3 Accountability to Affected Persons (AAP) Manager Job Placements – International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Job Title: Accountability to Affected Persons (AAP) Manager – 3 positions
Organization: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Duty Station: Uganda
Reports to: Senior Manager
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: With support from the AAP Deputy Coordinator, the Regional AAP teams (each composed of a Senior Manager and a Manager) will be charged with challenging Partners within their respective region to demonstrate an organizational culture of feedback, while also providing support to taking account (e.g. by supporting question development, data collection methods, and interpretation of data), giving account (e.g. by packaging data, identifying preferred channels for outreach, supporting visibility, directly engaging with relevant stakeholders and community representatives), and holding account (e.g. by strengthening networks of accountability, independently tracking uptake of results). These teams will assess gaps and weaknesses within Partners’ existing AAP approaches, support Partners to develop work plans for addressing these weaknesses, and will conduct or facilitate trainings to support these work plans. To further support taking, giving, and holding account, the teams will facilitate meetings and discussions between Partners, local governments, community representatives, and other stakeholders to aid in a more community-driven interpretation, triangulation, and packaging of data from feedback and independent verification efforts, and will also support giving account by disseminating relevant results at the regional, district, national, and settlement-levels.
Within each Regional AAP team, the Manager will report to the Senior Manager, and will support the Senior Manager’s efforts to engage with various Partners. In particular, the Manager will focus on the day-to-day implementation of this project, including by conducting trainings, setting up meetings between stakeholders, packaging information for presentation and analysis, tracking work plan progress, and other duties as required.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Build capacity within Partners’ existing AAP approaches
- Support 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.
- Support various solutions for addressing gaps and weaknesses within AAP approaches.
- Conduct trainings to build capacity around Partners’ ability to give, hold, and take account.
- Analyse and package for presentation regular and systematic insight into the views and needs of refugee and host communities at the district level.
- Support 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 Senior Managers efforts to track and report on district-level work plans for improving AAP mechanisms.
- Actively participate in district-level coordination mechanisms related to AAP.
- 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.
- Facilitate meaningful and accountable discussions between Partners and representatives of affected populations (e.g. Refugee Welfare Committee members)
- Implement efforts to ‘give account’ to affected persons, by ensuring that updates on the refugee response are communicated to refugee and host communities and community leaders (e.g. via printed materials, community meetings, or through community representatives).
- Identify district-level stakeholders (across communities, partners, government, RWCs, etc.) who are relevant to holding, taking, and giving account by using a Social Network Analysis.
- Build relationships with the most relevant actors identified by the Social Network Analysis, with the explicit aim of strengthening this network of actors to ensure that relevant stakeholders are empowered to support AAP after ULEARN ends.
- Support representatives of affected populations in interpreting and presenting key findings from data collected by various AAP mechanisms and independent verification exercises.
- Moderate and facilitate discussions of various sizes between Partners and representatives of affected populations, and support efforts to track and hold partners accountable to any commitments made during these meetings.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate must hold a Bachelor’s Degree in humanitarian assistance, social work, human rights, international law, social science or related field. Postgraduate degree preferred.
- Self-driven with a strong ability to meet objectives without close supervision. Experience with remote management strongly preferred.
- At least four 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.
- 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 structures and community engagement.
- 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.
- Ability to speak additional languages used by refugees preferred, but not required.
- 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