IRC Program & Award Advisor Technical & Global Jobs in Kenya
IRC Program & Award Advisor Technical & Global Jobs in Kenya
Major Responsibilities: Reporting to the VPRU Inclusion Advisor - Strategy and Learning Team, the Inclusion Specialist provides project-specific technical support for the thematic area of Inclusion within VPRU. The Inclusion Specialist may directly supervise consultant-based, term-limited positions as needed. They coordinate with and support VPRU Country Support Technical Advisors on Inclusive VPR Programming and also coordinate with and support colleagues from IRC’s Program Quality Support Unit (PQSU), Emergencies and Humanitarian Action Unit (EHAU), Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (GEDI) Unit and the AirBel Impact Lab.
Provides timely and quality technical assistance related to the thematic area of Inclusion for a variety of Technical Innovation projects with and beyond VPRU.
As needed, support the VPRU Country Support team in delivering remote or in-person technical assistance related to the thematic area of Inclusion on the functions of program design, business development and technical capacity building of country programs as appropriate.
Support the VPRU Inclusion Advisor with VPR-focused business development opportunities on the thematic area of Inclusion. This may include developing and writing concept notes or proposals for donors, or other materials to build IRC’s ability to resource this work.
Supports the development and maintenance of up-to-date portfolio of project ideas / concept notes that contribute to the VPRU strategic priorities.
Support VPRU and Technical Excellence-level knowledge management efforts including building up and cataloguing a digital resource library based in IRC’s intranet (RescueNet) and BOX alongside relevant IRC colleagues across Technical Excellence, as well as supporting with the development VPR programming-specific Support the VPRU Inclusion Advisor with coordination and support towards internal representation efforts – ensuring close collaboration with relevant Technical Excellence colleagues and other IRC teams such as the AirBel Impact Lab, IRC’s Program Quality Support Unit (PQSU), the IRC Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (GEDI) Unit as
well as the EHAU Violence Prevention and Response in Emergencies (VPRiE) team.
Personal Specification:
Skills and Experience:
A minimum of 3 to 5 years demonstrable, progressively responsible experience in inclusive practice within humanitarian programming including but not limited to gender, age, disability and diverse SOGIESC inclusion and/or protection mainstreaming.
Understanding of learning and best practice as well as existing external policy and practice landscape around Inclusion in humanitarian response including humanitarian architecture structures for representation at an Inter-Agency level.
Experience leading capacity strengthening activities around the theme of inclusion as well as working in close collaboration with CSOs, Grass-Roots Organisations and Representative Organizations to build meaningful and equitable partnerships.
Understanding of (and ideally experience managing) knowledge management platforms to support organisation-wide capacity strengthening around the theme of inclusion in humanitarian programming.
Proven ability to operate in a complex organisation, across functions and work on own initiative and collaboratively as part of diverse teams;
Prior work with the thematic areas and a strong understanding of the existing external policy and practice landscape around Inclusion including humanitarian architecture structures for representation at an Inter-Agency level.
For this position, fluent oral and written English is essential. Ability to work in French or Arabic is desirable due to operating context of the current inclusion portfolio.
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; IRC Program & Award Advisor Technical & Global Jobs in Kenya
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