Senior Program Manager

Important Note: Hiring on this position is contingent to funding approval by the donor.

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 refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, 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 over 30 years, and manages and delivers large, complex programs to meet the needs in health, education, protection, environmental health and livelihoods for displaced, poor and disaster affected communities. IRC works in partnership with local government and non-governmental organizations and currently works in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh provinces.

Job Overview/Summary:  

The Sr. Program Manager will mainly be responsible for technical backstopping of ongoing ECHO response and will support the Team Leader’s position. The position is to further ensure a close coordination with other humanitarian actors and government agencies at field levels so that emergency response work is integrated across humanitarian responses, clusters and respective implementing partners and all partners (various consortia and local implementing partners) are provided with timely and effective technical support.

Major Responsibilities:

o   Provide mentoring support in day-to-day implementation of ECHO’s response work across Pakistan;

o   Develop and monitor quality parameters in coordination with MEAL for the ongoing response work;

o   Provide technical guidance, oversight and support to response team and partners in implementation of program interventions;

o   Support teams in the strengthening of referral and case management systems, identification of areas requiring joint interventions in collaboration with other stakeholders;

o   Effectively involve in situation monitoring and update the senior management on changing scenarios for immediate response and changes in program approach/design.

o   Coordinate and collaborate closely with relevant government authorities, other NGOs and UN agencies for the implementation of emergency response;

o   Develop and maintain effective working relationships with all stakeholders, including community leaders, NGOs, UN agencies, community based organizations and other IRC sectors to enhance multi-agency and multi-sectoral cooperation and coordination;

o   Build staff capacity in writing daily, weekly and monthly reports to ensure accurate monitoring and documentation of activities;

o   Prepare high quality internal and external reports within agreed deadlines.

Position Reports to:  Team Leader, ECHO 

Job Requirements:

Education: Master’s in Anthropology, Social Sciences or equivalent

Work Experience:  At least 5 years of humanitarian experience with at least 3 years of experience in managing Protection projects through partners and in self-implementation modes in emergency contexts

Languages: Must be fluent in Urdu, Pashto and English languages

Skills and Competencies:

o        Excellent and fluent spoken English and good knowledge of Local language is essential

o        Excellent communication and analytical skills

o        Proficient in qualitative analysis and documenting them into high quality analytical reports

o        Computer skills including MS- Office, Excel, Power point, Outlook.

o        Ability to handle multiple tasks; proven self-initiative and problem solving abilities;

o        Report writing skills.

o        Excellent presentation skills.

o        Ability to meet short deadlines.

o        Willingness to work long hours and on week-ends if required by the emergency assessment.

o        Knowledge of research methodologies

o        Ability to work under pressure

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.

o   Level of interaction with children: Frequent direct contact with children

·         IRC ensures that its staff must actively practice the roles and responsibilities related to client responsiveness, 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.

Women candidates and persons with disability are highly encouraged to apply