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Safe, Transformative and Inclusive Programming Global Practice Lead

3 months ago

Nairobi, Kenya International Rescue Committee Full time

Major Responsibilities:

  • Lead and coordinate efforts to incorporate inclusive and transformative programming strategies into IRC’s program design, implementation, learning frameworks and associated business processes.
  • Provide strategic vision and direction to safe, inclusive and transformative programming across IRC’s programming areas
  • Collaborate with different technical staff across IRC’s Technical units in CRRD to promote and support coherent approaches to integrating GEDI principles in programs, in line with the IRC global Strategy S100, GEDI Action Plan, and Safeguarding Minimum Standards
  • Support the roll-out and continuous improvement of programming tools to ensure gendered and other systemic inequalities are accounted for, addressed and not exacerbated by humanitarian programming; this includes ensuring that tools consistently analyze and address safeguarding risks.
  • Provide strategic leadership of IRC’s Violence Prevention work with a focus on modelling, leading the design of scale and impact strategies.
  • Ensure technical assistance to headquarter and field teams incorporates attention to GEDI priorities and emerging needs
  • Promote the understanding and practice of safeguarding risk analysis and mitigation across technical assistance delivery by supporting integration into tools/processes and by supporting the skills and confidence of Technical Unit colleagues
  • Provide leadership and direction to gender and inclusion specialists to guide effective implementation, monitoring, learning and uptake of new resources and research.
  • Provide technical oversight to GEDI strategic projects under the responsibility of VPRU ensuring projects are delivered on time, on scope and on budget

Leadership and representation

  • Provide leadership to the GEDI in Programming workstream by establishing centralized approaches in line with the IRC TRANSFORM global standards.
  • Provide internal representation in key IRC fora, and external representation in key inter-agency and other strategic humanitarian fora to contribute to, learn from and influence policy and practice.
  • Advance IRC as a learning thought leader in the promotion of safe, inclusive and transformative humanitarian programming, rooted in strong analysis of context, power, gender and how intersecting aspects of identity may result in discrimination, oppression and exclusion.
  • Promote, critically examine and guide capacity to meaningfully focus on gender, socio-economic inequities, disability, age, diverse SOGIESC inclusion while ensuring risks emerging contextual developments and humanitarian delivery strategies are anticipated and mitigated.
  • In close collaboration with program teams, contribute to strategic planning and the long-term strategic direction of the IRC’s Inclusion programming portfolio.
  • Contribute to the cohesive functioning of the team by ensuring strong communication within the team, across the VPRU leadership team, and with VPRU regional and country colleagues.
  • Contribute to identifying learning priorities and work with peer global and regional leaders to achieve outcomes.

Resource development and learning uptake

  • Contribute to identifying priorities for resource development and ensure that they are responding effectively to the needs identified across field programs.
  • Collaborate with the Technical Units, Safeguarding Practice, and the Research & Innovation Unit to develop new or revise existing evidence reviews and advise on new research strategies to enable transformative change in humanitarian contexts.
  • In collaboration with relevant regional and country colleagues, support the mentoring, guidance and training of project staff, partners, and stakeholders, on GEDI integration and mainstreaming issues, tools, policies, and practices
  • Maintain up-to-date knowledge about available evidence on transformative change interventions and feminist movement building.
  • Lead on the development of maturity, uptake and scale frameworks in support of a path for global learning to result in transformed outcomes for clients
  • In coordination with GEDI Chief Officer provide structured and evidence-based inputs in support of the tracking of organizational GEDI in Programs commitments of the GEDI Action Plan

Team leadership and management

  • Provide regular supervision, guidance and mentoring to direct reports.
  • Identify development needs of direct reports and support them to access professional growth opportunities appropriate to their needs and aspirations.
  • Maintain open and professional relations with team members, encouraging them to collaborate effectively, promoting team cohesion, and providing oversight and guidance to enable staff to successfully perform in their positions.
  • Lead with commitment, integrity and accountability to the IRC’s global standards for professional conduct.
  • Support business development and grants management
  • Coordinate business development support as per strategic priorities and needs expressed across program units and country programs
  • Build funding for new areas of investment in safe, inclusive and transformative humanitarian programming
  • Work with specialists, program managers and grants colleagues to ensure budgets are managed effectively. This includes managing communication with field programs receiving budget allocations from TU–led grants.
  • Support the Senior Director VPRU in staff planning for inclusion and accountability work, and budgeting alongside other Global and Regional leaders.
  • Support in donor dialogue and engagement, as related to the CRRD GEDI in programs priorities
  • Ensure timely, accurate and good quality reporting

Job Qualifications:

  • Minimum eight years progressive protection experience in emergency and/or post-conflict contexts, including experience providing remote technical support
  • Graduate degree or equivalent in international law, public health, social work, humanities or other related degree
  • Specialised degree in Gender Studies, Social Anthropology, Community development a plus
  • Demonstrated experience designing, managing, and implementing programs promoting gender equality and social inclusion.
  • Strong understanding of how to address gender and social inclusion dynamics in conflict settings and how gender and social inclusion intersects with conflict sensitivity.
  • Experience ensuring safety, inclusion and social transformation integration in project design, implementation and M&E required.
  • Experience developing and delivering GEDI-themed content in training and education materials as well as focused assessments, training, and organizational capacity-building preferred.
  • Ability to navigate politically sensitive subjects and maintain constructive relationships with a diverse group of stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated ability to think strategically and transmit her/his vision to partners and colleagues.
  • Experience living and working in complex, conflict-affected environments.
  • Professional level English is required. French, Arabic or Spanish would be an advantage.
  • Ability to work under deadline pressure with diverse teams.