Advisor, you are responsible for ensuring high quality technical assistance to specific ECD projects in Bangladesh, East Africa and MENA – including collaboration with counterparts from other sectors to ensure holistic support to clients. You will promote and collaborate with relevant stakeholders to achieve high quality, high impact interventions that are informed by evidence and best practice, contextually appropriate, driven by client and partner voices, and widely inclusive.

Program Design & Business Development: You will support country programs to design winning submissions and generally position IRC for continued success in our ECD technical domains:

Support designated country programs’ proposal technical lead through participation in and/or facilitation of program design meetings
Promote and support design collaboration with partners and clients
Advise on program modalities, and strategic partnership development based on how we can best support, complement, and reinforce local systems
Advising and/or providing hands-on support on assessments, including application and contextualization of technical standards
Reviewing technical design quality, including alignment of narratives, log-frames, and budgets to IRC standards and outcomes

Implementation Support: You will support country program staff and other key stakeholders in implementing technical interventions:

Support country programs and other stakeholders with the recruitment and training of technical coordinators
Assess program quality and inform improvements, providing follow up support to country programs as needed
Collaborate with country program colleagues to monitor and analyze key indicators to inform periodic review, program adaptation, and course-correction as needed
Provide technical capacity strengthening through ongoing mentoring, coaching, and trainings with country program focal points

Knowledge & Learning: You will support continuous sectoral learning and IRC technical leadership:

Document learnings from program activities and sharing takeaways and opportunities
Share cross-contextual learnings with country program staff across the region
Refresh the sectoral evidence-base in collaboration with global and regional staff to influence approaches
Collaborate with other technical advisors within the region to promote integrated programming leadership
Contribute to the delivery of education strategic priorities
Maintain currency with sectoral best practices through continual learning and development

Professional profile

Success in this position requires an individual with expertise in designing and delivering ECD technical assistance and with a keen ability to work across a range of cultural, societal, and political contexts.

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Education or a relevant field required, Master’s Degree preferred.
Work Experience

A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in implementing and/or managing ECD education programs, with on the ground programmatic experience in a service delivery organization, NGO or comparable international agency required.
Experience and familiarity with related donors, peer agencies and national contexts required, preferably in humanitarian and transitional, post-crisis contexts.
Demonstrated expertise in technical program design, monitoring and evaluation, research methods and data analysis with the ability to turn concepts and strategy into measurable action.

Demonstrated Skills And Competencies

Excellent verbal and written communications skills
Strong organizational and time-management skills; proven ability to prioritize and deliver projects on time and independently.
Demonstrated ability to navigate a dynamic, cross-functional, global team structure in a large multi-national organization.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
Strong analytic problem-solving skills, data analysis and data visualization skills.
Highly proficient in Microsoft Office suite.
Ability to manage and work through change in a proactive and positive manner.
Ability to travel internationally

Language Skills: Excellent spoken and written English is essential. Proficiency in an additional IRC language (Arabic, French, Spanish etc.) strongly preferred.

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November 2, 2024
Finance Intern

Job Description
Cash & Bank payments processing

Review and process vendor payments on time and ensure all documents are provided.
Maintain the Invoice management register.
Processing of travel/accommodation payments and ensure all the necessary documents are provided.
Ensuring that authorizations of the journals are in line with the approved limits per the Authority Matrix.
Assist Finance Officer in invoicing of vendor invoices ensuring that the financial dimensions are correct.
Assist the Finance Officer with month end close out on Bank reconciliations and Advance liquidations.
Devise a cash replenishment schedule to minimize weekly bank visits.
Assist with Banking.

Tax and statutory deductions

Ensure that Withholding Vat remittance is done by the 20th of the month following month.
Ensure that the withholding tax certificates are issued on monthly basis in a timely manner.
Ensure that PAYE, NSSF and NHIF  is remitted by the 9th of the next month.
Ensure that all other payroll deductions ( HELB, Life Insurance, Pension) are remitted to the respective institutions by the 9th of  the next month.

Filing and  Digital Filling

Maintain an organized and well-documented (all files must be labeled properly and visibly) and sequential filing system for all cash disbursement vouchers

Audit Facilitation

Retrieving, reviewing and filling back audit documents.

Other

To maintain an organized and well-documented bank correspondences file ensuring it’s continuously updated.
Work closely with Finance Officer to ensure effective training.
Assist Finance Officer in invoicing of vendor invoices ensuring that the financial dimensions are correct.
Any other duties as may be assigned by supervisor.

Qualifications

A bachelor’s degree in accounting, Business Administration, Commerce or Finance with CPA

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November 2, 2024
Water & Sanitation Officer

Position Summary

The role of WATSAN Officer is to ensure successful implementation and supervision of community based water supply and sanitation interventions in the target areas. Additionally, this position will support development of staff and community capacity building in water supply and sanitation operation, maintenance and management, participate in mobilization of WASH resources and ensure implementation is done in close collaboration with program staff, the local community, the Local authority and other relevant agencies. The role will also involve to a large-scale technical designs of various WASH infrastructures, estimation of costs, support development of tender documents, bid review and evaluations, and general construction contract management and discharge in accordance with IRC and GoK acceptable standards and specifications. During implementation of project’s activities, the Officer will be required to provide feedback to relevant project partners and the Local authorities with an aim of improving overall WASH program quality.

Main Responsibilities

The WATSAN Officer will identify and assess the key needs of WASH facilities and services to be addressed and whom to engage and develop an appropriate implementation strategy to either construct, rehabilitate or repair such facilities. They will ensure that an engagement approach to working with communities and the local authorities, other partners is employed and all activities are carried out in a way that is critical to community needs and promotes the full and equal participation of women, men, children and youth. Primary responsibilities include:

Project Planning and Design

Spearhead rapid/field needs assessment including Baseline surveys in WASH activities and determine most technically appropriate water supply and sanitation options.
Design and develop relevant specifications for WASH infrastructure including design reports, drawings, bills of quantities, technical specifications.
Lead in the proposal development for potential water supply, sanitation and hygiene interventions.
Support in undertaking Topographical Surveys and GIS activities, feasibility studies, water resource mapping, EIA support.

Project Implementation

Preparation of tender documents including technical specifications, bill of quantities, drawings, and terms of reference.
Supervise construction, repair and rehabilitation of water supplies systems and sanitation facilities in strict adherence to the Kenya government regulations, WHO and the SPHERE standard.
In collaboration with the WASH officer – hygiene, support implementation of hygiene promotion activities ensuring that technical and social aspects of water supply and sanitation are integrated.
Working with the WASH Officer – Hygiene Promotion facilitate training WMCs, other Community structures (SMCs, CHWs, CHEWs, Youth Groups) and local authorities on operation/maintenance, management, and sustainability of WASH infrastructure.
Build the capacity of staff, CBOs, and Water Users Committees to effectively run WASH facilities.

Project Monitoring and Evaluation

Supervise WASH activities in strict adherence to IRC Kenya, Kenya government regulations, the donor’s guideline, and the SPHERE standards.
Ensure timely delivery of projects activities and successful completion of construction works with submission of completion certificates to the Contractors.
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.
Supervision of the construction processes of different water infrastructures to their completion including test pumping, interpretation of the test pumping data and water testing.
Support in the development and implementation of water safety and disaster risk management plans for the water supply projects.

Fundraising and Networking

Support in the development of technically sound proposals.

Reporting

Develop and deliver in a timely manner progress reports, 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 water supply and sanitation activities and program progress against work plan as maybe 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 to by the supervisor.

Minimum Qualifications

Degree or equivalent experience in Water Engineering, Civil and structural Engineering, or related field. A minimum of Three years’ experience working/programming in WASH, emergencies, relief, or development including implementing a large-scale community-based water and sanitation project with evidence of successful implementation of similar projects.

Required Experience & Competencies

Minimum of 3 years relevant work experience in ASAL.
Strong skills in construction and supervision of water supply and sanitation facilities crucial.
Demonstrated skills in technical design and costing of civil engineering works related to community-based water supply and sanitation facilities.
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, CAD, application software to engineering designs)
Experience working in multi-cultural (particularly pastoralists in Northern Kenya), multi-disciplinary staff will be an advantage.
ar update reports on water supply and sanitation activities and program progress against work plan as maybe 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 to by the supervisor.

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November 2, 2024
Regional Safety & Security Director

Position Summary

The Regional Safety and Security Director (RSSD) guides the development, implementation and monitoring of an effective strategy to identify, analyze and mitigate safety and security risks, enable humanitarian access, maintain continuity of programs, responds to incidents and provide for the protection of all IRC employees and assets. The RSSD advises the Regional Vice President (RVP). They provide comprehensive gender inclusive security risk analysis and recommendations related to strategic, operational, programmatic, partnership, and cross-cutting risks. The RSSD is the subject matter expert on humanitarian access and community engagement strategies for the region. The RSSD ensures adequate protocols and mechanisms are in place to address country programs’ unique risks and challenges. They provide direction and technical support in developing and maintaining country programs’ security management in line with IRC Safety and Security policy, framework, processes and protocols.
Reporting to the RVP and the Senior Director Security and Safety (SDSS) the RSSD is a permanent member of IRC’s regional senior management team and of the global safety and security team. Key relationships include the RVP; Senior Director Security and Safety, Chief Safety and Security Officer, Deputy Regional Director; Regional Gender Advisor, Regional HR Directors, Country Directors; Deputy Directors; Country Security Leads.
Under the broad guidance of the RVP, the RSSD has a substantial level of autonomy in execution of responsibilities. They will work with country teams to ensure that organizational security policies and procedures are responsive to the context, relevant to the security environment, and known to staff; and that security plans and measures are developed and maintained current and appropriate to changing security environments.
The RSSD will maintain contextual knowledge of all regional programs, including awareness of early warning indicators affecting safety and security, and will travel regularly to all countries in the region, including at short notice when vital. They will mentor and build IRC staff counterpart capacities to operate optimally and contribute actively to enable durable programming and to reduce IRC’s operational vulnerabilities.
The RSSD will develop the S&S culture and will actively work on the S&S strategies to develop this crucial pillar. EA has decided to prioritize the pillars of Culture and Partnership in its regional S&S strategy 2022-2025. The RSSD will support each country in the implementation and follow-up of their country S&S Strategies.
The RSSD is the overall responsible for S&S management in East Africa and is supported by the Regional Humanitarian Access Security and Safety Coordinator (RHASSC). They share their tasks according to a plan reviewed on a yearly basis. Daily support of Kenya program and the Nairobi Regional Office (IHUB), Uganda, and Ethiopia is delegated to the RHASSC.
The RSSD coordinates the response management of severe incidents and is part of the Regional Incident Management Team (RIMT).

Responsibilities
Security Risk Management

Lead departmental security risk identification and mitigation measures that align with organizational and regional risk-management standards and requirements;
Assist regional leaders in developing and maintaining IRC Humanitarian security risk management ensuring security risks are identified, mitigated and handled;
Provide input, including comprehensive security risk analyses and recommendations, to the RVP and the Regional colleagues;
Actively contribute to the creation and roll-out of duty of care and safeguarding global and regional initiatives;
Counsel the RVP, Deputy Regional Director and Country Directors of any areas of concern and non-adherence to IRC policy and procedures;
Guide the development Safety and Security (S&S) procedures and practices which integrate with gender, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) and Partnership Excellence for Equality and Results System (PEERs), support associated roll out and adherence;
Ensure that IRC partners receive security management support benefiting from internal systems and standard processes relevant to their operations and operating contexts;
Prepare the Regional Daily Security Report;

Humanitarian Access Management

Support the RHASSC on the establishment of secure humanitarian access across country programs
Assist the RHASSC in the continued development of humanitarian access teams and activities across the region
Contribute to the evolution and implementation of guidelines for humanitarian access and engagement with non-state actors articulating standard IRC policy and guidance
Maintain a high level of programmatic and operational preparedness vis-a-vis predicted contextual fluctuations
Support the development of operational and programmatic contingency plans that responds to different emergency scenarios that look at sudden changes in context
Enhance IRC image and acceptance within the community and amongst collaborators by providing guidance on inclusive visibility strategies
Work with appropriate IRC units to ensure timely and appropriate follow-up to violations of IRC’s Code of Conduct, in addition to operational breaches to humanitarian principles

Security Management Planning and Compliance

Remotely and through a minimum of one visit per country program per year (if budget allows it), supervise and support adherence to Policy, principles, standards, and requirements. Provide a follow-up report with clear findings and actionable recommendations after each visit. Track progress and report concerns to country, regional and global Security leadership when required.
Ensure Country Security lead are preparing and sharing accurate S&S reporting, ensure data consistency and report into global dashboards
Prepare each quarter and at the end of the year, a regional snapshot of S&S management
Review and follow up all the S&S strategies for each country, support the HASC in their implementation and challenges. Organize a quarterly meeting with the HASC to ensure a proper follow up of their S&S Strategy and invite the relevant interlocutors (which might include Country Directors, Deputy Directors for Operations and Programs, HR and others)
Review, follow up and support the countries in the implementation of their Security Minimum Standards tool and plan quarterly meetings with the HASC to discuss their challenges.
Support country program with S&S country score card objective settings and progress follow-up, attends the quarterly meeting organized by DDOs.

Staff Performance Management and Development

Actively participate in the recruitment of key positions with S&S risk management responsibilities (Country Directors, dedicated country security leads and others)
Co-Manage with country Directors direct-report staff, including communicating clear expectations, setting performance objectives, providing regular and timely performance feedback, and leading documented regular performance reviews
Provide constructive feedback, professional development and capacity-building plans for all supervised staff
Promote staff care and well-being. Support appropriate interventions in response to identified staff care needs of both national and international staff
The RSSD is the direct supervisor of the RHASSC and as such respects their obligations according to HR regulations.

Learning & Development

Support the RHASSC in the capacity building plan follow up and facilitate the delivery of IRC S&S L&D framework towards IRC staff and where appropriate, IRC partners.
Champion staff capacity building plans through the RHASSC who keeps records on staff training and report data to regional and global security level as required.
Ensure capacity development and learning initiatives account for gender-specific risks and requirements.
Assist country program offices in arranging security training and workshops appropriate to their security environments.
Delivers the Critical Incident Management training for country SMT once a year.
Organize and lead Regional S&S weeks with all country HASC and relevant guests (according to budget available)

Incident management

Support Country program with timely and qualitative incident notification, reporting, analysis and lessons learned
Scan communications from country programs related to security incidents and planning, and provide timely feedback
As a permanent member of the Regional Incident management Team, actively support the RVP during management and resolution of Tier 2 and Tier 3 Incidents
Lead After Action Review and supervise implementation of corrective measures as par existing incident protocols
Manage the IRC online (SHIELD) incident database for the region and produce an analysis of the trends on a quarterly basis.
Report the main trends and vulnerabilities through the ‘’Food For Thoughts’’ news letter

Liaison & Networking

Maintain a network of IRC security focal points in the country programs as well as external professional contacts and counterparts, monitor the security environment in the region, identify new threats, assess IRC vulnerabilities and recommend possible responses
Respond to questions and technical assistance requests from country programs
Supervise and provide support and reporting on NGO field security initiatives as required
Actively participate as a member of the East Africa Regional Security Forum.
Plan and chair the regional monthly S&S meeting with all the country HASC

Emergency Response and Critical Incident Management

As required, support the RVP, Country Director(s) and NY-based senior managers during humanitarian or security/safety emergencies, serving on the regional critical incident management team
Assist with the security component (situation analysis and background information, security assessments) of the Emergency Response Team deployments in the region
During critical incident, Act as technical supervisor for all country security leads
Train the Regional and country SMT on critical incident management and compile all the lists available in a dedicated file.
Follow on a quarterly basis the S&S contingency plans status documents (including sat phones list updated) for each country.

Qualifications & Requirements

Minimum 8 years of non-profit or NGO work experience in international humanitarian assistance programs, with demonstrated capabilities in planning, organizing and implementing security management operations.
Demonstrated understanding of humanitarian principles, codes of conduct, and NGO organizational practices.
Thorough familiarity with principles and current approaches to permissive/acceptance models of security management.
Demonstrated understanding and successes in gender security management and gender equality
Skilled in influencing and obtaining collaboration of individuals not under supervisory control; able to work as member of multinational team and lead a variety of external and internal relationships to achieve results.
Consistent track record to transfer knowledge through mentoring and other non-formal methods.
Ability to quickly gain a comprehensive understanding of various local, regional, country and international factors that impact security environments and risk levels.
Ability to prepare and present, on short notice, clear analyses of contextual dynamics, events, security incidents, and their ramifications for IRC operations.
Self-motivated and able to work effectively without close supervision.
Fluency in English is required.
Readiness and ability to travel approximately 40% of the time.
Prior experience working in the region and demonstrated knowledge of regional and country dynamics are strongly preferred. We especially welcome candidates from the East Africa region.

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November 2, 2024
ERICC Finance Manager Program Development Advisor, East Africa (Business Development) Hygiene Promotion Assistant Finance Assistant Hygiene Promotion Officer

The Contracts Finance Manager will join the Airbel team to help us deliver high-quality financial and subcontract management across these complex awards. In this role you will work closely with project teams and partners to provide high-quality financial analysis, support budget realignments, forecasting and tracking, ensure timely and accurate reporting, maintain contract records, and coordinate with subcontractors for budget delivery and financial compliance with FCDO contract requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Reviewing subcontract partners’ monthly financial reports and supporting documents, ensuring they are complete, accurate and produced in a timely manner for consolidation and submission.
Provide recommendations for payment, questioning and disallowing expense claims in line with FCDO cost eligibility guidelines.
Ensuring financial reports are produced in compliance with FCDO and IRC exchange rate policies, including keeping track of expenditure in the various currencies.
Share feedback on questioned costs with partners and follow up to ensure that recommendations are implemented. Maintain an action tracker for remediation of findings and questioned costs, and gaps and resources required to address these.
Actively track expenditure versus project budget, prepare monthly Budget vs Actuals (BVA) reports highlighting variances and resource allocation needs to Project leads, and flagging any arising issues as relevant.
Ensuring that partners keep supporting documents for all financial transactions and keep ledgers for Fixed Assets, Risk Register, Purchase Requisitions, Cash Receipts and Disbursements, and are following the agreed systems for Level of Effort reporting and procurements.
Submitting payment requests to IRC Finance and processing fund transfers to partners. Maintain a register to show the advance funds to partners, the liquidation patterns, and the balances at any time.
Work closely with Project Leads and IRC Country Program counterparts to ensure effective and timely budget monitoring, payments, booking of expenses and accurate financial reporting.
Ensuring internal accounting documents are produced accurately and on a timely basis.

Demonstrated Skills And Competencies

Bachelor’s degree International Affairs, Public Administration, Economics, Business Studies, Accounting, Commerce, or equivalent professional experience.
At least 2-3 years of related work experience, preferably for an International Non-Governmental Organization managing FCDO grants and contracts.
Demonstrated experience leading complex grants and projects throughout implementation, including financial compliance and reporting processes.
Excellent budget and financial management skills, including experience tracking expenses, developing spending plans and forecasts, and high proficiency in Excel.
Experience working on FCDO grants or contracts preferred, with good working knowledge of FCDO Terms & Conditions.
Experience working with subcontractors and partners, including partner financial monitoring and reporting.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills: the ability to successfully and effectively liaise with a variety of people in a multi-cultural environment and work on a virtual team
The ability to work independently and productively in a fast-paced environment – pro-activity and initiative to problem solve within the job parameters is critical; strong analytical problem-solving skills.
Fluent in English.

Working Environment

Standard office working environment or remote work.
Some international travel may be required for partner capacity support visits.

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November 2, 2024
Community Facilitators

Statement of Work:
The community facilitators will be expected to perform the following roles (not limited to):

Client mobilization, recruitment, and registration.
Conduct client information sessions, onboarding, and monitoring.
Attending to RCT clients’ inquiries.
Facilitating weekly client group sessions.
Business monitoring, verification and sharing of reports.
Translation and transcription as required by the research team.
To perform other duties as assigned and agreed upon with the supervisor.

Qualifications

Certificate or Diploma in Social Sciences or Humanities or any other related field.
Experience in community mobilization and facilitation. Data collection experience is an added advantage.
Experience working with vulnerable communities.
Strong communication and report-writing skills.
Flexible approach to the changing nature of work.
Ability to work effectively both independently and within a multicultural team.
Computer skills, especially Ms. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Applicants able to communicate in Swahili, French, Oromo, Somali, Amharic, Arabic, Congolese, Rwandese are encouraged to apply.
All applicants should have Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) PIN.
Availability: Immediately- (January- June 2024)
Willingness to work in any of the following neighborhoods:

Kenya [Kitengela, Umoja, Kayole, Mowlkem, Kasarani, Githurai, Dagoreti south, Kawangware, Kikuyu, Kangemi, Ongata Rongai, Eastleigh, Ruiru, Jamhuri, Jogoo road]

Policies

Ensure compliance with organizational performance standards, code of conduct, and safeguarding policy.
Adhere to confidentiality procedures and policies when collecting, storing, and sharing data.

Deliverables:

Clients registered.
Client attendance of group sessions and status activity reports.
Business monitoring reports.

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November 2, 2024
M&E Technology Specialist Deputy Director, Violence Prevention and Response Unit (VPRU) Deputy Director, Health Deputy Director, Education Senior Communication Officer

Job Overview/Summary

Focused on M&E technology support, the successful candidate will be a member of the team responsible for developing, implementing, and supporting IRC’s global technology tools. This includes CommCare, Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft SQL Server Azure based products. Working in partnership with staff at various levels and locations, the M&E Technology Specialist performs a key role in analyzing, developing, and improving tools and processes contributing to the successful rollout of the M&E Technology products.
Specific tasks include development of applications in CommCare, dashboard development work in Power BI, software and data quality assurance, technical assistance including issue routing on helpdesk, second line support, and participation in setting standards for processes, security, and systems configurations.

Major Responsibilities
Application Development and Data Visualization.

Develop and improve applications to support data collection tools using CommCare and ODK tools.
Support the development and rollout of organization-wide and sector specific dashboard products using Excel and Power BI.
Work with M&E, data teams, and other stakeholders in requirements gathering and analysis to inform development or improvement of M&E technology products.
Develop documentation for M&E data collection tools and dashboard products. This includes user guides, setup manuals, training materials, and other communication materials.
Provide technology training to the business teams, deployment teams and end users on various M&E products.
Support standards for data protection, confidentiality and data security for the M&E systems and collaborate with key teams in IT security and protection teams for guidance as needed.

Technology Support

Provide technical support and backstopping to field staff using M&E applications developed.
In liaison with regional ICT and M&E teams, consolidate change requests, bugs and feature improvements.
Address tier II technology support requests and/or triaging to the relevant lead developer for resolution.
Administer helpdesk for the M&E Technology team in ensuring issues reported are resolved within the specified SLAs.

Quality Assurance

Participate in the design, implementation, and operation of data quality processes as they apply to M&E data applications.
Support on quality assurance efforts during product development including on setting up of test plans and executing those test cases.
Support on developer code reviews and pair-programming as necessary.

Any other duties as assigned by the supervisor.
Required Skills

At least five years’ experience in developing and rolling out of M&E technology tools using CommCare or similar ODK-based data platforms.
At least three years’ experience developing, implementing, and supporting M&E analytics and dashboard products using Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Excel or similar applications.
Ability to effectively communicate in English both in verbal (i.e., day-to-day discussions, team meetings) and written (requirements and design specifications) form, as well as an overall ability to be clear and concise in all communications.
Strong analytic curiosity and innovative problem-solving skills using a system thinking approach.
Demonstrable ability to work both independently and in a dynamic, cross-functional team structure.
Demonstrable ability to establish and maintain working relationships across all departments and levels of the organization.

Preferred Skills

Advanced level experience of CommCare application development and Power BI dashboard development.
Advanced level experience of MS Excel including developing macros and consolidating data from multiple Excel spreadsheets.
Experience working with SQL, DAX, Power Query and similar Microsoft data transformation and manipulation languages.
Experience providing support for enterprise-level platforms with significant numbers of users across global time zones and varying IT infrastructure.
Direct experience implementing programs or M&E in an international NGO context.
Ability to speak, read and understand one other language including French, Spanish and/or Arabic is a strong advantage.

Working Environment:

Standard office working environment or remote work.
Some international travel may be required for capacity support visits.

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November 2, 2024
Senior Grants and Business Development Coordinator

The Purpose of the Role:
The East Africa Region has a portfolio of humanitarian relief, post-crisis recovery, and development programs currently in the following countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda.
Where additional support is required by the countries in the region, the Senior Grants and Business Development Coordinator is deployed to work as part of the grants, partnerships and/or program teams in country offices. This could include acting as a temporary member of the grants, partnerships and/or program team (e.g., as Grants Coordinator), or to provide surge support to assist in the development of proposals as well as donor reports, and to perform general grants management functions during peak periods.
Scope and Authority:
No line management. However, when the position is deployed there could be line management responsibilities depending on the function performed in-country.
Key Working Relationships:
The Senior Grants and Business Development Coordinator reports to the Senior Program & Award Advisor (SPAA) and works closely with Grants, Partnerships, Programs and Finance teams in country, as well as other members of the Regional Program and Award Support (RPAS) team, and other AMU team members, as well as country office and regional staff. When deployed, the Regional Grants and Business Development Coordinator will also be accountable to the relevant line manager in the respective country program,
Key Responsibilities:

The Senior Grants and Business Development Coordinator is deployed (remote or in-person) to support specific country programs or the RPAS team, and may be responsible for the following, as assigned:

Proposal development

Work closely with country programs to support specific proposal development coordination and tasks, such as developing proposal work plans, writing non-technical sections, consolidating and editing written inputs, developing annexes, writing budget narratives, and other tasks as needed, providing additional bandwidth, or backfilling for country grants staff when needed to support these processes.
Act as proposal development lead, writer and/or coordinator, as identified by country programs and the regional team.
Facilitate design sessions in coordination with country grants teams with key country program, partners, regional and HQ teams, and ensure proposal design is in line with the country program SAP.
Liaise with the AMU’s global Business Development and Regional Program and Award Support Teams to ensure proposals are of high quality, meet internal and donor standards and are submitted on time to the donor.
When in-country and in coordination with the DAM and the Senior/Program Development Advisors (S/PDA), support the country team in the cultivation of donor relationships at the country level and support country offices in the capture and pre-positioning for upcoming BD opportunities.

Awards management and compliance

Work with country teams to develop donor reports and other award deliverables (e.g., workplans, M&E plans) and ensure they are high quality, coherent, accurate and submitted on time in accordance with donor and IRC internal requirements, providing additional bandwidth, or backfilling for country grants staff when needed to support these processes.
Manage and/or support agreement and amendment/modification reviews and negotiations, and support award close-out, as needed.
Provide technical guidance on donor rules and regulations to country team to ensure compliance.
Proactively raise potential compliance issues to country team and keep senior management and regional team informed of any projected inabilities to meet contractual obligations and of spend rates/significant budget variances.
Monitor and support the use of award management tools such as monthly financial reports, procurement plans, and activity plans amongst program teams to ensure accurate tracking of implementation and timely alerts to potential challenges/obstacles. Where support is required, act as focal point in facilitating the review of donor deliverables and approvals by technical advisors and other relevant persons at HQ and/or the region.
Participate in and support the coordination of country program’s project cycle meetings, as well as donor and partner meetings, as required.

Partnerships

Where necessary, support the management and implementation of partnership responsibilities including partner identification for positioning or proposal development processes, due diligence, partnership agreement package development and reviews, partnership agreement amendments and close-out in line with the IRC’s partnership management system’s (PEERS) and relevant donor requirements.
Support country programs to strengthen existing systems and structures around PEERS implementation in-country and provide coaching and mentoring to country teams for a deeper understanding and effective implementation of PEERS.

Training/capacity building and regional/global initiatives

Contribute to the development of training materials/modules, and adapt and contextualize training resources and materials to respond to in-country needs.
Train and support country program teams on reporting, donor compliance, proposal development, and award and sub-award management (i.e., PCM and PEERS).
Contribute to contextualizing global/regional initiatives (such as PEERS, PCM, Gender Equality Diversity and Inclusion, etc.), and their roll-out within country programs.
Support country programs in the use of Project Cycle Meetings (PCM) guidance and provide capacity building to the teams for effective implementation.
Train and onboard new Grants, Partnerships and other team members within country programs, as needed.
Support and facilitate (as appropriate) regional and country program PEERS related trainings.
Capture best practices and lessons learned and support cross-learning opportunities across the region and globally.
Contribute to country program SAP development and implementation, or other strategic initiatives, as requested.

Regional support

When not deployed, cover and provide surge support for other positions within the Regional Program and Award Support team or targeted support to different country programs.

PERSON SPECIFICATION
Essential
Skills, Knowledge, and Qualifications:

Degree in international development/affairs, public administration, social sciences or related subject
5-7 years’ experience working with non-governmental organizations in the area of program development, grants management, and/or project management; preferably in the region
Successful experience developing projects, writing proposals, and developing budgets for USG, United Nations, and/or European donors, and with partner organizations
Experience working in portfolio or grant management in humanitarian/conflict or post-conflict settings
Fluent English written and verbal communication skills
Enhanced interpersonal skills and ability to work in a diverse team setting
Ability and willingness to travel to across the region (up to 60% of the time)
Demonstrated ability to prioritize high volumes of work to meet tight deadlines.

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November 2, 2024
VPRU Measurement Advisor VPRU MEAL Specialist Senior Director CRRD People & Culture Deputy Director, Inclusive Learning Deputy Director, Leadership Development Senior Program Support Manager, Private Partnerships – East Africa Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) Manager Business Development Officer ERICC Programme Manager

Job Overview:

The Violence Prevention and Response Technical Unit (VPRU) provides dynamic support to IRC’s country offices on protection programming—including direct technical assistance to country program staff—ensuring innovation, promotion of standards, and improvements for all protection programming implemented by the organization. This includes work across the streams of women’s protection and empowerment (WPE), child protection (CP), and protection rule of law (PRoL), as well as cross-cutting/integrated protection approaches.
As part of VPRU’s MEAL team, the VPRU MEAL Advisor provides critical support to help systematize VPRU monitoring systems, strengthen quality and alignment of our global data, and build a team culture of collaborative learning and reflection. As part of this role, the VPRU MEAL Advisor will work closely with the IRC Measurement Unit and peers to directly support, manage and coordinate key activities related to global monitoring systems and data quality, such as VPRU’s Annual Statistics processes, Core Indicator revisions and socialization, Program Indicator Dashboard rollout, data toolkit development, etc. Beyond data collection systems and quality, the Advisor will also work with protection country- and regional-facing colleagues to strengthen internal team MEAL comfort, capacity, and guidance to analyze, interpret, and meaningfully use different types of data across VPRU’s global programming (in close collaboration with the VPRU Senior MEAL Advisor). In addition to these cross-cutting tasks, the Advisor may also support MEAL activities for a limited number of VPRU-led projects.
The Advisor will work closely with the VPRU MEAL team, VPRU technical leadership and technical advisors (TAs), and country program teams as they strengthen MEAL systems and promote consistency, quality, reflection, and use across IRC’s global protection data.

Major Responsibilities:
Lead Systematization, Quality Review, and Use of Protection Data Related to Country Programs (primary role)

Lead and coordinate VPRU’s engagement in the Annual Statistics process, including liaising between the IRC Measurement Unit, VPRU TAs, and country programs on preparation, training, data quality review, and data analysis and reflection processes
Update and streamline IRC Core Indicators for protection across sectors (in collaboration with senior technical leadership), including (i) development and refining of any new protection indicators and frameworks and (ii) supporting socialization, uptake, and use of Core Indicators with VPRU team
Develop, refine, and validate new and existing monitoring tools and approaches for key indicators
Support rollout and socialization of IRC Program Indicator Dashboards among VPRU colleagues, including support to TAs on related interpretation and decision-making with country teams
Lead development and rollout of data toolkits for specific protection interventions with the IRC Measurement Unit (MU), including drafting of select toolkits
Provide ongoing training and capacity building with protection colleagues – both within VPRU and with country programs, as needed – on core protection MEAL competencies, tools, different types of data, analysis, interpretation, and meaningful use of data for decision making
Collaborate with VPRU colleagues to identify further approaches to strengthen global data quality, triangulate different types of data, and explore how data can be used for protection-focused advocacy, communication, and programmatic decisions

Provide Ongoing Direct Technical Support to VPRU Projects

Independently lead and manage MEAL activities for a limited number of VPRU-led grants, while working closely with VPRU technical advisors (TAs), specialists, and MEAL staff. We currently anticipate this role will support a single project for FY24 on Protection Case Management

Support Broader Learning Strategies, Guidance, and Resources for VPRU MEAL

Provide ad hoc support to other VPRU team members for discrete MEAL-related tasks, as needed
Support the creation and rollout of core MEAL guidance and resources for VPRU teams
Lead and track against relevant components of VPRU MEAL’s strategic workplan
Lead and contribute to MEAL technical sections of business development
Represent VPRU MEAL on external meetings, working groups, and other platforms, as needed
Contribute to VPRU’s anti-racism commitments

Job Requirements:

A minimum of 6 years of experience in humanitarian, international development or similar fields working or researching gender-based violence, child protection, protection rule of law, or relevant technical areas.
At least 3-5 years of experience leading protection-specific MEAL activities, preferably in humanitarian contexts. May substitute protection programming experience for some protection-specific MEAL experience.
Strong interpersonal skills and collaborative approach: able to successfully work with, facilitate discussion among, and build trust with diverse teams and across diverse contexts, including senior technical leaders
Strong understanding of protection data monitoring and evaluation considerations in low resource and humanitarian contexts
Demonstrated MEAL expertise across the data life cycle – with a particular emphasis on strong data collection, management, analysis, and interpretation skills – for multiple types of data
Ability to generate high quality MEAL deliverables that demonstrate attention to detail, strong understanding of data and protection best practices, and are appropriate for diverse end user(s)
Strong facilitation and training experience, with ability to synthesize and share information and build team capacity in ways that are accessible for all. Includes experience facilitating data interpretation and/or reflection sessions.
Experience developing and refining logframes, theories of change, and/or indicator drafting/revisions
Strong data visualization and dashboard development skills that demonstrate an understanding of how to use data to tell a compelling story
Strong organizational skills and ability to balance/set competing priorities across a diverse portfolio
Exceptional communications skills – strong active listening skills, constructive verbal and written skills, strong public presentation skills, and forward-thinking communication with collaborators
Flexible work demeanor: the ability to work well both in a dynamic, globally diverse team and independently, and able to take initiative and produce results as well as accept and integrate feedback
Experience leading and reviewing MEAL technical sections for business development
Experience with ODK-based mobile data collection applications (CommCare, Kobo, Ona, etc.) required
Fluency in English required
Committed to upholding anti-racism and diversity, equity, and inclusion principles

Preferred experience & skills:

Degree in in social work, social research, international development, public health, or related fields is highly preferred, or a combination of a formal education and commensurate experience. A concentration in monitoring & evaluation will be an asset.
Demonstrated understanding of feminist/equitable/collaborative approaches to data and learning
Experience with digital data visualization/analysis platforms or software (e.g. PowerBI) strongly preferred
French, Spanish and/or Arabic language skills preferred

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Innovation Strategy Lead Consultancy – Research Assistants Monitoring & Evaluation Officer

The Innovation Strategy Lead will help Airbel teams develop strategies to take projects from idea to scale. The role will lead teams to define a vision, build a strategic roadmap, and develop an operational plan. The Innovatoin Strategy Lead will also play an essential role in developing quantitative modeling to drive critical decisions across the Airbel team.

Key Responsibilities:
Work with Global Research and Innovation Priorities (GRIPs) within Airbel to create and drive their strategic roadmaps and operational plans.

Drive strategy and strong execution for teams, in line with their strategic roadmaps so that they can collectively make rapid progress against an ambitious vision. Work in this area will entail deep analysis of key challenges, quantitative problem sizing, client segmentation, pathways to scale, and assessments/mitigation of key risks.
Develop operational plans that include budget, hiring, and timelines to structure team’s activities in accordance to strategy.
Develop effective and efficient processes to bring together key decision-makers and stakeholders and align them towards driving forward key actions and decisions.
Guide teams on pivoting and adjusting strategy as needed; work with team leads to continually assess the strategy against team opportunities, constraints, challenges, and external environment.
Articulate clear funding needs based on what is needed to implement strategic roadmaps; draft fundraising proposals when relevant, in collaboration with colleagues

Grow our team’s use of data-driven, quantitative modeling to drive critical decisions at Airbel and through the broader IRC.

Develop a consistent, repeatable approach to quantitative modeling to improve our ability to estimate size of client need across countries and programming areas. Work in partnership with country teams to project potential impact and scale for key interventions or opportunity areas.
Create an approach to visualizing data and insights from quantitative models that allow teams to understand implications of the model developed and make effective and efficient decisions on pathways to pursue.
Lead the operationalization of this new vision for how we can better leverage quantitative models to size client needs and respond accordingly; this entails working with many stakeholders, iterating on approach, and working rapidly to put feedback into action.

Provide strategy support to projects designing, testing and scaling new innovations across Airbel.

Support teams to effectively frame problems and possible solutions, to size and segment markets, to generate data-backed hypotheses, create project plans to execute, and analyze data from prototypes and pilots.
This role is a great fit for someone who likes developing new approaches to complex problems, who loves iterating ideas with colleagues, and can jump between high-level strategy and the details of operationalizing.

Job Requirements
Education and Work Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent professional experience.
5-8 years of experience in conducting strategic planning, leading on qualitative and quantitative analysis to define strategic pathways, and operationalizing plans.

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

Demonstrated experience generating data-driven models to make strategic decisions.
Ability to solve complex-problems, bring together quantitative modeling and qualitative analysis, and distill data into actionable insights.
Able to engage and align an interdisciplinary team, communicate with senior leaders, and facilitate a group to make effective decisions.
Ability to work well in a distributed, multicultural, fast paced environment.
Familiarity with quantitative and qualitative research methodologies applied in medicine and social science.
Experience in humanitarian setting or development contexts and/or an international NGO.

Preferred Requirements:

Experience driving strategy at either a top tier strategy consulting firm, in the strategy development function of a global organization, or in a strategy role at a startup.
Fluency in French and/or Arabic.

Working Environment

Standard work office environment
Up to 25% travel possible

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