Latest Vacancies at the International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Requisition ID: req17391
Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Sector: Operations
Employment Category: Fixed Term
Open to Expatriates: Yes

Job Description

• The IRC began working in Nigeria in 2012, providing assistance to communities displaced by large-scale floods. In response to escalating armed conflict in 2014, the IRC launched an emergency response in Yola and has since scaled health and nutrition, education, protection, and WASH programming across Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe (BAY) states. As one of the largest multi-sector actors in the northeast, the IRC has strong linkages with civil society organizations (CSOs), state line ministries, and local stakeholders to ensure lasting gains for communities in need.

Scope of Work:

• The IRC seeks a Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP) for an upcoming five-year, multi-million dollar USAID education activity in Nigeria. The project will equip out-of-school children and youth in northeast Nigeria with the foundational skills needed to progress to higher levels of education, training and/or engagement in the workforce.
• The DCOP will be responsible for supporting the Chief of Party (COP) in management of operational staff, capacity building, and overseeing the project’s operations. S/he will coordinate the development, implementation, and reporting of operational management activities (e.g. procurement, grants management, and finance). The position is based in Maiduguri, Nigeria, with responsibilities to travel throughout North Eastern Nigeria and to the capital, Abuja.
• Recruitment is contingent upon successful award of the project, and selection of final applicant is subject to USAID approval.

Responsibilities

• Provide oversight of operations teams, including procurement, finance, grants, logistics, HR, security, and administrative support staff.
• Ensure project delivery meets best practice standard operational policies and procedures for impact and compliance, with specific focus on AIDAR conformity.
• Provide financial and operational management that optimizes resources through sound budgets, consistent financial tracking, and timely submission of reports to the donor.
• Oversee development, delivery, capacity building, and monitoring of subgrantees.
• Oversee management of all procurement activities to ensure smooth and efficient implementation of project activities.
• Manage consortium partnerships from an operational context and maintain collaborative partner relations to ensure effective delivery of project support needs.
• Support operational reporting to USAID through formal and informal debriefings, annual and semi-annual reports, etc.
• Assist the COP in maintaining active and cooperative relationships with all key stakeholders, including government officials, project partners, other implementing agencies, and related institutions.
• Represent the project and the organization in the public and ensuring the distribution of information about project achievements and lesson learned.
• Support project staff by creating and maintaining a work environment that promotes teamwork, trust, mutual respect, and empowers staff to take responsibility.

Requirements

• Minimum eight years of relevant experience with five in a managerial role on similar programs in developing countries, including substantial supervisory experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, education, international development, accounting, or related field required; Master’s degree preferred.
• Significant previous experience managing operations for similar programming in conflict or crisis-affected situations; experience in remote operations; experience in North East Nigeria preferred.
• Substantial experience with USAID compliance related to procurement, grants, and audit requirements.
• Experience with projects designed to increase equitable access, build Ministry of Education capacity, and recovery of education systems preferred.
• Ability to develop relations with local counterparts, donors, and other stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience scaling up activities of similar scope and in similar contexts.
• Demonstrated success incorporating innovation and participatory, flexible, and gender-sensitive operations into implementation.
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written.
• The candidate must be proficient in English; additional Nigerian language abilities preferred.
• Nigerian nationals strongly preferred

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Requisition ID: req17421
Sector: Protection and rule of law
Employment Category: Fixed Term
Open to Expatriates: No

Job Description

• The International Rescue Committee’s mission is to help people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future. Founded over 80 years ago, the IRC is a leading humanitarian and development organization with a presence in more than 40 countries. Across contexts, the IRC is committed to delivering innovative, high-impact programs tailored to the needs of communities affected by the crisis.
• The IRC began working in Nigeria in 2012, providing assistance to communities displaced by large-scale floods. In response to escalating armed conflict in 2014, the IRC launched an emergency response in Yola and has since scaled health and nutrition, education, protection, and WASH programming across Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe (BAY) states. As one of the largest multi-sector actors in the northeast, the IRC has strong linkages with civil society organizations (CSOs), state line ministries, and local stakeholders to ensure lasting gains for communities in need.

Scope of Work:

• The IRC seeks a Child Safety and Protection Lead for an anticipated five-year, multi-million dollar USAID education activity in Nigeria. The project will equip out-of-school children and youth in northeast Nigeria with the foundational skills needed to progress to higher levels of education, training, and/or engagement in the workforce.
• The Child Safety and Protection Lead will be responsible for designing and delivering effective programming around school safety, including child safeguarding and reporting, child protection, accountability, and referral pathways for child survivors of abuse, neglect, violence, and exploitation. The Child Safety and Protection lead will also be responsible for the development of content on social and emotional learning (SEL) so that children learn to effectively apply knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to understand and manage emotions; set and achieve positive goals; feel and show empathy for others; establish and maintain positive relationships; make responsible decisions, and ultimately improve child and youth safety outcomes so children successfully progress to higher levels of education. The Safety and Protection Lead position will be based in Maiduguri, Nigeria.
• Recruitment is contingent upon the successful award of the project, and the selection of the final applicant is subject to USAID approval.

Responsibilities

• Lead the mainstreaming of child safeguarding policy and procedures into program activities to promote a culture of safety for children and youth learners; ensure children, caregivers, teachers, and affiliated education personnel are aware of the policy and relevant reporting procedures.
• Build relationships to identify and enhance referral pathways to key protection agencies and relevant related service providers (e.g., WASH, shelter, legal, health, etc.) to ensure the OTL project facilitates safe and effective service delivery to children and young people in need of protection.
• Facilitate strengthening safe child protection referral pathways and awareness by working with other partners and stakeholders to conduct training on safe identification and referral of children at risk, raising awareness, sharing information regularly on referral focal points, and coordinating with relevant service providers to update the referral service pathway
• Develop a school safety risk assessment process with key education stakeholders, including children, caregivers, teachers, school directors, parent committees, religious and village leaders, and other relevant focal points.
• Develop risk mitigation strategy sessions for children (especially adolescent girls) with other key stakeholders (including children, caregivers, teachers, and relevant community members) to map out intervention options; deliver related activities targeting perceptions and threats of safety in and around the learning environment, including those which contribute to caretakers’ decisions to not enroll or withdraw their children from school, particularly girls, and which reduce children’s exposure to harm.
• Develop standard and implementable guidance on minimum school and non-formal learning centers’ safety standards and checklists (e.g., sufficient and separate toilet facilities, accessible ingress and egress routes, emergency procedures and plans, availability of fire extinguishers and water access, proper ventilation, sufficient lighting, identification of rally points, ramps for accessibility, etc.), and work with education authorities and community members to redress deficiencies through sustainable, economic, and inclusive solutions.
• Support schools to set up early warning systems through ongoing and active engagement with teachers, school directors, community leaders, religious leaders, parent committees, caregivers, and children.
• Support the ongoing engagement and monitoring of early warning systems in schools to ensure plans are used, promoted, and updated in schools and other areas of learning on a systematic basis through an action and monitoring plan.
• Work with protection and education actors to identify gaps and needs with respect to contingency plans for a family tracing and reunification (FTR) response and ensure this is linked to the early warning system plan; this includes having an emergency FTR process in place in the event of an emergency with teachers, caregivers, and children on board
• Support the design, adaptation, and roll-out of training on psychological first aid, structured psychosocial support for children at risk, IRC’s Kernels of Practice social-emotional learning training materials and activities, IRC’s Healing Classrooms materials and activities for teachers, education actors, and, as appropriate, caregivers.
• Identify non-formal learning structures and strategies that comply with IRC’s community engagement approaches and learning environment minimum safety standards to address the increasing number of non-functioning classrooms, including those damaged by insurgency.
• Conduct regular visits to project sites to ensure schools and non-formal learning centers’ safety, safeguarding, and protection minimum standards are understood, implemented, and supported by relevant community members, caregivers, and education actors.

Qualifications

• Minimum seven years of relevant experience designing, implementing and managing large, complex projects that work to protect vulnerable children and youth
• Minimum five years of project management experience; previous experience with USAID-funded programs preferred
• Bachelor’s degree in social work, education, international development, or related field is required; a Master’s degree preferred
• Experience in overseeing child protection projects including supporting the delivery of psychosocial activities, emergency response, child protection case management including family tracing and reunification, and setting up child safeguarding mechanisms.
• Experience in developing and implementing organizational child safeguarding policies and procedures, including for NGO partners
• Experience developing monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning processes for safeguarding, preferably within the education context
• Demonstrated ability to liaise and build networks with government officials, community leaders, civil society representatives, and, preferably, education actors within the context of safety and protection promotion.
• Demonstrated success incorporating innovation and participatory, flexible, and gender-sensitive programming into implementation
• The capacity to work well under pressure, and the ability to communicate appropriately and effectively cross‐culturally is critical
• Significant previous experience working in conflict or crisis situations, preferably in West Africa and/or Nigeria
• Availability to travel throughout the Northeast Nigeria region
• The candidate must be fluent in English; fluency in another Nigerian language preferred.

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Requisition ID: req17422
Location: Mubi, Adamawa
Employment Type: Full-Time
Sector: Finance
Employment Category: Regular
Open to Expatriates: No

Overview

• IRC entered Nigeria in October 2012 to respond to a widespread flood disaster. IRC’s Emergency Response Team, with local partner CISCOPE (Civil Society Coalition for Poverty Eradication), implemented a project to support livelihoods and improve WASH in Kogi State from February to May 2013; 54 communities benefited from the distribution of seeds and seedlings, new farming techniques training, household items, water, sanitation, and hygiene promotion activities. This was followed by 3-month nutrition and food security program in the same location from October 2013 to January 2014.
• Our current project addresses malnutrition and associated health concerns among conflict-affected children in the newly liberated areas of Adamawa State.

Scope of Work

• The Intern reports to the Finance Office Mubi. She/he supports the Finance Assistant / Office in aspects of day-to-day operations of the accounting department in the Mubi Field office.
• Assist the finance assistant when making payments to suppliers, contractors, and program staff based on approved documents and in line with authority delineation.
• Assist the finance assistant in ensure scrutiny of the entire bill for accuracy and receipt of goods before the process for payment.
• Assist the finance officer on documentation, preparation of cash disbursement voucher for all cash transactions related to the Mubi field office.
• Maintain confidentiality of all financial and other job-related information.
• Assist the finance Assistant on proper documentation, Stamping, Labelling, and filing of all financial documents.
• Assist the finance office in compiling support documents for audit purposes and returning them back to their original location of the audit exercise.
• Help finance unit in moving documents in the office system for approval purposes
• With the guidance of the Finance Assistant/officer Scan any Finance Document before sending it to the country office for month closing. Common duties:
• Attend and participate in training identified/organized by your supervisor
• Perform other duties as may be assigned by your supervisor

Qualifications

• Diploma in Accounts or Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from recognized College / Institutions.

Experience:

• A minimum of one (1) year of accounting experience including NYSC service year.
• Computer literate with significant knowledge/experience in excel.

Skills:

• Able to work in a high-pressure situation,
• Ability to independently organize work, prioritize tasks and manage time.
• Strong interpersonal skills, and open to learning new skills
• Self-motivated, honest, highly responsible, and punctual
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, fluent in written and spoken English.