The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a global humanitarian aid, relief, and development nongovernmental organization. Founded in 1933 as the International Relief Association, at the request of Albert Einstein, and changing its name in 1942 after amalgamating with the similar Emergency Rescue Committee, the IRC provides emergency aid and long-term assistance to refugees and those displaced by war, persecution, or natural disaster.IRC Job Vacancy 2024
position 1. Humanitarian Access Safety and Security Manager
Major Responsibilities:
- Provide technical support to the field office on all policies, procedures, guidelines and planning for staff safety, operational security, and program continuity.
- Develop, review, and update the IRC Tigray Security Management Plan on a regular basis. Ensure all field intervention areas have updated and relevant Security Management Plan, including context-specific Security Risk Assessment. Reference and ensure compliance to IRC Security Management Framework within the SMP and all annexes.
- Work with the Security and Access Coordinator to develop, consolidate, and implement operating procedures and contingency plans.
- Evaluate, review, and update the hibernation, relocation and evacuation plans for Shire Field Office and ensure that the practical preparations are in place and made known by all staff involved.
- Conduct risk assessments of contracted and prospective offices and residences. Follow up on actions to be taken to ensure compliance with safety and security standards.
- Undertake continual assessment of equipment, and the protocols by which that equipment is used, to ensure that minimal conditions for security are being met.
- Develop ongoing relationships with community elders and other power brokers within Tigray. Work to ensure that IRC, its mission, and work within Tigray is known and accepted. Work to encourage stakeholders to work with the IRC in ensuring that staff and programs are safe and allowed to continue humanitarian activities.
- Provide technical input and advice in assessments to consider new IRC programs in new geographic areas, and technical input in the writing of new program proposals as required.
- In coordination with the Security and Access Coordinator, liaise with relevant security actors e.g., NGO Security Focal Points, other NGO security coordinators, and region UNDSS contacts.
- Work to ensure that IRC, its mission, and work within Ethiopia is known and accepted.
- Identify, establish, and manage context-appropriate approaches to assure IRC facilities are secure – i.e. third-party security companies or directly hired IRC security guards.
- Compile and submit monthly and weekly security reporting that tracks incidents and trends within the IRC’s area of operation. Submit daily contextual updates as needed.
- Work closely with IRC teams in Tigray to ensure all incidents and accidents are followed up with an official written report, which is then shared with relevant stakeholders and filed appropriately. Ensure also that final incident reports are provided when IRC is closing the case.
- Design and update security training materials/packages with assistance from Security and Access Coordinator to set standards, around a ‘learning outcomes’ principle, ensuring that key security messages are conveyed to IRC staff and visitors.
- Provide regular training for IRC staff on security preparedness, prevention, and response. Training(s) may include Standard Operational Procedures (SOPs); Contingency Plans (CPs); Security Management; Incident Reporting; Prevention and Response Mechanisms; and Communications (Equipment -VHF/HF radios; protocols).
- Maintain, review, and update the IRC Ethiopia Security Information package for new staff (orientations for 48hours and 21 days)
- The HASSM will participate in the security focal point (SFPT), Security cell team and Area security management meeting as needed to discuss relevant safety and security related issues.
- He/she will participate in the zonal humanitarian coordination meeting and other safety and security related meetings called by government, UNOCHA and UNDSS.
- The HASSM will serve as focal point for INGOs operating in Shire AoR and disseminate relevant security related information. IRC Job Vacancy 2024
- He/she is expected to establish contact with local police and other relevant security personnel on a daily or weekly basis to collect relevant security information.
Position in Organization:
- Requisition ID: req50880
- Job Title: Humanitarian Access Safety, and Security Manager /Re-Advert
- Sector: Safety & Security
- Employment Category: Regular
- Employment Type: Full-Time
- Open to Expatriates: No
- Location: Shire, Ethiopia
Minimum Requirements:
Education:
- BA/MA graduate in Law, Political Science and International Relations, Peace Studies, Security Studies, or related social science fields.
Experience:
- A minimum of 4 years for BA degree and 3 Years for postgraduate.
- Non-profit or NGO work experience within international humanitarian assistance programs with demonstrated capabilities in planning, organizing, and executing security operations in the field is preferable.
Language Skills:
- Fluent in English, local language.
How to Apply IRC Humanitarian Access Safety and Security Manager Jobs 2024
Note: Before you apply, please download (link is given below) the full advertisement and read it carefully.
Then to apply, go to https://rescue.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/50880?c=rescue
The Closing Date: 12th April, 2024
position 2. Deputy Director of Grants and Partnership
Major Responsibilities:
- Business Development Strategy: Develop and manage IRC´s Ethiopia Business Development strategy, and support the CD, DP, and Technical Coordinators in donor engagement to secure funding for the IRC’s Strategic Action Plan (SAP). This might include building and cultivating relationships with potential new donors and maintaining strong relationships with existing ones.
- Strategic guidance: Assess prospective and existing funding opportunities and advise IRC teams on how to make funding requests more competitive and responsive to donors’ priorities.
- Donor mapping: Contribute to the identification of potential donors, maintenance of donor relations and mobilization of resources to support planned work as per the SAP.
- Proposal development: Ensure high quality and timely submission of funding proposals by providing guidance overseeing the grants team and escalating issues of concerns to the SMT. This could include support in areas such as work design, coordination of technical, financial, and regional input, writing overviews, editing, and formatting proposal documents, and ensuring internal approvals before donor submission.
- Quality control: Ensure that the grants team submits quality proposal packages to the RPAS that comply with donors’ rules and IRC’s internal requirements.
- Capacity strengthening: Strengthen the capacity of IRC team members for fundraising and business development by promoting industry best practices.
- Co-creation: Promote the involvement of stakeholder groups, including implementing partners and beneficiaries (where possible), in designing new projects/ programs.
- Grant tracking: Ensure that teams keep an updated grant tracker that summarizes the status of proposals, active projects, and closed projects and discusses regularly with DP and other stakeholders.
- Workplans: Fairly distribute the workload and create monthly plans with team members in response to monthly priorities, which include project cycle meetings (PCM), reports, spending plans, and other key deliverables.
- Project Cycle meetings and Budget vs Actuals (BVA) meetings: Ensure the effective implementation of PCM and BVA meetings and escalate issues of concern identified during these meetings to SMT.
- Reporting: Ensure team members submit high-quality and compelling reports to donors as agreed with RPAS.
- Grant files: Ensure that grants teams maintain an effective information management system that contains all key documents related to the project cycle.
- Compliance: Ensure that the donor’s compliance policies are applied correctly in active projects and provide advice and training to the country teams so that they have the necessary information to do so.
- Capacity strengthening and quality control: Strengthen the capacity of IRC team members on best practices for grants management and reporting and work with grants and program teams to improve their report writing and coordination skills.
- Partnerships ambition: In collaboration with the Sr. Partnerships Coordinator, CD, and DP advance the partnership agenda and support the Partnerships Coordinator in all aspects of partnership management in alignment with IRC’s partners system (PEERS). This includes promoting internally and externally IRC’s core partnership principles of responsibility, results-oriented approach, equality, transparency, and complementarity.
- Scoping of partners and funding: Collaborate with the Sr. Partnership Coordinator, DP, CD, and technical coordinators to proactively identify potential partners and funders and advance VCR´s partnership agenda.
- Resolution of challenges: Assist the partnership team in resolving any challenges (internal and external) faced that put at risk the achievement of IRC Ethiopia’s partnership ambitions.
Position in Organization:
- Requisition ID: req51153
- Job Title: Deputy Director of Grants and Partnership
- Sector: Grants
- Employment Category: Regular
- Employment Type: Full-Time
- Open to Expatriates: Yes
- Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Minimum Requirements:
Education:
- Post-graduate qualification or equivalent relevant experience in a relevant discipline.
Experience:
- Six years or more of experience working with international non-governmental organizations in business development, grants management, and/or project management.
- Extensive experience in managing donor contracts and fundraising activities, with humanitarian and development donors, such as ECHO, UNHCR, BHA, PRM, GFFO, SIDA, etc.
Language Skills:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English – high-quality copywriting and editing skills.
How to Apply IRC Deputy Director of Grants and Partnership Jobs 2024
Note: Before you apply, please download (link is given below) the full advertisement and read it fully.
Then to apply, go to https://rescue.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/51153?c=rescue
The Closing Date: 12th April, 2024.