Global Surge Team Roster: Emergency Deputy Director of Programs

About this role

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. 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 29 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 world-wide for a better future.

The IRC’s Global Surge Team (GST) is a roster of esteemed and highly qualified humanitarian professionals who deploy on short notice to non-emergency and emergency contexts to support the IRC’s mission. Members of the GST provide specialist support where talent is most needed for short-term deployments of up to three months. The GST is a flexible employment opportunity for staff, requiring members to be available for deployments only 50% of the year (with opportunities for additional deployments if incumbent is interested).

Scope of Work The Emergency Deputy Director for Programs (DDP) provides strategic leadership, decision-making and coordination for program development and delivery, overseeing the effective implementation and technical quality of IRC’s emergency programs. The Emergency DDP ensures that programs are evidence-based and needs-driven, monitored closely, and funded appropriately. The position reports to the Country Director (CD) on deployment and is a member of the Senior Management Team. The Emergency DDP directly supervises grants, partnerships, MEAL, and all technical coordinators, often in Health, Cash and Basic Needs, Education and Protection sectors.    

This position has close working relationships with the EmU Quality in Emergencies team, the Regional Emergency Directors and other members of the EmU and regional support teams. 

Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership •    Provide overall leadership and management of IRC emergency programs, maintaining and enforcing strategic program direction and growth. •    Oversee the implementation of the emergency response plan and lead the eventual transition to the development of a country program Strategy Action Plan (SAP).   •    Drive IRC’s efforts towards a ‘partner first’ program approach and foster a network of local partners, empowering those entities to lead key decision making and service delivery, and positioning IRC as a partner of choice. •    Build strategic partnerships with local actors, fostering collaboration on strategy, program design and development, and capacity sharing. •    Serve as a leader in building a culture of effective and respectful partnerships. Promote attitudes and values conducive to building and sustaining collaborative partnerships across the country program.  •    Participate actively in country program management, coordination, and strategy meetings with other members of the senior management team.

Program Quality  •    Ensure programming is aligned with the emergency response plan, eventual SAP priorities, and IRC’s Emergency Programme Menu including program planning and project design.  •    Liaise with headquarters technical advisors and ensure technical coordinators apply relevant guidance and best practices in new program design and implementation. •    Ensure high-quality and adaptive technical program support and guidance to partners. •    Support the development of measurement tools to assess program impact and involvement of client groups in program design. Ensure the alignment of the IRC emergency programs with the MEAL Handbook and the use of established stringent monitoring and evaluation systems. •    Champion an organizational culture where data and client input are routinely used for decision making and program adaptation. Promote systems which ensure that evidence is used to inform proposal design and theories of change.  •    Identify and pursue opportunities to improve client feedback mechanisms to ensure responsive programming.

Program Delivery •    Maintain a sound understanding of IRC emergency programs and activity plans. Ensure continued oversight of both partner and direct delivery.  •    Support and supervise implementation of strong Project Management Cycle processes and tools in accordance with standard IRC tools.   •    Ensure program teams develop, implement, and regularly update detailed workplans, procurement plans, spending plans and staffing plans. •    Actively contribute to and/or chair project implementation meetings as required to review progress of programs, including but not limited, to progress indicators, workplans and spending. When required, coordinate the development of corrective measures to ensure projects finish on time and on target, ensure timely follow up on any agreed actions. •    Ensure the office consistently promotes and effectively uses IRC’s Partnership Excellence for Equality and Results System (PEERS) and that partnership decision-making and action is driven by IRC’s partnership principles. •    Ensure that safeguarding risks and measures to mitigate risks are consistently addressed through the PCM cycle •    Build staffing required to deliver on safeguarding risk mitigation and Minimum Standards into program design and budgets.

Business Development and Grants Management •    Work with colleagues in the country program, region and headquarters to identify funding opportunities and develop competitive, responsive proposals that are strategically aligned and donor compliant. •    Provide strategic direction for new program design in close coordination with the grants and technical coordinators. •    Ensure that strategic partnership considerations are incorpora

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