Current Opportunities at International Rescue Committee

• Together with partners, IRC has been implementing integrated emergency flood response activities. Considering the worsening situation, the IRC aims to conduct a detailed Gender Impact Assessment to understand the basic facts about the GBV situation and the gendered impacts of the floods. This assessment will inform IRC and its partners in planning to improve emergency protection responses, aiming to meet the needs of survivors and diverse clients and reduce the vulnerability of women and girls to GBV in Garissa, Tana River, and Mandera counties.

Project Objectives
The Objective Of The Consultancy Is To
Objective 1: Identify the scope and gendered impact of the floods, including direct and indirect effects on GBV, Protection, and how women, men, boys, and girls can access various services, resources and information.
Objective 2: Determine the various coping mechanisms, constraints, capabilities, and unique needs of women and men, including those with disabilities, to respond to the crisis across the range of protection and SRH needs, considering intersectionality.
Objective 3: Identify measures that enhance protection, GBV care, and support services, and prevent GBV through collaboration with clusters/sectors, the government, and other responsibility bearers.
Scope of Work
Required
In liaison with the Women Protection and Empowerment (WPE) Program Team, SRH Program Team, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) team, guidance from UNFPA, and input from partners, the consultant will be required to:

• Undertake a desk review of the gender situation in Garissa, Tana River, and Mandera.
• Conduct consultations with relevant stakeholders and use the recommendations to enrich the assessment.
• Conduct a validation exercise with stakeholders, including IRC.
• Submit the approved assessment to IRC.

Using a Feminist, Diversity And Inclusion Approach, The Gender Impact Assessment Will Gather Information On The Various Needs, Abilities, And Coping Mechanisms Of Men, Women, Boys, And Girls. The Following Primary Areas Of Inquiry Will Be The Focus Of Data Collection, With The Consultant Expected To Develop Data Collection Tools That Capture Sufficient Information

• Time use and Space: Analyzing how changes in time use and spatial dynamics, such as displacement and relocation, have affected gender roles and responsibilities during and after the floods.
• Decision-making and power dynamics in households: Investigating power dynamics within households and communities, and how these dynamics influence decision-making processes related to recovery and rebuilding efforts post-floods.
• Access to and control of resources and assets: Investigating how access to resources, services, and decision-making opportunities has been affected by the floods for women, men, girls and boys.
• Knowledge, Beliefs, and Perception: Examining how knowledge, beliefs, and perceptions about gender roles, disaster preparedness, and response have influenced individuals' and communities' ability to cope with and recover from the floods.
• Practices and Participation: Assessing how gendered practices and levels of participation in decision-making at household and community levels have been impacted by the floods.
• Legal Rights and Status: Evaluating the extent to which legal rights and social status, particularly concerning land ownership, inheritance, and protection from Gender-Based Violence (GBV), have been upheld or compromised due to the floods. The assessment should take into account how these intersecting identity variables affect women's access to their rights and assess how violations of those rights relate to other forms of discrimination. The assessment should be conducted rigorously and robustly using appropriate statistical and qualitative analysis techniques.

Deliverables / Outputs

• An inception report defining the study approach, methodology, sampling criteria, and tools used for qualitative and quantitative data collection. The sampling plan should be inclusive of all demographic groups and take gender equality into account.
• A thorough and well-structured final gender impact assessment report not longer than 20 pages per county.
• Supplementary files, including photographs, original and cleaned datasets, and statistical output files.
• Presentations using PowerPoint and a fact sheet, abstract, or both to share results with stakeholders.
• Present the report to relevant parties, such as the protection and GBV, working groups, who will be asked to validate the findings and contribute.
• An executive summary of findings in Word and PowerPoint presentation format.

Date and Duration of Consultancy
The consultancy period shall be for 20 days. The complete report must be submitted to IRC within 5 days after the validation exercise.
Minimum Qualifications
The ideal consultant should have:

• A post-graduate degree in Gender and Development, social sciences, or another relevant field.
• Over 5 years of experience conducting gender studies with evidence of publications or field reports on gender issues, with experience in women and adolescents programming.
• Demonstrated experience in conducting a gender impact assessment or a similar related assignment.
• Experience working collaboratively with government and other development partners.
• Experience working with diverse and special groups.
• Ability to communicate in English and Kiswahili; proficiency in local languages spoken in Garissa, Mandera, and Tana River is an added advantage.

The Successful Candidate Will Be Required To

• Follow protection guidelines when engaging with all participants in the assessment.
• Adhere to the organization policy of different partners involved in the assessment.
• Adhere to human rights, Protection Principles, socio-ecological, systems strengthening, and MHPSS approaches.
• Be guided by the spirit of collaboration, cooperation, partnerships, balance of power, and meaningful engagement of marginalized voices, including women, girls, young people, and persons living with disabilities, among others.

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The Overall Objective Of This Assignment Is To Assess The Gender-specific Impacts Of The Recent Flooding On The Safety And Security Of Vulnerable Groups, Particularly Women And Girls, The Elderly, Children And PWDs In Nairobi, Tana River And Mandera Counties, To Inform And Enhance Protection Response And Reduce The Risk Of Gender-based Violence Using The Human Rights Based Approach. The Specific Objectives Of The Consultancy Are

• Objective 1: Assess the effectiveness of existing safety and risk mitigation measures in place to protect vulnerable persons, especially women and girls, the elderly, children and PWDs from GBV and harmful practice in affected areas, identifying strengths, gaps, and weaknesses in current protection mechanisms and community support structures.
• Objective 2: Assess the prevalence and types of GBV incidents that have occurred as a result of the flooding by specific locations and contexts, and survivor profile (age, sex, ability).
• Objective 3: Assess the protection needs and risks besides GBV that have occurred because of the flooding by specific locations, contexts and vulnerable groups (age, sex, location and diversity) especially among the elderly, PWDs, children and other marginalized groups/individuals.
• Objective 4: Utilize the protection service mapping tool to evaluate the availability, accessibility, and quality of aftercare services, including GBV support, in flood-affected areas, identify barriers to adequate support, and assess community awareness and attitudes towards protection issues such as GBV, the needs of the elderly, PWDs, and children, and examine the impact of these factors on reporting and help-seeking behaviors.
• Objective 5: To recommend an action plan with short, medium, and long-term interventions and recommendations for local authorities, humanitarian organizations, and other stakeholders to improve the safety of vulnerable individuals and groups i.e girls, women, PWDs, children, elderly and ethnic minority or other marginalized group’s safety during climate change induced disasters such as floods.

Scope of Work
Required
In liaison with the Women Protection and Empowerment (WPE) Program Team, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) team, Protection and rule of Law team, guidance from UNFPA and input from partners, the consultant will be required to:

• Undertake a desk review related to county safety audits on gender-based violence and general protection situation in Nairobi, Tana River and Mandera counties.
• Conduct consultations with relevant stakeholders and use the recommendations to enrich the safety audits.
• Collect qualitative data from the community with inclusion of the vulnerable persons more so women and girls to assess their safety and security concerns, safe access to services and other concerns that put them at risk of GBV, exclusion and rights violations in the four counties.
• Develop, in consultation with IRC, a detailed data management plan, including: adoption of tools; recruitment and training of research assistants; pre-testing and review of tools; sampling methodology; implementation of data collection in the field; quality assurance; ethical considerations; data analysis, and reporting.
• Lead data collection in the counties including designing and leading key informant interviews and focus group discussions.
• Analyze data rigorously and robustly using appropriate qualitative analysis techniques.
• Conduct a validation exercise with stakeholders, including IRC.
• Submit the approved safety audits reports per county to IRC

Using a feminist and diversity inclusion approach, the safety audit assessment will gather information on the various needs, abilities, and coping mechanisms of men, women, boys, and girls.
Deliverables / Outputs

• An inception report defining the audit study approach, methodology, sampling criteria, and tools used for qualitative data collection. The sampling plan should be inclusive of all demographic groups and take age, sex, location and disability inclusion into account.
• A thorough and well-structured safety audit report not longer than 15 pages per county.
• Supplementary files, including photographs, original and cleaned datasets, and statistical output files.
• Presentations using PowerPoint and a fact sheet, abstract, or both will be utilized to share results with stakeholders.
• Present the report to relevant parties, such as the protection, GBV and SRH working groups, who will be asked to validate the findings and contribute.
• An executive copy with a summarized summary of findings in words of no longer than 15 pages, and in a PowerPoint presentation.
• 5.0 Date and Duration of Consultancy

The consultancy period shall be for 20 days. The Executive and county-specific audit reports must be submitted to IRC within 5 days after the validation exercise.
Minimum Qualifications
The ideal consultant should have: -

• A post-graduate degree in Gender and Development, social sciences or another relevant field.
• Over 5 years of experience conducting gender studies, protection monitoring, vulnerability assessments and or safety audits with evidence of publications or field reports on gender and gender-based violence, general protection, child protection issues with experience in women, children, and adolescents programming.
• The consultant must be able to demonstrate experience in conducting safety audits of a similar or related assignment.
• Experience in working collaboratively with government and other development partners.
• Experience working with marginalized and special groups.
• The ability to communicate in English, Kiswahili, and local languages as spoken in Tana River, or Mandera is an added advantage.

The Successful Candidate Will Be Required To

• Follow protection guidelines when engaging with all participants in the safety audit process.
• Adhere to the organization policy of different partners involved in the safety audit assessment.
• Adhere to human rights, Protection Principles, socio-ecological, systems strengthening and MHPSS approaches.
• Be guided by the spirit of collaboration, cooperation, partnerships, balance of power, and meaningful engagement of marginalized voices and women, girls, young people, and vulnerable, persons living with disability among others.

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• The IRC is seeking a Project Coordinator to provide holistic process support to the CREST project. The role will support all project management elements of this project by managing key initiatives and designing tools and templates to improve, optimize and streamline the effectiveness and efficiency of this work. Due to the project structure, the Coordinator role will be expected to support other roving projects throughout the life of CREST.

Hiring for this position is contingent on final project approval.
Key Responsibilities

• This position will work directly under the guidance of the Project Director for CREST and work in partnership to align on the responsibilities listed below. As the CREST project is based on the necessity of awaiting climate triggers, the Project Coordinator’s work may include roving support to projects outside of CREST. The Coordinator will be required to pivot rapidly back to CREST when climate triggers are met to launch the education response. The design of this roving mechanism will be developed between the CREST Coordinator, Director and the Education Technical Unit.

Project Management

• Responsible for the operational success of the project, which requires acute knowledge of project trigger mechanisms and project plans as well as a long-term vision of the project aims and vision.
• Collate inputs from all relevant stakeholders and support the Project Director and discerning what opportunities and gaps are present to finalize the project design.
• Lead in the development of the program’s rapid response mechanism and oversee its smooth deployment, which will require working across technical and operational sectors, such as supply chain and finance.
• Coordinate programming across multiple locations, ensuring consistency while also adapting to the unique needs of each locale.
• Work with partners to track long-range and short-term forecasts in order to prepare for a potential response.
• Support the project teams in developing, managing and implementing key project management tools, such as workplans, spending plans, procurement plans, etc.
• Ensure operational learnings are captured and implemented into updated program designs.

Project Operations

• Track project progress against high-level and detailed workplans and budget, working closely with implementing teams to meet programmatic, timeline and financial expectations.
• Prepare regular situational updates for project leadership on the status, challenges, and risks throughout the project.
• Coordinate with the grants and donor-facing teams to ensure reports and donor communications are comprehensive and compliant to donor and IRC expectations.
• Maintain strong relationships with project partners and vendors, managing vendor and consultant contracts and commitments.
• Develop a knowledge management system for the CREST project that documents and stores all elements of the project in a standardized, easy-to-use way.

Preferred Qualifications And Skills

• At least 5 years of project management experience in high complexity, multi-sectoral programming.
• Experience in cross-sectoral cash deployment, disaster risk finance, or climate effects on education in Kenya highly preferred.
• Exceptional advance planning and organizational skills. Able to effectively prioritize and follow multiple activities and deadlines simultaneously in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment.
• Analytical, strategic, and proactive in developing creative, innovative solutions to complex challenges.
• Fluency in English (written and spoken) is essential, with demonstrated exceptionally strong writing and presentation, communication and representation skills.
• Ability to navigate interpersonal and inter-departmental organizational and personnel dynamics to keep focus on goals and products.
• Flexible to adapt to changing requirements while also holding a firm sense of project needs and values.
• Must be able to work independently while being a team player with strong cross-cultural communication skills and sensitivity to interpersonal differences and a range of viewpoints.
• Strong commitment to the IRC’s mission, purpose and values.

Working Environment
The position is based in Nairobi, with expected travel to all project locations on a regular basis.
Key Working Relationships

• Supervisor: Project Director, CREST
• Directly supervises: n/a
• In coordination with: Implementation and content creation teams

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• The IRC is seeking a Project Director who will be responsible for strategic and operational oversight of this new project to carry forward all agreed project deliverables with FCDO and ensure the successful design and implementation of the project. The Project Director will work in collaboration with all project staff, including the IRC Kenya’s technical coordinators for economic recovery and development (ERD), child protection (CP) and education, and IRC ERD, CP, education and anticipatory action technical unit staff based in IRC headquarters. The role is based in Nairobi with frequent travel to the project sites.

Hiring for this position is contingent on final project approval which we anticipate receiving in the next 4 weeks.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership – 60%

• Provide strategic and operational leadership, vision, and direction for the project, defining implementation activities to achieve the greatest impact toward project goals and objectives;
• Develop, review, and monitor in coordination with key project staff, annual work and performance plans to ensure long-term and short-term priorities are on track;
• Oversee technical direction and project delivery to ensure activities are in line with the performance framework and meet all standard operational policies and procedures;
• Oversee management of partners and provide financial and operations support that optimizes resources through sound budgets, consistent financial tracking, and timely submission of reports to the donor;
• Report to donor through both formal and informal debriefings, annual and semi-annual reports;
• Maintain active and cooperative relationships with all key stakeholders, including government officials, project partners, other implementing agencies, and related institutions;
• Recruit, hire, and manage national staff and consultants as needed to carry out activities.
• Maintain a working knowledge of project financials, working with and supporting the financial officer to ensure that appropriate systems and procedures are in place and being follows.
• Represent the project and the organization in public and ensure distribution of information about project achievements and lesson learned;
• Support project staff by creating and maintaining a work environment that promotes teamwork, trust, mutual respect, and empowers staff to take responsibility.
• Ensure sign-off and submission of high-quality, timeline deliverables during inception and implementation phase.
• Collaborate with IRC operational and finance teams to ensure smooth pilot planning and implementation, ensuring that IRC systems are prepared to support effectively throughout the project life cycle.

Relationships and Communication – 20%

• Ensure that project communications are timely, relevant and accurate, including regular status updates.
• Liaise with other relevant project focal points in the region and in the sector to ensure that synergies and complementarities are incorporated in the CREST project.
• Represent project in conversations with key stakeholders, including the donor, coordination bodies, and policymakers.
• Enhance the visibility of education opportunities in climate crisis and expand the financial portfolio of this project.

Technical – 20%

• Serve as the main liaison with the HQ technical unit focal points, identifying when and how they can add most value, and ensuring that they provide technical insight and support to project activities and objectives.
• Lead needs assessment, design, and prototyping process, in collaboration with technical leads.
• Lead and document the process of developing and implementing integrated continency / preparedness plans to ensure educational continuity, as well as the technical design of the pilot, by engaging at different stakeholder levels including school, country, national and within the IRC.
• Monitor technical quality of implementation and lead process of continuous adaptation and improvement as pilot evolves.
• Work with partners to track long-range and short-term forecasts in order to prepare for a potential response.
• Regularly produce project learnings and oversee their internal and external distribution plan.

Preferred Qualifications And Skills
The Project Director for CREST will need to meet the requirements below:

• Must have 8-10 years of professional experience managing complex humanitarian programming that is large-scale, cross-functional, and multi-location, including overseeing teams across different locations, responding to complex humanitarian crises and/or post-conflict situations.
• Experience in cross-sectoral cash deployment, disaster risk finance, or climate effects on education in Kenya highly preferred.
• Exceptional advance planning and organizational skills. Able to effectively prioritize and follow multiple activities and deadlines simultaneously in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment.
• Analytical, strategic, and proactive in developing creative, innovative solutions to complex challenges.
• Fluency in English (written and spoken) is essential, with demonstrated exceptionally strong writing and presentation, communication and representation skills.
• Ability to navigate interpersonal and inter-departmental organizational and personnel dynamics to keep focus on goals and products.
• Flexible to adapt to changing requirements while also holding a firm sense of project needs and values.
• Strong commitment to the IRC’s mission, purpose and values.
• Must be able to work independently while being a team player with strong cross-cultural communication skills and sensitivity to interpersonal differences and a range of viewpoints.
• Experience with training and staff capacity building, managing and supporting partners, and representing projects to donors or clients.
• Advanced degree in relevant field desired, including Political Science and Public Administration, Climate Science, Disaster Risk Finance, International Relations, Public Policy; or equivalent experience.

Working Environment
The position is based in Nairobi, with expected travel to all project locations.
Key Working Relationships

• Direct reporting: Senior Director, Education
• Indirect reporting to: Deputy Director of Programs
• Directly supervises: CREST Project Coordinator
• Other internal contacts: Technical Coordinators in ERD and Education; Partnership Coordinator; MEAL Coordinator; Grants Team; IRC ERD, CP and Education Technical Units, including Anticipatory Action Specialist and Research teams