Health Advisor in Partnership

The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, IRC offers life-saving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in more than 40 countries and in 22 U.S. cities, IRC restores safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted by conflict or disaster. IRC leads the way from harm to home.

Job Overview/Summary

The Health in Partnership Advisor is responsible for the health components of a USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA)-funded program that includes health and nutrition, WASH, and shelter activities to support conflict-affected populations. Entitled Amal (“hope” in Arabic), the consortium will include international and Syrian partners with humanitarian response capacity. Pending donor approval of an award modification, the Health in Partnership Advisor will collaborate with the Deputy Chief of Party (DCoP) to lead the start-up and implementation of programming.

Major Responsibilities

Technical Quality that promotes Inclusive Approaches

Establish programmatic technical standards and work to achieve high-level program delivery with partners in collaboration with Protection and WASH/Shelter technical staff through remote management mechanisms and programmatic adaptation

Design and roll out key guidance notes, tools, and materials (i.e. assessment, monitoring, supervision, awareness raising, training, etc.) in collaboration with partners that align with Sphere and other global standards

Liaise with IRC’s Technical Units to ensure Health approaches are aligned with Sphere Standards and IRC’s global models and best practice, as much as possible with the contextual constraints

Advise on development and implementation of program baseline and other programmatic monitoring, including output and outcomes to drive quality implementation via partners as well as contributing to Health desegregated data review on a quarterly basis to inform program adaptations to understand needs of men, women, boys, and girls

Contribute to informal protection risk analysis at the start of the project using information from the sources that are available from partners to inform program design and adaptations to enhance equal and inclusive access to services

Conduct capacity strengthening with partners to ensure Health modules align to agreed minimum standards, supporting to provide tools and approaches that fit community level needs and operational constraints

Promote inclusion by identifying barriers that prevent individual and community participation in Health due to disabilities or age in humanitarian programming, and also identify capacities for self-reliance

Work with MEAL team to support partners to reinforce beneficiary feedback mechanism to ensure it is accessible to women, people with disabilities, and elderly and ensure feedback in incorporated, including promoting existing and new measure to ensure confidentially and privacy of personally identifiable information

Coordinate and network with Health counterparts to understand key service issues within Syrian context to inform program planning

Support on regular reporting and other donor requirements

Partnership Coordination and Capacity building

Support partnership engagement and communication to implement sub-grant agreements and complete program deliverables

Drive adherence to IRC’s Partnership Excellence for Equality and Results System (PEERS) by understanding and guiding the IRC team and partners to apply key processes

Collaborate with IRC’s Partnership Team to ensure sub-awards, Project Support Plans, and other required documents are established based on PEERS and US Government regulations

Promote the use of E-learning platform to foster greater understanding and application of humanitarian approaches

Facilitate systematic partner feedback on IRC’s management of and performance in partnerships, as well as taking appropriate action in response to the feedback to ensure the smooth operation of the consortium

Design, lead, and participate in relevant workshops and meetings to support coordination and collaboration, including quarterly partner monitoring visits and training events

Other tasks as needed

Key Working Relationships

Position Reports to: Deputy Chief of Party

Indirect/Technical Reporting: N/A

Position directly Supervises: N/A

Key Internal Contacts:

Country Program: Protection in Partnership Advisor, WASH/Shelter in Partnership Advisor

Region/Global: Whole of Syria Health and Protection Coordinators, Regional Partnership Director, Regional Health Advisor

Key External Contacts: Amal partner organizations