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The International Rescue Committee is a global humanitarian aid, relief and development nongovernmental organization.
Job Description
Working in partnership with local civil society, government and private sector actors is fundamental to the International Rescue Committee’s mission to help people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster, including climate change, to survive, recover and gain control of their future. Effective local partnerships are central to the IRC’s strategic ambitions in Strategy100, resulting in more effective, responsive, and locally owned response and development efforts that reach more people and produce better outcomes for the people served. Investing in local civil society organizations (CSOs), community-based organizations (CBOs) and government entities recognizes those organizations not only as allies in achieving outcomes, but also as permanent actors’ catalysts and drivers of change.
The Strategy100 partnership ambitions reflect our learning that we can often reach more people with more effective, responsive, and timely assistance when we collaborate with local actors. Local partnerships also enable more durable outcomes, by strengthening local capacity and systems for sustained impact - particularly crucial at a time when 168 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, and the average length of displacement nears 20 years. In addition, as Strategy100 recognizes, ‘meaningful partnerships with leaders and organizations based in the communities we serve’ are central to our mission to address global inequalities. Effective local partnerships also enable the IRC to achieve agreed standards for humanitarian response, such as the Core Humanitarian Standards, and are increasingly prioritized by all of IRC’s public and private donors.
The Partnership Excellence for Equality and Results System (the ‘PEER System’ or ‘PEERS’) is the IRC’s authoritative source of policy, process, guidance and tools for working in partnership. The primary objective of PEERS is to ensure the IRC defines and pursues its role in each context based on how it can best add value to local capacities and systems, prioritizing principled, collaborative partnerships with local actors’ government, civil society, and private sector actors.
Scope of work
The Asia Regional Partnerships Advisor is a six-month position to provide intensive operational and strategic support to Asia country programs and the regional team to accelerate progress towards achieving country and organizational partnership ambitions. This includes supporting country programs to operationalize local partnership standards as well as define and deliver on the partnership components of their Strategy Action Plans, consistent with the Strategy100 partnership ambition. S/he supports and coordinates the development and implementation of the Asia region’s partnership ambitions and contributes to reinforcing reflections and practices that enhance IRC’s implementation of partnership principles. S/he ensures that regional partnership initiatives support country programs, provides change management advisory support to country leadership for quality delivery of partnership ambitions across all functions, supports and coaches CPs in the use of PEERS for the development and management of collaborative partnerships; and supports regional and country support functions to evolve and perform their role in PEERS.
Specific Responsibilities
Professional Qualifications And Requirements
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.
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