Deadline: Ongoing
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is seeking to fill the role of Deputy Regional Director.
IRC is a global humanitarian aid, relief, and development non-governmental organisation.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the RVP to ensure that the IRC’s global strategy is understood and guides decision making throughout the region
- Drive institutionalisation of the outcomes and evidence framework, IRC’s programme design tools
- Support delivery of country-level strategy action plans (SAPs)
- Facilitate and coordinate regional participation in global strategy discussions, initiatives and pilots
- Oversee implementation of SAP monitoring mechanism and review process, including leading annual SAP reviews and reporting
- Build consensus around a common vision of what shared success in the Great Lakes looks like, including developing and tracking appropriate indicators
- Supervise and mentor direct-report staff, including communicating clear expectations, setting performance objectives, providing regular and timely performance feedback, and leading documented semi-annual performance reviews
- Provide leadership to increase country programmes’ coordination, collaboration, communication and harmonisation of programming
- Drive detailed coordination between programming and operations and across sectors and outcomes, with the objective of improving the quality of IRC programmes and impact on the people IRC serves
- Facilitate close and efficient coordination of regional staff’s support to the country programmes, and with headquarters departments on common programming, operational and funding issues
- Coordinate with regional INGOs, donors and UN representatives in Nairobi, ensuring IRC remains a key partner in coordination mechanisms hosted in Kenya
Requirements
- Extensive field experience leading humanitarian, protracted and/or post-crisis development programmes with demonstrated ability to manage and coordinate in sophisticated and often insecure working environments
- Seven years, minimum, of senior programme management experience with NGOs, including international NGOs
- Postgraduate qualification or equivalent and proven experience in a relevant field
- Unique background in programmes, with strong understanding of monitoring and evaluation, strong analytical skills, and experience leading strategic planning processes
- Proven records to influence peer agencies, local government and community leaders
- Proven records to evaluate and implement standard methodologies and processes affecting multiple technical specialties to achieve rapid, consistent and high quality outcomes
- Demonstrated expertise in representation and negotiations
- Highly-developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching
- Demonstrated ability to work independently with limited supervision
- Strong commitment to the IRC’s mission, purpose and values
- Fluency in English and French
- Previous experience with IRC (desirable)
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