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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, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. IRC has been working in Ethiopia since 1999 and is implementing coordinated, community-managed programs aimed at improving the quality of lives and recovery of livelihood of the disaster-affected population, including host communities, through promoting individual participation, strengthening institutions, and emergency response.

Position overview

As a member of the IRC Ethiopia Senior Management Team, the Deputy Director, Emergencies (DDE) will provide leadership and strategic direction to all aspects of IRC’s emergency response programs, those implemented directly and those implemented by partners. The DDE will manage IRC’s emergency team and two donor funded emergency rapid response mechanisms, working with national and international partners.

Specific responsibilitiesinclude, but are not limited to:

Rapid Response Mechanisms

  • Lead IRC’s emergency rapid response funding mechanisms, encompassing direct responses by IRC and responses implement by partners.
  • Lead on the selection of partners to implement projects funded by rapid response mechanisms, including development and application of partner/project selection criterion and the review and appraisal of partner’s response proposals.
  • Ensure adherence to IRC’s policies on monitoring actions funded by rapid response mechanisms,
  • Work closely with the Steering Committees of the IRC managed rapid response mechanisms.
  • Ensure response funding mechanisms donors and stakeholders are proactively kept informed of developments related to the mechanisms and the operating environment.
  • Identify response gaps and ensure the rapid response mechanisms respond in a timely manner and supports the implementation of contextualized emergency responses.
  • Lead on the development of new proposals and on the modification of existing awards.

Coordination, trigger monitoring and mobilizing

  • Lead coordination with the UN clusters, humanitarian forums, working groups, and the government.
  • Ensure close coordination with other emergency response funding mechanisms operating in Ethiopia.
  • Ensure that IRC is represented in all relevant emergency forums, working groups and donor meetings.
  • Lead on the development and renewal of trigger thresholds for response, based on most likely scenarios.
  • Identify gaps in emergency response and as appropriate mobilize resources to respond.
  • Coordinate with Director for Programs and Deputy Director for Grants and Partnerships to ensure that all aspects of the program cycle, including assessment, project design and field monitoring and donor reporting, are appropriately technically supported.

Partnership

  • Collaborate with the Partnership Unit to conduct NGO partner identification, vetting and selection in accordance with IRC Partnership Excellence for Equality and Results System (PEERS) procedures.
  • Supervise the submission of partner’s proposals for donor review, ensure the proposals are in line with the donor’s requirements and expectations.
  • Ensure monitoring of partners performance through, regular meetings / check-ins, review of project technical and financial reports and field monitoring visits.

Direct interventions

  • Lead the IRC emergency response as emergencies arise, including deploying to support assessments, implementation, and monitoring.
  • Adhere to (and update, as needed) the IRC’s emergency preparedness and response priorities, ensuring that programming is in line with IRC Ethiopia’s Strategy Action Plan.
  • Collaborate with program technical teams, Grants and Finance, to ensure projects are designed based on sound assessments to address the identified needs and take into consideration best practice and lessons learnt.
  • Oversee the implementation of the IRC emergency response programs and ensure that stated goals and objectives are met in a timely manner and deliver agreed outputs/outcomes.
  • Collaborate with Supply Chain to ensure the timely propositioning of relief items.

Monitoring

  • Collaborate with the MEAL Department to ensure ongoing monitoring and active engagement with feedback/accountability mechanism.
  • Facilitate knowledge and data management, including identification and documentation of lessons learned.
  • A continual focus on adapting projects to reflect lessons learned on earlier intervention and changes to on-the-ground realities to maximize program quality.
  • Ensure high quality and timely donor reporting.

Qualifications

  • 6 plus years related experience with Postgraduate or with first degree, respectively.
  • At least 5 years demonstrated experience at a senior level, in emergency response program management, coordination in emergencies, and emergency program design
  • Oversees/international experience with an international NGO is advantageous.
  • Demonstrated experience, at a senior level, in emergency response program management, coordination in emergencies, and emergency program design.
  • Demonstrated experience in managing large, multi-sectoral grants, including monitoring budgetary spending and devising course-correction strategies, indicator tracking, detailed donor and internal reporting, coordinating clear program modifications, and sub-granting.
  • Demonstrated experience in representation and ability to interact professionally with donor and external program stakeholders.
  • Proven ability to convene/chair high profile meetings and ability to productively interact with a wide range of organizations.
  • Demonstrated experience in managing and capacity strengthening of staff.
  • Strong ability to communicate concisely and with impact in English.
  • Consistent track record of proactively identifying and communicating potential problems and proposing solutions.
  • Must be able to function effectively in a sophisticated work environment and to set appropriate priorities and deal effectively with competing priorities and pressure.

Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.

IRC is an equal employment 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 or disability.

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

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, gender-sensitive security protocols, and other supportive benefits and allowances

Equal Opportunity Employer: 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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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, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. IRC has been working in Ethiopia since 1999 and is implementing coordinated, community-managed programs aimed at improving the quality of lives and recovery of livelihood of the disaster-affected population, including host communities, through promoting individual participation, strengthening institutions, and emergency response.

Position overview

As a member of the IRC Ethiopia Senior Management Team, the Deputy Director, Emergencies (DDE) will provide leadership and strategic direction to all aspects of IRC’s emergency response programs, those implemented directly and those implemented by partners. The DDE will manage IRC’s emergency team and two donor funded emergency rapid response mechanisms, working with national and international partners.

Specific responsibilitiesinclude, but are not limited to:

Rapid Response Mechanisms

  • Lead IRC’s emergency rapid response funding mechanisms, encompassing direct responses by IRC and responses implement by partners.
  • Lead on the selection of partners to implement projects funded by rapid response mechanisms, including development and application of partner/project selection criterion and the review and appraisal of partner’s response proposals.
  • Ensure adherence to IRC’s policies on monitoring actions funded by rapid response mechanisms,
  • Work closely with the Steering Committees of the IRC managed rapid response mechanisms.
  • Ensure response funding mechanisms donors and stakeholders are proactively kept informed of developments related to the mechanisms and the operating environment.
  • Identify response gaps and ensure the rapid response mechanisms respond in a timely manner and supports the implementation of contextualized emergency responses.
  • Lead on the development of new proposals and on the modification of existing awards.

Coordination, trigger monitoring and mobilizing

  • Lead coordination with the UN clusters, humanitarian forums, working groups, and the government.
  • Ensure close coordination with other emergency response funding mechanisms operating in Ethiopia.
  • Ensure that IRC is represented in all relevant emergency forums, working groups and donor meetings.
  • Lead on the development and renewal of trigger thresholds for response, based on most likely scenarios.
  • Identify gaps in emergency response and as appropriate mobilize resources to respond.
  • Coordinate with Director for Programs and Deputy Director for Grants and Partnerships to ensure that all aspects of the program cycle, including assessment, project design and field monitoring and donor reporting, are appropriately technically supported.

Partnership

  • Collaborate with the Partnership Unit to conduct NGO partner identification, vetting and selection in accordance with IRC Partnership Excellence for Equality and Results System (PEERS) procedures.
  • Supervise the submission of partner’s proposals for donor review, ensure the proposals are in line with the donor’s requirements and expectations.
  • Ensure monitoring of partners performance through, regular meetings / check-ins, review of project technical and financial reports and field monitoring visits.

Direct interventions

  • Lead the IRC emergency response as emergencies arise, including deploying to support assessments, implementation, and monitoring.
  • Adhere to (and update, as needed) the IRC's emergency preparedness and response priorities, ensuring that programming is in line with IRC Ethiopia's Strategy Action Plan.
  • Collaborate with program technical teams, Grants and Finance, to ensure projects are designed based on sound assessments to address the identified needs and take into consideration best practice and lessons learnt.
  • Oversee the implementation of the IRC emergency response programs and ensure that stated goals and objectives are met in a timely manner and deliver agreed outputs/outcomes.
  • Collaborate with Supply Chain to ensure the timely propositioning of relief items.

Monitoring

  • Collaborate with the MEAL Department to ensure ongoing monitoring and active engagement with feedback/accountability mechanism.
  • Facilitate knowledge and data management, including identification and documentation of lessons learned.
  • A continual focus on adapting projects to reflect lessons learned on earlier intervention and changes to on-the-ground realities to maximize program quality.
  • Ensure high quality and timely donor reporting.

Qualifications

  • 6 plus years related experience with Postgraduate or with first degree, respectively.
  • At least 5 years demonstrated experience at a senior level, in emergency response program management, coordination in emergencies, and emergency program design
  • Oversees/international experience with an international NGO is advantageous.
  • Demonstrated experience, at a senior level, in emergency response program management, coordination in emergencies, and emergency program design.
  • Demonstrated experience in managing large, multi-sectoral grants, including monitoring budgetary spending and devising course-correction strategies, indicator tracking, detailed donor and internal reporting, coordinating clear program modifications, and sub-granting.
  • Demonstrated experience in representation and ability to interact professionally with donor and external program stakeholders.
  • Proven ability to convene/chair high profile meetings and ability to productively interact with a wide range of organizations.
  • Demonstrated experience in managing and capacity strengthening of staff.
  • Strong ability to communicate concisely and with impact in English.
  • Consistent track record of proactively identifying and communicating potential problems and proposing solutions.
  • Must be able to function effectively in a sophisticated work environment and to set appropriate priorities and deal effectively with competing priorities and pressure.

Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.

IRC is an equal employment 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 or disability.

Professional Standards: The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons

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, gender-sensitive security protocols, and other supportive benefits and allowances

Equal Opportunity Employer: 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.

2022-11-04

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