Job Vacancies at International Rescue Committee (IRC), Nigeria – 12 Positions

Requisition req19541
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Sector: Environmental Health
Employment Category: Consultant
Employment Type: Part-Time
Open to Expatriates: No

Background
Project’s Background:

• Founded in 1933, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive, recover, and rebuild their lives. At work today in more than 40 countries, the IRC restores safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.
• The conflict in North East Nigeria is in its 10th year and has seen over 2 million people displaced. IRC began working in Nigeria in October 2012 in response to a widespread flood disaster. Since then, IRC has expanded its program scope and size, with the aim of making the greatest possible contribution to meeting humanitarian needs in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states.
• IRC’s response includes integrated health, reproductive health and nutrition services, protection including women’s protection and empowerment services, child protection, environmental health, economic recovery and development, governance, and education. In 2015, IRC Nigeria developed a five year Strategy Action Plan which will be ended in March 2021 and had health and education as high-priority program areas.  The elaboration of the new country strategy action plan for   2021 – 2025 is currently in progress.
• The Environmental Health Department/Sector is instrumental and important as the IRC Nigeria seeks to prevent disease in achieving the health outcomes which is also a key underlying factor for other IRC outcomes. With the increasing demand and pressure on the quality and timely delivery of program activities, there is a significant need for building the capacity of the team in other to meet the needs of our clients in a professional and timely manner.
• GIS (ArcGIS) is one tool that is very relevant to the Environmental Health sector in other to achieve the Health outcome 8 – People are protected from water sanitation and hygiene related diseases, hence the need to build the team’s capacity.

Objective
Overall Objective:

• The key objective / importance of the GIS (ArcGIS)  to the EH/WASH sector is to provide learning on clear, evidence-based data collection and management for WASH projects as it adds significant value for WASH facilities monitoring and project reporting.

The Ccope of Work 

• The consultant will coach two groups of participants for a total of 8 days. The first group of 25 participants will be trained on the 6 - 9th of September 2021 while the second group with the same number of participants is scheduled for 13 - 16th September 2021. At the end of the workshop, participants should be  competent and equipped (with literature materials, applications and data) on the GIS aspects outlined below:

GIS Data Management for WASH:

• Collecting data in WASH context using GPS devices
• Using GPS utility software for managing and downloading and managing data
• Using Mobile Phones for GIS collecting data on WASH indicators
• Importing GPS data to Arc GIS and Quantum GIS
• Soft skills on key data analysis in EXCEL
• GIS Mapping of WASH indicators
• Creating new WASH indicators map layers using internal and local data
• Styling and symbolization
• Mapping resources/Project activities
• Facilitated practical exercises in map making and presentation using project’s data
• Spatially join and aggregate point data to create maps of different theme
• Building and coding the new variables
• Digitizing and scanning of maps to create a base map for WASH project area
• Case study: GIS in monitoring sustainable rural water supply

GIS and Remote Sensing as a Tool in Monitoring WASH Projects:

• Importing and projecting map layers for a local analysis
• Projecting maps for WASH-data analysis at different geographic scales
• Reducing GIS data from large coverage to an area of interest
• Cutting points of interest in image datasets
• Techniques of overlying GIS data
• Extracting subsets of GIS data for mapping
• Multi-Criteria analysis and its application in WASH
• Understanding map layers in GIS
• Composing a GIS layout from WASH indicators
• Bringing tabular data into a GIS (Excel, SPSS, Access etc.)
• Connecting visual map features and tabular data
• Selecting subsets of map features from geoprocessing
• Using data sorting records and labeling indicators to produce information
• Composing a map
• Case study: Use of GIS in siting suitable location for solid waste landfill

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Designing Maps for WASH Indicators:

• Designing and building numeric scales for mapping attributes
• Symbolizing numeric scales for points using size-graduated point markers
• Mapping the relationship of two variables
• Building professional map' layouts for presentations and reports
• Exporting map layouts as image files
• Exporting map layouts as PDF files
• GIS mapping of most at-risk populations (MARPS)
• Case study: GIS for WASH in emergency
• Case study: Using GIS in monitoring WASH in schools project

Online Publishing of Maps and GIS Outputs:

• Working with Google Maps and Fusion Tables to publish WASH output data
• Publishing WASH data into other web-based platforms
• Case study:  Applying Participatory GIS in Community-Led Total Sanitation

Delivery Method:

• The IRC recommends a mixed-methods approach that promotes hands-on, practical and applied learning. Consultants are advised to recommend the most appropriate approach for the assignment. Nevertheless, the final approach must include a clear evaluation of participants skill level before and after the workshop.

Qualifications
The IRC welcomes expressions of interest from seasoned consultants, individuals or firms in academia, research methods, WASH, shelter, or other related fields.
The Lead Consultants Should Possess:

• Master’s degree or higher in GIS, environmental sciences or geographical sciences, with advanced knowledge of GIS software, international relations or humanitarian work.
• Extensive experience in conducting similar workshops for humanitarian organizations specializing in environmental health programming.
• Excellent analytical, presentation and writing skills in English.

General Conditions:

• The consultant should be based in Abuja the venue of this workshop
• The consultant will conduct his/her work using his/her own computer and equipment.
• The total budget for the consultancy will include VAT as/if required by national regulations.
• Payment of consultant will be remitted upon satisfactory completion of agreed deliverables.

Application Closing Date
19th August, 2021.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Or
Candidates should send their applications to:

Aamir.Fida@rescue.org and

Joan.Wuya@rescue.org

using the job title as the subject of the mail.
Or
Applications should be submitted to:
Human Resource Coordinator,
The IRC Nigeria Country Program,
Plot 902, Olu Awotesu Street,
Jabi - Abuja.

Note
Proposal Details and Submission Time Frame:

• This consultancy assignment is anticipated to start on the 6th of September 2021. The entire exercise will last for 8 days (6 – 9 & 13 – 16 Sept 2021). The deadline for submission of the technical and financial proposals and accompanying documents is given above. Expression of interest applications should include:
• Technical proposal with clear understanding and interpretation of the ToR, including detailed tasks, recommended methodology summary and proposed schedule, relevant experience, how you meet the profile required and details of time required (maximum 5 pages)
• Financial proposal, including daily professional fee and any other associated costs for the assignment. The consultant should itemize all costs for the duration of assignment, lumped up costs will not be accepted in the financial proposal. All costs need to be clearly stated in the bid submission.
• CVs of prospective consultants.

Requisition req19538
Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Sector: Program Administration
Employment Category: Fixed-Term
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: Yes

Scope of work

• The Senior Program Coordinator (SPC) for health and governance outcome works closely and under the supervision of the Deputy Director of Programs (DDP) to design and deliver high quality, innovative programs in close coordination and collaboration with Deputy Director Field Management and Senior Program Coordinator, Safety, education and ERD outcomes.
• The role has a particular focus on driving strategy implementation, leading the technical coordinators in designing high-quality projects with particular attention to enhancing program integration, supporting expansion into newly accessible geographic areas, and increasing IRC’s work on an early recovery across the humanitarian and development nexus S/he will ensure timely and effective program delivery, coordination and technical coherence and support, monitoring, evaluation and accountability.
• The SPC will provide a focus on outcomes and client responsiveness, and will represent IRC programs to major stakeholders, relevant government authorities and other program partners.

Areas of Responsibilities
Program Quality and Development:

• Provide leadership to Program Technical Coordinators in setting priorities and delivering outcome-focused programs which align with the Nigeria Strategy Action Plan.
• Ensure that program design is evidence-based and uses theories of change that place crisis-affected people and their voice at the centre of IRC's response, and lead program integration to support this.
• With HQ-based Technical Advisers, ensure that program implementation is aligned to relevant standards and makes use of tools, systems and procedures that are in place.
• Work closely with the Senior Grants Coordinator and the Grants and Partnerships Team to shape concept papers and grant proposals for submission to donors.
• Work with the M&E coordinator to build and foster a culture of learning and reflection that uses data to design and adapt programs.
• Monitor changes in the context and ensures that IRC responds where necessary.
• Alongside our existing focus on humanitarian programming, analyze gaps and needs, and help to drive a new focus on early recovery programming in appropriate geographic areas, working across the humanitarian-development nexus.
• Support Program Coordinators in creating and maintaining up-to-date briefings, factsheets and updates for external stakeholders.

 Program Implementation:

• Provide leadership to program technical coordinators in ensuring effective grant start-up, implementation review and close-out meetings are planned and conducted in a timely manner with the full participation of all relevant stakeholders from programs and support teams, and that actions are taken as a result.
• Provide leadership for Program Coordinators in the timely and high-quality implementation of programs, and promote regular reviews - both internal and external - and other learning events.
• Provide support to the Country Emergency Team during the scale-up of a sudden onset humanitarian response and during the deployment phase
• Ensure program coordination, and that managers and technical coordinators for cross-cutting themes work together effectively according to program work plans.
• Conduct frequent field visits to all project sites for monitoring, quality control and program staff mentoring and coaching.
• Coordinate high-level reporting on country-level indicators such as beneficiary numbers, design for impact indicators, cluster data and other information as needed.
• Ensure that donor reports produced by the programs team effectively demonstrate the impact of IRC’s interventions.

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HR and Staff Management:

• Help to drive a culture of ambitious, responsible, and committed leadership amongst Sector Coordinators and other program leaders.
• Enhance the performance management for staff under your sectors, direct and indirect line management
• Support program staff through close attention to staff care, mentoring, and development.
• Create and sustain a work environment of mutual respect where team members strive to achieve excellence.
• Contribute to country team-building efforts, help team members identify problem-solving options and ensure the integration of all team members into relevant decision-making processes.

Representation and Advocacy:

• In coordination with the DDP/DDFM, actively develop and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders in Nigeria including local communities, donors, government actors, UN agencies, international and local NGOs, and other relevant actors.
• Ensure IRC active representation and participation in the relevant clusters/sectors coordination
• Develop strategic partnerships with local organizations.
• In coordination with the DDP and DDFM, assist in organizing donor visits by supporting staff in the smooth design and running of field visits.

Requirements
Essential:

• Master's Degree preferably in Health, Nutrition, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, International humanitarian law, International Development or Humanitarian Assistance
• Experience managing programs in a relevant technical area(s) that may include, health, reproduction health, Nutrition, and WASH n
• Should possess a minimum of 5 years of international assignments experiences in humanitarian and development work
• Experience managing humanitarian relief and/or transitional programs in areas affected by large scale displacements due to conflict and chronic food and nutritional insecurity
• Demonstrated experience in program management, project design and use of project design tools
• Demonstrated experience in supervising expatriate and national staff, and in mentoring of national staff and with a strong commitment to staff capacity development; Demonstrated qualities of leadership, sensitivity to cultural settings, communication skills, commitment, and sound judgment
• Aptitude to adapt to a different context regarding security, culture, climate or health issue, demonstrated by experience outside of the country of origin
• Demonstrated attention to detail, ability to follow procedures, meet deadlines, and work independently and cooperatively with team members.
• Willingness to travel in the field at least 50% of your time
• Commitment to women’s rights and IRC’s vision, mission and values, including sensitivity to cultural settings

Desirable:

• Experience in CTP programming

Specific Security Situation / Housing

• The Senior Program Coordinator will be based in Maiduguri, Borno, Nigeria with travel throughout the sites where IRC has a presence.
• The security situation in North-East Nigeria continues to be volatile with a security level at 3 (orange); candidates should be prepared to implement programming in insecure environments.
• This is a non-accompanied position, and the Senior Program Coordinator will live in shared housing.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• 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, and Anti-Retaliation.

Requisition ID: req19406
Location: Damaturu, Yobe
Sector: Child Protection
Employment Category: Fixed Term
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: No

Job Overview / Summary

• This position is responsible for coordinating and supervising activities at the sites, training community structures, supporting caseworkers and CP assistants and monitoring program implementation.
• They will also work closely with the CPIMS assistants/Officer and CP manager to ensure quality data collection and management, report writing and budget implementation.

Major Responsibilities

• Provide individual/technical support and supervision to caseworkers and CP assistants.
• Monitor all CP program implementation at the field level.
• Ensure regular communication with the CM manager for updates on achievements and challenges.
• Coordinate with other IRC sectors staff (e.g. WPE, Protection, Health and Livelihoods) at the field level to ensure an integrated approach to service delivery
• Work closely with the CBCPCs and supervise their weekly/monthly meetings and activities.
• Lead all quarterly safety audits/mappings.
• Conduct case audits every 3rd week of the month and reports to the CP Manager
• Provide input for weekly and staff activity reports.
• Work with the CPIMS team to produce verified data for reporting.
• Effectively communicate with other CP team members, government social workers and service providers to ensure beneficiaries are linked to required services.
• Regularly organize internal team meetings.
• Regularly organize and attend case management meetings at the field level.

Key Working Relationships:

• Position Reports to: The Child Protection Manager
• Position directly supervises:  Child protection assistants and caseworkers
• Indirect Reporting: The Child Protection Coordinator
• Other Internal and/or external contacts: describe the nature of departments or groups the position influences or requires support from to accomplish objectives.
• Internal: IRC sectors
• External: CPSS, PSWG .

Qualifications

• A minimum qualification of a Degree or HND in Social Works, Psychology, Education and any of the other Social Sciences or at least three 3 years experience in implementing child protection programs in humanitarian or development settings.
• Demonstrated understanding of working with children and particularly vulnerable children.
• Experience in supporting the delivery of psychosocial activities, emergency response, child protection case management including family tracing and reunification, and setting up child safeguarding mechanisms
• Demonstrated understanding of coaching and supervision/team management.
• Personal qualities: Team player, flexible, network-builder, time management and ability to handle pressure well.
• Fluency in English is required and in Hausa is preferred.

Working Environment:

• Damaturu is relatively safe.
• Access to basic social amenities and infrastructures are available.
• Frequent travel and relocation can be a requirement for this position.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• 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, and Anti-Retaliation.

Requisition ID: req19366
Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Sector: Monitoring & Evaluation
Employment Category: Consultant
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: No

Background
Project’s Background:

• The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive, recover, and gain control of their future. 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. IRC has been present in Nigeria since 2012 when it responded to flooding in Kogi state.  In early 2014, IRC opened a field office in Mubi town of Adamawa state in Northeast Nigeria followed by offices in Yola (Adamawa state) in November 2014 and Maiduguri (Borno state) in October 2015.
• The EUTF health system strengthening project is a three-year project, the IRC worked in partnership with the State Primary Health Care Development Agency (SPHCDA) and gradually strengthened health systems at the LGA level. As the government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are cooperating to respond to the current crisis, this is also the time to look beyond short-term life-saving interventions and think of how the health systems can be strengthened in each LGA in the long run. The IRC and SPHCDA are committed to building them back better and making them more resilient to overcome future crises. The project focused efforts and funding on health systems strengthening that support sustainable restoration of health services in the state. This initiative called for a WASH component as well, given the necessity to improve water, and sanitation infrastructure, and hygiene practices to prevent and control infections and water-borne disease outbreaks. Hence, the project captured the specific Objective #1: Restore basic Health, Nutrition and WASH services”.

Expected Impact and Outcomes:
The specific outcomes of the project are:

• Outcome 1. Strengthening of local governments' healthcare systems in the delivery of healthcare services
• Outcome 2. Improve four local governments’ preparedness and capacity to respond to urgent and massive health needs.
• Outcome 3. Increase community participation in and ownership of health and health care services.

Objective of the Evaluation
Overall Objective:

• The overall objective of the evaluation is to assess the IRC’s performance and delivery of the project results. The end line evaluation report will help the IRC to improve its future projects through lessons learned and best practices generated from the project.

The Scope of the Evaluation 

• The end line evaluation process will be structured around OECD DAC criteria, with suggested evaluation questions as below. However, the consultants shall be encouraged to review the project documents and modify evaluation questions to provide detailed synthesis of the project performance.

Below are the evaluation questions proposed against each criteria:
Evaluation Criteria & Questions:
Relevance:

• Does the project align with humanitarian priority concerns?
• How relevant was the project to target groups, needs and priorities?
• Did the project interventions effectively reach the most vulnerable individuals?

Effectiveness:

• Were the planned objectives and outcomes in the project achieved as planned?
• Were the monitoring mechanisms effective in providing timely data to inform management decisions?
• To what extent did the project meet its targets and deliver outputs?

Impact:

• What difference has the project made to the lives of targeted beneficiaries?
• To what extent did this project achieve the intended outcomes?
• What is the performance against stated indicators?
• Are there any unplanned outcomes as a result of this project?

Efficiency:

• What evidence is available on cost effectiveness of the interventions?
• How do intervention costs compare with other modalities in similar context?
• Were adequate human and financial resources applied to delivering project outcomes? Were outputs delivered in a timely fashion?
• Was technology deployed to improve efficiency?

Sustainability:

• To what extent did the project utilize established institutions/mechanisms to ensure sustainability at the end of project?
• To what extend are project results (impact if any, and outcomes) likely to continue after the project?
• Are there elements of exit strategy to ensure sustainability?

The Scope of the Evaluation
The audiences of the final evaluation findings are:

• GIZ, as the coordinator for the EU project,
• Partners collaborating with the IRC on the EU project.
• Sector leads, Grants, Finance, field staff and SMT
• Target groups (most marginalized people identified in all areas of implementation),
• Other relevant stakeholders.

See ‘Deliverables’ section for further details about the format of the products to be delivered by the consultant. Upon signature of the contract, the consultant will have access to the Communication Plan for the EU Final Evaluation.

Main Evaluation Team Tasks

• Refine evaluation primary questions in consultation with the IRC’s M&E coordinator, Snr. M&E Manager and the regional measurement coordinator.
• Conduct secondary data collection and review including using the IRC’s existing project monitoring data, to identify gaps in data coverage and knowledge.
• Conduct primary data collection to establish and quantify the IRC’s performance against project indicators and criteria outlined.
• Provide a draft report to country management that will be incorporated into ongoing program planning and evaluation, as well as recommendations for maximizing social impact.
• While in country, facilitate a workshop to validate findings of the evaluation with IRC and partner staff and stakeholders.
• Incorporate IRC feedback into a draft report and prepare a final report. The final report should both describe the results of the evaluation in detail and provide actionable recommendations for improving the IRC’s program work in Northeast Nigeria.

Proposed Methodologies

• The IRC recommends a mixed methods approach that can quantify and qualify project results and achievements of overtime. Consultants are advised to recommend the most appropriate approach for the assignment. Nevertheless, the final methodology will be agreed with the IRC country M&E team and will be contingent upon the listed tasks.

Data Collection and Management:

• The IRC expects a balanced use of both quantitative and qualitative methods to better understand the program performance in addressing community needs. Quantitative data should be rigorously analysed and representative of project locations within reasonable limits. Qualitative data should also be carefully analysed and should focus on developing deeper understanding of the relevance of the project results and providing recommendations for improving and /or strengthening effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability of the results. Both direct and indirect beneficiary perspectives should be considered, examining any positive or negative spillover effects.

Presentation and Documentation:

This consultancy takes place after end of the grant, starting from October 1, 2021. The final report is expected to be submitted not later than October 31, 2021. The report findings should be shared with IRC in the following formats:

• A workshop with IRC staff to present and validate preliminary findings.
• Highlights of field findings, lessons and best practices that can be incorporated into relevant sector programming.
• Recommendations to inform and/or improve IRC Nigeria programs, with clear action points.
• Reflections on outcomes and impact based on the field findings.
• Draft Evaluation Report submitted to Deputy Director - Programs and M&E Coordinator within two weeks after completion of field work for comments and input.

Final Evaluation Report- The report should be clear and concise (max. 30 pages). and at minimum should include:

• Executive Summary,
• Project background information
• Evaluation methodology,
• Findings: Analysis of findings and conclusions,
• Recommendations and actions points,

Annexes: ToRs, a timeline of response, a list of individuals interviewed, statistical outputs, templates of data collection tools used, a description of the methods employed, a summary of survey results (if appropriate) and any other relevant materials.

Ethics considerations
Informed Consent:

• IRC is committed to complying with privacy and data protection laws including the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The IRC’s Data Protection Policy sets out the principles that IRC applies when handling individual’s personal information. Any consultants offered a contract with the IRC is expected to be GDPR compliant when handling individuals’ personal information.
• Consent is gathered for the purpose of gaining permission to capture someone’s story or image, and document how the image and story can and cannot be used. The IRC has Consent Guidelines and documentation which must be used when gathering any content which may later be used.

Safeguarding and Code of Conduct:

• In addition, The IRC has a Safeguarding Framework that includes Staff Code of Conduct and a Child Protection Policy which have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants and to clarify the responsibilities of The IRC staff, visitors to the programme and partner organisations, and the standards of behaviour expected of them.
• We have the responsibility to ensure that any persons hired or consulted during the process are made familiar with the policies and commit to abide by them during the execution of this work.
• Any consultants offered a contract with The IRC will be expected to sign Code of Conduct and Child Protection Policy as an appendix to their contract. By doing so, consultants acknowledge that they have understood the contents of policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these two documents.

Key Deliverables

• Presentation of draft findings to IRC senior program team.
• Detailed evaluation report.

Qualifications
Profile of Consultant(s):

• To the greatest extent possible, the evaluation team should consist of diverse backgrounds and experience in multi-sectoral programs. The project is an integrated project covering; nutrition, primary health, reproductive health and WASH. Consultants should have good programming understanding in the listed sectors.
• The IRC welcomes expressions of interest from seasoned consultants, individuals or firms in academia, social research, or humanitarian evaluation with a background in humanitarian aid, research methods, WASH, development economics, agricultural economics, development studies, or other related fields.
• The lead consultants should possess.
• Master’s Degree or higher in development, international relations or humanitarian work.
• Extensive experience in conducting evaluations along OECD evaluation criteria, ideally leading an evaluation team and experience of designing evaluation methodology / tools and data analysis.
• A minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible work experience in research and or evaluations covering nutrition, environmental health, economic recovery and development programs.
• Experience of working or evaluating projects in insecure humanitarian environment.
• In-depth knowledge of quantitative and qualitative research methods
• Excellent analytical, presentation and writing skills in English.

General Conditions:

• The consultant will be based in Maiduguri Borno state, with field trips to program locations in Gwoza and Magumeri LGAs (where security conditions allow)
• While in the field, the consultant will be required to abide by IRC security protocols and guidelines.
• While in the field, the consultant will be provided with security briefings by field security focal person.
• The consultant will conduct his/her work using his/her own computer equipment.
• Terms of payment will be negotiated upon acceptance of the consultancy.
• The total budget for the consultancy will include VAT as/if required by national regulations.
• Final payment of consultant will be remitted upon satisfactory submission of agreed deliverables.

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Proposal Details and Submission Time Frame

• This consultancy assignment is anticipated to start September 30th, 2021. The entire exercise will last between 20-30 days including final report submission. The deadline for submission of the technical and financial proposals and accompanying documents is October 30th, 2021.

Application Closing Date
18th August, 2021.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Applications to:
Human Resource Coordinator,
The IRC Nigeria Country Program,
Plot 902, Olu Awotesu Street, Jabi, Abuja.
Or
Sent to: Joan Wuya

Joan.Wuya@rescue.org or

Aamir Fida

Aamir.Fida@rescue.org

Click here to apply online

Expression of interest applications should include:

• Technical proposal with clear understanding and interpretation of the ToR, including detailed tasks, recommended methodology summary and proposed schedule, relevant experience, how you meet the profile required and details of time required (maximum 5 pages)
• Financial proposal, including daily professional fee and any other associated costs for the assignment. The consultant should itemize all costs for the duration of assignment, lumped up costs will not be accepted in the financial proposal. IRC will only cover field related costs while in-country. All costs need to be clearly stated in the bid submission.
• CVs of prospective consultants.

Note: Applications lacking any of the above requirements will not be considered.

Requisition ID: req19403
Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Sector: Human Resources
Employment Category: Fixed-Term
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: No

Job Overview / Summary

• The HR Manager manages a team of HR staff based in Borno and Yobe states to ensure high quality and efficient HR business partnership.
• The HR Manager reports directly to the HR Lead and Sr. HR/Admin Manager.
• The HR Manager will support the HR lead to adapt and implement Global HR initiatives and practices and serve as an advisor to maximize staffing resources and performance, promote a positive organizational culture, minimize risk and ensure economy and efficiency of work processes.

Major Responsibilities
HR Leadership & Management:

• In collaboration with the Senior Recruitment Officers, analyze Maiduguri approach to attracting, developing, inspiring and retaining the right people with the right skills and make recommendations and implement short-term solutions to improve recruitment time to fill and quality.
• Conduct monthly and quarterly HR metrics and analysis to inform HR Lead decision-making.
• Review job position requests and submit to HR Lead with accurate form, job descriptions and make recommendations, ensuring accuracy, consistency and use of IRC JD and salary benchmarking.
• Manage benefit plans and communicate updates and conduct information campaigns for national staff.
• Oversee HR-related administrative duties and ensure compliance with existing legal and governmental reporting requirements. Ensure all legal obligations are fulfilled.
• Manage employee relations issues and conflicts with professional grace with the aim of empowering employees and supervisors to have the tools and resources necessary to resolve conflicts with mutual respect.
• Escalate code of conduct issues with HR Lead investigations and ensure issues are resolved and appropriate follow-up is carried out, in collaboration with the Ethics and Compliance Unit.
• Act as impartial mediator in disciplinary procedures and ensure it is administered in an equitable and fair manner and meets all legal and labor regulations and requirements.
• Lead exit management procedure to ensure seamless and positive transition for departing employees; apply learning gained from exit interviews.
• Implement IRC Way Training on Quarterly basis for All Field Program staff.
• Carry-out daily HR-related administrative duties such as updating contracts, generating employee reports and executing compliance-related activities with all existing legal and government reporting requirements
• Other duties assigned by supervisor

Staff Performance Management and Development:

• Coach, train, and mentor staff with the aim of strengthening their technical capacity, exchanging knowledge within the team and providing professional development and guidance.
• Provide constructive feedback and counsel on appropriate career paths and professional development.
• Promote and monitor staff care and well-being; approve and manage all leave requests to ensure adequate coverage.
• Support HR Lead to continue to pursue nationalization of senior and management positions.
• Conduct online learning campaigns to tangibly increase the percentage of staff benefiting from e-Cornell and LINGOs courses.

Communications:

• Communicate frequently and regularly on HR changes, initiatives, programs and offerings.
• Model and encourage active practice of the principles of the “IRC Way – Global Standards for Professional Conduct” throughout the country program.
• Maintain a healthy and empowering office environment that encourages open, honest and productive communication among IRC staff.

Key Working Relationships

• Position Reports to:  HR Coordinator
• Position directly supervises: HR and Admin officers, Payroll officer

Other Internal and/or External Contacts:

• Internal: Sector leads
• External: INGOs/NGOs

Qualifications
Requirements:

• The requirements should establish a baseline (minimum) for educational background, previous work experience, professional knowledge or certification, specific skills and strengths and any other skill necessary to perform the essential functions of the job. 

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree preferably in HR required. Master’s University Degree is a plus.

Work Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years, preferably 3 years as an HR generalist, including recruitment, performance management, compensation, training and development and HR Administration.
• Minimum 2 years staff management experience in a fast-paced environment.
• At least 2 years of experience with an international organization or international experience.

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

• A commitment to IRC’s mission and vision.
• Knowledge and experience with payroll, benefits administration, compensation benchmarking and utilizing HR metrics to inform decision-making.
• Strong training and development skills; experience conducting Training of the Trainer.
• Experience and knowledge of recruitment process and practice, including marketing and branding.
• Proven ability to plan long-term, organize priorities and work under administrative and programmatic pressures with detail orientation and professional grace.
• Proven sense of professional discretion, integrity, and ability to manage complex HR situations diplomatically and to effective resolution.
• Excellent management, interpersonal and negotiation skills and a demonstrated ability to promote harmonious/cohesive teamwork, in a cross-cultural context.
• Ability to demonstrate a supportive and consultative approach with direct reports and staff at senior and junior levels.
• Very strong proficiency in MS Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint is required.
• Working knowledge of Nigeria labor law.

Language Skills:

• English fluency required.

Certificates or Licenses:

• CIPM membership is desirable.

Working Environment:

• Describe the work environment of the office (“Standard office work environment” will be applicable for most jobs in the U.S.) and if applicable, the housing.   For example, internet connections, electricity, amenities, group housing, etc.  Include travel requirements.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• 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, and Anti-Retaliation.

Requisition ID: req19333
Location: Damaturu, Yobe
Sector: Women Protection & Empowerment
Employment Category: Regular
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: No

 Job Overview / Summary

• The Case Worker will provide psychosocial support, basic case management support to survivors of gender-based violence through individual counseling follow-up support, referrals, and dissemination of information on available GBV services to encourage access to services. She/he will in collaboration with the Response Officer oversee the provision of psychosocial /group support, skills building, information sessions, and other recreational activities that promote social support networks and cohesion with women and girls at the women and girl’s centers/safe spaces.

Major Responsibilities

• Provide direct support and care for adult and child survivors of gender-based violence, including counseling and basic case management. Case management services will include:
• Assessment of needs of clients
• Developing an action plan with clients
• Implementing the plan with clients
• Provide physical accompaniment to GBV survivors if requested to access medical and other services according to their wishes, choices, and decisions.
• Conduct direct and regular follow up of GBV survivors through home visits and based on survivors wishes
• And consent.
• Case closure (when appropriate)
• Conduct direct follow-up of GBV survivors through home visits and regular follow-up visits based on survivors’ wishes and consent.
• Ensure proper documentation of reported GBV incidences through the utilization of GBVIMS case intake, action, follow up and other case management forms appropriately.
• Provide physical accompaniment to survivors of GBV to access other services in accordance with their wishes, choices, and decisions.
• Follow GBV guiding principles of respect, confidentiality, and safety/security, and non-discrimination while providing services to women and girls.
• Monitor how the GBV referral pathway is working through making direct follow-ups with other organizations that are providing services to survivors.

Psychosocial/Group Support/Safe Spaces:

• Conduct and help plan and organize psychosocial/ group support activities with women and adolescent girls to meet the emotional needs of survivors, build support networks among women/girls, and promote social integration of survivors and other vulnerable women.
• Work with women and girls in the community to identify their needs, interests, and priorities, and where possible, adapt activities according to these to ensure activities offered are culturally appropriate and meet the needs of women and girls.
• Ensure that vulnerable women and girls including GBV survivors are engaged in psychosocial activities of their choice that will support their healing and recovery.

Outreach and Community Mobilization:

• In collaboration with the WPE Assistant Community Mobilizers, conduct awareness-raising activities on GBV and its health consequences, promoting available services to women and girls, and addressing the stigma preventing women and girls from accessing support and services with activities for the female-only groups.
• Identify and refer extremely vulnerable women and girls to access services and material support in accordance with their level of vulnerability and needs.
• Lead sessions to increase awareness on the consequences of GBV promote available services to women and girls and address stigma preventing access to services at the women centers.
• In collaboration with the WPE team, participate in meetings with community leadership structures when necessary, advocate for the needs of women and girls, and encourage their participation in GBV prevention and response activities in the communities.
• Identify and form women action groups in communities of intervention to ease prevention and response activities.

Other Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support mentorship and training to IRC and other NGOs outreach workers/volunteers to improve their skills and capacity to support and refer survivors to services and adhere to guiding principles.
• Assess gaps in how the referral pathway is functioning through direct follow-ups with service providers and make suggestions for improvement to the supervisor.
• Ensure that GBV survivors, vulnerable women, and girls are assessed, registered, and distributed with dignity and/or household kits base on the WPE criteria.
• Ensure supplies/resources for counseling spaces, women's centers and other program activities are requested in a timely manner and are efficiently utilized.
• Adherence to the IRC code of conduct (IRC WAY) that ensures transparency, services, and accountability to beneficiaries and reports any abuse of beneficiaries by other IRC staff, including sexual exploitation and abuse in accordance with the IRC reporting procedures.
• Track and keep information and records of psychosocial activities taking place at the centers to strengthen monitoring of program achievements.
• Perform any other duties as required by the supervisor from time to time.
• Adherence to the IRC Security Policy.
• Maintain positive coordination and relationships with partner and other IRC sector staff.

Qualifications

• University Degree in Psychology, Sociology, Health or equivalent is a requirement.

Demonstrated Experience, Skills, and Competencies:

• Must have working experience in GBV case management for at least 1 year.
• The ability to maintain confidentiality and respect for clients always is essential.
• Positive and professional attitude, able to organize, maintain composure and prioritize work under pressure, work overtime when necessary and be able to coordinate multiple tasks, and maintain attention to detail.
• The ability to work as a member of a team is essential.
• Excellent listening and observation skills, including the ability to create trust, support, respect, and interact with survivors of all ages, backgrounds, and diversity.
• Counseling and training experience, including experience working with women and girls preferred.
• Demonstrated commitment to women’s empowerment and protection through current/ previous volunteer work in women’s groups, girls clubs, or other relevant experience is an added advantage
• Ability to facilitate training and sessions, including group support activities with women and girls.
• The ability to keep records and write simple and basic reports of activities would be an added advantage.
• Ability to use GBVIMS in an excellent manner.

Language Skills:

• English, Kanuri, Hausa, and or local dialects are spoken in the location.

Key Working Relationships:

• Position Reports to:  Case Management Officer
• Position directly supervises: None.
• Indirect Reporting: Program Manager

Other Internal and/or external contacts:

• Internal: this includes other protection sectors that manage protection-related cases including child protection and the PRoL sector.
• External:  Partners operating in the same location as WPE and who will be referring GBV related cases for support and line ministries who have the same mandate of working with survivors of GBV, WGSS beneficiaries.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• 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, and Anti-Retaliation.

Requisition ID: req19329
Location: Mubi, Adamawa
Sector: Finance
Employment Category: Regular
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: No

Job Description

• The International Rescue Committee has been in Nigeria since October 2012 and came in response to a widespread flood disaster. IRC’s Emergency Response Team, with local partner, Civil Society Coalition for Poverty Eradication (CISCOPE), implemented projects to support food security, livelihoods, nutrition, and WASH in Kogi State. Beginning of January 2014, IRC shifted its geographical location to the Northeast, in Adamawa state to provide a humanitarian response to the conflict-affected populations. In the Northeast, IRC has three operational offices: Yola and Mubi field offices in Adamawa state and Maiduguri field office in Borno state-with the latter office opened in October 2015. In both states, IRC is providing humanitarian support to internally displaced populations hosted in IDP camps, camp-like settings, host communities, and returnee populations.
• The IRC Nigeria country program is implementing multi-sectoral interventions in the sectors of Health and Nutrition; Environmental Health; Child Protection; Education; Women’s Protection and Empowerment; Food Security and Livelihoods and Protection. Most of these programs are driven in partnership with strategic local NGOs. Currently, the IRC is expanding programs in Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe state to address the needs of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and host communities in recently liberated LGAs.

Job Overview / Summary

• The Finance Assistant is to assist the Finance officer by managing the day-to-day operations of the Finance Department, responsible for Cash processing and record-keeping of the day-to-day transactions in accordance with IRC policy and procedures.

Major Responsibilities

• To assist the Finance Officer in ensuring that timely and accurate payments are made.
• Ensure accuracy and completeness of payment documents in compliance with IRC and Donor policies and procedure
• Coordinate with district teams for advance issuance and their timely adjustment of advances & Training documentation.
• Ensure completeness of supporting documents in all respect which includes authenticity of signatures, cross-checking attendance sheets, and verifying payments to be made
• Posting all vouchers into the transaction spreadsheet on daily basis for review by the Finance Officer. Ensure that all information in the spreadsheet is correct and complete.
• Processing of petty cash transactions on daily basis. Ensure petty cash is replenished on time to meet daily cash needs. Carry out cash count as per the IRC policy and schedule. Document the cash count sheets for records.
• Prepare all payments and make sure that they are properly coded and supported with relevant necessary documents.
• Assist Finance office in monthly bank & account reconciliation.
• Ensure all the financial documents are properly filed & tagged.
• Paid stamping of all the invoices and related documents before filing.
• Ensure timely preparation of tax & deposit into the bank.
• Visit Bank for necessary collection & submission of financial documents.
• Photocopies & scanning of all necessary documents/Instruments.
• Perform any other task assign by the line manager.
• Finance/Budgeting
• Act at all times in accordance with local law and standards of accounting practice.
• Review budget with the aim of gaining a clear understanding of budget guidelines and instructions
• Review funding allocations to enable proper guidance to programs and proper coding.
• Provide training to program staff on finance issues.
• Produce monthly and quarterly reports to be reviewed by your supervisor.

Qualifications
Education:

• HND or a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting from a recognized College / Institutions

Work Experience:

• Minimum of three (3) years of professional accounting experience.
• INGO Finance experience is highly desired.
• Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:
• Able to work in high-pressure situations, solve problems and resolve conflicts.
• Able to independently organize work, prioritize tasks and manage time.
• Strong interpersonal skills, able to coach and support others.
• Self-motivated, honest, highly responsible, and punctual.
• Computer literate with significant knowledge/experience in excel.

Language Skills:

• Fluency in local context language is highly desirable.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, fluent in written and spoken English.

Work Environment:

• The position will be based in Mubi.

Key Working Relationships:
Position Reports to:

• Finance Officer

Position directly supervises:

• None

Indirect Reporting:

• Finance Manager.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• 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, and Anti-Retaliation.

Requisition ID: req19157
Location: Abuja (FCT)
Sector: Research & Development
Employment Category: Fixed Term
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: Not Applicable

Job Description

• This opportunity is global with flexibility on IRC office locations based off of business need. Flexible locations include Nairobi, Kenya; Abuja, Nigeria; Amman, Jordan; Beirut, Lebanon; London, UK; New York or Washington, DC.
• The IRC invests in research in humanitarian contexts to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of policies and practices in these settings. Our Research and Innovation Department works in partnership with our Education Technical Unit and Country Program teams to achieve these aims by:
  • Generating robust and actionable evidence across crisis-affected contexts,
  • Gathering and synthesizing the evidence base on what works, and
  • Analyzing the cost efficiency and cost effectiveness of humanitarian programming
• The IRC aims to generate and share evidence on the most cost-effective models for designing and delivering quality, safe education.

Programme Scope

• To date, a record number of people are displaced from their homes due to conflict and protracted crises. Two billion people live in countries affected by fragility, conflict and violence. Of the estimated 75 million children whose education is affected by conflict and protracted crises, nearly half of them – 37 million – are out of school at the primary and lower secondary level. It is hard to track how much those who are in school are learning, but the data we have indicates that they are learning far less than they could be as the quality of schooling is so low. With the average length of displacement now lasting 17 years, generations of children risk missing out on education and its long term benefit. Although there is growing international momentum and action to tackle this crisis, there is a critical lack of evidence on ‘what works’ for education in these contexts to ensure quality education for all. The lack of evidence impedes global efforts to delivery education programmes, especially those in conflict and crisis settings.
• The Education Research in Conflict and Protracted Crisis (ERICC) is The UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) new, three year, £15.8 million research programme to carry out rigorous and operationally relevant research on the most effective approaches to education delivery in conflict and protracted crisis contexts.
• The programme will have four components: (1) Research on the most effective approaches to education delivery in conflict and protracted crisis; (2) Ensuring country level impact; (3) Promoting research uptake across FCDO and the international community; and (4) Knowledge systems strengthening.  The IRC will be leading the ERICC research consortium in component 1 (research in effective delivery) and component 2 (country-level impact), working in partnership with a consortium of esteemed research and educational institutions, including NYU Global TIES for Children.
• This programme will be carried out in six FCDO countries (currently: Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Nigeria, South Sudan and Myanmar).
• The objective of this contract is to deliver, and maximise uptake of evidence on the most effective approaches to education delivery in conflict and protracted crisis contexts.
• The desired impact of the programme is stronger evidence based policies and better value for money programmes in conflict and protracted crisis.

The research will concentrate on six research questions:

• How to embed education in emergency programming from the start and move from emergency to recovery and sustainable provision, including getting the balance right between improving access and ensuring quality?
• How to design and implement education programmes that maximise value for money?
• How to protect children and provide psychosocial support to ensure that children can learn?
• How to sustain an effective teaching workforce?
• How to reach the most marginalised, especially girls and those with disabilities?
• How to support conflict and crisis affected populations to reintegrate into education systems when the crisis has passed?

Major Responsibilities

• The Research Program Coordinator leads project management across the entire program, working closely with the ERICC Programme Director, the ERICC Research Director, and the rest of the ERICC team to deliver an ambitious program of research and research uptake activities. The role involves liaising across multiple research and program specialist units within IRC, academic consortium partners, IRC country offices, and FCDO to deliver the project in a high-quality, effective, and efficient manner. A significant focus of the position is to ensure that the project meets the high standards and requirements of FCDO.

Project Management and Monitoring & Evaluation (45%):

• Work with the project team to develop project plans, including full logical frameworks
• Support the ERICC Programme Director to implement adjustments to account for any gaps in reporting/data collection and work closely with field and address them
• Coordinate with the Finance and Contract Manager to ensure the budget reflects current activity plans
• Support the ERICC Programme Director to communicate needs for project monitoring tool development and strategies/templates to address them
• Assist and coordinate technical staff, partners and field offices to implement project tracking tools
• Maintain an in-depth knowledge on donor and government policies and support colleagues to ensure that Partners’ responsibilities are tracked and evaluated, and that updates on their contract management performance are communicated in a timely and professional manner to appropriate stakeholders
• Maintain comprehensive and standardized knowledge management files for the project, including key decisions and actions, and ensure project team and partners have access to relevant records
• Facilitate project coordination, information-sharing and guidance on donor rules to IRC and Partner’s project staff
• Supervise and complete special projects as assigned by the ERICC Programme Director that may fall outside of this job description.

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Partner Coordination & Communications (25%):

• In coordination with the project team, work with partners’ staff to develop project documents including monitoring plans, contracts and activity plans;
• Ensure coordination with the ERICC Research Director when changes are proposed to research study envelops (as per the budget roles & responsibilities matrix);
• Supervise and coordinate partnership processes;
• Ensure that Partners’ responsibilities for donor compliance are tracked and evaluated;
• Ensure that updates on contract management performance are communicated in a timely and professional manner to appropriate stakeholders.
• Identify partner capacity strengthening and mentoring needs and organize appropriate activities to meet such needs

Reporting (10%):

• Coordinate the production of all narrative reports from partners, the IRC project team and field offices, and provide feedback to improve product quality, accuracy, and style.
• Support the Finance and Contract Manager as needed to obtain necessary inputs from partners on financial reporting
• Be responsible for submission of donor reports and information, and communication of compliance questions and project challenges.
• Support the ERICC Programme Director to implement adjustments to account for any gaps in reporting/data collection and work closely with field teams and partners to address them.
• Work closely with the Finance and Contract Manager as well as IRC awards management and commercial contracts teams to develop and execute contracts within the fixed price model.

Administrative tasks (10%):

• Organize biennial consortium-wide meeting and support travel needs for participants
• Organize various leadership meetings (Quarterly Strategy Meeting, Programme Team Management Meetings, Technical Advisory Group, etc.)
• Identify / organize visibility events for the consortium
• Generate and maintain communication systems for the consortium, including documentation of meeting notes (particularly key decisions and changes in programme design).
• Other tasks at ERICC Programme Director’s request

Relationship with FCDO (10%):

• Liaise with FCDO, and other operational partners, through attendance at scheduled and ad hoc meetings and consultations upon the ERICC Programme Director’s request, and represent IRC and IRC’s interests by maintaining positive and constructive relations.
• Ensure that the project team and Partners are aware of all relevant FCDO communication, changes in their regulations, and meetings or conferences.

Person Specification
Essential:

• University Degree in Education, Economics, Political Science, Public Health or other related field to humanitarian research
• 3 - 5 years of experience with demonstrated organisation, coordination and project management skills including budget management and developing project management documents such as logical frameworks and monitoring tools
• Excellent written English including the ability to edit, synthesise information and produce high quality reports
• Experience and a good understanding of education in conflict and protracted crises
• Proven ability to operate in a complex organisation, across functions and work on own initiative and collaboratively as part of diverse teams
• Ability to manage a varied workload, work under pressure, prioritise and meet deadlines
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills including an ability to communicate effectively with staff at all levels and across regions/countries
• Excellent IT skills (Word, Outlook, Excel)
• The ability to work productively and accurately while under pressure in a fast-paced, demanding environment;
• Flexible work attitude: the ability to work in a team environment and independently and ability to meet unexpected demands;
• Ability to work as part of a team as well as on own initiative.
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize effectively

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience of managing donor-funded contracts
• Experience working on FCDO commercial contract
• Experience and interest in maternal and neonatal health
• Experience and interest in humanitarian contexts
• Good understanding of research design and methodology
• Arabic language skills is an asset.

Working Environment

• Ability and willingness to travel internationally to humanitarian contexts (up to 30% of time – and as allowed under COVID-19 policies).

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Requisition ID: req19158
Location: Abuja (FCT)
Sector: Research & Development
Employment Category: Fixed Term
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: Not Applicable

Job Description

• This opportunity is global with flexibility on IRC office locations based off of business need. Flexible locations include Nairobi, Kenya; Abuja, Nigeria; Amman, Jordan; Beirut, Lebanon; London, UK; New York or Washington, DC.
• The IRC invests in research in humanitarian contexts to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of policies and practices in these settings.
• Our Research and Innovation Department works in partnership with our Education Technical Unit and Country Program teams to achieve these aims by:
  • Generating robust and actionable evidence across crisis-affected contexts,
  • Gathering and synthesizing the evidence base on what works, and
  • Analyzing the cost efficiency and cost effectiveness of humanitarian programming
• The IRC aims to generate and share evidence on the most cost-effective models for designing and delivering quality, safe education.

Programme Scope

• To date, a record number of people are displaced from their homes due to conflict and protracted crises. Two billion people live in countries affected by fragility, conflict and violence. Of the estimated 75 million children whose education is affected by conflict and protracted crises, nearly half of them - 37 million - are out of school at the primary and lower secondary level.
• It is hard to track how much those who are in school are learning, but the data we have indicates that they are learning far less than they could be as the quality of schooling is so low. With the average length of displacement now lasting 17 years, generations of children risk missing out on education and its long term benefit.
• Although there is growing international momentum and action to tackle this crisis, there is a critical lack of evidence on ‘what works’ for education in these contexts to ensure quality education for all. The lack of evidence impedes global efforts to delivery education programmes, especially those in conflict and crisis settings.
• The Education Research in Conflict and Protracted Crisis (ERICC) is The UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) new, three year, £15.8 million research programme to carry out rigorous and operationally relevant research on the most effective approaches to education delivery in conflict and protracted crisis contexts.
• The programme will have four components: (1) Research on the most effective approaches to education delivery in conflict and protracted crisis; (2) Ensuring country level impact; (3) Promoting research uptake across FCDO and the international community; and (4) Knowledge systems strengthening.
• The IRC will be leading the ERICC research consortium in component 1 (research in effective delivery) and component 2 (country-level impact), working in partnership with a consortium of esteemed research and educational institutions, including NYU Global TIES for Children.
• This programme will be carried out in six FCDO countries (currently: Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Nigeria, South Sudan and Myanmar). The objective of this contract is to deliver, and maximise uptake of evidence on the most effective approaches to education delivery in conflict and protracted crisis contexts.
• The desired impact of the programme is stronger evidence based policies and better value for money programmes in conflict and protracted crisis.

Job Overview

• The Finance and Contract Manager (ERICC) is responsible for providing grants and budgets leadership and support across the FCDO-funded ERICC research consortium in Nigeria, South Sudan, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Myanmar, and Bangladesh.
• S/he will play a critical role in ensuring transparency, accountability, effective grant management and compliance in all aspects of the ERICC project and will be the focal point for donor reporting, information management, grants management and capacity-building efforts.
• The role will also provide key support to the ERICC Programme Director in programmatic and budgetary monitoring, compliance with donor and internal IRC rules and regulations and other key functions as required.

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Major Responsibilities
ERICC Grant and Budget Management:

• Review, track, and analyze expenditures for the ERICC project from the technical unit, ERICC country programs and partner institutions
• Hold knowledge base of FCDO contract rules and regulations and advise other team members on compliance
• Ensure project expenses are reasonable, allocable, and prudent and spent in accordance with the donor’s rules and regulations
• Create accurate forecasts and manage expenses according to spending plans
• In close collaboration with the Research Program Coordinator, liaise with partner institutions regarding any deviations or concerns in spending
• Work closely with regional/ global team to ensure all IRC ERICC project budget monitoring, payments and booking of expenses by providing monthly budget versus actual reports to budget holders and in country programs
• Work with relevant country finance managers, technical unit and headquarters-based finance staff to ensure accuracy of the ERICC financial reports and promptly identify and advise the ERICC Programme Director and applicable country program grant leads on areas of concern
• Coordinate approval of agreements, amendments, cost extensions and no-cost extensions
• Manage contract and subcontract revisions
• Identify and manage all financial, grants management, sub-grant awards and operational risks in collaboration with relevant country and technical unit staff
• Support ERICC country programs (South Sudan, Nigeria, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Myanmar and Bangladesh) in preparing, reviewing and modifying ERICC related memoranda of understanding and sub-grant agreements as needed and ensures FCDO terms and conditions are met
• Review financial controls and liaise with relevant country program leads to update policies and procedures as needed
• Build capacity of local partners in grant and budget management, including travel to locations of implementation to provide trainings and on-going support

ERICC Donor Reporting and Compliance:

• Develop guidance, templates, and toolkits to ensure timely submission of narrative and financial donor reports
• Ensure that Partners’ responsibilities for donor compliance are tracked and evaluated
• Liaise with country programs and partner institutions to prepare and submit high quality programmatic and financial reports by IRC ERICC countries/partners and IRC global
• Manage OTIS (Opportunity Tracking Information System) workflow for ERICC agreements, amendments and reporting
• Assist in donor relations, participate in calls with select donors, and represent the IRC ERICC team at donor meetings as required
• Ensure quality information management through regular maintenance of grant files, including coordination and preparation of documents and files for internal and external audits
• Monitor and facilitate compliance of programs with FCDO and IRC requirements and raise issues affecting external/internal compliance
• Build capacity of local partners in donor reporting and compliance, including travel to locations of implementation to provide trainings and on-going support

Other support for the ERICC project:

• Work closely with Research Program Coordinator to execute logistical and administrative tasks, as needed.
• Provide logistical assistance in the planning and execution of ERICC workshops, meetings, and trainings where needed
• Assist team members with development of external reports, Web content, presentations and technical tools related to ERICC as needed
• Work with the ERICC project team to prepare and support spot check activities as communicated by FCDO
• Support program development, monitoring and evaluation, communications and external relations activities as needed

Key Working Relationships:

• Position reports to: ERICC Programme Director
• Position directly supervises: N/A
• Internal contacts: Regular contact with Education Technical Unit teams, and country program staff. Regular interaction with internal IRC departments, especially budget, finance, human resources and procurement.
• External contacts: Interaction with finance teams of partner organizations, donors, vendors, contractors, and consultants.

Job Requirements
Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in International Affairs, Public Administration, Economics, Business Studies, Accounting, Commerce, or other related fields
• At least 4-6 years of related work experience, preferably for an International Non-Governmental Organization managing FCDO grants or contracts
• Experience managing complex grants and projects throughout implementation, including budget and finance components, compliance, monitoring and reporting processes
• Experience in capacity building of local partners in grant management in the field
• Excellent organizational skills: the ability to work independently and productively in a fast-paced environment
• 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
• Flexible work attitude, proactive and demonstrated creativity: the ability to work productively in a team environment and the ability to problem solve creatively with minimal guidance

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience with donor-funded contracts
• Experience working on FCDO commercial contracts
• Prior experience working in countries where IRC operates

Working Environment

• Standard office work environment.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Requisition ID: req19072
Location: Abuja (FCT)
Sector: Research & Development
Employment Category: Fixed Term
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: Not Applicable

Job Description
The IRC invests in research in humanitarian contexts to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of policies and practices in these settings. Our Research and Innovation Department works in partnership with our Education Technical Unit and Country Program teams to achieve these aims by:

• Generating robust and actionable evidence across crisis-affected contexts,
• Gathering and synthesizing the evidence base on what works, and
• Analyzing the cost efficiency and cost effectiveness of humanitarian programming
• The IRC aims to generate and share evidence on the most cost-effective models for designing and delivering quality, safe education.

Program Scope

• To date, a record number of people are displaced from their homes due to conflict and protracted crises. Two billion people live in countries affected by fragility, conflict and violence. Of the estimated 75 million children whose education is affected by conflict and protracted crises, nearly half of them - 37 million - are out of school at the primary and lower secondary level.
• It is hard to track how much those who are in school are learning, but the data we have indicates that they are learning far less than they could be as the quality of schooling is so low. With the average length of displacement now lasting 17 years, generations of children risk missing out on education and its long term benefit. Although there is growing international momentum and action to tackle this crisis, there is a critical lack of evidence on ‘what works’ for education in these contexts to ensure quality education for all.
• The lack of evidence impedes global efforts to delivery education programmes, especially those in conflict and crisis settings.

The Education Research in Conflict and Protracted Crisis (ERICC) is The UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth:

• & Development Office (FCDO) new, three year, £15 million research programme to carry out rigorous and operationally relevant research on the most effective approaches to education delivery in conflict and protracted crisis contexts. The programme will have four components: (1) Research on the most effective approaches to education delivery in conflict and protracted crisis; (2) Ensuring country level impact; (3) Promoting research uptake across FCDO and the international community; and (4) Knowledge systems strengthening.
• The IRC will be leading the ERICC research consortium in component 1 (research in effective delivery) and component 2 (country-level impact), working in partnership with a consortium of esteemed research and educational institutions, including New York University’s Global TIES for Children. This programme will be carried out in six FCDO countries (currently: Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Nigeria, South Sudan and Myanmar).
• The objective of this contract is to build and maximise uptake of evidence on the most effective approaches to education delivery in conflict and protracted crisis contexts. The desired impact of the programme is stronger evidence based policies and better value for money programmes in conflict and protracted crisis.

The Research will Concentrate on Six Research Questions:

• How to embed education in emergency programming from the start and move from emergency to recovery and sustainable provision, including getting the balance right between improving access and ensuring quality?
• How to design and implement education programmes that maximise value for money?
• How to protect children and provide psychosocial support to ensure that children can learn?
• How to sustain an effective teaching workforce?
• How to reach the most marginalised, especially girls and those with disabilities?
• How to support conflict and crisis affected populations to reintegrate into education systems when the crisis has passed?

The Purpose of the Role

• The Programme Director will provide overall leadership of the IRC-led ERICC consortium. The ERICC Programme Director will be a seasoned manager and leader of complex, multi-country, multi-partner research initiatives.
• The Programme Director will be responsible for developing and maintaining a high functioning global research consortium and ensuring that the project is implemented to a high standard, in accordance with FCDO regulations, IRC policies, and international standards of researching education.
• Working in close partnership with the Research Director and senior leadership of the consortium organizations, the Programme Director  will establish or refine the project’s goals, objectives and strategy to achieve those objectives; key performance indicators, milestones, budgets and work plans.
• The Programme Director will keep the consortium and all staff members moving toward these goals and objectives, identify barriers and enablers of success and problem-solve with members of the consortium as needed.
• The Programme Director will be the primary representational link with FCDO staff and the organization(s) leading ERICC’s third and fourth components.
• In collaboration with the Research Director, they will represent the project to internal and external stakeholders - including other researchers, government officials, donors, media and, humanitarian agencies and INGOs, primarily at the international level.

Scope and Authority
Responsibility for Resources:

• Responsible for 15 million GBP project budget

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Key Working Relationships:

• Reports to the IRC Chief Research and Innovation Officer
• Works in close coordination with the Senior Director of Education and the Research Director from NYU Global TIES for Children.
• Manages team of six with five direct line reports
• Works in close collaboration with the Research Director and provides expert project management for  the overall research consortium (3 core partner organisations)
• Key external contacts: Academic Partners and other Consortium Partner organizations, FCDO and other donors, humanitarian agencies (UN & INGOs), national governments; civil society organisations; media; research community
• Key internal contacts: Research & Innovation and Education technical unit staff; International Programme Team; particularly the Program Development team

Key Accountabilities
Expert Project Leadership:

• Provide high level leadership and direction, across the project to guide effective implementation to achieve the desired outcomes
• Manage the overall project by establishing, in collaboration with the Research Director, a strategy with both operational and research-focused key performance indicators, milestones, timelines and work plans in adherence with technical quality standards and donor guidelines.
• Oversee the development of budgets and spending plans, and monitor the financial health of the project.
• Oversee and monitor project activities in accordance with the project agreement; Ensure IRC meets FCDO contractual project, legal and financial requirements.

Consortium Leadership:

• Develop and leads a well-functioning and supportive consortium that consistently delivers high quality research, expert technical expertise to FCDO country offices and programs; and research uptake. As part of this, develop and maintain strong lines of communication and collaboration
• Manage excellent cooperation with and between consortium partners; partner organizations and government officials ensuring alignment as well as instituting clear processes and protocols for surfacing any issues or challenges in a timely manner.

Team Leadership and Supervision:

• Support project staff by creating and maintaining a work environment that promotes teamwork, trust, transparency, mutual respect, and recognition and empowers staff to take responsibility, thus enabling an environment for high performance
• Establish regular cadence for team meetings and individual check-ins with direct reports, as well as ensure these management practices cascade throughout the team.
• Set clear performance objectives for direct reports and ensure that all managers are similarly establishing clear management expectations for their teams.

Oversight of Research and Country-level Support:

• Ensure the project adheres to and promotes the best practice of ethical research on education
• Work with all key staff to identify technical assistance needs and arrange for the provision of assistance
• Work closely with and provides expert management support to the Research Director and the Principal Investigators as they design and plan research activities
• Review and contribute to the terms of reference for IRC technical staff, researchers and consultants, ensuring project objectives and outcomes are met and that project staff performance is evaluated.
• In collaboration with Research Director, establish and oversee bid process, aligned with FCDO’s and IRC’s regulations, for research delivered by calls for proposals (up to 30% of the research)

Representation: FCDO and External Forums:

• Represent the IRC and the consortium as primary liaison focal point with FCDO
• Ensure timely, accurate and good quality reporting to the donor and others
• Represent and promote ‘ERICC’ in high level policy and advocacy forums
• Manage external relations by representing the project and the organization in the public and ensuring the distribution of information about project achievements and lesson learned
• Support development and implementation of research uptake plans
• Support the development of messaging and research uptake strategies to disseminate research findings from the wider ‘ERICC’ research programme

Person Specification
Essential:
Skills, Knowledge and Qualifications:

• Master’s level education in related field
• Excellent understanding of research design and methodology and of education in conflict and crises settings research and innovation networks
• Proven ability to represent an organisation at a senior level and to build strong relationships at the local, national and international levels
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to manage a large and varied workload, work under pressure and meet deadlines

Experience:

• Experience of managing or leading consortia of complementary and independent organizations across at least 3 countries.
• Experience of project management for large, complex (> 15 million GBP) projects
• Experience of managing or in a senior role in a FCDO-funded commercial contract
• Proven ability to lead diverse staff and cross-organizational teams, manage performance, foster a positive working environment and manage issues sensitively and diplomatically
• Experience of working in a large and complex international organisation

Desirable:

• Experience of managing or carrying out research in humanitarian contexts
• Experience working in one of the following countries: S Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, Myanmar, Nigeria
• Substantial experience in conflict and emergency contexts focusing on education

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Requisition ID: req19028
Location: Abuja
Sector: Research & Development
Employment Category: Fixed Term
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: Yes

Job Description

• The IRC's strategy centers on its dedication to continue to increase the scale and improve the effectiveness of its programs worldwide with evidence of what works best to impact people’s lives in conflict and fragile settings.
• Breakthrough solutions are needed to match the urgency and gravity of the problems faced by people affected by crises. That’s why the IRC created the Airbel Impact Lab, the IRC’s research and innovation team that designs, tests and scales life-changing solutions for people facing conflict and disaster.
• The Airbel Impact Lab focuses on addressing some of the world’s most pressing problems, in some of the toughest environments, such as:
  • Treating child malnutrition,
  • Delivering last mile education, and
  • Women-centered health programs to save lives and provide choice
  • Supporting climate resilient agricultural livelihoods and
  • Mental health and psychosocial services. Across each of these areas, we create solutions as big as the problems. Our vision is not only to increase IRC's impact, but to change the way humanitarian aid is delivered around the world.

Job Overview

• The Behavioral Insights Coordinator will help to project manage behaviorally informed products and services in IRC’s growing behavioral science portfolio addressing these pressing issues. They will have the opportunity to work within Airbel’s behavioral insights team to develop new behaviorally-informed products and services to improve outcomes for people affected by crisis, manage behavioral science research projects, and promote the application of behavioral insights across the IRC.
• For example, a significant part of their responsibilities will be developing new behaviorally-informed products and services to improve learning outcomes for refugee children in East Africa and promoting the application of behavioral insights across the PlayMatters education project.
• However, they will also have the opportunity to work with the other areas, such as teams addressing child malnutrition or climate resilient livelihoods, as well as with other innovative practice teams within Airbel Impact Lab, including Strategy, Research, Human Centred Design, among others. In addition to project management, this role will draw from disciplines as diverse as human-centered design, participatory research and testing, and agile / open source software development.
• This role requires a mix of operational, project management, design and research skills, and strong knowledge of behavioral science evidence and humanitarian issues.

Major Responsibilities
Manage the Design, Development and Launch of new Behaviorally-informed Solutions:

• Provide project management support across core projects, including project managing qualitative and quantitative research and prototyping; coordination between teams in HQ, country programs, technical experts and behavioral scientists; and providing day to day support operationalization behaviorally informed research activities.
• Provide strategic guidance and technical support on high-profile, multi-country projects, such as the PlayMatters project and others.
• Work collaboratively with the Behavioral Insights Lead, Behavioral Insights Advisor, the Airbel Impact Lab, IRC Technical Units, the PlayMatters Regional East Africa team, and distributed global IRC teams to gather relevant inputs, synthesize, and help develop new behaviorally-informed products and services to improve outcomes for people in crisis.
• Support questionnaire development and qualitative analysis; design behavioral intervention prototypes, and into small-scale RCTs to inform programming and decision-making.
• Lead the knowledge management of behavioral insights projects and resources. Openly share lessons and learnings from the field with the broader humanitarian, behavioral science, and social innovation communities; present and publish behavioral science research findings in academic journals and practitioner-focused outlets.
• Work collaboratively with the PlayMatters team, Airbel Impact Lab, technical and country program teams to gather relevant inputs, synthesize, and develop new behaviorally-informed products and services to improve outcomes for people in crisis
• Identify the potential to apply behavioral science insights across IRC projects and enable teams to leverage behavioral insights in program design
• Support the IRC behavioral insights team and Airbel Impact Lab to identify behaviorally-informed research questions and areas of interest within the IRC's organizational research and innovation priorities
• Promote, teach, and explain behavioral science concepts and techniques to project teams such as the PlayMatters project team, other IRC programs and technical unit staff.
• Serve as a behavioral insights resource to IRC staff seeking information, including revenue and advocacy departments; respond to field queries regarding behavioral science research and innovations and present findings in actionable terms
• Contribute to the development of behavioral science evidence reviews; co-develop behavioral science evidence products and organizational theories of change.

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Behavioral Science Partnership Management and Development:

• Support engagement and building of IRC's connections to behavioral science actors at a global, regional and national level - including academics, donors, other implementing organizations, behavioral science associations and inter-agency groups and foundations - working with the team to explore and grow avenues for partnership, collaboration and coordination
• Support and maintain effective coordination and long-term relationships with external behavioral science stakeholders, representing IRC, resolving issues, and promoting long-term strategy.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree in a discipline associated with Behavioral Science (Economics, Psychology, Anthropology, Ethnography, Neuroscience, Social Sciences, Public Policy etc) or relevant work experience is required
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in managing or coordinating research or innovation projects with multiple stakeholders.
• Experience in the implementation of, and/or analyzing behavioral science qualitative research
• Demonstrated experience of project management, relationship management, and working with behavioral science projects
• Work experience in humanitarian setting or development contexts
• Strong synthesis skills and confidence distilling complex data into actionable insights
• Strong team collaboration skills; comfort working with researchers, frontline implementers, technical experts, clients, and other core staff
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate with colleagues and stakeholders at all levels in a distributed, multicultural professional environment to motivate the uptake of behaviorally-informed solutions.

Preferred:

• Fluency in French, Spanish, Swahili and/or any other relevant languages spoken by the communities we work with.
• Demonstrated experience designing or running rapid randomized controlled trials (A/B testing or other nimble evaluations) and/or in rapid prototyping of new behavioral interventions and iterating them in response to successive rounds of feedback.
• Understanding of human-centered design, user testing, user story development, participatory action research, and other product development techniques
• Understanding of educational interventions, climate, and/or health interventions, and experience working on such projects particularly in humanitarian settings.

Working Environment:

• Standard office work environment
• Potential to travel to IRC program locations up to 25% of the time.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Equality, 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, and Anti-Retaliation.

Requisition ID: req15874
Locations: Abuja, Federal Capital - Nigeria
Sector: Awards Management
Employment Category: Regular
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: Not Applicable

Job Description

• This opportunity can be based in Dakar, Nigeria, Sierra Leone or Ivory Coast.
• Established in 2015, the Global Awards Management Unit (AMU) is a global unit spanning New York, Washington DC, London, Berlin, Bonn, Geneva, Nairobi and Amman. It has responsibility for identifying, securing and managing all funding from statutory donors, and was designed as an end-to-end business process owner and support structure for IRC’s grant lifecycle.
• The Unit is organized into five teams, called ‘pillars’: Strategic Partnerships & Analytics; Program & Grants Support; Compliance & Policy; Business/Program Development; and Training & Curriculum Development.
• The Global AMU is a bridge between donors and the field program teams: providing expert technical advice to the field program teams, while maintaining portfolio-level visibility to ensure consistency and compliance, and manage risk.
• This unit ensures that donor compliance policies and procedures are implemented consistently, and supports all staff working across the grants management cycle for all restricted funding from global government sources.
• The unit operates within a matrix management system across the teams in the US, Germany, the UK and based in our global programs, driving functional integration between all relevant units and staff.

The Purpose of the Role

• The Senior Business Development Advisor – Capture & Engagement will support IRC’s efforts to strengthen our positioning, engagement and capture efforts to support IRC’s growth strategy for public donors, particularly for longer term and development funding.
• The Sr. Advisor will be responsible for leading successful capture planning on a portfolio of opportunities in coordination with regional, country, and technical teams.
• The Senior BD Advisor is responsible for identifying and qualifying leads for multi-year complex funding opportunities with bilateral and multi-lateral public donors.
• This position works with IRC Regional and Country Offices and technical experts to maintain donor mapping, outline long-term positioning strategies, identify and qualify leads and complete capture milestones.
• The Sr. Advisor will support Country Offices in expanding their networks with key donor representatives, country and regional partners, national development professionals, as well as international candidates and peer organizations.
• This position plays a key role in the adoption of IRC’s best practice capture and engagement processes and tools as well as coaching and formal training to IRC staff.
• The ideal candidate will have a successful track record of working on new business efforts in international development with USAID, FCDO, and/or other multilateral and bilateral donors.

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Responsibilities

• Provide leadership in working with country and technical teams to identify, assess, and co-lead with country and technical teams positioning, engagement and capture management and planning for specific USG, FCDO, and other competitive bids.
• Collaborates with regional, country and technical teams to develop and implement long-term positioning strategies, raising IRC’s profile key national and global stakeholders including donors, peers, local organizations, national government ministries, and other key national stakeholders.
• Manage capture process on select opportunities with country and technical teams utilizing industry practices and IRC processes and tools, bringing in a deep understanding of donor preferences and interests, geographic stakeholder knowledge, and competitive partnerships into IRC’s win strategies.
• In coordination with other AMU staff, maintain up to date knowledge of USG, FCDO, EU, and other donor funding priorities in geographical interests relevant to IRC’s area of work and provide guidance to country, regional, and technical teams.
• Evaluate effectiveness of capture and proposal processes and tools; recommend revisions to ensure continuous improvement.
• Facilitate and support relationship building with key global, national, and local stakeholders including assisting countries and technical units to develop plans, pitch documents, and other materials to support raising IRC’s profile.
• Coordinate the evaluation and assessment of opportunities including the development of competitive analysis, conduct SWOT analysis, and identify win themes and risk mitigation plans.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field, including International Relations, Political Science, Public Administration, and Communications or other related field.
• Five years plus of experience leading positioning, engagement, and capture work and/or developing proposals.
• Experience working with USAID, FCDO, EU institutions, and/or other European donors.
• Experience and a successful track record leading capture process within complex subject, multi-year, multi-partner proposals with minimal supervision.
• Subject-matter expertise and experience in a sector relevant to IRC is a plus (e.g. health, education, governance, WASH, etc.) is a plus.
• Excellent written and oral communication; able to convey complex concepts clearly and concisely in writing and orally.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate equally effectively with colleagues in ‘remote’ and diverse teams, including as team leader for proposals; outstanding interpersonal skills, including the ability to effectively manage a variety of relationships in a multicultural environment;
• The ability to work productively and accurately while under pressure in a fast-paced, demanding environment;
• Flexible work attitude: the ability to work in a team environment and independently and ability to meet unexpected demands, prioritize and multi-task;
• Ability to travel internationally (up to 20% of time);
• Fluency in English.  Proficiency in at least one other language (French, Arabic, and/or Spanish) is a plus.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

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