Description
The IRC's Global Surge Team (GST) is a roster of highly qualified humanitarian professionals who deploy on short notice to emergency and non-emergency contexts to support the IRC's mission. As a member of the GST, you will provide specialist support where talent is most needed for short-term deployments of up to three months.
Major Responsibilities:
- Ensure high-quality and timely assessments of Education in Emergency including Early Childhood Development needs in large-scale/complex emergencies and provide prioritized recommendations for Education and ECD interventions.
- Design creative, context- and client-responsive Education and/or ECD program responses and strategies in line with the Education unit's EiE approach and in collaboration with local partners/actors where relevant.
- Provide inter-agency representation, including education cluster and other spaces.
- Lead the rapid start-up (or scale-up where needed) and management of holistic EIE and/or ECD interventions focused on either school-aged or preschool-aged children in acute crises.
- Design and implement appropriate monitoring and evaluation systems, ensuring consistent reporting and analysis of results to enhance program effectiveness and quality.
- Work closely with the IRC's Emergency Protection, Health, and Economic Recovery and Development units to promote cross-sector collaboration in line with client needs and priorities.
- Oversee the delivery of high-quality technical proposals and reports, in line with donor requirements.
- Ensure that children, teachers, and other education stakeholders and their caregivers participate in the design and implementation of IRC programs, and that their access to services and programs is meaningful and safe.
- Comply with and ensure that new Education staff understand the IRC Code of Conduct and policies related to Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and Child Safeguarding.
- Coordinate and liaise with local/regional education authorities, NGOs, private sector actors, coordination mechanisms, and other international partners, including UN agencies, on all education program activities.
Job Requirements:
- Ability to commit to deployment within 72 hours of notification of assignment for up to 12 weeks.
- At least five years of experience developing and managing Education programming, with preference for experience in ECD programming in humanitarian contexts, including demonstrated experience with rapid program start-up in acute emergencies.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with agencies, local governments, and community leaders, and develop multi-stakeholder support for humanitarian priorities and advocacy initiatives.
- Strong program planning, fiscal management, organizational, and communication skills.
- Supervision and training experience, with specific experience training for local teams and local partners as an asset.
- Experience implementing programs for large public and private donors.
- Strong report and proposal writing experience.
- Prior experience in representation and coordination.
- Fluency in English is a requirement, and professional Arabic language skills are strongly preferable, with French language skills an advantage.