Background/IRC Summary: 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 affected people. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home. IRC has been working in Pakistan for approximately 40 years, managing and delivering large, complex programs to meet the needs in health, education, safeguarding, environmental health, and livelihoods for displaced, poor, and disaster-affected communities. IRC works in partnership with local government and non-governmental organizations and is currently working across the country.
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, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is responding to the ongoing flooding across Pakistan, which has already killed over 1,300 people and destroyed more than a million homes. IRC emergency response teams have been deployed to provide immediate assistance across Pakistan where more than 33 million people have been affected by the flooding.
Through its flood response, IRC has reached around 46,299 people affected by the floods in the country by establishing medical camps, Women & Child Safe Spaces, and distributing food, non-food items, Cash grants, and hygiene kits. These relief efforts are sponsored by eminent global donors such as European Union Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid (ECHO), German Federal Foreign Office, The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), Irish Aid, Malal Fund, as well as IRC’s internal funds
Job Overview/Summary:
International Rescue Committee (IRC) is implementing Flood Emergency Response Projects in partnership with other local organizations. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is seeking a dynamic and self-motivated individual for the position of Cash Program Manager for flood response. In response to the flood 2022 in Pakistan, the IRC is implementing an Economic Recovery and Development (ERD) program focused on flood-affected people and their families to meet their basic needs and better manage the impact of shocks. The Cash Program Manager will be responsible for the implementation of the unconditional and conditional (CFW) cash program components of the ERD Program, under the overall leadership of the Senior Response Coordinator. The Cash Program Manager will represent IRC at the field level within Cash Program-related coordination fora, to ensure the smooth implementation of quality programming.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Program Monitoring & Reporting
Partner Management
Coordination & Representation
Other
Professional Standards
All IRC staff are required to adhere to THE IRC Way Standards for Professional Conduct and the IRC country employment policies.
Key Working Relationships:
Position Reports to: Senior Response Coordinator Position directly supervises: None
Indirect Reporting: Skills Development/ERD Coordinator
Other Internal and/or external contacts: describe the nature of departments or groups the position influences or requires support from to accomplish objectives.
Job Requirement:
The IRC Core Values and Commitments.
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 Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons.
IRC is committed to ensuring that IRC staff is suitable to work with children and have the knowledge s/he needs to uphold and abide by the IRC’s Child Safeguarding Policy.
Level of interaction with children: Less contact with children
IRC ensures that its staff must actively practice the roles and responsibilities related to client responsiveness, and accountability to people in affected communities and must have competencies to solicits and listens to feedback and other’s perspectives, responds to feedback with maturity and sensitivity and takes appropriate decisions and makes changes to behavior or actions in response to feedback.
IRC recognizes that gender equality is fundamental to the achievement of our organizational mission. As such, IRC is committed to the promotion of gender equality in all aspects of our operations and programs. Our organizational policies, procedures and actions demonstrate this commitment.
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a leading global relief and development organization, established in 1933, and currently working in 42 countries worldwide. IRC has been working in Pakistan for over 30 years, and manages & delivers large, complex programs to meet needs in health, education, protection and livelihoods for displaced, poor & conflict-affected communities. IRC works in partnership with local Government and non-Governmental organizations and currently works in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh provinces.