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Darfur remains a highly complex humanitarian context characterized by ongoing conflict, large-scale displacement, restricted humanitarian access, and acute protection risks. Women and girls face heightened exposure to gender-based violence (GBV), including conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), with limited availability of safe, confidential, and quality services.
Job Overview/Summary:
The WPE Program Coordinator provides strategic leadership, technical oversight, and quality assurance for IRC’s Women’s Protection & Empowerment (WPE) programming across Darfur. The position ensures that GBV prevention and response interventions are survivor-centered, technically sound, and adapted to a highly constrained emergency setting. The role includes regular field presence, mentoring and supervising WPE teams, leading program development and advocacy, and guiding the WPE program through protracted emergency response while maintaining readiness for future recovery-oriented programming when feasible.
Major RESPONSIBILITIES:
The WPE Coordinator shall:
Strategic Leadership & Technical Oversight
• Provide overall strategic vision for the WPE program in Darfur throughout the emergency response, ensuring context-appropriate adaptation and prioritization.
• Ensure the technical quality of all IRC WPE programming, guaranteeing that women and girl survivors have safe, timely, confidential access to GBV case management and referral services.
• Provide technical and management leadership in line with IRC policies, global GBV standards, and best practices adapted to insecure and low-access environments.
• Lead the development and ongoing refinement of a Darfur-specific WPE strategy, incorporating input from field teams, other IRC sectors, senior management, and external stakeholders.
• Foster a collaborative, supportive, and learning-oriented work environment, with particular attention to staff care and professional development.
Information Management & Data Protection
• Ensure ethical, safe, and context-appropriate data collection and information management systems are in place, including responsible use of GBVIMS.
• Ensure data is used for analysis, planning, monitoring, evaluation, and advocacy without compromising survivor confidentiality or safety.
Coordination & Representation
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with donors, government and local authorities, UN agencies, international and national NGOs, and community-based actors.
• Represent IRC in GBV sub-cluster, Protection, and inter-agency coordination forums at appropriate levels.
• Advocate for inclusive, survivor-centered, and high-quality VAWG response services in Darfur.
• Elevate field-level challenges and access constraints to relevant coordination and decision-making forums.
Staff Supervision & Development
• Maintain open and professional relationships with team members, promoting teamwork and accountability.
• Directly supervise the WPE Program Sr. Manager and ensure regular performance management and coaching.
• Support recruitment of WPE staff in coordination with HR, senior management, and the WPE Technical Unit.
• Ensure ongoing capacity building for staff on GBV technical standards, case management quality, remote management, and staff wellbeing.
Grant Planning, Implementation & Compliance
• Ensure effective implementation and overall achievement of WPE grants in Darfur.
• Ensure adherence to approved work plans, budgets, spending plans, and monitoring frameworks.
• Coordinate closely with IRC Operations, Finance, and Grants teams to ensure compliance with donor and IRC requirements.
Grant Monitoring & Reporting
• Oversee effective monitoring systems, quality assurance, and internal reporting processes.
• Ensure timely, accurate, and high-quality donor and internal reports on activities, outputs, and outcomes.
• Ensure quality GBV case management data collection, storage, and reporting in line with ethical standards.
Partner Management
• Oversee relationships with implementing partners and support partner capacity strengthening.
• Ensure regular performance monitoring of partners against agreed objectives and standards.
• Lead high-level advocacy with peer agencies and authorities to strengthen coordination and service delivery.
Safety, Security & Duty of Care
• Proactively monitor and assess safety and security risks affecting WPE teams.
• Ensure security concerns are promptly reported and mitigation measures are implemented in coordination with IRC management.
• Ensure safeguarding, PSEA, and duty-of-care principles are integrated across all WPE activities.
Other Duties
o Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor to support and strengthen IRC programming.
Requirements:
• MA/S or equivalent in public health, social sciences, gender studies, international development, or related field.
• At least 5 years of overseas experience, including substantial management experience in VAWG/GBV programming and at least 2 years experience in direct service provision for survivors of sexual and domestic violence
• Previous experience supervising and managing a multi-disciplinary team in a cross-cultural setting
• Previous experience in emergency preparedness and response
• Demonstrated experience in capacity building and mentoring of national and international staff
• Demonstrated experience in grant management and proposal writing
• Excellent computer skills in programs such as: MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint
• Capable of applying skills and knowledge in a range of capacities, including direct implementation, advisory functions, training and the transfer of technical knowledge and management skills to others
• Personal qualities: Team player, flexible, network-builder, able to handle pressure well
• Fluency in English and Arabic strongly preferred.
KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:
This position directly supervise Women’s Protection and Empowerment Sr. Manager
And directly reporting to the Deputy Director of Programs.
Internal: WPE Technical Unit, Grants, Finance, Supply Chain, HR
External: Donors, UN agencies, government and local authorities, international and national NGOs, community stakeholders
PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS
All International Rescue Committee workers must adhere to the core values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. Our Standards are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Safeguarding, Conflicts of Interest, Fiscal Integrity, and Reporting Wrongdoing and Protection from Retaliation. IRC is committed to take all necessary preventive measures and create an environment where people feel safe, and to take all necessary actions and corrective measures when harm occurs. IRC builds teams of professionals who promote critical reflection, power sharing, debate, and objectivity to deliver the best possible services to our clients.
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