Latest Vacancies at The International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Requisition ID: req21154

Sector: Monitoring & Evaluation

Employment Category: Regular

Employment Type: Full-Time

Open to Expatriates: No

Location: Maiduguri, Nigeria

Job Description

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 has been present in Nigeria since 2012 when the organization responded to flooding in Kogi state.  In early 2014, IRC opened a field office in   town of Adamawa state in NE Nigeria followed by offices in Yola (Adamawa state) in November 2014 and Maiduguri (Borno state) in October 2015.  IRC has ECHO, OFDA, and Gates funds to respond to health, nutrition, GBV, and WASH activities.  In late 2014 and early 2015, IRC received additional funds from SV, SIDA, USAID, and UNICEF to carry out education, child protection, general protection, emergency food distributions, shelter support, and NFI distributions to newly displaced IDPs.   In late 2015 into early 2016, IRC received Swiss and UNHCR funds for additional emergency response humanitarian-focused programming in NE Nigeria

Key Responsibilities:

Data collection tools and database design

• Assist the MEL team to clean, process, analyze, and interpret all MEL-related data across the five Strategic Objective program areas.
• Ensure all received data is accurately entered into OTL PowerBI databases in a timely manner.
• Ensure Programs submit monthly, quarterly, and annual data for inclusion in MEL reports.
• Work with the MEL Officer in designing data collection templates for surveys that needs to be conducted internally.
• Take part in designing electronic data entry templates for mobile/tablet data collection.
• Partake in designing a strategy to collect filed level information required by OTL/USAID and/or stakeholders.
• Work with the MEL and program team in standardizing the project M&E tools.

Data collection and analysis

• Closely work with front line staff and volunteers to make so that OTL data collected on timely fashion.
• Communicate and orient responsible partners or program staff on the use of the tools they are responsible for.
• Apply data cleaning techniques to ensure the quality of data collected from field.
• Tabulate and cross-tabulate the field data for further analysis by M&E Officers and program staff.
• Identify the data quality issues and bring to the attention of the MEL officer with proposed actions.
• Train and supervise survey enumerators.
• Take part in the Data Quality Audits, share with program staff and document findings.
• Closely work with staff to ensure they follow correct procedures and criteria during beneficiary registration.

Capacity building and supervision

• Train enumerator hired for assessments.
• Support in organizing orientation for front line staff, partners’ staff and volunteers on the monitoring tools and train them how to use data for decision making.

Perform other duties assigned by the supervisor

• Perform other task related assignment proposed by his/her supervisor/s

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to:  MEL Officer
Position directly supervises:  Enumerators, ??

Indirect Reporting:
Other Internal and/or external contacts:

Internal:

External: 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in education, international development, or a related field.
• Three years of progressively responsible experience in research, MEL, or analytics.
• Familiarity with PowerBI, database management, and data visualizations.

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Requisition ID: req2115

Sector: Monitoring & Evaluation

Employment Category: Regular

Employment Type: Full-Time

Open to Expatriates: No

Location: Maiduguri, Nigeria

Job Description

Background/IRC Summary: 

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 has been present in Nigeria since 2012 when the organization responded to flooding in Kogi state.  In early 2014, IRC opened a field office in   town of Adamawa state in NE Nigeria followed by offices in Yola (Adamawa state) in November 2014 and Maiduguri (Borno state) in October 2015.  IRC has ECHO, OFDA, and Gates funds to respond to health, nutrition, GBV, and WASH activities.  In late 2014 and early 2015, IRC received additional funds from SV, SIDA, USAID, and UNICEF to carry out education, child protection, general protection, emergency food distributions, shelter support, and NFI distributions to newly displaced IDPs.   In late 2015 into early 2016, IRC received Swiss and UNHCR funds for additional emergency response humanitarian-focused programming in NE Nigeria

Job Overview/Summary:

This is a strategic role within the USAID supported Opportunities to Learn (OTL) Project in IRC Nigeria that works closely with the program team to improve program quality, providing MEL technical leadership, to program design, planning, monitoring, evaluation and learning commitments to the project. Core responsibilities includes ensuring the OTL project has a strong MEL system in place, implemented as intended and reported to support program technical leadership and other consortium partners to deliver desired outcomes and impacts.

The MEL lead reports directly to the chief of party and coordinates closely with the IRC Nigeria MEAL Coordinator.

Major Responsibilities:

Technical Oversight

• Leads the design, implementation, and monitoring of OTL MEL systems to ensure quality data collection and analysis for measuring achievement of inputs, outputs, outcomes, and impact.
• Leads and coordinates regular assessments for OTL performance indicators, and shares findings and lessons learned to develop best practices.
• Technical oversight for development of rigorous MEL system for the OTL project and processes and ensures periodic and systematic learning in informing program design and adaptation for IRC and partners.
• Provide technical leadership to IRCs effort in meeting its internal and external accountability commitments through the implementation of sound accountability, client feedback and response mechanisms
• Provide technical leadership and coordination for strong monitoring system and processes throughout the project cycle from the design, implementation to close-out and learning including:

• Using learning and evidence from internal and external sources to inform the projects theory of change.
• Operationalizing the projects logical frameworks, AMELP, data collection tools, processes for data management, clients feedback approaches, quality checks and audits, and data visualization;
• Producing high-quality data, analysis, reports, presentations, and dashboard of key findings  that  foster  learning  and  decision-making  and  share  in  key  meetings  such  as project cycle meetings and strategic senior management team meetings.

Provide technical oversight and coordination for OTL surveys, assessments, and other discrete learning activities, and building related staff and partners competencies through

• Providing supports to program team in developing TORs for needs assessments and surveys
• Leading in selecting/defining the sampling strategy.
• Responsible for conducting advanced analysis (inferential statistics) of needs assessment and survey data.
• Provide the MEL inputs for needs assessment and survey report writing.
• Provides inputs from survey and assessment data for tracking of overall progress on projects, programs and strategic priorities

Trains OTL technical staff on the MEL system, performance indicators, data quality assurance, and data collection with local partners and stakeholders

Strengthening program designs, outcome, and planning

• Provide support, guidance and work closely with program lead and partners to ensure that project design is logically sound, client focused and contextually appropriate, based on technical best practice
• Support program teams in ensuring that detailed and feasible project specific monitoring plans are developed that: i) provide an indicator matrix, ii) map MEL roles and responsibilities of project and support staff, iii) consider ethical and safe collection and storage of data, iv) consider data quality audits, v) consider storing, protecting and sharing project documents, and vi) consider the end of project learning review.
• Guide program teams to determine which monitoring activities will take place and which data collection methods will be used to ensure their adequacy and appropriateness.
• Responsible for providing consistent, supportive supervision to strengthen staff performance as necessary to meet monitoring objectives and ensure data quality.
• Responsible for conducting and coordinating data quality audits of projects and programs to identify and resolve systemic problems affecting data quality and documenting and storing findings in project files on Box.
• Lead in conducting regular analysis and action planning meetings to (1) compare data against project targets, and quality expectations across project sites; (2) identify issues requiring further attention; (3) define action needed and assign responsibility and deadlines,

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to:  COP
Position directly supervises:  Reporting Specialist, MEL Officer

Indirect Reporting: Data assistant
Other Internal and/or external contacts:

Internal:

External: 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree; over seven years of experience in designing and leading complex MEL programs.
• Five years of experience on USAID programs; experience on education projects preferred.
• Strong understanding of education metrics and processes needed to build MEL capacity of organizations, particularly youth-based CBOs and CBMCs on data collection, transparency, and use.
• Deep understanding of MEL ICT4D tools and ways to utilize data for decision-making.

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Requisition ID: req21152

Sector: Monitoring & Evaluation

Employment Category: Regular

Employment Type: Full-Time

Open to Expatriates: No

Location: Maiduguri, Nigeria

Job Description

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 has been present in Nigeria since 2012 when the organization responded to flooding in Kogi state.  In early 2014, IRC opened a field office in Mubi town of Adamawa state in NE Nigeria followed by offices in Yola (Adamawa state) in November 2014, Maiduguri (Borno state) in October 2015 and Damaturu (Yobe state).  The IRC Nigeria country program is implementing multi-sectoral interventions in the sectors of: Health and Nutrition; Environmental Health; Child Protection; Education; Women’s Protection and Empowerment; Economic Recovery and Development and Protection. Most of these programs are driven in partnership with strategic local NGOs. 

Job Overview/Summary:

The purpose of the MEL Officer position is to coordinate the collection, compilation, consolidation, and analysis of data to track programs/projects activities, monitor progress and support impact measurement.  S/he will also conduct development research, engage in reflective practice, and generate lessons from projects/program and prepare M&E plans for the OTL (MEL) sector.  S/he is responsible for establishing and ensuring better field level data management systems for the core program s/he is assigned to and coordinates the proper and timely evaluation of project objectives/impact.  S/he will contribute to the existing client response mechanisms and ensure program staff participation in M&E activities.    S/he also will work closely with the IRC MEAL unit on technical matters and reports to the MEL lead.

Major Responsibilities:

Program/project design and learning

• Implements baseline, midline, and endline evaluations, as well as MEL data collection in the form of FGDs, surveys, classroom observation, performance scorecards, and related approaches
• Supports the MEL Lead to deliver training for OTL staff on the MEL system, performance indicators, data quality assurance, and facilitative data collection with local partners and stakeholders.
• Supports OTL internal and external project evaluations.
• Participate in project review especially in log frames and contribute to learning
• With support from the MEL Lead, establish and maintain project level information management system.
• Closely work with OTL  program team to ensure the project has tested standard monitoring tools that capture both program activity and indicators progress.
• Closely work with the Child Protection team to ensure smooth integration of both Child protection and education activities in carrying out OTL project implementation.

Monitoring and evaluation

• Responsible for tracking progress against monitoring work plans.
• Responsible for ensuring the on-time execution of projects major monitoring and evaluation events including but not limited to baseline survey, mid-term evaluation, final evaluation, data quality audit and field supervision.
• Responsible for providing technical support to staff and partner organization on information management system, proper data collection and record keeping.
• Responsible for updating M&E plan timely and provide feedback to program staff on status and quality of implementation.
• Responsible for monthly and/or quarterly performance indicator analysis, including generation of reports as well as presentations for staff related to on-going performance.
• Responsible for conducting regular data verification exercises to ensure reporting and collection of quality data as well as to check for completeness, correctness and consistency
• Responsible for documenting findings from data quality audits and store in project files to ensure collective and sustainable access.
• Responsible for closely working with staff to ensure they follow correct procedures and criteria during beneficiary registration.
• Accountable for the recruitment of enumerators and support in other survey including engagement of consultants.
• Contribute to providing M&E inputs for report written during project implementation.
• Work with project staff to ensure that data is collected and entered into the databases as well as tracking sheets, and platform data quality audits regularly to identify and resolve systemic problems affecting data quality.
• Information management and reporting
• Support in establishing and maintaining project information management system.
• Responsible for submitting data set to update country office wide program database on monthly basis.
• Support to ensuring all projects have downward/ forward client responsiveness mechanisms and works with project staff to make sure its implementation.
• Responsible for compiling quarterly, biannual, and annual tabular, and narrative reports (as required by project stakeholders) on projects’ accomplishments by cost and alert the management for special deviations from the plan.

Capacity building and supervision

• Responsible for providing assistance to partners in designing monitoring and reporting tools and establishing database management systems.
• Responsible for the orientation of front-line staff, partners’ staff and volunteers on the monitoring tools and train them how to use data for decision making.
• Accountable for coaching, mentoring, and supervising Data assistant.
• Responsible for her/his subordinate/s in completing performance management activities including performance planning, monitoring, and annual performance appraisals.

Perform other duties assigned by the supervisor

• Perform other task related assignment proposed by his/her supervisor/s

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to: MEL Lead

Position directly supervised by: State Programs Managers (dotted line to MEL Lead)

Indirect Reporting: Data Assistant, any other

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in statistics, economics, international development, education or a related field.
• Minimum four years of relevant experience in MEL, research, and or analytics.
• Demonstrated knowledge tracking and analyzing project indicators and capture best practices and lessons learned to incorporate into project activities.

Desirable

• Good verbal communication skills in local languages and working knowledge of English.
• Most importantly, commitment to IRC values and principles.
• A strong team player with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work with groups of diverse backgrounds.

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Requisition ID: req21171
Location: Mubi North, Adamawa
Employment Type: Full-Time
Sector: Child Protection
Employment Category: Regular
Open to Expatriates: No

Contextual Background

• The IRC has been present in Nigeria since 2012 when the organization responded to flooding in Kogi state. In February 2014 the IRC moved into Adamawa State in NE Nigeria to provide humanitarian interventions through a multi-sectorial, integrated approach for conflict affected populations.
• IRC Nigeria now operates a country office in Abuja and field offices in Mubi and Yola of Adamawa State, Maiduguri, Gwoza and Monguno of Borno State and Damaturu of Yobe State.
• Currently, IRC Nigeria implements programs focused in primary health care, nutrition, environmental health, women’s protection and empowerment, protection, child protection, education, food security & livelihoods.
• The IRC is Child Protection team has in the past seen gap in its programming which seems to have left our specific activities for adolescents. A resource pack for adolescent programming has been developed, field tested and is being modified to suit the context.
• This resource pack has been used to expand the Child Protection intervention across the three states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe to specifically meet the needs of adolescents and their care givers and funding has been secured for this intervention.
• The Child Protection team will be working with adolescent boys, girls and their caregivers and communities in a direct way, using the Supporting Adolescents and their Families in Emergencies (SAFE) resource package.  

Job Overview / Summary

• Adolescent girls and boys are gravely underserved in humanitarian emergencies, particularly during the acute phase of response. They are often inserted into programming designed for younger children or into adult programming, where their age-specific needs are not understood or met.
• The Child Protection Assistants will act as focal points for adolescent girls (younger) and boys (younger and older), their caregivers and within Child Protection programming in all the field sites under the SAFE program.
• They will also be responsible for the supervision and close monitoring of Socio-Emotional Learning (SEL) and Safe Healing and Learning Spaces (SHLS) activities.

Technical Quality:

• Provide support for adolescents and their families and link them to specialized services where needed.
• Provide support for SEL and SHLS activities.
• Work with Child Protection Community Based Structures (CBCPCs), community leaders, caregivers/parents to promote child protection in homes and in the community.
• Ensure regular communication with the CP Officer and manager for updates on achievements and challenges

Grant Monitoring and Reporting:

• Ensure proper delivery of SEL/SAFE sessions.
• Provide input for weekly and staff activity reports.

Coordination & Representation:

• Effectively communicate with other caseworkers, government social workers, other CP partners and service providers as part of providing individual support to adolescents/children and their families.
• Regularly attend all CP related meetings at field level.

Program Development:

• Contribute to the development of proposal activities in relation to case management.
• Identify Child Protection trends that need to be addressed through child Protection programming.
• Coordinate with other IRC sectors staff (e.g. WPE, Protection, Health and Livelihoods) at field level and ensure child protection mainstreaming.

Other:

• Consistently and proactively monitor / assess the safety and security of field teams; promptly reporting concerns or incidents to IRC management and liaising with community leaders and other external parties as required to maintain / enhance the security environment for IRC programs.
• Ensure all CP facilities and properties on the field are taken care of and report any damage or threat on the property.
• Other duties as assigned by the supervisor to enable and develop IRC programs

Major Responsibilities

• Child Protection Assistant will work within a Child Protection response team providing psychosocial support services to adolescents and their care givers.
• Work as part of a Child Protection team in a safe space to provide support to children as part of broader response services.
• Participate in identifying facilitators and an initial SEL/SAFE approach training and engage in ongoing skills building using SEL/SAFE materials.
• With support from supervisors, mentor and coach facilitators responsible for co-facilitating sessions with adolescent girls (younger) or boys (younger and older).
• Conduct initial assessments to identify the risks and needs of Children/adolescent girls and boys.
• Work closely with other project staff to identify Children/adolescent girls (younger), adolescent boys, and female and male caregivers to participate in SEL/SAFE learning activities.
• Act as lead facilitator to deliver sessions for Children/adolescent girls or boys together with trained facilitators.
• Facilitate sessions for female or male caregivers enrolled for parenting sessions.
• Provide Psychological First Aid and support to adolescent girls(younger) or boys who disclose experiences of violence and support referral to access required services
• Facilitate feedback meetings with adolescent girl(younger)s and boys, female and male community stakeholders and caregivers and share feedback with supervisor
• Complete weekly reports on project activities, including documenting feedback from participants of SAFE sessions and proactively sharing back lessons learned whilst facilitating the curricula
• Participate in weekly team meetings.

Key Working Relationships

• Position Reports to: Child Protection Officer
• Position directly supervises: None
• Indirect Reporting: Child Protection Manager

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's Degree, HND or National Diploma in Social Sciences, Education, Economic, another Human Development related field or equivalent of experience preferred

Work Experience:

• At least two years’ experience working to support children, adolescent girl and boys, women or parents and caregivers
• Experience with facilitation of group work with relevant populations

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

• A high level of motivation to assist adolescent girls and boys affected by humanitarian crisis
• A commitment to child protection and gender equality
• A learning attitude and willingness to increase skills and knowledge in the protection of adolescent girls and boys
• Experience as an active participate of social groups, with an understanding of group dynamics and processes.
• Capacity building, facilitation, or training experience
• The ability to adapt and work under pressure and strong interpersonal skills
• Basic competency in computer skills

Language Skills:

• English and Hausa

Standards of Professional Conduct:

• The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way – Code of 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, Harassment-Free Workplace, Fiscal Integrity, Anti-Retaliation, Combating Trafficking in Persons, and several others.

Gender Equality:

• IRC is committed to narrowing the gender gap in leadership positions. We offer benefits that provide an enabling environment for women to participate in our workforce including parental leave, gender-sensitive security protocols and other supportive benefits and allowances.