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Women’s Protection and Empowerment Technical Advisor
Position Overview
- As the WPE Technical Advisor for Central Africa, alongside another WPE TA, you are responsible for ensuring high quality technical assistance to one IRC region comprised of 6 country programs. 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 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 WPE and VPRU 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 technical assistance to GBV programs, and with a deep understanding of the cultural, societal, and political contexts in at least one of the regions where IRC operates.
Work Experience
- A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in implementing and/or managing GBV 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, 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.
- Highly proficient in Microsoft Office suite.
- Ability to manage and work through change in a proactive and positive manner.
Education: Bachelor’s Degree in GBV, gender, public health, social work, humanities or a relevant field required, Master’s Degree preferred.
Language Skills: Excellent spoken and written French is essential. Proficiency in English language strongly preferred.
Key Working Relationships: This position reports to the WPE Senior Technical Adviser in VPRU, based in London. This position may potentially supervise occasional consultants and/or interns. Regular communication with other VPRU colleagues, Economic Recovery and Development, Education, Governance and Health Technical Unit staff, regional and country program teams, awards management and grants management staff, and other internal stakeholders.
Project Director, Delivery Systems for Scale
- The Project Director, Delivery Systems for Scale, will lead the management of the delivery model for scaling the treatment of wasting, growing to 13 countries over the next five years. They will be responsible for driving internal coordination, leading a roster of technical specialists, and supporting country-based advisors, national partners and IRC country teams scaling wasting treatment.
- This is a high-visibility, high-impact role to bring together many stakeholders and decision-makers across multiple countries towards ambitious targets. We’re seeking an entrepreneurial leader with a background in scaling malnutrition treatment programs through health systems, technical expertise, and experience in effective, efficient coordination.
Key Responsibilities
Lead the Delivery System for Scale Initiative
- Define and maintain the vision and document learning and results achieved to date of the IRC’s Delivery System for Scale project. Develop recommendations and adaptations in partnership with relevant internal and external collaborators to design an effective initiative to support national scale efforts.
- Lead scoping of demand for in-country Delivery Advisor secondments to national institutions, aligned with the national scaling strategy for each country.
- Develop the Terms of Reference, scopes and coordination for each Delivery Advisor and ensure effective supervision and quality support to achieve results.
- Lead the design and implementation of a knowledge management system to capture and share lessons learned across countries.
- Support business development to identify new funding opportunities to extend the project.
- Represent IRC in global scaling group meetings and serve as a key resource to IRC staff seeking information on the project.
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Facilitate Country-level strategies for scaling up Malnutrition Treatment
- Develop the design toolkit and guidance for countries to develop a scaling-up strategy and an impactful model of delivery for wasting treatment.
- Advise on program modality and strategic partnerships based on how we can best support, complement and reinforce local systems to scale wasting treatment.
- Facilitate the development of country-specific wasting treatment scale strategies. Include a roadmap that defines a coherent plan for how to resource, sequence and optimize activities across all relevant teams.
- Provide guidance on setting accurate scale targets and support Nutrition Technical Advisors in setting ambitious targets that advance programmatic reach and increase transfer of capacity and influence to National Ministries of Health and partners.
Develop Advocacy Strategies that align with National Scaling Strategies
- Support national advocacy staff in new roles, including aligning strategies for evidence-based policy and practice change in line with each country’s strategic scaling plans.
- Provide nutrition subject matter expertise to national advocacy staff where needed, and identify where IRC can provide additional technical support to country-based staff.
- Support on hiring (interviewing, recruitment strategy, decision-making) and on-boarding as advocacy team brings on new national advocacy staff.
- Serve as the main link between the national nutrition advocacy advisors and the Delivery Advisors, ensuring alignment with country-specific scaling strategies.
Job Requirements
Education and Work Experience:
- Graduate degree in Public Health or Nutrition.
- 8-10 years’ experience required in project management and systems support on scaling up wasting treatment in countries where the IRC works.
- Must be an expert on Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM).
Demonstrated Skills And Competencies
- Experience developing and delivering high impact projects and/or research in the nutrition technical area.
- A keen sense of how to articulate ambitious, but achievable goals for nutrition projects that achieve results.
- An entrepreneurial and creative approach with grounded experience of converting ideas into projects and research.
- Experience leading interdisciplinary teams in complex, matrixed structures to successfully build and deliver products, services or service delivery mechanisms.
- Experience delivering successful projects in large institutions and challenging operating contexts.
- An understanding and commitment to impact, value and growth as key components of program design and delivery.
- Demonstrated experience with business development and donor/partner management.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills: able to facilitate effective collaboration in a multicultural environment maintaining a positive work environment
- Flexible work approach, proactive and demonstrated creativity: the ability to work productively remotely and in a team environment and the ability to problem solve creatively.
Language Skills: Fluency in English is required. Additional proficiency in French is preferred.