In 2017, IRC launched its Global Gender Equality Initiative and is committed to hiring and retaining female staff. The organization has flexible and generous policies for women which aim to create a gender sensitive, inclusive work environment. As such, qualified women are highly encouraged to apply, including qualified, internal female candidates. On job mentor-ship is also offered.
Scope:
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is seeking a dynamic, analytical, collaborative and highly motivated individual for the position of Environmental Health (WASH) M & E senior manager for the IRC’s Addis Ababa office. The ideal candidate has worked in WASH programs including school WASH and has past experience with project monitoring & evaluation, representation, and tracking systems and processes. The Environmental Health (WASH) M&E senior manager would be part of an EH (WASH) team in Addis Ababa and contributes to overall EH program quality through the coordination, and implementation of enhanced monitoring & evaluation, accountability, and learning strategies; the emphasis is on streamlining processes and tools for efficiency, effectiveness, responsiveness and sustainability throughout the project cycle across the IRC’s EH (WASH) sector. This position is based in Addis Ababa within the EH program department with travel to the field. The Environmental Health (WASH) M & E senior manager directly reports to the EH Coordinator in Addis Ababa.
The Environmental Health (WASH) M & E senior manager is also responsible to coordinate the school WASH technical lead component of the ‘school WASH & Education project’ titled “Improving Education and WASH in Schools in Refugee and Host Communities in Tigray Region” being implemented by IRC under UNICEF funding (UKAid-funded Building Self-Resilience of refugee and vulnerable host communities through improved basic services (BSRP) in Tigray Region) with a project period from 25th June 2018 to 30th June 2020. The goal of the project is to create equitable access to quality education and training provided to all learners at pre-primary and primary level and girls’ access to secondary education increased, with a focus on the most disadvantaged and vulnerable children, populations and localities, with a main outcome to improve academic, social and emotional learning for children of refugee and host communities in Tigray as measured by literacy, numeracy, and non-academic standardized assessments. Accordingly, the key deliverables of the WASH component is to increase access to effective & efficient learning environments for refugee & host communities through improved WASH facilities and hygiene practices, and to enhance key stakeholder groups (school/communities, BSRP partners, host/refugee education sector institutions) their technical capacity to support access to adequate WASH in school.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS
Project Coordination
Coordinate the production of annual case studies and advocacy papers
Accountability and Monitoring Systems
Assessment, Learning, and Documentation
Capacity Building
POSITION REQUIREMENTS
Candidate selection will be based on the criteria described below.
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TIME FRAME
The length of the posting is 12 months initially, but could be extended, contingent upon satisfactory performance evaluation and funding availability. Qualified women are highly encouraged to apply!
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