Job Overview/Summary

Are you passionate about IRC's mission, making a positive impact on engagement and seeing an improvement in people’s work lives? Then join us!The mission of the Learning and Development (L&D) team is to take the IRC’s people to the next level. We improve the capability of IRC staff by providing language, culture and technology-appropriate processes, tools, training, and guidance for individuals to advance their performance, capabilities and contributions.

The Senior Director, Leadership Development strengthens management and leadership practices across the IRC. By identifying, directing, and evaluating offerings that further our Strategy 100 and inclusion aims, the successful candidate will mentor our leaders and managers and impact how they engage with staff at every level and in every geography. They will also serve as advisor to senior leaders for improving and modeling our leadership principles.

Major Responsibilities

• Design and implement the global strategy, principles, program and processes for leadership development at the IRC.
• Engage with organizational, People & Culture, and Learning & Development colleagues to impact broader efforts to influence leadership behavior, design development programs and meet our organizational goals.
• Serve as a member of the L&D senior management team (SMT) and contribute to team-wide strategy, operational planning, and budget efforts.
• Direct a team of program leads, specialists and support staff to implement leadership development offerings.
• Closely collaborate with Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (GEDI) team members to build inclusive programs that help drive GEDI goals through leadership action.
• Collaborate with L&D leadership and regional focal points to address gaps in programming and to adapt global tools and processes to fit language and contextual needs.
• Continuously measure success and seek options to strengthen our management practices and management pipeline.
• Cultivate a diverse and strong network of internal and external partners from around the globe in order to craft and deliver leadership programs that meet the organization’s needs.

Development Value

• Opportunity to shape and impact leadership behavior on a global scale, impacting downward teams and in turn, engagement, turnover, and strategic and DEI goals.
• Lead the design of flagship and foundational programs to inspire and engage leaders to model IRC’s leadership standards.
• Exposure to and collaboration with senior leaders across a highly matrixed, global humanitarian organization.

Job Requirements

• Minimum of 10-15 years of proven experience in scaling and implementing leadership development programs
• Experience achieving strong results through management of others
• Strong communication, project management, and organizational skills
• Global approach, culturally curious and emotionally intelligent
• Ability to interact within a multi-cultural environment and with all levels of the organization
• English fluency required. French, Spanish and/or Arabic a plus.

The Objective Of The Consultancy Is To

• Objective 1: To identify the scope and gendered impact of the drought's including but not limited to direct and indirect effects on GBV, as well as how women, men, boys and girls can access various services, resources, and information.
• Objective 2: To determine the various coping mechanisms, constraints, capabilities, and unique needs of women and men, including those with disabilities, to respond to the crisis throughout the range of protection and SRH needs, Taking intersectionality into account.
• Objective 3: To identify measures that enhances protection, GBV care and support services and to prevent GBV with clusters/sectors, the government, and other responsibility bearers.

Date and Duration of Consultancy

The consultancy period shall be for 10 days per County. The complete curriculum must be submitted to IRC within 20 days after validation exercise.

Qualifications

The ideal consultant should have: -

• A post-graduate degree in Gender and Development, social sciences or another relevant field.
• Over 5 years of experience conducting gender studies with evidence of publications or field reports on gender issues with experience in women and adolescents programming.
• The consultant must be able to demonstrate experience in conducting a gender analysis of a similar or related assignment.
• Experience in working collaboratively with government and other development partners.
• Experience working with marginalized and special groups.
• Ability to communicate in English and Kiswahili and in local languages in Turkana, Samburu, Kajiado or Garissa is an added advantage.

The Successful Candidate Will Be Required To

• Follow protection guidelines when engaging with all participants in the assessment.
• Adhere to organization policy of different partners that will be involved in the assessment.
• Adhere to human rights, Protection Principles, socio-ecological, systems strengthening and MHPSS approaches.
• Be guided by the spirit of collaboration, cooperation, partnerships, balance of power, meaningful engagement of marginalized voices and women, girls, young people, vulnerable, persons living with disability among others.