Adolescent Girls Specialist - Maternity Cover

Job Description

IRC-UK

Our European headquarters, IRC-UK, were established in London in 1997 to support the organisation’s global activities and particularly to diversify its donor base and be able to better advocate with European policy-makers on behalf of the people we serve. Since its establishment IRC-UK has grown rapidly and is now acknowledged for its high-quality project management, technical expertise in governance and rights and economic recovery, and innovative thinking on early recovery and gender based violence. IRC-UK comprises approximately 160 staff.

In Europe, the IRC also has offices in Berlin, Bonn, Brussels, Geneva and Stockholm.

Job Overview/Summary:

The Adolescent Girls Specialist will be responsible for an evolving body of work on the safety and empowerment of adolescent girls. In addition to finalizing the last phase of the early Marriage in crisis project (coming to a close at the end of March 2022), the Specialist will lead business development, lead coordination and engagement with other IRC sectors and external organizations on adolescent girls work and provide technical oversight to this body of work.

Major responsibilities:

Finalize

· Oversee finalization of translation and design of Girl Shine and Early Marriage content

· Ensure the Lebanon learning paper is available online and included in dissemination events

· Support the dissemination events (online) and support regional events as per project deliverables

· Support in the finalization of disability inclusion content and ensure it is incorporated into the final Girl Shine package

· Finalize and coordinate inputs for the final report to the donor

· Support the roll-out of the online trainings, ensuring feedback from testers is included in final version before launch

Technical Support and Program Implementation

· Leads/supports the direct implementation of specific projects e.g. Early Marriage in Crisis

· Support the VPRU Country Support team in delivering remote or in-person technical assistance on the functions of program design, business development and technical capacity building of country programs as appropriate

· Adapt and develop new tools and resources based on country requests and gaps

· Develop Girl Shine/adolescent girl champions/leaders from country teams to be better equipped to provide regional support

Learning and Impact

· Keep abreast of and document Girl Shine learning, where it’s being implemented, who it’s reaching, successes and challenges etc.

· Keep up to date with latest learning on adolescent girls and share with relevant teams to help inform business development and technical support

- Promote the value of working with adolescent girls through case studies, learning documents, short articles, and blogs both for internal and external platforms

· Work closely with advocacy on adolescent girl events e.g. International Day of the Girl, 16 Days of Activism

· Keep up to speed on and document research to ensure program design is based on learning best practices

· In line with VPRU work on anti-racism and decoloniality, explore strategies to enable more active participation from adolescent girls in programming influence and decision making processes e.g. through adolescent girls advisory group, mentorship alliance etc.

Business Development

· Contribute to /lead proposal development

· Maintains an up-to-date portfolio of project ideas (i.e. concept notes)

· Maintains communication with the VPRU Country Support team on potential partnership for project ideas and direct communication with country teams as appropriate

REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS POSITION

· Strong experience in humanitarian, development or similar organizations with direct experience working on adolescent girl programming.

· Excellent oral and written communication, including proven success communicating in challenging and cross-cultural contexts.

· Outstanding inter-personal skills: ability to work efficiently and effectively across sectors and teams to ensure results for adolescent girls

· Demonstrated ability to develop and operationalize programing strategy

· Demonstrated ability to engage in research and evaluation methodologies.

· Highly organized and self-motivated, able to work efficiently on his/her own

· Ability to travel internationally approximately 35% of the time

Candidates must have the right to work in the UK.

IRC-UK strives to be an equal opportunities employer. IRC-UK is committed to equality of opportunity and to non-discrimination for all job applicants and employees, and we seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce regardless of gender, race, religious beliefs, nationality, ethnic/national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability.

IRC-UK welcomes applications from all candidates, including underrepresented groups and refugees who have the right to work in the UK.

IRC UK will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application and/or interview process, and for essential job functions if appointed to a role. Please contact us if you may need such adjustments.

If you have any questions or need assistance with the online recruitment process, please contact the UK HR team at applications@rescue-uk.org

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