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New Job at International Rescue Committee (IRC) Tanzania – Protection and Rule of Law Senior Manager

Protection and Rule of Law Senior Manager
Kasulu, Tanzania, United Republic of | req19568
Requisition ID: req19568
Job Title: Protection and Rule of Law Senior Manager
Sector: Protection and rule of law
Employment Category: Fixed Term
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: No
Location: Kasulu, Tanzania
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Job Description
Background/IRC Summary:
The
International Rescue Committee 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, IRC offers
life-saving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee
from war or disaster. At work today in more than 40 countries and in 22
U.S. cities, IRC restores safety, dignity and hope to millions who are
uprooted by conflict or disaster. IRC leads the way from harm to home.

For
over half a century, Tanzania has been a country of asylum, hosting one
of the largest refugee populations in Africa. Currently, the country
hosts approximately 311,000 Burundian and Congolese refugees.

Within
this context, IRC provides protection and basic assistance in the areas
of child and youth protection and development, Community-based
rehabilitation for persons with disabilities and special needs,
gender-based violence / women’s protection and empowerment, livelihoods,
mental health services and primary health care, both at border posts
for the Burundian new arrivals and in refugee camps in the Kigoma
region.

Job Overview/Summary:
The Protection and Rule
of Law Senior Manager leads the IRC’s efforts to meet conflict-affected
people’s safety and protection needs, reducing risk and responding to
cases of violence, coercion, and deprivation, as well as mainstreaming
protection throughout the IRC’s response in Tanzania. Protection is a
signature part of the IRC’s strategy in Tanzania. The Protection and
Rule of Law Senior Manager will define and manage a clear direction,
drive forward implementation and ensure robust and effective management
and oversight to best meet the needs and aspirations of local
communities and accountability to stakeholders.

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Major Responsibilities:
Program Strategy and Business Development

  • Provide
    strategic direction, leadership and overall technical and management
    support to the Protection Rule of Law (PRoL) programming, ensuring it is
    risk-based, context-appropriate, responsive, coherent, collaborative,
    and operationally feasible.
  • Contribute to the implementation of IRC’s Strategic Action Plan outcomes.
  • Proactively
    grow the PRoL portfolio through development of concept notes and
    proposals to existing and new donors, maintaining a coherent strategy
    across IRC’s areas of intervention in Tanzania.
  • Promote joint
    work across the 3 protection streams of Women Protection and
    Empowerment, Child Protection and PRoL as well as the Economic Recovery
    and Development and health sectors to enhance the quality of programming
    and a holistic approach to addressing the protection needs of the
    target populations.
  • Identify, monitor, and report unmet
    protection programming needs. Explore the potential of the IRC to
    address those needs within the parameters of the Strategic Action Plan
    and sector priorities.
  • Ensure alignment and coherence with relevant IRC country, regional and global strategies.

Program Management and Quality

  • Ensure
    projects and activities are of high technical quality, meet
    humanitarian standards, mainstream protection, align with IRC’s Outcomes
    and Evidence Framework, and respond to community and monitoring
    feedback.
  • Recruit qualified team members, when needed, and
    support and supervise the teams to achieve program goals and maximize
    national ownership and leadership.
  • Proactively identify,
    assess, monitor and implement measures to reduce or control risks that
    may impact program delivery, quality or compliance.
  • In
    collaboration with program, finance, HR and Supply Chain departments,
    provide oversight on implementation, integration and donor compliance.
  • For
    relevant cross border programming, collaborate with Burundi PROL teams
    in joint implementation of activities such as protection monitoring and
    responsive information services.
  • Lead assessments and
    context-appropriate research aimed at generating a strong evidence base
    for IRC protection programming, as well as informing IRC advocacy.
  • Liaise
    with Technical Advisors to ensure relevant support, tools and resources
    are being provided and integrated into programming.
  • Liaise with
    the M&E Manager to support M&E activities for the PRoL program,
    map lessons learnt and identify opportunities for evaluations and
    quality improvement.

Staff Management & Development

  • Coach,
    train, and mentor staff with the aim of strengthening their technical
    capacity, exchanging knowledge within the team and providing
    professional development guidance
  • Supervise and mentor staff,
    including communicating clear expectations, and in partnership with the
    direct line supervisor, setting performance objectives, providing
    regular and timely performance feedback, and contribute to the annual
    and mid-year performance reviews.
  • Provide constructive feedback
    and counsel on appropriate career paths and professional development.
    Support the development of business development skills and
    responsibility among the integrated protection team, with a particular
    focus on national staff.
  • Promote and monitor staff care and well-being; approve and manage all leave requests to ensure adequate coverage.
  • Offer leadership support for successful adherence by staff to IRC’s Global HR Operating Policies and Procedures.
  • Adhere
    to and act in accordance with the IRC Way and communicate through word
    and action a high standard of compliance with all applicable policies
    and regulations.

Grant Monitoring & Reporting

  • Participate in Budgets Versus Actual meetings, oversee PRoL budgets, cash forecasts, procurement, and spending plans
  • Undertake
    regular field monitoring visits to assess progress and identify
    technical quality issues and/or other implementation issues, provide
    solutions and implement modifications as required.
  • Contribute to the design and implementation of M&E tools for protection programming.
  • Ensure
    that all internal and external reporting requirements are met, that
    reports are of a high quality and are submitted on time.

Representation, coordination and advocacy

  • Ensure effective collaboration with local partners including technical capacity strengthening
  • Engage
    and maintain effective working relationships with partners,
    stakeholders and protection coordination structures in Tanzania,
    including NGO, UN, and technical and government actors.
  • Identify advocacy opportunities together with the Deputy Director for Programs and based on information coming from the field.
  • Together
    with the Deputy Director Programs, work closely with IRC’s advocacy and
    media teams, and the Violence Response and Prevention Technical Unit
    for the launch and dissemination of research reports and findings.
  • Together
    with the DDP, contribute to the advocacy efforts of IRC Tanzania and
    the Great Lakes Region through analysis of the policy environment and
    trends.
  • Support the greater sharing and use of research and
    learning within IRC’s program sectors, including by contributing to
    program development and design, to ensure interventions are responsive
    to needs and informed by a sound understanding of the environment(s) in
    Tanzania.


Key Working Relationships

Position Reports to: Deputy Director of Programs, dotted line with Kigoma Region Field Coordinator.
Position technically supervises: PRoL Managers, M&E Manager.
Indirect Technical Reporting: PRoL teams’ staff.
Other Internal and/or external contacts:
Internal:
Other program sector coordinators, PRoL Technical Advisor, Supply Chain
Coordinator, Finance Controller, HR Coordinator, Grants Manager and
M&E Coordinator.
External: Protection Working Groups, INGOs, Government administration.

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Qualifications

  • Advanced degree in humanitarian assistance, social work, human rights, international law, social science or related field.
  • 3
    – 5 years’ experience implementing Protection and Rule of Law
    programming in an emergency or complex emergency context and
    demonstrable understanding of the relevance of international
    humanitarian law and human rights law to humanitarian action.
  • Professional
    practical experience in program implementation in the field of
    protection monitoring, responsive information services, inclusion, cash
    programming, community-based protection and/or access to justice in
    conflict-affected areas; applied experience in case management and
    international experience are a plus.
  • Ability to manage up and across and to influence others to mainstream protection across units.
  • Strong team and people leadership, management, organizational and development skills
  • Strong program and budget management skills including planning and reporting across multiple grants.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills, effective in representation and liaison with external parties.
  • Works
    well in and promotes teamwork, comfortable in a multi-cultural
    environment, flexible and able to handle pressure effectively and
    productively.
  • Fluent in spoken and written English.

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Warning :

Please
note that the IRC does not charge fee at any stage of its recruitment
process (application, interview meeting, processing, training or any
other fee). IRC does not request any information related to bank
accounts. If asked of any payment please contact TZ-Recruitement@Rescue.Org.

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