Organization: International Rescue Committee
Country: United States of America
Closing date: 23 Oct 2015
Job Overview/Summary:
The IRCs EPRU and Emergency Response Team (ERT)
The IRCs Emergency Preparedness and Response Unit (EPRU) leads or oversees IRCs global emergency preparedness and response activities. The mission of the EPRU is to help meet the immediate survival needs and reduce suffering in conflict or disaster affected populations during the acute phase of an emergency. The EPRU also works in protracted emergencies, where the risk to life may be reduced but the population is still subjected to rights abuses and a lack of basic services. The EPRU is also charged with enhancing the IRCs global and country level emergency preparedness capacity. The Emergency Response Team serves as the standing team of specialized professionals ready to deploy to an emergency within 72 hours.
The IRCs Child and Youth Protection and Development Unit (CYPD)
The Child and Youth Protection and Development (CYPD) Unit works towards the protection and development of children and youth and consists of three sub-sectors; Child Protection, Education and Youth & Livelihoods. Together these sub-sectors promote the wellbeing of children and youth through working across a child"s or youth"s environment with families, communities, civil society, markets and government and through safe and developmentally appropriate programs across age groups.
SCOPE OF WORK:
The IRC ERT staff is expected to be deployed in the field, either in an emergency or roving capacity, for up to 65% of the time (+/- 8 months out of the year) and must be able to deploy to the site of an emergency within 72 hours of notification.
Members of the Emergency Response Team are deployed to either support existing country programs in their emergency response, or to initiate a new program in the crisis zone. The overall responsibility of the team is to rapidly and effectively design, develop and manage the IRC"s on-site humanitarian response to meet the immediate needs of the affected population. The ERT is also responsible for supporting the transfer of responsibilities and knowledge to the long-term staff to ensure the continuity of IRC programming and operations.
While primarily assigned to emergency response deployments, the ERT will also provide technical support to country programs through roving deployments and to the respective Program Unit through contributing to the development of emergency-focused technical resources and representation.
S/he is a member of the CYPD Unit and the Emergency Response and Preparedness Unit (EPRU). During emergency deployments ERT staff will work under the direction of IRC"s Emergency Field Director or designated country emergency lead. During times with no acute emergency deployment the Coordinator will report to CYPD"s Senior Technical Adviser for Education.
Major Responsibilities:
Emergency Response
- Ensure high quality and timely assessments of the humanitarian needs and provide prioritized recommendations for program interventions to the ERT Field Director/emergency lead
- Design program responses and strategy, including geographic areas of intervention, in coordination with internal and external actors
- Draft technical proposals and budgets for international donors, work in close collaboration with IRC grants and finance staff to finalize proposals and respond to any requests for additional information
- Manage grant/program implementation including staff recruitment and training, workplan development, procurement and inventory planning, and budget management;
- Prepare high quality and timely donor and management reports on grants and sector activities
- Select and implement appropriate monitoring systems ; ensure consistent reporting and analysis of results to enhance program effectiveness and quality
- Ensure compliance with IRC policy and procedures throughout the program team and activities
- Represent and coordinate with other agencies, local government , donors and other stakeholders to promote deliver of best practice humanitarian assistance
- Support media and communications activities as requested by the ERT Field Director/CD/in-county emergency lead.
- Provide a comprehensive handover to successor, including ensuring transfer of all related documentation, program monitoring data and staff performance information
Emergency Preparedness
- Work with CYPD staff and HQ program technical staff to develop emergency preparedness and response strategies and tools.
- Work with country programs to implement emergency preparedness and response in selected IRC countries;
- Contribute to the continual development of appropriate and cost-effective contingency stocks, revising the stock list in accordance with lessons learned in the field and monitoring replenishment.
- Monitor and collect secondary data on the state of children in countries on the EPRU Watchlist and the impact of emergencies on children and access to appropriate, quality education services.
Non-emergency
- Undertake technical assessments or evaluations of large scale-complex programs
- Assist in the development and launch of new technical policy, procedures and training materials – particularly as they relate to delivery of education services to reach out of school children and youth in conflict/crisis and promoting students" social and emotional well-being
- Lead the design and implementation of emergency components of the CYPD Unit strategic plan as well as the expansion/strengthening of the education components of STEP
Job Requirements:
Education: University degree, and technical accreditation or equivalent
Work Experience: 6+ years experience developing and managing technical projects including 3 years in emergency/conflict areas
Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with per agencies, local governments and community leaders and develop multi-stakeholder support for humanitarian priorities and advocacy initiatives
- Demonstrated ability to identify, recommend and adopt new or changes in technical standards and best practice approaches to ensure rapid, consistent, high quality emergency response strategies and programs
- Experience managing large, complex donor funded programs and grants; including staff management, budget oversight, monitoring and evaluation systems, and technical input to proposal-budget development and donor reports.
Language Skills: French and/or Arabic preferred
Certificates or Licenses: N/A
Working Environment: The IRC ERT staff is expected to be deployed in the field, either in an emergency or roving capacity, for up to 65% of the time (+/-8 months a year) and must be able to deploy to the site of an emergency within 72 hours of notification.
How to apply:
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