Emergency Deputy Director of People and Culture, Global Surge

The Emergency Deputy Director of People and Culture, Global Surge (Emergency DD P&C) leads all People and Culture (P&C) work in the assigned response during an emergency. The Emergency DD P&C is responsible for the overall leadership and supervisory management of the response's P&C team, systems, and services.

The role involves rapidly establishing and scaling P&C structures and a safe, inclusive workplace culture; serving as strategic advisor to the Emergency Country Director and the Senior Management Team; providing oversight for Country Program's staff; leading emergency recruitment, onboarding, and employee relations in line with IRC policies and local labor law; ensuring accurate and timely payroll, people data, and reporting; and partnering with the Emergency Unit, regional, and global P&C teams to adapt policies and tools to the emergency context.

Key responsibilities include:

• Emergency set-up and scale-up: Rapidly establish P&C structures, processes and tools for the response, including employment registration, labor law compliance, contract templates, national staff terms and payroll set-up.
• Strategic leadership and management: Serve as strategic advisor to the Emergency Country Director and the SMT on workforce strategy, compliance and organizational culture.
• P&C operations: Ensure context-specific practices in recruitment, compensation and benefits, employee relations, onboarding and offboarding, contract and leave management, and HR information systems.
• GEDI and safeguarding: Ensure inclusive, fair recruitment and onboarding, and promote a workplace free of discrimination, harassment, bullying and abuse of power.
• Duty of care and staff well-being: Provide guidance on staff duty of care, partner with Safety and Security to ensure best-practice aftercare following critical incidents, and develop plans to support the physical and psychological well-being of staff.
• Transition and handover: Plan and deliver the transition from emergency to sustainable country P&C operations, including a documented handover to incoming long-term P&C staff.

The Emergency DD P&C is expected to be deployed in the field, either in an emergency or roving capacity, and must be able to deploy to the site of an emergency within 72 hours of notification, and for up to 12 weeks.

Requirements:

• Graduate degree in HR management or a related field preferred.
• At least 10 years of progressive P&C experience, including leadership of a P&C function supporting small, medium and large scale Country Programs across multiple locations in an emergency context.
• Experience working in conflict, post-conflict or disaster response settings, including rapid start-up or scale-up of P&C operations.
• Demonstrated technical skills in P&C competencies, including recruitment, compensation and benefits, employee relations, contract management, payroll, performance management and HR information systems.
• Demonstrated managerial and leadership competencies, including advising senior leaders, building strong relationships, and supervising in matrixed, remote and fast-changing environments.