International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Vacancy: Safe Programming Officer
Sector: Governance
& Rights
Location: Kenya
Employee Category: Full
Time
Job Purpose / Objective: The Safe Programming Officer will be the focal point for IRC's Safe Programming initiative in Hagadera and Kambioos camp.
With technical support from the
Governance and Rights Coordinator the incumbent will be responsible for
implementing the Safe Programming efforts in Hagadera and Kambioos refugee
camps and ensuring that the goals and objectives of the project are
met.
He/ She will provide technical
oversight to the field-based staff specifically on the incorporation of
protection principles into all of the IRC's and other participating agencies'
programs.
The position reports to the Field
Coordinator. He or she will specifically be responsible for:
Key Responsibilities
A. Program Management
Key Responsibilities
A. Program Management
- Provide ongoing leadership, training, and
guidance to staff (including refugee incentive staff) to ensure meets best
practice standards and prioritizes the needs of beneficiaries.
- Design and manage a comprehensive and
functional complaints response and feedback mechanism both in Hagadera and
Kambioos camps.
- Ensure that the beneficiaries particularly the
most at risk groups access assistance without any discrimination.
- Ensure that IRC staff are aware and adhere to
the code of conduct when dealing with the beneficiaries and that the
services are delivered without causing harm.
- Assist in developing public relation
programmes to inform the camp population and host community about IRC
projects and to support community participation and ownership of the
projects.
- Actively participate in the designing of
assessments including conducting of the assessment, data analysis and
report writing.
- Assist in the development and implementation
of work plans emanating from
- Findings of the assessments.
- Ensure continuous engagement with partners in
the advisory committee and protection partners to enhance their buy in of
protection principles.
- Ensure representation of protection
mainstreaming in key forums such as coordination meetings at Camp and
Dadaab level as an opportunity to advocate for protection principles.
- Ensure adequate project monitoring systems are
in place and staff are using the same.
- Track the project budget utilization in line
with IRC policies and practices.
- Ensure that all internal and donor reporting
requirements are met and that reports are of a high quality and submitted
on time.
- Ensure that all opportunities for protection
mainstreaming are utilized including proper coordination with the grants
team to ensure proper coverage of protection mainstreaming in all proposal
development opportunities.
- Create engagement forums within IRC safe
programming projects sites that will ensure information sharing and
discussion among IRC protection staff to increase opportunities of
creativity and enhance thinking caps.
B. Staff and Community Capacity
Building
- Design and implement staff training plans for
national team members and refugee incentive staff in Hagadera and Kambioos
and other participating agencies.
- Oversee/ conduct trainings on for
community leaders and service providers
- Collaborate with the all team managers in IRC
and participating agencies in Hagadera to ensure that staff are well
trained on .
- Actively input in the design training manuals
for safe programming with reference to context and relevance to field
site.
- Develop yearly training plans to guide and monitor
population targeted for protection trainings and to give guidance to
future monitoring of impact to community.
C. Coordination and Networking
- Develop and maintain effective working
relationships with all stakeholders- including community leaders, NGOs, UN
agencies, and other IRC team members to enhance multi-agency and multi
sectoral cooperation and coordination.
- Participate in the camp level working group
meetings that relate to and as relevant at the national level.
- Create forums that encourage coordination
including increasing opportunities for the advisory committee to meet and
brainstorm on improving protection mainstreaming in the camps.
Required Qualifications:
- 3 – 5 years program management experience,
including at least 2 years of mainstreaming in a humanitarian context with
protection focus
- Knowledge of inter/national legal and or
policy frameworks relating to refugees strongly desirable
- Demonstrable experience in negotiating and
building implementing coalitions of multiple agencies desirable.
- Under graduate qualifications in social
science, humanities, or any other relevant subject.
- Community education/training experience
desirable
- Ability to effectively express ideas both oral
and in writing.
Required Experience &
Competencies:
- Ability to work well under minimum supervision
- Ready to work in hardship areas with basic
services available.
- Team player, hard worker.
- Good interpersonal and team building skills
- Ability to live and work under pressure in an
unstable security environment
- Fluency in English.
Kenyan nationals are encouraged to
apply.
International allowances are not
available for this position.
Salary and employee benefits are
compliant to the Kenyan NGO Sector.
How to Apply
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