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Protection & Rule of Law (PRoL) Technical Advisor, Asia

3 months ago

Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya IRC - The International Rescue Committee Full time

Job Description


The Protection & Rule of Law (PRoL) Technical Adviser will form part of the Violence Prevention and Response Technical Unit (VPRU), which houses expertise in the field of protection and rule of law, child protection, and women's protection and empowerment.

The VPRU provides dynamic, innovative support to IRC's field offices and provides technical assistance, ensures innovation, promotes standard processes, and helps to improve data collection and analysis for protection programming within the organization.

The Protection & Rule of Law team of the VPRU is supporting the implementation of protection programs in 40 countries, including interventions supporting critical information service provision, protection monitoring and analysis, protection case management, access to justice, peacebuilding, rule of law activities, community based protection and supporting protection mainstreaming initiatives.

The Advisor is also responsible for supporting cointries' PRoL program strategy, business development, partnership strategy and relationship building, staff development and the organization's strategy initiatives.


Position overview


As the PRoL Technical Advisor for Asia region, you are responsible for ensuring high quality technical assistance to one IRC region comprised of 5 country programs.

You will collaborate with relevant stakeholders to achieve high quality, high impact interventions that are informed by evidence, data, and best practice, contextually appropriate, driven by client and partner voices, and are safe, inclusive, and promote equal outcomes for clients.


Program Development & Partnerships:
You will support country programs to develop technical solutions aligned to with contextual developments, regional, sectoral and global strategies to provide context-relevant, client-centered, accountable, scalable and cost-efficient programs for people impacted by crisis in the region of assignment :

  • Remain abreast of their region's contextual developments and provide strategic advice on portfolio development, orientation
  • Provide support and guidance to country programs in the development and implementation of violence prevention and response sectoral strategies
  • Substantially contribute to the development of proposal theories of change and log frames as relevant and needed
  • Support the in-country technical lead in analyzing relevant information including available M&E and client responsiveness data, to prepare for design meetings/conversations
  • Advise on program modalities and strategic partnership development based on evidence, scale considerations, and how we can best support, complement, and reinforce local systems
  • Provide technical guidance on country and regional partnership strategies including strategic partnerships with governments, multilateral organizations, private sector, CBOs etc.
  • Advise on and/or provide hands-on support on assessments, including application and contextualization of technical standards
  • Participate in project design meetings for all relevant proposals (remotely or in person)
  • Review and validate design meeting decisions around technical design quality, including alignment of narratives, log-frames, and budgets, to IRC standards and outcomes
  • Promote and support design collaboration with partners and clients
  • Support country teams in their strategic technical dialogue and engagement with critical stakeholders (donors, peer organisations, policy-makers, academia etc.)
  • Act as the technical entry point to gender equality and diversity inclusion in programs questions by provide guidance and orientation to country teams to relevant internal and external resources, learning and best practices

Implementation Support: You will support country program staff and other key stakeholders in implementing technical interventions:

  • Support country programs and other stakeholders with the identification of skillsets required for quality protection programming incl. but not limited to recruitment and mentoring of technical staff
  • Assess program quality and inform improvements, providing follow up support to country programs as needed
  • Collaborate with country program colleagues to monitor and analyze key indicators to inform periodic review, program adaptation, and course-correction as needed
  • Provide technical capacity strengthening through ongoing mentoring, coaching, and trainings with country program focal points
  • Support advocacy and policy reform/ implementation processes through solid positioning of key issues and solutions
  • Support country teams in their strategic technical dialogue and engagement with critical stakeholders (donors, peer organisations, policy-makers, academia etc.)
  • Promote integrated outcomes for clients through collaboration across the VPR specialized areas and other sectors

Knowledge & Learning: You will support continuous sectoral learning and IRC technical leadership:

  • Document learnings from program activities and sharing takeaways and opportunities
  • Contribute to integrated context-relevant protection analysis, ensuring thematic risk analyses are available, integrated and by leveraging and triangulating quantitative and qualitative data from diverse sources
  • Share cross-contextual learnings with country program staff across the region and with other relevant counterparts
  • Collaborate with the Quality in Emergencies team and Emergencies and Humanitarian Action Unit (EHAU) counterparts during emergency classifications to support country programs to assess, design and implement high quality programming in acute emergency situations
  • Collaborate with other technical advisors within the region to promote integrated programming leadership
  • Refresh the sectoral evidence-base in collaboration with global and regional staff to influence approaches
  • Contribute to the delivery of VPRU strategic priorities
  • Maintain currency with sectoral best practices through continual learning and development D

Professional profile


Success in this position requires an individual with expertise in designing and delivering technical assistance to Protection Rule of Law programs, and with a deep understanding of the cultural, societal, and political contexts in at least one of the regions where IRC operates.


Work Experience:

  • A minimum of 6-8 years of relevant experience in implementing and/or managing Protection & Rule of Law programs, with on the ground programmatic experience in a service delivery organization, NGO or comparable international agency required.
  • Experience and familiarity with related donors, peer agencies and national contexts required, preferably in humanitarian, post-crisis, or climate impacted contexts.
  • Demonstrated expertise in technical program design, monitoring and evaluation, with the ability to turn concepts and strategy into measurable action.

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills
  • Strong organizational and time-management skills; proven ability to prioritize and deliver projects on time and independently.
  • Demonstrated ability to navigate a dynamic, cross-functional, global team structure in a large multi-national organization.
  • Demonstrated ability to work effectively with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
  • Strong analytic problem-solving skills.
  • Highly proficient in Microsoft Office suite.
  • Ability to manage and work through change in a proactive and positive manner.

Education:
Bachelor's Degree in international law, human rights law, international development or a relevant field required, Master's Degree preferred.

Language Skills:
Excellent spoken and written English is essential.

Key Working Relationships:
This position reports to the Asia Violence Prevention and Response Regional Lead, based in Pakistan. This position may potentially supervise occasional consultants and/or interns.

Regular communication with other Women Protection and Empowerment (WPE), Child Protection (CP) and Governance Technical Advisors, regional and country program teams, awards management and grants management staff, and other internal stakeholders.


Working Environment: Standard office working environment. This role may have some international travel up to 40% of the time. This role is based in one of our international hubs in Bangkok, Islamabad or Nairobi. Other limited IRC locations may be possible in line with minimal time zone overlap requirements.

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