Current Opportunities at International Rescue Committee

Job Overview

• Health Unit Asia Regional Lead provides coherence and direction to the provision of technical support for Health Unit in the Asia Region. As a member of both the regional team and the technical unit Leadership team, the Regional Lead has accountability for technical quality and responsibility for assuring the advice from Technical Advisors is taken into appropriate action by the country office.
• The Health Unit Regional Lead (RL) will lead a highly effective, strategic Health Unit regional team to ensure the Asia Region has high quality, sound technical support needed to deliver on global program goals and effectively serve our clients. The role will serve as a functional leader, advisor, and a thought partner to both TU leadership and Regional leadership, with a particular focus on leading the operationalization of outcome strategies in Asia region, multi-sector and sub-sector program integration, evidence-based design, business development, and quality assurance for high-impact and scale strategic projects. The Regional Lead will coordinate across individuals and projects, ensuring clear priorities are set and communicated, and navigating the challenges inherent in being an advisory function. They will be an excellent people manager, with great team building/animation skills, able to help technical staff succeed and grow in their careers. The Regional Lead will invest deeply in understanding the context and dynamics of the country and regional teams and the challenges they face. They will ensure coherent ways of working within and across the regional technical team, as well as within the wider Health Unit, to align high quality technical support with the operational realities of the country offices. By doing so, the Regional Lead will ensure high quality programming across the Health practice areas in Asia region, high quality coordination and partnership with regional teams, effective team performance, and efficiency and impact of technical excellence service offering to Asia region and country programs.

Major Responsibilities
Functional Leadership, Coordination and Implementation Support:

• Provide technical leadership across the region, including by contextualizing the Health Outcome Strategy at the regional level in partnership with Technical Advisors, DRDs, + DDPs and in line with Country Program Strategic Action Plans
• Promote programming coherence and strategic direction of the Health programming portfolio including identifying opportunities for intra and cross-sectoral integration.
• Closely coordinate with Global Practice Leads and HQ functions to facilitate translation of global standards to the region and of country-generated innovation and learning to global practice.
• Support regional Technical Advisors to address implementation bottlenecks and critical quality concerns in the region’s programming portfolio, in partnership with the Deputy Regional Director
• Increase quality of technical collaboration across the region by fostering cross-regional dialogue with other regional technical teams
• Provide technical oversight of regional strategic projects as appropriate and/or budgeted, escalating quality assurance challenges as needed.
• Foster relationships with a wide range of both internal and external stakeholders to make strategic connections and identify opportunities.
• Provide stop-gap direct implementation support as/if appropriate and budgeted on CP-grants.

Staff management, learning, and development

• Lead and line manage a high performing team of Health regional Technical Advisors, to design and support Health programming across the region, and generate evidence and learning for local and global strategies.
• Accountable for ensuring TAs maintain core knowledge and expertise and apply global best practices to their work across health sub-sectors.
• Work closely with Regional and CRRD HQ People & Culture colleagues to devise strategies of attracting, onboarding, developing, and nurturing diverse regional technical staff at the Advisor and Coordinator levels, and ensuring an inclusive work environment. In collaboration with the DRD, Regional and CRRD HQ P&C, and Global Practice Leads, plan and implement professional development for staff ensuring targeted learning.

Program Design and Business Development

• Provide technical leadership and oversight to region-led (multi-country) business development, as well as particularly large single-country opportunities, together with the Technical Advisors, Global Practice Leads and others as relevant.
• Support and promote technical and programmatic innovation in the region, based on technically-sound and contextually-grounded creativity and/or insights.
• Collaborate with other technical area Regional Leads and Technical Advisors to promote regional uptake of solutions that are proven to increase scale and deepen impact, with close attention to where integrated programming would multiply efficacy and efficiency.
• Work with Deputy Regional Directors, Directors of Awards Management and Deputy Directors of Programs for country programs to understand the region’s donors for the Health sector, the donors’ priorities in the region, and the regional funding priorities of Country Programs for Health Outcome area.
• Support regional donor engagement to deepen donor understanding of IRC’s work the region, strategically foster and develop new donor relationships in close coordination with the regional team, and support the development of regional business development opportunities.
• Support the development and growth of strategic partnerships with mission-aligned organizations at the regional level who share commitments towards scale and impact and have complementary areas of expertise for collaboration towards delivering better outcomes for clients.
• Accountable for coordinating across expert staff to better integrate cross-cutting issues into [sector] programs (e.g., safeguarding, gender equality, diversity and inclusion, climate adaptation, etc.).

Knowledge Management, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning

• Lift up program learning for sharing across the region and to inform global strategic direction of (relevant) Global Practice Areas
• Facilitate interpretation and use of sector data in regional learning routines and put in place routines and accountability mechanisms to encourage uptake of data-driven recommendations made by TAs.
• Collaborate with Regional Measurement Advisors to ensure that Regional Technical Advisors support good MEAL practice for Health programming in Asia, including the use of high-quality indicators, the use of IRC standard data tools, and the inclusion of MEAL activities in project plans.

External Influence and Representation

• Engage in regional sector coordination groups and bilateral relationships as appropriate, to represent IRC and support priority policy and practice shifts.
• Support regions in addressing policy & practice shifts needed to enable program impact and scale.
• In close collaboration and partnership with the Deputy Regional Director, regional AMU and Advocacy focal points, ensure effective networking and representation in relation to the [Technical Unit] practice areas, through mobilizing input from global practice leads.

Key Working Relationships

• Position Reports to: Dual reporting line to Deputy Director, Health Unit and DRD, Asia
• Direct Reports: Technical Advisors

Key Internal Relationships

• Health Unit Leadership Team
• Health Unit Global Practice Team(s)
• Health Unit’s Policy and Advocacy, Partnership and Program Development, MEAL leads
• Regional Leads and Technical Advisors supporting the region from other Technical Units
• Regional Measurement Advisor
• Regional Leadership Team, Country Directors, DDPs, CRRD colleagues across multiple roles
• Regional Advocacy and Comms leads
• Regional Safety & Security lead
• Asia Awards Management Unit team
• CRRD Senior Management Team and Leadership Group; Regional Leadership Teams
• Global HQ and AMU focal points

Key External Relationships

• Regional Health Programming Cluster leads and stakeholders, INGOs, Red Cross/Crescent Movement counterparts, Donor and policy makers, counterparts in relevant UN agencies.

Desired Experience And Skills

• Highly seasoned professional with at least 8+ years of progressive technical and management experience leading and managing technical teams.
• Established technical expertise in at least one of the Health Global Practice Areas relevant to Asia. Professional and/or lived experience in Asia context and sound understanding of the region is a huge advantage.
• Strong track record of leading multi-location technical programs with excellent management and leadership skills including coaching, mentoring, and performance management.
• Strong track record of driving uptake of evidence-based practice
• Experience managing multiple projects with multi-disciplinary collaborators.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across a wide range of diverse stakeholders internally and externally.
• Strong track record of identifying and converting business development opportunities (when leading and managing the leader)
• Knowledge and understanding of the respective regional context.
• Ability to work, manage, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment; outstanding business acumen, critical thinking, problem solving and decision-making skills required.
• Superb inter-personal, written and verbal communication skills with ability to collaborate across countries, cultures, and departments.
• Fluency in English required; any other regional language is a huge advantage.
• Ability to travel regionally and globally up to 35% of the time, occasionally on short notice.

Education:

• Masters’ degree in Public Health, and/or related fields or an equivalent professional experience background is required. Sound training on the use of data and research evidence for programmatic decisions and rigorous analytic skills are an advantage.

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Job Overview

• The Global Practice Lead, Environmental Health is the organizational leader for Environmental Health for the Crisis Response, Recovery and Development (CRRD) department and is a core member of the Health Unit’s Leadership Team. They are responsible for devising and leading strategies to raise the quality, impact, and scale of IRC’s Environmental Health programming.
• The Global Practice Lead in Environmental Health will ensure the scope, quality and relevance of global technical standards, including the generation and promotion of evidence in their technical area. Global Practice Lead will closely collaborate with Regional Leads , EH Technical Advisors, and Technical Coordinators in promoting technical best practice in CRRD programming. They will facilitate Technical Unit-led and high impact strategic business development by providing excellent technical insights and developing and maintaining strategic relationships and networks. In line with the Health strategy, the Global Practice Lead will lead strategic planning for the environmental health practice area. The Global Practice Lead, Environmental Health reports into the Senior Director, Health Unit and may manage highly specialized experts/specialists colleagues to generate global evidence and best practice as their portfolio requires.
• The EH lead is responsible for establishing a center of excellence on water and coordinate the Health Unit efforts on addressing climate change in health programming.

Major Responsibilities
Strategy, Program Design and Business Development

• Act as the organizational leader for CRRD in Environmental health internally and externally
• Lead strategic direction and delivery planning for Environmental Health in line with the organizational global strategy (both S100 and Health Strategy)
• Lead the development of sustainable and scalable water solutions, mitigating the impacts of climate change on water security and human health.
• Responsible for identifying global areas of programmatic risk in EH and elevating issues to Regional Leads and Health Unit leadership.
• Collaborate with other Global Practice Leads to promote integrated program designs within Health, and across all IRC sectors that increase scale and deepen impact,
• Facilitate collaboration across Health, Nutrition and EH Practice Areas on the development of climate adaptation, mitigation, and anticipatory actions.
• Lead Technical Unit led global business development for Environmental Health and support strategic project level proposals.
• Lead coordination with AMU to drive fundraising from Public and Institutional donors and with ER to drive fundraising from Private donors to meet the Health Unit strategic priorities related to EH

Global Practice Implementation Support

• Responsible for drawing on evidence-based best practice to provide technical oversight of IRC’s global technical standards, methodologies, and tools for EH, in partnership with Technical Advisors and specialists
• Accountable for the development of a limited number of high-value tools and methodologies to better integrate cross-cutting issues into EH programs (e.g., gender equality, diversity and inclusion, climate adaptation, etc.).
• Accountable for establishing information and knowledge management systems that support Regional Leads and Technical Advisors stay up to date on global technical standards, methodologies, and tools.
• Establish competency framework for EH practice area and work closely with Regional Leads to identify competency gaps and drive capacity strengthening.
• Accountable for ensuring Technical Advisors and Technical Coordinators have the tools and resources that are needed to measure EH programs.
• Oversee Technical Unit-led strategic awards in EH, working closely with regional Technical Advisors as applicable and the Grant Operations and Analytics Team
• Line manage global specialists, as applicable.
• Support Technical Advisors and Technical Coordinators with thorny technical problems, career planning support, and mentorship, as appropriate.

Research, Data, Knowledge Management, and Organizational Learning

• Set up and lead a Community of Practice and other channels for EH to ensure pro-active and inclusive management with sustained learning, development, innovation, and best practice sharing.
• Coordinate with Regional Leads and Technical Advisors to lift up program learning for cross-sharing and incorporation into global best practice.
• Guide research and evidence use efforts in EH, the Climate-health nexus, working closely with colleagues and leaders in Airbel, the Health Technical Unit, other technical units, and regional colleagues.
• Provide technical inputs to EH-specific MEAL tools and methodologies, and support data interpretation in learning routines.

External Influence, Relationships and Representation

• Act as a key strategic advisor to Policy & Advocacy, Research & Innovation, and External Relations teams on advocacy campaigns and priority policy and practice shifts related to EH.
• Responsible for identification, development, and maintenance of strategic relationships and global partnerships with relevant stakeholders (e.g. donors, UN agencies, NGOs, research and educational institutions, private sector actors) in EH Global Practice area.
• Represent IRC in external forums as relevant.

Key Working Relationships

• Position Reports to: Senior Director, Health Unit, CRRD Technical Excellence
• Member of Health Unit’s Leadership Team
• Direct Reports: 1-2 Technical Experts/Specialists, TU-led Project Directors as applicable

Key Internal Relationships

• Health Unit Senior Management Team
• Health Unit’s Deputy Director, Enabling Areas Leads and other Global Practice Leads
• Health Regional Lead team across 6 regions, and regional Technical Advisors
• Policy Solutions, Advocacy Influence, and Systems Change Global Teams
• CRRD Senior Management Team and Leadership Group; Regional Leadership Teams
• Global leaders in the areas of ERD, Education, Governance
• Global HQ and AMU, EHAU, Airbel Team
• Key External Relationships: INGO counterparts; UN Agencies, Public and Private Donors

Desired Experience And Skills

• Established or growing recognition as an expert in the practice area, at regional or global level, with a minimum of 12+ years of progressive experience of designing, leading and implementing programs with 7+ years in the Environmental Health
• Demonstrated experience leading programs in fragile/humanitarian settings and across the humanitarian development nexus.
• Strong track record of driving uptake of evidence-based practice
• Demonstrated experience in sectoral strategy design and planning.
• Experience with sectoral policy and advocacy efforts and campaigns for change (as relevant)
• Excellent communication, influencing, and storytelling skills.
• Excellent management and leadership skills including coaching, mentoring, and performance management.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and convert business development opportunities for self and staff.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across a wide range of diverse stakeholders internally and externally.
• Demonstrated ability to shape the vision and agenda within the domain area they are working.
• Ability to work, manage, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment; outstanding business acumen, critical thinking, problem solving and decision-making skills required.
• Superb inter-personal, written and verbal communication skills with ability to collaborate across countries, cultures, and departments.
• Track record of scaled innovations preferred, ideally including experience working on both digital and analog solutions.
• Fluency in English required; Arabic, French and/or Spanish also strongly preferred.
• Ability to travel globally up to 25% of the time, occasionally on short notice.

Education:

• Master’s degree in environmental health, Public Health and/or related fields or an equivalent professional experience background is required. Sound training on the use of data and research evidence for programmatic decisions and rigorous analytic skills are an advantage.

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Job Overview

• Health Unit Central Africa Regional Lead provides coherence and direction to the provision of technical support for Health Unit in the Central Africa Region. As a member of both the regional team and the technical unit Leadership team, the Regional Lead has accountability for technical quality and responsibility for assuring the advice from Technical Advisors is taken into appropriate action by the country office.
• The Health Unit Regional Lead (RL) will lead a highly effective, strategic Health Unit regional team to ensure the Central Africa Region has high quality, sound technical support needed to deliver on global program goals and effectively serve our clients. The role will serve as a functional leader, advisor, and a thought partner to both TU leadership and Regional leadership, with a particular focus on leading the operationalization of outcome strategies in Central Africa region, multi-sector and sub-sector program integration, evidence-based design, business development, and quality assurance for high-impact and scale strategic projects. The Regional Lead will coordinate across individuals and projects, ensuring clear priorities are set and communicated, and navigating the challenges inherent in being an advisory function. They will be an excellent people manager, with great team building/animation skills, able to help technical staff succeed and grow in their careers. The Regional Lead will invest deeply in understanding the context and dynamics of the country and regional teams and the challenges they face. They will ensure coherent ways of working within and across the regional technical team, as well as within the wider Health Unit, to align high quality technical support with the operational realities of the country offices. By doing so, the Regional Lead will ensure high quality programming across the Health practice areas in Central Africa region, high quality coordination and partnership with regional teams, effective team performance, and efficiency and impact of technical excellence service offering to the Central Africa region and country programs.

Major Responsibilities
Functional Leadership, Coordination, and Implementation Support:

• Provide technical leadership across the region, including by contextualizing the Health Outcome Strategy at the regional level in partnership with Technical Advisors, DRDs, + DDPs and in line with Country Program Strategic Action Plans
• Promote programming coherence and strategic direction of the Health programming portfolio including identifying opportunities for intra and cross-sectoral integration
• Closely coordinate with Global Practice Leads and HQ functions to facilitate translation of global standards to the region and of country-generated innovation and learning to global practice
• Support regional Technical Advisors to address implementation bottlenecks and critical quality concerns in the region’s programming portfolio, in partnership with the Deputy Regional Director
• Increase quality of technical collaboration across the region by fostering cross-regional dialogue with other regional technical teams
• Provide technical oversight of regional strategic projects as appropriate and/or budgeted, escalating quality assurance challenges as needed
• Foster relationships with a wide range of both internal and external stakeholders to make strategic connections and identify opportunities
• Provide stop-gap direct implementation support as/if appropriate and budgeted on CP-grants

Staff management, learning, and development

• Lead and line manage a high performing team of Health regional Technical Advisors, to design and support Health programming across the region, and generate evidence and learning for local and global strategies
• Accountable for ensuring TAs maintain core knowledge and expertise and apply global best practices to their work across health sub-sectors
• Work closely with Regional and CRRD HQ People & Culture colleagues to devise strategies of attracting, onboarding, developing, and nurturing diverse regional technical staff at the Advisor and Coordinator levels, and ensuring an inclusive work environment. In collaboration with the DRD, Regional and CRRD HQ P&C, and Global Practice Leads, plan and implement professional development for staff ensuring targeted learning.

Program Design and Business Development

• Provide technical leadership and oversight to region-led (multi-country) business development, as well as particularly large single-country opportunities, together with the Technical Advisors, Global Practice Leads and others as relevant.
• Support and promote technical and programmatic innovation in the region, based on technically-sound and contextually-grounded creativity and/or insights
• Collaborate with other technical area Regional Leads and Technical Advisors to promote regional uptake of solutions that are proven to increase scale and deepen impact, with close attention to where integrated programming would multiply efficacy and efficiency
• Work with Deputy Regional Directors, Directors of Awards Management and Deputy Directors of Programs for country programs to understand the region’s donors for the Health sector, the donors’ priorities in the region, and the regional funding priorities of Country Programs for Health Outcome area
• Support regional donor engagement to deepen donor understanding of IRC’s work the region, strategically foster and develop new donor relationships in close coordination with the regional team, and support the development of regional business development opportunities
• Support the development and growth of strategic partnerships with mission-aligned organizations at the regional level who share commitments towards scale and impact and have complementary areas of expertise for collaboration towards delivering better outcomes for clients
• Accountable for coordinating across expert staff to better integrate cross-cutting issues into [sector] programs (e.g., gender equality, diversity and inclusion, climate adaptation, etc.).

Knowledge Management, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning

• Lift up program learning for sharing across the region and to inform global strategic direction of (relevant) Global Practice Areas
• Facilitate interpretation and use of sector data in regional learning routines and put in place routines and accountability mechanisms to encourage uptake of data-driven recommendations made by TAs
• Collaborate with Regional Measurement Advisors to ensure that Regional Technical Advisors support good MEAL practice for Health programming in Central Africa including the use of high-quality indicators, the use of IRC standard data tools, and the inclusion of MEAL activities in project plans

External Influence and Representation

• Engage in regional sector coordination groups and bilateral relationships as appropriate, to represent IRC and support priority policy and practice shifts
• Support regions in addressing policy & practice shifts needed to enable program impact and scale
• In close collaboration and partnership with the Deputy Regional Director, regional AMU and Advocacy focal points, ensure effective networking and representation in relation to the [Technical Unit] practice areas, through mobilizing input from global practice leads.

Key Working Relationships

• Position Reports to: Dual reporting line to Deputy Director, Health Unit and DRD, Central Africa
• Direct Reports: Technical Advisors

Key Internal Relationships

• Health Unit Leadership Team
• Health Unit Global Practice Team(s)
• Health Unit’s Policy and Advocacy, Partnership and Program Development, MEAL leads
• Regional Leads and Technical Advisors supporting the region from other Technical Units
• Regional Measurement Advisor
• Regional Leadership Team, Country Directors, DDPs, CRRD colleagues across multiple roles
• Regional Advocacy and Comms leads
• Regional Safety & Security lead
• Central Africa Awards Management Unit team
• CRRD Senior Management Team and Leadership Group; Regional Leadership Teams
• Global HQ and AMU focal points

Key External Relationships

• Regional Health Programming Cluster leads and stakeholders, INGOs, Red Cross/Crescent Movement counterparts, Donor and policy makers, counterparts in relevant UN agencies

Desired Experience And Skills

• Highly seasoned professional with at least 8+ years of progressive technical and management experience leading and managing technical teams.
• Established technical expertise in at least one of the Health Global Practice Areas relevant to Central Africa. Professional and/or lived experience in Central Africa context and sound understanding of the region is a huge advantage.
• Strong track record of leading multi-location technical programs with excellent management and leadership skills including coaching, mentoring, and performance management
• Strong track record of driving uptake of evidence-based practice
• Experience managing multiple projects with multi-disciplinary collaborators
• Demonstrated ability to influence across a wide range of diverse stakeholders internally and externally
• Strong track record of identifying and converting business development opportunities (when leading and managing the leader)
• Knowledge and understanding of the respective regional context
• Ability to work, manage, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment; outstanding business acumen, critical thinking, problem solving and decision-making skills required
• Superb inter-personal, written and verbal communication skills with ability to collaborate across countries, cultures, and departments
• Fluency in English required; any other regional language is a huge advantage
• Ability to travel regionally and globally up to 35% of the time, occasionally on short notice

Education:

• Masters’ degree in Public Health, and/or related fields or an equivalent professional experience background is required. Sound training on the use of data and research evidence for programmatic decisions and rigorous analytic skills are an advantage.

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Job Overview

• Violence Prevention and Response (VPR) Asia Regional Lead provides coherence and direction to the provision of technical support for Women’s Protection and Empowerment, Child Protection, and Protection - Rule of Law in Asia. As a member of both the regional team and the technical unit senior management team, the VPR Asia Regional Lead has accountability for technical quality and responsibility for assuring the advice from Technical Advisors is taken into appropriate action by the country office.
• The VPR Asia Regional Lead will lead a highly effective, strategic violence prevention and response regional team to ensure the Asia Region has high quality, sound technical support needed to deliver on global program goals and effectively serve our clients. The role will serve as a functional leader, advisor, and a thought partner to both TU leadership and Regional leadership, with a particular focus on leading the operationalization of the Safety strategy in Asia, multi-sector and sub-sector program integration, mainstreaming of Gender Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion across programming, evidence-based design, business development, and quality assurance for high-impact and scale strategic projects. The VPR Asia Regional Lead will coordinate across individuals and projects, ensuring clear priorities are set and communicated, and navigating the challenges inherent in being an advisory function. They will be an excellent people manager, with great team building/animation skills, able to help technical staff succeed and grow in their careers. The VPR Asia Regional Lead will invest deeply in understanding the context and dynamics of the country and regional teams and the challenges they face. They will ensure coherent ways of working within and across the regional technical team, as well as within the wider VPRU, to align high quality technical support with the operational realities of the country offices. The VPR Asia Regional Lead will champion technical external representation in regional fora for promoting learning, advocacy and showcasing IRC's programming as well as engage with regional colleagues on donor facing engagement. By doing so, the Regional Lead will ensure high quality programming across the Child Protection, Protection – Rule of Law, and Women’s Protection and Empowerment practice areas in Asia, high quality coordination and partnership with regional teams, effective team performance, and efficiency and impact of technical excellence service offering to the Asia region and country programs.

Major Responsibilities
Functional Leadership, Coordination and Implementation Support:

• Provide technical leadership across the region, including by contextualizing the Safety Strategy at the regional level in partnership with Technical Advisors, Deputy Regional Director (DRD), + Deputy Director of Programs (DDP) and in line with Country Program Strategic Action Plans
• Promote programming coherence and strategic direction of the VPR programming portfolio including identifying opportunities for intra and cross-sectoral integration.
• Closely coordinate with Global Practice Leads and HQ functions to facilitate translation of global standards to the region and of country-generated innovation and learning to global practice.
• Support regional Technical Advisors to address implementation bottlenecks and critical quality concerns in the region’s programming portfolio, in partnership with the Deputy Regional Director (DRD)
• Increase quality of technical collaboration across the region by fostering cross-regional dialogue with other regional technical teams
• Provide technical oversight of regional strategic projects in collaboration with the Global Practice Leads as appropriate and/or budgeted, escalating quality assurance challenges as needed.
• Foster relationships with a wide range of both internal and external stakeholders to make strategic connections and identify opportunities.
• Provide stop-gap direct implementation support as/if appropriate and budgeted on CP-grants.

Staff management, learning, and development

• Lead and line manage a high performing team of VPR Technical Advisors and GEDI in Programs staff to design and support VPR programming across the region, and generate evidence and learning for local and global strategies.
• Accountable for ensuring TAs maintain core knowledge and expertise and apply global best practices to their work across health sub-sectors.
• Work closely with Regional and CRRD HQ People & Culture colleagues to devise strategies of attracting, onboarding, developing, and nurturing diverse regional technical staff at the Advisor and Coordinator levels, and ensuring an inclusive work environment. In collaboration with the DRD, Regional and CRRD HQ P&C, and Global Practice Leads, plan and implement professional development for staff ensuring targeted learning.

Program Design and Business Development

• Provide technical leadership and oversight to region-led (multi-country) business development, as well as particularly large single-country opportunities, together with the Technical Advisors, Global Practice Leads and others as relevant.
• Support and promote technical and programmatic innovation in the region, based on technically-sound and contextually grounded creativity and/or insights.
• Collaborate with other technical area Regional Leads and Technical Advisors to promote regional uptake of solutions that are proven to increase scale and deepen impact, with close attention to where integrated programming would multiply efficacy and efficiency.
• Work with DRD, Director of Awards Management and DDPs for country programs to understand the region’s donors for the protection sectors, the donors’ priorities in the region, and the regional funding priorities of Country Programs for the Safety Outcomes
• Support regional donor engagement to deepen donor understanding of IRC’s work the region, strategically foster and develop new donor relationships in close coordination with the regional team, and support the development of regional business development opportunities.
• Support the development and growth of strategic partnerships with mission-aligned organizations at the regional level who share commitments towards scale and impact and have complementary areas of expertise for collaboration towards delivering better outcomes for clients.
• Accountable for coordinating across expert staff to better integrate cross-cutting issues into VPR programs (e.g., safeguarding, gender equality, diversity and inclusion, climate adaptation, etc.).

Knowledge Management, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning

• Lift up program learning for sharing across the region and to inform global strategic direction of (relevant) Global Practice Areas
• Facilitate interpretation and use of sector data in regional learning routines and put in place routines and accountability mechanisms to encourage uptake of data-driven recommendations made by TAs.
• Collaborate with Regional Measurement Advisors to ensure that Regional Technical Advisors support good MEAL practice for VPR programming in Asia, including the use of high-quality indicators, the use of IRC standard data tools, and the inclusion of MEAL activities in project plans.

External Influence and Representation

• Engage in regional sector coordination groups and bilateral relationships as appropriate, to represent IRC, showcase learning from our client-centered program implementation, and support priority policy and practice shifts.
• Support regions in addressing policy & practice shifts needed to enable program impact and scale.
• In close collaboration and partnership with the DRD, regional Awards Management and Advocacy focal points, ensure effective networking and representation in relation to Child Protection, Protection – Rule of Law, and Women’s Protection and Empowerment, through mobilizing input from global practice leads.

Key Working Relationships

• Position Reports to: Dual reporting line to Deputy Director, VPRU and DRD, Asia

Direct Reports:

• 1 Women’s Protection and Empowerment Technical Advisors
• 1 Child Protection Technical Advisor
• 1 Protection Rule of Law Technical Advisor
• Regional GEDI in Programming staff, if applicable

Key Internal Relationships

• VPRU Deputy Director
• Global Practice Leads for Child Protection and [Protection – Rule of Law] and Women’s Protection and Empowerment
• VPR Regional Leads across 5 other regions
• Regional Measurement Advisor
• Regional Leadership Team, Country Directors, DDPs, CRRD colleagues across multiple roles
• Regional Advocacy and Comms leads
• Regional Safety & Security lead
• Regional Safeguarding Advisor
• Asia Awards Management Unit team
• CRRD Senior Management Team and Leadership Group; Regional Leadership Teams
• Global HQ and AMU focal points

Key External Relationships

• Global Protection Cluster leads and stakeholders, INGOs, Red Cross/Crescent Movement counterparts, International Protection Coordination Platforms and Coalitions, Donor and policy makers, GBV counterparts in relevant UN agencies.

Desired Experience And Skills

• Highly seasoned professional with at least 8+ years of progressive technical and management experience leading and managing technical teams.
• Established technical expertise in at least one of the VPR Global Practice Areas relevant to Asia. Professional and/or lived experience in Asia context and sound understanding of the region is a huge advantage.
• Excellent management and leadership skills including coaching, mentoring, and performance management.
• Strong track record of leading multi-location technical programs
• Strong track record of driving uptake of evidence-based practice
• Experience managing multiple projects with multi-disciplinary collaborators.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across a wide range of diverse stakeholders internally and externally.
• Strong track record of identifying and converting business development opportunities (when leading and managing the leader)
• Knowledge and understanding of the respective regional context.
• Ability to work, manage, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment; outstanding business acumen, critical thinking, problem solving and decision-making skills required.
• Superb inter-personal, written and verbal communication skills with ability to collaborate across countries, cultures, and departments.
• Fluency in English required. Any other regionally spoken language is an advantage.
• Ability to travel regionally and globally up to 35% of the time, occasionally on short notice.

Education:

• Masters’ degree in Social Sciences, International Law and/or related fields or an equivalent professional experience background is required. Sound training on the use of data and research evidence for programmatic decisions and rigorous analytic skills are an advantage.

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• The role of the RPA is to both support country offices to deliver on the partnership commitments of their Strategy Action Plans and to equip the regional team to effectively fulfil their roles in PEERs in a manner that creates a culture of partnership across Asia. S/he will provide critical partnership change management support to Country office SMTs, Technical Coordinators, Partnership Coordinators and others as needed to establish the core building blocks for partnership success. This will involve working closely with country offices, regional project teams, and regional functional and technical leads to enact or strengthen appropriate management routines and personnel structures and competencies across all departments, to effectively promote the IRC’s partnership principles in practice. The RPA will work across departments to enable effective use of PEERS to apply a ‘why not partner’ approach to strategy, program and project design, and to establish and develop strategic partnerships with local actors.

Specific Responsibilities

• Ensure country offices and regional programs have the right structures and processes in place to deliver on partnership commitments and Strategy Action Plan targets.
• Support country offices to design and develop management structures and tools to facilitate country offices to implement a one-IRC approach to partnership through supporting partnership working group, SMT-level decision-making, and integrating PEERS and Project Cycle Meeting (PCM) routines.
• Support country offices to develop and/or refine partnership strategies to align and guide progress towards partnership goals, and to leverage adequate support from across the organization for successful implementation of these strategies.
• Design, develop and guide country office adoption of models for meaningful partner participation in key decision-making processes, including strategy development, program design and management, collaborative project budget development and feedback management, etc.
• Work with country offices to establish effective feedback mechanisms for understanding partner perspectives, and ensuring accountability to that feedback
• Serve as a resource for country and regional teams to support optimizing operational or finance business processes to reduce blockers to achieving the IRC’s partnership ambitions
• Actively engage with country office and regional management to foster the collaborative and open culture necessary to partner as equals, including through the direction and tone the SMT and modeling of partnership principles.
• Build capacity of country and regional teams in administering effective partnerships and for strengthening approaches to capacity sharing with local partners
• Strengthen the capacity of country teams and regional technical and functional leads in the use of PEERs for developing and managing principled collaboratie partnerships, including conducting PEERs trainings and coaching, guiding and mentoring partnership leads and partnership-facing staff in each country program.
• Provide partnership support to country office in development business development strategies, teaming approaches, and collaborative program design with partners for specific opportunities.
• Lead cross-country learning and sharing of best practices around partnerships and develop a regional partnership Community of Practice, and contribute experiences from Asia into the IRC organizational evolution of our partnership approaches, strategy and PEERs.
• Foster and promote effective capacity sharing approaches across CPs, including effective project support across all organizational functions, and ensuring that we are understanding and leveraging opportunities to learn from partners
• Collaborate with relevant technical advisors, regional and country colleagues as needed to assure guidance and capacity building support is available to partners for technical implementation and program quality.
• Strengthen, and where needed, define processes for how the regional level support functions contribute to CP level application of PEERs and to the partnership processes at country level
• Grow the number and quality of strategic partnerships across the region by guiding country offices on strategic partnership engagement and through building strong networks among partners at the regional level
• Support CPs to analyze the roles, capacities and strategies of local civil society, government and private sector actors, to define IRC’s role based on its added value to local actors and systems (asking ‘why not partner’) and guide country teams in fostering long-term relationships with key strategic partners
• Guide technical and partnership leads to identify and establish strategic partnership relationships with civil society organizations, government entities and private sector actors, as well as with networks, based on the stakeholder analysis
• Grow the IRC’s regional partnership network to leverage for impact at country level and to align proactive partnering with program development priorities across the region.
• Collaborate across functional areas, in particular with Regional Emergencies Director and Regional GEDI Director to promote greater partnership readiness at the country and regional levels for both emergency response as well as to identify and promote greater partnerships with feminist and women-led organizations.

Key Working Relationships

• Reports to the Deputy Regional Director and the CRRD Partnerships Director in a Management-in-Partnership matrix arrangement; Significant engagement with: CDs, DDP, Partnership leads in each country, DDOs and DDFs, TAs, DAM and RVP, and regional functional Directors

Professional Qualifications And Requirements

• Minimum of five years’ experience in partnership, capacity sharing, organizational learning and/or related work required, and progressive managerial and/or advisory experience strongly preferred. Strong familiarity, working experience and lived experience in Asia strongly preferred.
• Degrees in non-profit management, business management, organizational development, international development or another related field, an asset.
• Thorough knowledge of best practices in partnership and capacity sharing, with demonstrated experience in integrating this theme into programming.
• Familiarity with key institutions and donor agencies in capacity sharing.
• Experienced in setting up and using monitoring and evaluation systems for partnerships.
• Demonstrated ability to transfer knowledge to diverse audiences through participatory adult training, mentoring, distance learning, and other formal and non-formal methods. Strong workshop design and facilitation skills.
• Collaborative, team management style; ability to work well in diverse, multi-cultural team settings.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communications skills.
• Skilled at persuading and leading through influence, negotiation and coaching.
• Significant capacity for strategic thinking and systems development.
• Fluency in English required.
• Must be willing to travel throughout the region approximately one-third of the time, occasionally at short notice and sometimes under strenuous conditions