International Rescue Committee Senior Women’s and Children’s Protection Coordinator Job Vacancy in Liberia

Background :

Founded in 1933, the
International Rescue Committee is one of the most prominent international
organizations working in relief, rehabilitation, protection, post-conflict
development, resettlement services and advocacy for those uprooted or affected
by violent conflict and oppression.

IRC has worked in Liberia since
1996 and is one of the largest humanitarian actors in the country. The IRC
implements innovative health and women and children protection programs in
Nimba, Lofa, Bong, Montserrado, Maryland, River Gee, Grand Bassa, and Margibi counties in
Liberia.

The IRC is recruiting an
experienced Senior Women and Children Protection Coordinator to oversee a
comprehensive portfolio of women and children protection projects that includes
targeted, short-term emergency response actions, as well as longer-term interventions
in line with IRC’s WPE and CYPD strategies.

The Senior Women’s and Children’s
Protection Coordinator will be tasked with managing a dynamic portfolio which
currently includes:

• The Girl Empower program: which intends to reduce the
  vulnerability of adolescent girls to sexual exploitation and abuse;
  working with communities, mentors and directly with girls, it is intended
  to increase the social, human, and physical assets of adolescent girls in
  order to improve their future life chances. This program has a significant
  impact evaluation attached, and will be one of the most rigorous pieces of
  research into programming for adolescent girls.
• The Parents Make the Difference program: which is being
  scaled up to reach 1,020 parents of 3 to 5-year-old children in five urban
  communities in Monrovia.
  The objective of the program is to reduce violence in the home and improve
  Early Childhood Development (cognitive, social, emotional, health)
  outcomes for vulnerable children aged 3-5 years. The program has a very
  rigorous research component.
• The Child Protection Case Management project: which
  works in partnership with the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social
  Protection (MoGCSP) and local communities to close critical gaps in the
  Ebola response and early recovery effort while laying the groundwork for
  post-crisis programming to strengthen county level social welfare services
  and improve child protection outcomes.

SCOPE OF WORK:

With direct management support
from the Deputy Director of Programs and technical support from Child
Protection and Women’s Protection and Empowerment Technical Advisors, the Women
and Children Protection Coordinator would lead IRC Liberia’s women and children
project development, ensure the delivery of quality programming in Liberia and
represent IRC in relevant coordination working groups.

Responsibilities:

Program Support and Planning

• Provide strategic direction, leadership and overall
  technical and management of IRC Liberia’s Women’s and Children’s
  Protection portfolio
• Supervise and support the timely recruitment and
  effective management of staff’s performance
• Ensure that project resources, including financial, are
  used effectively and transparently in order to further the objectives of
  the project
• Play a key role with the Deputy Director of Programs in
  the development of proposals and fundraising strategies
• Assist a rapid scale-up of emergency focused response
  programming for women and children as needed
• Guide women and child protection, and child protection
  and gender equality mainstreaming actions within IRC’s to identify key
  opportunities and synergies
• Lead the innovative adaptation of program approaches to
  meet the needs of women, girls and boys, affected by Ebola

Capacity Building

• Provide ongoing mentoring and technical support to women
  and child protection staff to ensure their professional development
• Strengthen the capacity of staff to manage projects in
  line with IRC program framework for promoting and protecting women and
  child rights, participation, capacity building, partnership, and planning
• Support the adaptation of best practice training
  materials and facilitate training of trainings for staff and local
  partners as needed

Project Monitoring and Evaluation

• Ensure all internal and external reporting requirements
  are met and that reports are of a high quality and submitted on time
• Ensure safe and confidential mechanisms are implemented
  to collect participants’ feedback and complaints, especially with regard
  to IRC Child Safeguarding Policy, Reporting and Complain Mechanisms. In
  close collaboration with the Deputy Director of Program, ensure that all
  staff – including non CP and support staff – volunteers and partners in Liberia is
  trained on IRC Child Safeguarding Policy
• Ensure effective monitoring and evaluation systems are
  implemented to a high quality, especially in line with the Child
  Protection Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Action
• Support research projects associated with Women and
  Child Protection Programming

Representation and Advocacy

• Represent the IRC within the Protection Partners Forum,
  Child Protection Working Group/Sub Working Group, and National GBV Task
  Force
• Play a lead role in advocacy related to women and child
  protection
• Actively develop and maintain effective working relationships
  with key stakeholders in Liberia including donors, government actors, UN
  agencies, international and local NGOs, and other relevant actors.
• Uphold and champion the IRC Way Standards for
  Professional Conduct.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrable understanding and experience of managing
  teams, budgets, monitoring and evaluation systems and project reporting.
• Familiarity with programmatic research in low resource,
  complex settings.
• Experience in strategic planning, project development,
  and donor relations.
• Experience working in a multi-cultural setting,
  preferably in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Excellent relationship-building, interpersonal skills
  and the ability to liaise diplomatically.
• Solid ability to provide leadership, management,
  team-building, coaching, and development for staff.
• Fluency in English is required; must have excellent
  English-language writing skills.
• Ability to live and work under pressure and remain
  flexible and patient in high-stress situations.

Other details:

The position is based in
Monrovia, Liberia, with occasional travel to the field. This position is
unaccompanied. International staff are provided with staff housing, close to
the office, and access to transportation.

Standards for Professional
Conduct:

The IRC and IRC workers must
adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way – Standards for
Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In
accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on
Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti
Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.

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