Women’s Protection and Empowerment (WPE) Coordinator

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International Rescue Committee (IRC)

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Humanitarian & Development Nexus
  • Experience level: 0-5 years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 05/06/2024
  • Location: Poland
Economic justice Gender-based violence (GBV)
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic well-being, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world's largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and more than 25 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. A force for humanity, IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you're a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people worldwide for a better future.

Key Responsibilities
Program Development
  • Lead the development of the strategy for the WPE program, ensuring processes that incorporate input from WPE field teams, other sectors and key external partners.
  • Contribute to the development and implementation of the overall country strategic action plan with specific attention to the strategy for WPE.
Technical Oversight & Support
  • Seek guidance from IRC’s WPE Technical Advisor and lead, provide technical oversight and guidance on all aspects of the WPE programming, ensuring high quality in line with standard methodologies and international standards.
  • In coordination with the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEAL) Coordinator, ensure that ethical and sound data collection and information management systems are in place for appropriate gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and response analysis, planning, evaluation, and advocacy.
Staff Supervision and Development
  • Maintain open and professional relations with WPE team members, promoting a strong team spirit and providing oversight and guidance to enable staff to successfully perform in their positions.Develop capacity capacity-building plan on various aspects of WPE.
Program Monitoring & Reporting
  • Oversee all internal, WPE-related reporting
  •  Follow-up on quality collection of data towards donor and internal indicators.
Partner Management
  •  Oversee IRC’s relationship with WPE implementing partners.
  •  Ensure regular monitoring of partner activities to achieve the set WPE program objectives.
Coordination, Representation and Advocacy
  • Dedicatedly participate in, and contribute to in a coordinator/facilitator capacity, coordination meetings and working groups, specifically the Task Force on the Clinical Management of Rape (CMR) and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) which IRC co-leads; and other related task forces.
Other duties: as assigned by the supervisor to enable and develop IRC programs.

Qualifications
  • Advanced master’s degree in Women's Studies, Gender, Social Work, Social Science, Human Rights/ Public Health or other relevant field or the equivalent in professional work
  • Minimum of 4 years of professional experience at the international level implementing emergency GBV programming.
  • Proven experience working in refugee contexts.
  • Proven experience supervising and providing case management services and support.
  • Thorough understanding of GBV response protocols and service provision.
  • Deep understanding of the impact and dynamics of men’s violence against women and girls, and proven grounding in feminist, women and girl-centred, anti-oppressive practice.

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