Summary
Date Posted: Friday, September 09, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Protection Rule of Law TA

Specific Responsibilities:
The Technical Advisor (PRoL TA) will spend at least 80% of their time delivering technical assistance in-person and remotely to country program colleagues in the Asia region, which currently includes Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, and the Philippines, and is continuing to expand. The remaining time is spent on influencing the organisation's strategy, advocacy, research and internal initiatives in line with the team’s overall strategy. The Technical Advisors’ specific responsibilities are as follows:

Guiding program design:
• Support country staff engaged in program delivery to design programs and projects, ensuring that they are:
• Aligned with the IRC’s overall strategy, are evidence based and appropriate for the local context
• Based on need
• Based on sound context, gender and protection analysis
• Help define approach to teaming with other organizations
• Support selection of indicators for country programs

Engaging in business development:
• Review technical quality of proposals, including review of technical activities and ensuring alignment with the organization's outcomes.
• Support the drafting of technical proposal narratives
• Provide input on budgets required for project delivery
• Engage with donors and do outreach in support of country programs

Building and mentor staff to ensure ongoing program quality and innovation:
• Share cross-context learning with staff implementing programs across the region and within the PRoL technical team
• Conduct technical training and ongoing mentoring for staff in country, including on IRC outcomes, theories of change, evidence and indicators
• Review and share program-specific tools / resources / curricula and work with Technical Unit specialists to contextualize and adapt global and country-specific materials
• Support senior country staff to build strong and motivated teams through timely recruitment and on-boarding

Influence others to use tried interventions and build evidence to support interventions and approaches:
• Participate in working groups, inter-agency task forces and academic conferences that focus on protection to improve practice, shape policies and build new and innovative approaches on relevant issues.
• Present IRC research findings across contexts and relevant conferences
• Help country programs in crafting/implementing research on the impact of PRoL projects developed in-country

Strategy and Tool Development:
• Work with members in the VPRU team towards achieving the unit’s strategic priorities, including the development and roll-out of VPRU programming models in selected country programs
• Support the thinking and development of new program areas or approaches for the team within VPRU, including for access to justice/legal empowerment programming

Key Working Relationships:
Position Reports to: Protection & Rule of Law Senior Technical Advisor
Other Internal and/or external contacts:
Internal: Regular communication with education, violence prevention and response, health, economic recovery & development, governance, research, evaluation and learning, and gender, equality and diversity and inclusion technical teams. Close relationships with regional and country program teams. Interacts with IRC internal departments, including business development, external relations and advocacy, to keep them informed of program activities.
External: Serve as IRC program representative in outside regional meetings and global meetings and academic forums with donors, other non-governmental organizations, inter-agency groups and foundations.

Job Qualifications:
Education:
Master’s/post-graduate degree in international law, human rights law, international development or relevant field or equivalent combination of education and experience is required.

Work Experience:
• A minimum of 5 years in implementing and/or leading Protection & Rule of Law programs is required, preferably within a humanitarian, international development setting.
• Experience in technical tools and materials development, proposal development, monitoring and evaluation, and research. Experience in strategy development and working across sectors or fields.


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree

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