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The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster

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 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
•    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. 

Desired Experience and Skills 
•    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. 

•    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. 
•    Excellent management and leadership skills including coaching, mentoring, and performance management 
•    Strong track record of leading multi-location technical programs, applying a results based approach
•    Strong track record of driving uptake of evidence-based practice
•    Fluency in English and French required
•    Ability to travel regionally and globally up to 35% of the time, occasionally on short notice