Outreach Worker (Male)

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a global humanitarian organization dedicated to responding to the world’s most severe crises. Since its founding in 1933 by Albert Einstein, the IRC has worked in over 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and empowerment to communities affected by conflict and disaster. IRC employees are committed to delivering lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity, and hope to millions of people worldwide. If you are a passionate, solutions-driven individual eager to make a positive difference, consider joining the IRC team.

Key Responsibilities

Community Engagement and Awareness:
Conduct regular community awareness sessions focused on protection, gender-based violence (GBV), available services, rights, and referral pathways. Disseminate accurate, context-appropriate protection information to community members while engaging respectfully and inclusively. Identify barriers that prevent vulnerable individuals from accessing protection services.

Identification and Referrals:
Identify individuals in need of protection, GBV, mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS), health, legal, or other specialized services. Provide information on available services and facilitate safe, confidential referrals based on informed consent. Follow up on referrals as per established procedures and immediately report urgent protection concerns through proper channels.

Protection Monitoring:
Identify and document emerging protection concerns, risks, and service gaps using approved tools. Share relevant protection trends and concerns with supervisors while maintaining confidentiality. Support protection assessments, community consultations, focus group discussions (FGDs), key informant interviews (KIIs), and other monitoring activities as required.

Coordination and Support:
Coordinate with Women and Girls Safe Spaces (WGSS)/Hub Center Facilitators, Protection/GBV Case Workers, MHPSS staff, and other relevant teams. Support community-level activities and strengthen service linkages. Participate actively in training, team meetings, and capacity-building initiatives.

Documentation and Reporting:
Maintain accurate records of outreach activities, awareness sessions, referrals, and community feedback. Submit regular activity reports and required data within agreed timelines. Ensure confidentiality and safe handling of sensitive information at all times.

Safety, Safeguarding, and Ethical Standards:
Apply principles of Do No Harm, confidentiality, informed consent, dignity, respect, and nondiscrimination. Maintain professional boundaries with community members and service users. Comply with IRC safeguarding policies, including Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), Child Safeguarding, Code of Conduct, and data protection requirements. Ensure outreach and referral activities do not expose individuals or communities to additional protection risks.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree or intermediate certificate in Social Sciences, Education, Psychology, Development Studies, or a related field from an HEC-recognized institution.
- 1 to 2 years of relevant experience in humanitarian, protection, GBV, community-based, or social development programming.
- Experience working with vulnerable and diverse communities.
- Strong communication, interpersonal, and community engagement skills.
- Good documentation, reporting, and basic IT skills.
- Knowledge of local languages and context is preferred.

Core Competencies

Strong communication and interpersonal skills, community engagement and facilitation abilities, basic knowledge of protection and GBV, referral and information-sharing skills, good documentation and reporting capabilities, cultural sensitivity, empathy, and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively with vulnerable communities.

All IRC staff are expected to uphold the organization’s core values of Integrity, Service, Equality, and Accountability as outlined in the IRC Way – Standards for Professional Conduct. IRC is committed to creating a safe working environment through strict adherence to safeguarding policies, conflict of interest guidelines, fiscal integrity, and mechanisms for reporting wrongdoing and protection from retaliation. The organization fosters teams that encourage critical reflection, power sharing, debate, and objectivity to deliver the highest quality services to those in need.