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    Health Regional Lead - Nairobi, Kenya - International Rescue Committee (IRC)

    International Rescue Committee (IRC)
    International Rescue Committee (IRC) Nairobi, Kenya

    1 week ago

    International Rescue Committee – IRC background
    Full time
    Description
    The International Rescue Committee is a global humanitarian aid, relief and development nongovernmental organization.
    Job Overview

    Health Unit Central Africa Regional Lead provides coherence and direction to the provision of technical support for Health Unit in the Central Africa Region.

    As a member of both the regional team and the technical unit Leadership team, the Regional Lead has accountability for technical quality and responsibility for assuring the advice from Technical Advisors is taken into appropriate action by the country office.


    The Health Unit Regional Lead (RL) will lead a highly effective, strategic Health Unit regional team to ensure the Central Africa Region has high quality, sound technical support needed to deliver on global program goals and effectively serve our clients.

    The role will serve as a functional leader, advisor, and a thought partner to both TU leadership and Regional leadership, with a particular focus on leading the operationalization of outcome strategies in Central Africa region, multi-sector and sub-sector program integration, evidence-based design, business development, and quality assurance for high-impact and scale strategic projects.

    The Regional Lead will coordinate across individuals and projects, ensuring clear priorities are set and communicated, and navigating the challenges inherent in being an advisory function.

    They will be an excellent people manager, with great team building/animation skills, able to help technical staff succeed and grow in their careers.

    The Regional Lead will invest deeply in understanding the context and dynamics of the country and regional teams and the challenges they face.

    They will ensure coherent ways of working within and across the regional technical team, as well as within the wider Health Unit, to align high quality technical support with the operational realities of the country offices.

    By doing so, the Regional Lead will ensure high quality programming across the Health practice areas in Central Africa region, high quality coordination and partnership with regional teams, effective team performance, and efficiency and impact of technical excellence service offering to the Central Africa region and country programs.

    Major Responsibilities

    Functional Leadership, Coordination, and Implementation Support:
    Provide technical leadership across the region, including by contextualizing the Health Outcome Strategy at the regional level in partnership with Technical Advisors, DRDs, + DDPs and in line with Country Program Strategic Action Plans
    Promote programming coherence and strategic direction of the Health programming portfolio including identifying opportunities for intra and cross-sectoral integration
    Closely coordinate with Global Practice Leads and HQ functions to facilitate translation of global standards to the region and of country-generated innovation and learning to global practice
    Support regional Technical Advisors to address implementation bottlenecks and critical quality concerns in the region's programming portfolio, in partnership with the Deputy Regional Director
    Increase quality of technical collaboration across the region by fostering cross-regional dialogue with other regional technical teams
    Provide technical oversight of regional strategic projects as appropriate and/or budgeted, escalating quality assurance challenges as needed
    Foster relationships with a wide range of both internal and external stakeholders to make strategic connections and identify opportunities
    Provide stop-gap direct implementation support as/if appropriate and budgeted on CP-grants

    Staff management, learning, and development

    Lead and line manage a high performing team of Health regional Technical Advisors, to design and support Health programming across the region, and generate evidence and learning for local and global strategies
    Accountable for ensuring TAs maintain core knowledge and expertise and apply global best practices to their work across health sub-sectors

    Work closely with Regional and CRRD HQ People & Culture colleagues to devise strategies of attracting, onboarding, developing, and nurturing diverse regional technical staff at the Advisor and Coordinator levels, and ensuring an inclusive work environment.

    In collaboration with the DRD, Regional and CRRD HQ P&C, and Global Practice Leads, plan and implement professional development for staff ensuring targeted learning.

    Program Design and Business Development

    Provide technical leadership and oversight to region-led (multi-country) business development, as well as particularly large single-country opportunities, together with the Technical Advisors, Global Practice Leads and others as relevant.

    Support and promote technical and programmatic innovation in the region, based on technically-sound and contextually-grounded creativity and/or insights
    Collaborate with other technical area Regional Leads and Technical Advisors to promote regional uptake of solutions that are proven to increase scale and deepen impact, with close attention to where integrated programming would multiply efficacy and efficiency
    Work with Deputy Regional Directors, Directors of Awards Management and Deputy Directors of Programs for country programs to understand the region's donors for the Health sector, the donors' priorities in the region, and the regional funding priorities of Country Programs for Health Outcome area
    Support regional donor engagement to deepen donor understanding of IRC's work the region, strategically foster and develop new donor relationships in close coordination with the regional team, and support the development of regional business development opportunities
    Support the development and growth of strategic partnerships with mission-aligned organizations at the regional level who share commitments towards scale and impact and have complementary areas of expertise for collaboration towards delivering better outcomes for clients

    Accountable for coordinating across expert staff to better integrate cross-cutting issues into Health programs (e.g., gender equality, diversity and inclusion, climate adaptation, etc.).

    Requirements
    Knowledge Management, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning

    Lift up program learning for sharing across the region and to inform global strategic direction of (relevant) Global Practice Areas
    Facilitate interpretation and use of sector data in regional learning routines and put in place routines and accountability mechanisms to encourage uptake of data-driven recommendations made by TAs
    Collaborate with Regional Measurement Advisors to ensure that Regional Technical Advisors support good MEAL practice for Health programming in Central Africa including the use of high-quality indicators, the use of IRC standard data tools, and the inclusion of MEAL activities in project plans

    External Influence and Representation

    Engage in regional sector coordination groups and bilateral relationships as appropriate, to represent IRC and support priority policy and practice shifts
    Support regions in addressing policy & practice shifts needed to enable program impact and scale

    In close collaboration and partnership with the Deputy Regional Director, regional AMU and Advocacy focal points, ensure effective networking and representation in relation to the Health Technical Unital practice areas, through mobilizing input from global practice leads.

    Key Working Relationships


    Position Reports to:
    Dual reporting line to Deputy Director, Health Unit and DRD, Central Africa


    Direct Reports:
    Technical Advisors


    Key Internal Relationships:
    Health Unit Leadership Team
    Health Unit Global Practice Team(s)
    Health Unit's Policy and Advocacy, Partnership and Program Development, MEAL leads
    Regional Leads and Technical Advisors supporting the region from other Technical Units
    Regional Measurement Advisor
    Regional Leadership Team, Country Directors, DDPs, CRRD colleagues across multiple roles
    Regional Advocacy and Comms leads
    Regional Safety & Security lead
    Central Africa Awards Management Unit team
    CRRD Senior Management Team and Leadership Group; Regional Leadership Teams
    Global HQ and AMU focal points


    Key External Relationships:
    Regional Health Programming Cluster leads and stakeholders, INGOs, Red Cross/Crescent Movement counterparts, Donor and policy makers, counterparts in relevant UN agencies

    Desired Experience and Skills

    Highly seasoned professional with at least 8+ years of progressive technical and management experience leading and managing technical teams.

    Established technical expertise in at least one of the Health Global Practice Areas relevant to Central Africa. Professional and/or lived experience in Central Africa context and sound understanding of the region is a huge advantage.
    Strong track record of leading multi-location technical programs with excellent management and leadership skills including coaching, mentoring, and performance management
    Strong track record of driving uptake of evidence-based practice
    Experience managing multiple projects with multi-disciplinary collaborators
    Demonstrated ability to influence across a wide range of diverse stakeholders internally and externally
    Strong track record of identifying and converting business development opportunities (when leading and managing the leader)
    Knowledge and understanding of the respective regional context
    Ability to work, manage, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment; outstanding business acumen, critical thinking, problem solving and decision-making skills required
    Superb inter-personal, written and verbal communication skills with ability to collaborate across countries, cultures, and departments
    Fluency in English and French is required.
    Ability to travel regionally and globally up to 35% of the time, occasionally on short notice


    Education:
    Masters' degree in Public Health, and/or related fields or an equivalent professional experience background is required.

    Sound training on the use of data and research evidence for programmatic decisions and rigorous analytic skills are an advantage.

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