The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world’s largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. A force for humanity, IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you’re a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future.
Darfur remains a highly complex humanitarian context characterized by ongoing conflict, large-scale displacement, restricted humanitarian access, and acute protection risks. Women and girls face heightened exposure to gender-based violence (GBV), including conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), with limited availability of safe, confidential, and quality services.
Job Overview/Summary
The WPE Senior Manager provides senior-level operational leadership and technical oversight for all Women’s Protection & Empowerment (WPE) programming implemented in North Darfur. The position is field-based and responsible for overseeing direct implementation, supervising WPE teams, ensuring quality and compliance with IRC and global GBV standards, and coordinating closely with health, economic recovery and development, and other sectors. The role plays a critical function in maintaining North Darfur as a strategic operational hub and ensuring continuity and scale-up readiness of WPE services in a highly volatile emergencycontext.
Major Responsibilities:
The WPE Sr. Manager shall:
Program Leadership and oversight
• Provide overall leadership and oversight of WPE programming in North Darfur, ensuring safe survivor centered and contextually appropriate service delivery.
• Ensure high-quality implementation of GBV case management, PSS, referrals, and emergency response services, with a strong focus on CRSV.
• Translate country-level WPE strategies into effective field-level implementation plans.
• Adapt programming in response to evolving security, access, and displacement dynamics.
Quality Assurance & Information Management
• Ensure adherence to global GBV standards, IRC policies, and WPE SOPs.
• Oversee ethical and secure use of GBVIMS, including data quality, confidentiality, and trend analysis for operational decision-making.
• Ensure risk mitigation measures are integrated across all WPE activities.
Staff Supervision & Capacity Building
• Directly supervise WPE Officers, Case Workers, Outreach Workers, and other WPE staff based in North Darfur.
• Promote a supportive, accountable, and learning-oriented team culture.
• Lead recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and staff development in coordination with HR and senior management.
• Provide ongoing coaching, mentoring, and technical support, with attention to staff wellbeing and burnout prevention.
Coordination & Representation
• Represent IRC WPE programming in North Darfur in inter-agency coordination mechanisms, including GBV sub-cluster and Protection meetings.
• Maintain effective working relationships with health partners, local authorities, UN agencies, and national NGOs.
• Strengthen referral pathways and inter-sectoral integration at field level.
• Escalate operational challenges, protection trends, and access constraints to senior management.
Grant Management & Reporting
• Oversee implementation of WPE grants in North Darfur, ensuring alignment with approved work plans, budgets, and indicators.
• Track expenditures in coordination with Finance and Operations to support timely and compliant implementation.
• Contribute to donor and internal reporting, ensuring accuracy and quality of field-level inputs.
Program Development & Scale-Up Readiness
• Support proposal development, revisions, and budgeting for North Darfur-based WPE programming.
• Identify emerging needs, gaps, and opportunities for expansion or adaptation of services.
• Support preparedness for scale-up or rapid response in response to new displacement or access opportunities.
Partnerships
• Lead and manage partnerships with local and national NGOs and service providers in North Darfur, ensuring coordinated, survivor-centered GBV programming aligned with IRC standards, safeguarding, and agreed workplans.
• Provide technical oversight and capacity strengthening to partners through mentoring, joint monitoring, and supportive supervision, particularly in GBV case management, referrals, PSS, and ethical information management.
• Monitor partner performance and manage risks, ensuring timely reporting, quality service delivery, and effective integration within GBV referral pathways and inter-
Safety, Security & Duty of Care
• Monitor and assess safety and security risks affecting WPE teams in North Darfur.
• Ensure compliance with IRC security protocols and safeguarding policies.
• Promote a strong duty-of-care culture for all staff.
Other Duties
• Perform other duties as assigned to support IRC’s emergency response and protection objectives.
Requirements:
• Master’s degree or equivalent in public health, social sciences, gender studies, international development, or a related field.
• at least 3-5 years of experience in GBV/VAWG programming, including significant experience in emergency and conflict settings.
• Demonstrated experience managing field-based teams and direct implementation in insecure environments.
• Strong technical expertise in GBV case management, CRSV response, and survivor-centered programming.
• Experience using GBVIMS and ensuring ethical data management.
• Proven experience in grant implementation, reporting, and donor compliance.
• Strong leadership, communication, and coordination skills.
• Ability to work under pressure in volatile contexts.
• Fluency in English required; Arabic strongly preferred.
KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:
This position is supervised by the WPE Coordinator and will supervise full WPE team of (4 staff members)
Internal: WPE Technical Unit, Grants, Finance, Supply Chain, HR
External: Donors, UN agencies, government and local authorities, international and national NGOs, community stakeholders
PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS
All International Rescue Committee workers must adhere to the core values and principles outlined in IRC Way – Standards for Professional Conduct. Our Standards are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Safeguarding, Conflicts of Interest, Fiscal Integrity, and Reporting Wrongdoing and Protection from Retaliation. IRC is committed to take all necessary preventive measures and create an environment where people feel safe, and to take all necessary actions and corrective measures when harm occurs. IRC builds teams of professionals who promote critical reflection, power sharing, debate, and objectivity to deliver the best possible services to our clients.
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