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Job Description

The IRC has been active in CAR since 2006 and has been implementing emergency response programs since early 2007. The IRC has three field offices in the north – Bocaranga, Kaga Bandoro, and in the south-east – Zemio, in addition to a central office in Bangui. Since 2007, it has built close relationships with local communities, community leaders, local authorities, and other local and international actors. Today, the IRC is one of the leading humanitarian actors implementing programs in health, women & child protection, and economic recovery & development. The IRC has demonstrated its ability to successfully implement health and protection programming, improving beneficiaries’ access to healthcare and providing survivors of violence with safe, confidential services to help them recover and reintegrate into their communities.

Summary:

The IRC Country Director for CAR oversees all programs implemented in CAR. The CD will maintain continuity of humanitarian support in current operational areas in the country, while exploring the possibility of expanding the geographic scope as conditions allow and in collaboration with the regional office.

The CD is responsible for overall leadership and supervisory management of IRC staff, programming, and operations, including program quality and accountability, stewardship of resources, staff safety and security, performance management and external representation.

You will be directly responsible for the program’s overall coordination and strategic direction; providing oversight and coaching for directly supervised senior managers; leading country program teams to identify, design and deliver responsive, high-quality programs; ensuring efficient management of public grants and private funds for results, compliance, and focused, timely reporting; and oversight of financial management and compliance systems.

Responsibilities:

Leadership and Representation

• Lead the country program by maintaining open and professional relations with colleagues, promoting a strong team spirit, oversight and resources to enable staff to perform, and model and promote the IRC values.

• Develop and implement strategies that result in strong representation with: government ministries at various levels; UN OCHA; donors including OFDA, DFID, SIDA, ECHO, UNICEF and other international organizations; international and local NGOs; and networks such as the CCO (Comite de Coordination pour les ONGIs).

• Develop and maintain a high level of understanding of donor priorities and planned funding streams.

• Initiate and sustain strong, mutually beneficial and authentic partnerships with local organizations.

• Seek out and pursue opportunities to raise the profile of the work of IRC and its partners, as well as the lives and the needs of the people IRC seeks to serve.

• Play a leadership role in efforts to improve humanitarian coordination.

• Lead country program collaboration with colleagues to deliver regional programming and advocacy.

• Ensure leadership and management processes enable the IRC to effectively adapt to contextual changes and fully make use of opportunities to expand humanitarian access and assistance.

Strategic Direction, Quality, and Growth

• Ensure the strategic vision and direction of the country program is aligned with global strategy to serve people with responsive, high-quality and accountable programming, and secure the resources necessary for realization.

• Ensure the strategy action plan is of quality, implemented and guides decision-making.

• Ensure quality through consistent use throughout the country program of: rigorous assessment, design, and proposal development and review processes; comprehensive monitoring & evaluation, accountability and learning systems; staff development investments; and partner organization capacity strengthening.

• Ensure the SMT delivers the leadership, management structures, staffing skills and approaches, and operational systems required to ensure a coherent ‘one IRC’ approach to achieve regional objectives.

Safety and Security Management

• Take primary responsibility for overall management for the country program.

• Oversee the management of all security issues, including appropriate response to emergency situations as they arise.

• Maintain a culture of safety throughout the country program, including trainings and briefings that prepare all country program staff for security incident prevention and response.

• Keep security, evacuation and contingency plans current and accessible to country program staff.

• Maintain close coordination and communication with the Regional Safety and Security Advisor on relevant concerns and evolving issues that could adversely affect IRC staff or operations.

Staff Management, Learning and Development

• Oversee the management, coaching and development of national and international staff to build a diverse and inclusive team of skilled, committed and motivated staff. Coach, train, supervise and mentor direct-report staff, including communicating clear expectations, setting performance objectives, providing regular and timely positive and constructive performance feedback, and providing documented semi-annual performance reviews.

• Provide a measurable development plan including on-the-job learning with the aim of strengthening technical capacity, exchanging knowledge within the team and offering guidance on career paths.

• Hold high-quality meetings with each direct report on a regular and predictable basis.

• Approve and manage all time, attendance and leave requests of direct reports to ensure adequate departmental coverage.

• Promote and monitor staff care and well-being. Model healthy work-life balance practices. Support appropriate interventions in response to identified staff care needs of both national and international staff.

• Offer leadership support for successful adherence by all staff to IRC’s country, regional and Global standards.

• Work with regional HR staff to identify and implement recruitment and retention strategies.

• Undertake regular reviews of labor and salary markets in the area for the purpose of enhancing the competitiveness of the IRC’s overall compensation package for national staff.

Stewardship and Operational Management

• Drive operational excellence to achieve optimal efficiency and cost-effectiveness in all functions and operations of the country program.

• Understand and mitigate risks (financial, operational, programmatic, reputational etc.) for the IRC in CAR.

• Oversee the deployment and utilization of financial and operational policies, procedures, and systems to deliver compliance with IRC and donor requirements.

• Ensure responsiveness and appropriate levels of in-person and remote support to all offices, especially in the areas of HR, finance and supply chain.

• Maintain effective and coordinated budget monitoring processes for grant funds and discretionary funds.

• Seek opportunities to introduce efficiencies and eliminate redundancies in existing business processes.

Communications

• Model and encourage active practice of the principles of the “IRC Way – Global Standards for Professional Conduct” throughout the CAR country program.

• Maintain a healthy and empowering office environment that encourages open, honest and productive communication among IRC staff and with partner organizations.

• Maintain open communications with regional management staff, regional technical advisors, and HQ departmental staff.

Qualifications

You will have strong leadership abilities and interpersonal skills, and be able to deploy strong communications effectively, both internally and externally. You should enjoy developing networks to build partnerships and diversify program resources.

• Graduate degree in a relevant field.

• At least ten years of progressively responsible international work experience, including at least three years in a leadership role at the Country Director level of multi-site, multi-sectoral operations in a complex operating environment

• Prior experience working within organizational structures in transition.

• Experience working in conflict/post-conflict or disaster response situation.

• Professional fluency in written and spoken English and French.

Demonstrated Managerial/Leadership Competencies:

• Commitment to improving outcomes for populations affected by conflict and crisis.

• Experience building personal networks at a senior level, resulting in securing new opportunities for the organization.

• Demonstrated successful leadership and management experience with a multi-disciplinary, diverse and inclusive team in cross-cultural settings, including active mentoring and coaching.

• Effective in developing high-potential staff to achieve career growth and maximum contribution.

• Confirmed experience delivering suitable levels of oversight of a portfolio consisting of a variety of complex, high-value donor-funded projects.

• Opportunity-awareness. A successful innovative approach to unpredictable programming, operational, and funding contexts.

• Ability to represent program context, constraints, and successes to media, government, and other senior audiences.

Demonstrated Technical Skills:

• Experience managing security in a complex and rapidly changing security context.

• Confirmed ability to negotiate and work with partner organizations. Experience with organizational capacity strengthening and partnership building is helpful.

• Strong budget and fiscal oversight capacities.

• Extensive representation and fundraising success, including prior experience with European, US and international donors.

• Established capacity to handle stressful situations in a healthy, constructive manner.

• Ability to respond to multiple priorities in a timely manner, producing high-quality outcomes.

• Proficiency with the Microsoft Office Suite, especially Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

• Working knowledge of file sharing protocols such as Box, etc., an advantage.

Key Working Relationships

• Internal: Great Lakes Regional VP; Great Lakes regional team; other Great Lakes Country Directors; HQ departmental staff, as appropriate.

• External: Partner organizations, host country government officials, public and private donor agencies, international and national NGOs, UN agencies, foreign governments.

Professional Standards

The IRC and IRC workers adhere to the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way – Code of Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Accountability and Equality. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Harassment-Free Workplace, Fiscal Integrity, Anti-Retaliation, Combating Trafficking in Persons and several others.

Working Environment

This post is unaccompanied and includes: vacation leave, home leave, R&R, Health coverage, pension, housing, water, electricity, internet connectivity, and other generous benefits.

Gender Equality: IRC is committed to narrowing the gender gap in leadership positions. We offer benefits that provide an enabling environment for women to participate in our workforce including parental leave and other supportive benefits and allowances.

IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.

Since October 2012, the IRC has been responding to humanitarian needs of Nigerians. The IRC initially intervened in response to floods that affected over 7 million people across the country, destroying harvest and damaging homes. The IRC is currently implementing programs in Health, Protection, WASH, Nutrition, Food Security, and Women’s Protection and Empowerment (WPE) in Adamawa and Borno States in North-Eastern Nigeria.

The IRC is dedicated to making women and adolescent girls healthier from the earliest phase of acute crises (a target group most vulnerable during crisis) and implements evidence-based reproductive health interventions in line with the SPHERE-standard Minimum Initial Service Package for Reproductive Health in Crises (MISP). The goal is to ensure that the IRC’s health responses in emergencies include the core package of Reproductive Health (RH) services in its interventions.

The IRC’s Reproductive Health (RH) program is currently implementing (MISP) for RH in 4 health care centers in MMC and Jere LGAs and 1 IDP camp clinic. In addition the program is starting up an emergency mobile programming outside of these areas of Maiduguri in coordination with the WPE team. The focus of this program is to provide quality comprehensive RH and WPE services to conflict-affected women and girls in a timely manner. In addition to the mobile program, the WPE and RH joint mobile teams will be in charge of rapid assessments and rapid response. The mobile teams will be focused in the newly opened LGAs and emergency areas previously inaccessible due to conflict and insecurity. These teams will provide life-saving services to populations outside of Maiduguri, who have not had access to services in approximately 3 years.

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Job Description

The IRC has been active in CAR since 2006 and has been implementing emergency response programs since early 2007. The IRC has three field offices in the north – Bocaranga, Kaga Bandoro, and in the south-east – Zemio, in addition to a central office in Bangui. Since 2007, it has built close relationships with local communities, community leaders, local authorities, and other local and international actors. Today, the IRC is one of the leading humanitarian actors implementing programs in health, women & child protection, and economic recovery & development. The IRC has demonstrated its ability to successfully implement health and protection programming, improving beneficiaries’ access to healthcare and providing survivors of violence with safe, confidential services to help them recover and reintegrate into their communities.

Summary:

The IRC Country Director for CAR oversees all programs implemented in CAR. The CD will maintain continuity of humanitarian support in current operational areas in the country, while exploring the possibility of expanding the geographic scope as conditions allow and in collaboration with the regional office.

The CD is responsible for overall leadership and supervisory management of IRC staff, programming, and operations, including program quality and accountability, stewardship of resources, staff safety and security, performance management and external representation.

You will be directly responsible for the program's overall coordination and strategic direction; providing oversight and coaching for directly supervised senior managers; leading country program teams to identify, design and deliver responsive, high-quality programs; ensuring efficient management of public grants and private funds for results, compliance, and focused, timely reporting; and oversight of financial management and compliance systems.

Responsibilities:

Leadership and Representation

• Lead the country program by maintaining open and professional relations with colleagues, promoting a strong team spirit, oversight and resources to enable staff to perform, and model and promote the IRC values.

• Develop and implement strategies that result in strong representation with: government ministries at various levels; UN OCHA; donors including OFDA, DFID, SIDA, ECHO, UNICEF and other international organizations; international and local NGOs; and networks such as the CCO (Comite de Coordination pour les ONGIs).

• Develop and maintain a high level of understanding of donor priorities and planned funding streams.

• Initiate and sustain strong, mutually beneficial and authentic partnerships with local organizations.

• Seek out and pursue opportunities to raise the profile of the work of IRC and its partners, as well as the lives and the needs of the people IRC seeks to serve.

• Play a leadership role in efforts to improve humanitarian coordination.

• Lead country program collaboration with colleagues to deliver regional programming and advocacy.

• Ensure leadership and management processes enable the IRC to effectively adapt to contextual changes and fully make use of opportunities to expand humanitarian access and assistance.

Strategic Direction, Quality, and Growth

• Ensure the strategic vision and direction of the country program is aligned with global strategy to serve people with responsive, high-quality and accountable programming, and secure the resources necessary for realization.

• Ensure the strategy action plan is of quality, implemented and guides decision-making.

• Ensure quality through consistent use throughout the country program of: rigorous assessment, design, and proposal development and review processes; comprehensive monitoring & evaluation, accountability and learning systems; staff development investments; and partner organization capacity strengthening.

• Ensure the SMT delivers the leadership, management structures, staffing skills and approaches, and operational systems required to ensure a coherent ‘one IRC’ approach to achieve regional objectives.

Safety and Security Management

• Take primary responsibility for overall management for the country program.

• Oversee the management of all security issues, including appropriate response to emergency situations as they arise.

• Maintain a culture of safety throughout the country program, including trainings and briefings that prepare all country program staff for security incident prevention and response.

• Keep security, evacuation and contingency plans current and accessible to country program staff.

• Maintain close coordination and communication with the Regional Safety and Security Advisor on relevant concerns and evolving issues that could adversely affect IRC staff or operations.

Staff Management, Learning and Development

• Oversee the management, coaching and development of national and international staff to build a diverse and inclusive team of skilled, committed and motivated staff. Coach, train, supervise and mentor direct-report staff, including communicating clear expectations, setting performance objectives, providing regular and timely positive and constructive performance feedback, and providing documented semi-annual performance reviews.

• Provide a measurable development plan including on-the-job learning with the aim of strengthening technical capacity, exchanging knowledge within the team and offering guidance on career paths.

• Hold high-quality meetings with each direct report on a regular and predictable basis.

• Approve and manage all time, attendance and leave requests of direct reports to ensure adequate departmental coverage.

• Promote and monitor staff care and well-being. Model healthy work-life balance practices. Support appropriate interventions in response to identified staff care needs of both national and international staff.

• Offer leadership support for successful adherence by all staff to IRC’s country, regional and Global standards.

• Work with regional HR staff to identify and implement recruitment and retention strategies.

• Undertake regular reviews of labor and salary markets in the area for the purpose of enhancing the competitiveness of the IRC’s overall compensation package for national staff.

Stewardship and Operational Management

• Drive operational excellence to achieve optimal efficiency and cost-effectiveness in all functions and operations of the country program.

• Understand and mitigate risks (financial, operational, programmatic, reputational etc.) for the IRC in CAR.

• Oversee the deployment and utilization of financial and operational policies, procedures, and systems to deliver compliance with IRC and donor requirements.

• Ensure responsiveness and appropriate levels of in-person and remote support to all offices, especially in the areas of HR, finance and supply chain.

• Maintain effective and coordinated budget monitoring processes for grant funds and discretionary funds.

• Seek opportunities to introduce efficiencies and eliminate redundancies in existing business processes.

Communications

• Model and encourage active practice of the principles of the “IRC Way – Global Standards for Professional Conduct” throughout the CAR country program.

• Maintain a healthy and empowering office environment that encourages open, honest and productive communication among IRC staff and with partner organizations.

• Maintain open communications with regional management staff, regional technical advisors, and HQ departmental staff.

Qualifications

You will have strong leadership abilities and interpersonal skills, and be able to deploy strong communications effectively, both internally and externally. You should enjoy developing networks to build partnerships and diversify program resources.

• Graduate degree in a relevant field.

• At least ten years of progressively responsible international work experience, including at least three years in a leadership role at the Country Director level of multi-site, multi-sectoral operations in a complex operating environment

• Prior experience working within organizational structures in transition.

• Experience working in conflict/post-conflict or disaster response situation.

• Professional fluency in written and spoken English and French.

Demonstrated Managerial/Leadership Competencies:

• Commitment to improving outcomes for populations affected by conflict and crisis.

• Experience building personal networks at a senior level, resulting in securing new opportunities for the organization.

• Demonstrated successful leadership and management experience with a multi-disciplinary, diverse and inclusive team in cross-cultural settings, including active mentoring and coaching.

• Effective in developing high-potential staff to achieve career growth and maximum contribution.

• Confirmed experience delivering suitable levels of oversight of a portfolio consisting of a variety of complex, high-value donor-funded projects.

• Opportunity-awareness. A successful innovative approach to unpredictable programming, operational, and funding contexts.

• Ability to represent program context, constraints, and successes to media, government, and other senior audiences.

Demonstrated Technical Skills:

• Experience managing security in a complex and rapidly changing security context.

• Confirmed ability to negotiate and work with partner organizations. Experience with organizational capacity strengthening and partnership building is helpful.

• Strong budget and fiscal oversight capacities.

• Extensive representation and fundraising success, including prior experience with European, US and international donors.

• Established capacity to handle stressful situations in a healthy, constructive manner.

• Ability to respond to multiple priorities in a timely manner, producing high-quality outcomes.

• Proficiency with the Microsoft Office Suite, especially Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

• Working knowledge of file sharing protocols such as Box, etc., an advantage.

Key Working Relationships

• Internal: Great Lakes Regional VP; Great Lakes regional team; other Great Lakes Country Directors; HQ departmental staff, as appropriate.

• External: Partner organizations, host country government officials, public and private donor agencies, international and national NGOs, UN agencies, foreign governments.

Professional Standards

The IRC and IRC workers adhere to the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way – Code of Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Accountability and Equality. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Harassment-Free Workplace, Fiscal Integrity, Anti-Retaliation, Combating Trafficking in Persons and several others.

Working Environment

This post is unaccompanied and includes: vacation leave, home leave, R&R, Health coverage, pension, housing, water, electricity, internet connectivity, and other generous benefits.

Gender Equality: IRC is committed to narrowing the gender gap in leadership positions. We offer benefits that provide an enabling environment for women to participate in our workforce including parental leave and other supportive benefits and allowances.

IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

2020-02-01

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