3 Accountability to Affected Persons (AAP) Senior Manager Job Placements – International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Job Title: Accountability to Affected Persons (AAP) Senior Manager (3 Job Vacancies)
Organization: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Duty Station: Uganda
Reports to: AAP Deputy Coordinator
About US:
The International Rescue Committee helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future. It was created by Albert Einstein more than 80 years and has been working in Uganda since 1998. It has particularly working in the conflict zones where tens of thousands of people have been kills and over 1.6 million displaced. Following a peace agreement in 2006, Ugandans are returning home and looking to rebuild their lives. The IRC is there to protect women and children from violence and exploitation by fostering a safe environment and encouraging education, and is supporting farmers and small businesses, and helping communities promote peace and long-term development.
Job Summary: The Senior Manager will serve as the main point of contact for the various Partners, will be responsible for the creation of and adherence to the district-level work plans, will be responsible for setting and reporting on the strategic direction of the Regional AAP team, and will be responsible for managing and providing oversight to the AAP Manager in their region.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Assess and support solutions for gaps and weaknesses within Partners’ existing AAP approaches
- Lead informal and formal assessments of Partner’s approaches to giving, holding, and taking account, with a special consideration for improving the participation of women, children, and marginalized groups.
- Develop and advocate for solutions for addressing gaps and weaknesses within AAP approaches.
- In coordination with consortium partners, provide Partners with regular and systematic insight into the views and needs of refugee and host communities at the district level.
- In collaboration with the Deputy Coordinator, develop questionnaires, surveys, and FGD guides related to AAP, both for use in large-scale assessments and for more moderate district-level use.
- Challenging partners to demonstrate an organizational culture of feedback
Support Partners in developing, tracking, and reporting on district-level work plans for improving AAP mechanisms.
- Actively participate in district-level coordination mechanisms related to AAP.
- Coordinate with the Deputy Coordinator to improve the connections between coordination mechanisms for AAP at the district and national levels.
- Champion an organizational culture shift among partner organizations to increase respect for and adherence to principles of and best practices for AAP, with a specific consideration for ensuring that feedback is used in decision-making.
- Support Partners to evidence how they have improved their ability to actively seek affected populations input to programming and consistently respond to participant feedback.
- Support AAP Managers efforts to facilitate meaningful and accountable discussions between Partners and representatives of affected populations (e.g. Refugee Welfare Committee members).
Staff Performance Management
- Supervise and build the capacity of Regional Manager in relevant technical and management competencies.
- Coach, train, supervise, and mentor Regional Manager, including communicating clear expectations, setting annual performance objectives, providing regular and timely positive and constructive performance feedback, and providing documented semi-annual performance reviews.
- Hold high-quality meetings with Regional Manager on a regular and predictable basis, at least every two weeks.
- Provide a measurable development plan including on-the-job learning with the aim of strengthening technical capacity, exchanging knowledge within the team, and providing guidance on career paths.
- As required, identify staff performance issues and work with Human Resources to document and address these in accordance with the National Staff Employment Policies.
- Encourage the adoption of gender-sensitive analysis and practices among all direct reports.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant for the International Rescue Committee (IRC) Accountability to Affected Persons (AAP) Senior Manager job must hold a Bachelor’s Degree in humanitarian assistance, social work, human rights, international law, social science or related field. Postgraduate degree preferred.
- At least five years of experience in refugee response or related humanitarian contexts, with a preference for experience in engaging across organizations, in community services and AAP, or in change management and organizational change.
- Self-driven with a strong ability to meet objectives without close supervision. Experience with remote management strongly preferred.
- Extensive expertise in delivering accountability mechanisms, as well as capacity to support effective communication with refugee communities (with a specific focus on empowering women, children, and marginalized groups). Understanding of community based structures in refugee settlements and effective community engagement practices.
- Ability to speak additional languages used by refugees preferred, but not required.
- Ability to package and communicate complex topics through written reports and presentations.
- Proven understanding of adult learning theory and organizational development, change management, and/or how organizations function in community or multinational settings.
- Excellent facilitation skills, and strong understanding of how to safely and accurately collect feedback from all members of a community regardless of their age, gender, or other diversity factors.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks; proven self-initiative and problem solving abilities.
- Proven track record of quality performance in highly pressured environments.
- Computer skills, including Word, Excel, Power-Point, and Access.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates should send their applications online at the link below.
Deadline: 20th December 2019