Program Officer

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: Under the supervision and guidance of the Deputy Director Program, the Program Officer will support the overall program related activities, communication, meetings arrangements, and other programs by supporting information management, team coordination and planning.

Major Responsibilities:

·         Assist in collecting, compiling and organizing the flow of information from the IRC programs coming from the field;

·         Attend external meetings on behalf of IRC and participate in internal meetings and ensure the flow of information, writing meeting minutes and share feedback with DDP.

·         Background information collection and organization on the broader programs/projects in the field including emergency response.

·         In coordination with the field team, support the maintenance of programs MIS.

·         Update program information and support in developing relevant project documentation, including monthly/quarterly reports, monitoring tools, fact sheets, newsletter etc.

·         Support planning and coordination with teams, including organization and support of Humanitarian Program Meetings, information dissemination.

·         Collect, compile and disseminate program work plans.

·         Support the development and maintenance of program resource information in Islamabad, field offices and electronically.

·         Provide general administrative support to the Deputy Director Program.

·         Perform other duties as assigned by the Deputy Director Program.

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to: Health Coordinator Position directly supervises:  None

Job Requirements:

a)      Education:

·         Master Degree in Social sciences, Management, Mass Communication

b)      Work Experience:

·         At least 2 to 3 years work experience of managing similar tasks within development sector

c)      Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

·         Computer skills & Report writing skills

·         English & Urdu language skills

·         Strong communication skills

Language Skills:  English, Urdu

Others: 

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 differently abled persons are highly encouraged to apply.