Emergency Women’s Protection and Empowerment Coordinator, Global Surge

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 30 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure.

The **IRC’s Global Surge Team (GST)** is a roster of esteemed and highly qualified humanitarian professionals who deploy on short notice to non-emergency and emergency contexts to support the IRC’s mission. Members of the GST provide specialist support where talent is most needed for short-term deployments of up to three months. The GST is a flexible employment opportunity for staff, requiring members to be available for deployments only 50% of the year (with opportunities for additional deployments).

**Job Overview:**

The Emergency Women’s Protection and Empowerment Coordinator, Global Surge is responsible leading WPE programming in acute emergency responses. This may include rapid assessment, program start-up, strategy development, proposal development, technical oversight, staff recruitment and management, budget management, grants compliance and local partner relations. A successful candidate will demonstrate track record working independently in fast-paced environments and applying creative, flexible design to women’s protection and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) response programming in humanitarian contexts.

**Major Responsibilities:**

**Context evaluation**

- Following the onset of an emergency, identify areas with greatest impact, highest needs, and emerging protection risks for women and girls
- Conduct stakeholder analysis: continually review existing actor mapping with a view to identifying key actors and establishing partnerships with focused on the delivery of GBV prevention and response services
- Design and conduct multisector needs assessments

**Program design and management**

- Provide strategic direction, leadership and overall technical management of IRC’s WPE response aligned to the response strategy and emergency outcomes, while ensuring high program quality and alignment with IRC’s standards and approaches
- Lead and directly contribute to the start-up, implementation and coordination of emergency WPE programming, including GBV case management, women and girls’ safe spaces, GBV prevention and risk reduction
- Work with potential partners to develop a WPE strategy to respond to identified GBV risks and needs, outlining a problem statement, response modalities, activity sequencing, and required resources
- In collaboration with response leadership and technical coordinators, input into the design of an overall emergency response strategy, including partnerships so that the IRC is working in ways that are complementary to and in support of partners. Support meaningful and equitable WPE partnerships with community based and national GBV actors, with a focus on partnering with women-led and women’s rights organizations and networks.
- Participate in cross-departmental collaboration and coordination with child protection, PROL, and other sector colleagues to mitigate risks of GBV, ensure that linkages between programs are made and programs gain from protection best practice
- Ensure – through program design and practice, team capacity and behavior – that clients, especially women and girls in all their diversity, participate in the design and implementation of IRC programs, and that their access to services and programs is meaningful and safe.
- Develop and/or adapt technical tools and approaches, and deliver creative solutions to mitigate challenges in the operating context, to facilitate response start-up and day to day implementation
- Support emergency WPE staff to implement and monitor work plans ensuring that activities reflect the commitments IRC made to the donor and the community
- Oversee IRC’s relationship with partners, ensuring co-design, regular exchange, and project performance monitoring to achieve program objectives
- Design and implement appropriate monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems ensuring consistent reporting and analysis of results to improve program effectiveness and quality
- Provide a comprehensive handover to successor, including ensuring transfer of all related documentation, program data and staff performance information

**Grant and financial management**

- Manage emergency grant/program implementation including recruitment and training, work plan development, procurement and inventory planning, budget management, and M&E plans
- Develop high quality technical proposals and reports with relevant program staff in line with IRC and donor requirements
- Collaborate with IRC grants and finance staff to finalize proposals and respond to any requests for additional information

**Staff management**

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