United States of America: Gender Officer Program Integration

Job Title: Gender Officer Program Integration

Sector: Gender

Employment Category: Fixed Term

Location: USA-New York, NY - HQ

Job Description

Company Description:

The International Rescue Committee helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC is a leading global humanitarian organization that works with people forced to flee from war, conflict and disaster and the host communities that support them, as well as with those who remain within their homes and communities. At work today in over 40 countries and 27 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure.

Careers at the IRC are as wide-ranging and far-reaching as our work. Encouraging staff development through promotion, transfer and rehire, the IRC nurtures long-term career paths and helps employees grow within the organization. At any given moment, on any given day, all around the world, IRC staff members are restlessly and effectively working for the sake of the most vulnerable among us-to restore and renew hope, dignity and freedom.

Background/IRC Summary:

The International Rescue Committee is at a critical juncture. A leading global humanitarian organization since its inception at the request of Albert Einstein in 1933, the IRC is modernizing, with a new strategic mission and vision. A key component of IRC's strategic ambition is its explicit commitment to gender equality across IRC's programs and operations. In 2015, a Gender Equality Unit has been created to lead an organizational change process to integrate attention to gender-based issues within programs and operations. Given the disparity faced by women and girls, we specifically seek to narrow inequalities in the outcomes we seek, and to ensure that women and girls achieve equally to men and boys.

The IRC has defined a new strategic mission and vision, along with initiatives and key processes that will deliver to the strategic objectives. The Gender Equality (GE) Unit focuses on narrowing the gender gap in the humanitarian aid delivered by the IRC. The IRC believes there is a symbiotic relationship between how we operate as an organization, and the success of the programming that we deliver and changes we seek to make in local communities. Therefore, the GE Unit is tasked with partnering with operations departments to ensure that IRC is a gender equitable employer and organization. Together the relevant departments and the GE team will support the necessary changes to the IRC's internal policies and practices to promote the equal access to opportunities for all of our staff. In addition, the GE unit is charged with ensuring that IRC contributes to the equality of women and girls through all of our programs - by working to establish a context where men, women, boys, and girls enjoy the same rights and opportunities.

This position will serve as a key role in supporting IRC's ambition to systematically deliver gender sensitive and transformative programming across our global reach.

Job Overview/Summary:

IRC's current strategic plan requires an important shift in existing ways of working across the organization to make IRC's programs more outcome-focused, gender sensitive, cost-efficient, responsive to clients' needs and preferences and adapted to contexts of intervention. This role will be part of the Gender Equality Unit and engage primarily with the Strategy Unit and field teams that are piloting new programming approaches. This role will play a critical function to lead the gender integration in programming processes and tools and guidance development.

Major Responsibilities:

• Review all existing tools and practice guidance currently used to support implementation of the IRC's strategic plan for gender sensitive/transformative program delivery.

• Collaborate with the technical specialists who designed other tools and materials that support improvement in our programming to ensure learnings collected from in-country testing are being integrated

• Engage with field-based program teams to understand current programming approaches in use as well as gauge opportunities for improvement.

• Propose an overall approach to ensure attention, processes and guidance to gender-based issues happens throughout the project cycle and facilitate dialogue with GE and Strategy unit staff to decide on final approach.

• Design new or modify existing tools and practices that will enable field teams to integrate attention to gender in the project life cycle, with the eventual goal to become part of IRC's day-to-day work using a user-centric approach focused on in-country learning

• Monitor progress of pilot in country and provide support to specific workstreams as needed:

• In collaboration with other team members provide direct support to country teams (including through visits and workshops in country offices) to ensure progress is on-track and key issues they are facing are surfaced and addressed

• Collaborate closely with team members to drive overall project progress and help coordinate the activities of contributors from other departments

• Ensure autonomous planning, monitoring and reporting / communication on key pieces of work

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to: Senior Director, Gender Equality Unit

Internal:

Director of the Strategy Delivery team

Gender Advisors within the Technical Units

Gender Equality Regional Advisors within the regions where testing is happening.

Senior Strategy Manager and other project team members

Technical Specialists across IRC's departments (in particular in IRC's Program Quality Unit)

External:

As needed

Job Requirements:

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent, with demonstrated high performance
• At least 3 years of experience in project management and implementation in the humanitarian sector, with a strong emphasis on gender integration in programming.
• Familiarity with project planning methodologies, templates, tools, and processes
• Strong design skills related to program tools and guidance
• Ability to develop insight and well-supported opinions based on varying feedback from wide range of stakeholders and independent research
• Experience interacting and communicating effectively with members of a complex organization at multiple levels
• Good verbal and written communication skills (i.e. day-to-day discussions, team meetings, presentations, written status updates, etc.), as well as an overall ability to be clear and concise in all communications
• High level of comfort with MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint

Working Environment:

• Standard office work environment
• Some travel to countries of operation as needed

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