Overview
The Global Surge Team Roster seeks qualified humanitarian professionals to deploy on short notice to support the IRC's mission in emergency and non-emergency contexts. Members provide specialized, time-bound support for deployments typically up to three months.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct high quality and timely assessments of Education in Emergency including Early Childhood Development needs.
- Design creative, context and client-responsive Education and/or ECD program responses and strategy.
- Represent the IRC in inter-agency forums including the education cluster.
- Lead the rapid start-up (or scale up) and management of holistic EIE and/or ECD interventions.
- Design and implement appropriate monitoring and evaluation systems.
- Work closely with other IRC units to promote cross-sector collaboration.
- Oversee the delivery of high-quality technical proposals and reports.
- Ensure children, teachers and other education stakeholders and their caregivers participate in program design and implementation.
- Comply with and ensure understanding of the IRC Code of Conduct and policies related to Safeguarding.
- Coordinate and liaise with local/regional education authorities, NGOs, private sector actors, coordination mechanisms, and other international partners.
- Coordinate with internal and external actors, linking to early learning, education continuity, health and nutrition services and cash programming.
- Support media and communications activities as requested.
- Provide a comprehensive handover to a successor.
Required Experience
At least five years of experience developing and managing Education programming with preference with 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. Ability to support both direct and indirect implementation by working closely with local partners. Demonstrated ability to identify creative and appropriate solutions for populations affected by crisis. Supervision and training experience, 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.
