Greece: Capacity Building Officer

Job Title: Capacity Building Officer/Trainer (unaccompanied minors project)

Department: Programs

Location: Athens

Start date: ASAP

BACKGOUND

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 Hellas’ Emergency Protection program looks to ensure that crisis-affected populations have an improved access to life-saving and humanitarian services, rights and entitlements. This will be achieved through an integrated approach to protection, which includes information sharing, awareness-raising on rights and entitlements, and specialized programing for vulnerable groups including case management. This project focuses on support for Unaccompanied and Separated Children (UASC), through their identification and working with partners to support tracing and restoring family links, providing transit shelters in which specialized support including case management.

SCOPE

The Capacity Building Officer/Trainer (who reports to the project’s Partnership Manager) supports capacity building for partners in key operational and some program areas (including supply chain management, finance management, grants management amongst others), and works closely with program staff to ensure capacity building in key technical program areas (e.g. case management), in line with findings from partner capacity assessments conducted. Support to partners for the project, should be in line with IRC partnership working approaches, working closely with partners and key IRC regional and country staff to build capacity and ensure project delivery in a collaborative manner.

The Capacity Building Officer/Trainer will be based in Athens and will be expected to travel up to 50% of the time within the country.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Partner Relationship Building

§ Working closely with the Partnership Manager, and other key operational and program Managers and Coordinators, to support relationship management with local partner organizations that are supporting implementation of the project, ensuring strong partnership practices;

§ Work with the Partnership Manager to ensure comprehensive partner capacity assessments have been undertaken and that the resultant capacity building plans are in place;

§ Work with the Partnership Manager, Grants Manager and the Finance Project Manager to ensure that a partner budgets are reviewed, reinforced through training and support;

§ Support IRC’s efforts to improve transparency and accountability practices toward partner organizations, looking at different methods for gathering, analyzing and responding to partner organizations’ feedback and suggestions to improve working in partnership.

Capacity Strengthening

§ Support/review partner capacity assessments using standard IRC tools, and design capacity strengthening programs for each partner;

§ Working in close collaboration with the Partnership Manager and local Country Management Team to oversee the development of standardized approaches and best practices in strengthening the capacity of local partner organizations (e.g. training, mentoring, peer review, etc.), taking into account IRC trainings already available and existing capacity-strengthening tools;

§ Coordinate with operations colleagues and the Grants Manager to roll out training and ongoing support necessary to meet program management, accountability and M&E requirements;

§ Coordinate with program colleagues to ensure partners receive training and ongoing support necessary to meet program management, accountability and M&E requirements;

§ Coordinate with M&E colleagues to ensure partners receive training and ongoing support necessary to meet program management, accountability and M&E requirements;

§ Support partner staff learning around, and delivery of, organizational development;

§ Develop and/or identify optimal capacity strengthening tools and methodologies. Disseminate, promote and backstop their use by country program staff.

Reporting and Documentation

§ Undertake and document pre- and post-tests as part of capacity building efforts;

§ Report on progress of partners capacity building efforts.

Professional Standards

§ The IRC and IRC staff must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way – Global 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, and Anti-Retaliation.

Other duties as assigned by the project’s Partnership Manager.

REQUIREMENTS

§ University degree in related field or equivalent experience.

§ 2 years of experience working with and supporting capacity strengthening of civil society organizations. Diverse geographical professional experience preferred. Experience working within complex emergency preferred.

§ Demonstrated ability to influence peer agencies, local government and community leaders to work effectively towards a common and agreed upon result.

§ Demonstrated ability to evaluate and implement best practices and processes affecting multiple technical specialties to achieve rapid, consistent and high quality outcomes.

§ Experience developing, resourcing and leading large budget, complex projects spanning multiple technical specialties.

§ Excellent verbal and written English skills. Greek language skills advantageous.

· Send us the latest version of your resume in English to IRCGreece.Jobs@rescue.org until July 8.

· Interviewing will be done over Skype.

-Only EU Citizens can apply.