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About the Role

The Advisor will provide strategic, technical, and operational support to enable IRC to open, expand, and sustain programs in emergencies, major crises, and complex environments. This role, housed within the Emergency Unit, supports country and emergency response leadership, ASAP colleagues, and Regional Safety and Security Directors to reach the worst-affected and least-served populations.

Responsibilities

Plan and deliver inclusive in-person and remote scenario development workshops.
Support frontline program teams to develop and track indicators for crisis developments.
Support country leadership to develop and implement specific access and acceptance strategies.
Ensure strategies include how IRC builds relationships, engages and negotiates with authorities, key power brokers, security actors, and community stakeholders.
Build and maintain an active network of humanitarian access and security staff internally and across organizations.
Maintain currency with methods, approaches and professional developments in relevant topics.
Represent IRC in relevant global fora where needed.
Support country leadership and access, safety and security teams to identify, analyze and mitigate safety and security (S&S) risks.
Support the implementation of S&S standards and approaches to strengthen humanitarian access.
Ensure S&S preparedness and contingency align with program ambitions.
Support country/response teams in incident management.
Support country programs to develop and implement humanitarian access, safety and security approaches in their emergency preparedness and contingency plans.
Support EmU in the development and adaptation of humanitarian access, safety and security systems, practices and resources, and centralized knowledge management.
Co-develop, with consortium partners, a humanitarian access framework.
Support the development, revision and uptake of IRC’s technical resources for analysis, security, access and preparedness.
Guide, train, coach and mentor IRC country leaders and frontline staff on humanitarian access approaches, safety and security.
Design, deliver and track humanitarian access, safety and security capacity strengthening activities.
Ensure an ongoing exchange of learning and good practice in ASAP methods and approaches with partners.
Deliver capacity sharing activities on analysis, access and security where relevant and prioritized.
Contribute humanitarian access, safety and security content to EmU trainings and conferences.
Champion a culture of effective and respective partnerships across the EmU.
Ensure partners play a central role in the development of access, security and engagement strategies.
Adapt and/or orient IRC technical resources for humanitarian access, safety and security towards partners.
Support partners in their uptake and cross-contextual learning and application.
Design and deliver capacity sharing activities with partners.
Collaborate closely with consortium partners to learn, coordinate and ensure the shared delivery of each organisation’s analysis, security, access and preparedness approaches.
Build and maintain strong working relationships across EmU, the Global S&S Department and regional/country colleagues.
Cultivate and maintain a positive, collaborative, safe and protective work environment.
Contribute to efforts across EmU and through ASAP support to safe, diverse, and inclusive culture and ways of working.
Foster ongoing learning, honest dialogue, and reflection to strengthen safeguarding, GEDI commitments, and IRC values.

Requirements

At least 8 years of non-profit or NGO work experience within international humanitarian assistance programs with demonstrated successes in planning, organizing and managing safety and security in complex and volatile environments.
Significant practical experience in humanitarian access, humanitarian negotiation, civil-military coordination, security management or related competencies.
Substantial and documented prior experience as a facilitator – the ability to develop, implement, facilitate and impart learning to a wide range of audiences.
Experience with collaborative/inclusive development of tools, guidance and learning materials for/with practitioners.
Knowledge of legal and normative frameworks for humanitarian action and expertise in applying humanitarian principles in practice.
Thorough familiarity with principles and current approaches to humanitarian access and acceptance models of security management.
Demonstrated understanding and successes in gender security management and gender equality.
Ability to gain a precise understanding of the various local, regional, country and international policies, operational positions and interactions.
Ability to support analysis and its uptake into decision making before and during emergencies and major crises.
Advanced skills in humanitarian negotiation, humanitarian-military relations and/or engagement with armed groups.
Strong communication, diplomatic, relationship building and interpersonal skills, including to influence and obtain cooperation of individuals not under supervisory control.
Proficiency in facilitating challenging conversations, and challenge teams, on strategic, technical and operational subject matter to create shared understanding and inform decisions.
Proficiency in delivering training and coaching support to individuals, teams and/or partners.
Humility in analysis, ways of working and willingness to learn with teams in the most complex settings.
Able to work as member of multinational team and manage a variety of external and internal relationships to achieve results.
Excellent ability to produce user-centered, effective, and responsive guidance, tools and materials.
Ability to summarize sophisticated topics and information inclusively, clearly and succinctly.
Demonstrated commitment to gender equality, diversity, and inclusion in humanitarian settings.
Ability to identify and address barriers to inclusion for marginalized and underrepresented groups in emergency response.
Experience working with diverse teams and communities, including women, youth, persons with disabilities, and other groups at risk of exclusion.
Commitment to ongoing learning and reflection on personal and organizational biases, and willingness to adapt practices to promote inclusion.

Skills

French
English
Arabic
Spanish
Humanitarian access management
Scenario development
Crisis analysis
Information sharing
Access and acceptance strategies
Risk management
Remote management
Relationship building
Negotiation
Safety and security management
Security risk mitigation
Contingency planning
Incident management
Emergency preparedness
Humanitarian negotiation
Civil-military coordination
Security management
Facilitation
Tool development
Guidance development
Learning material development
Legal and normative frameworks for humanitarian action
Humanitarian principles
Gender security management
Gender equality
Policy analysis
Humanitarian-military relations
Engagement with armed groups
Diplomacy
Interpersonal skills
Influencing
Cooperation
Training delivery
Coaching
Mentoring
User-centered design
Inclusion
Diversity
Gender-sensitive approaches

Location

Kenya
UK
Geneva
Any country with an IRC Office

Work Type

International travel up to 40%

Experience Level

8+ years of non-profit or NGO work experience within international humanitarian assistance programs
Significant practical experience in humanitarian access, humanitarian negotiation, civil-military coordination, security management or related competencies.
Substantial and documented prior experience as a facilitator

Salary/Compensations

Switzerland Pay Rate: CHF 100,000 - 115,000/yr
UK Pay Rate: GBP 60,000 - 66,000/yr

About the Company

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster.
Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world's largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities.
A force for humanity, IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions.
The IRC recognizes that people affected by crisis and the actors closest to them are best placed, have the right, and should have the power and resources to respond and drive lasting change.
We commit to increasing the share of funding channeled to local actors in emergencies, asking “Why not partner?’ whenever we plan programming, and partner as equals.
IRC’s Global Crisis Analysis, Humanitarian Access, Safety and Security, and Preparedness teams have come together to form ‘ASAP’ (Analysis, Security, Access and Preparedness) to strengthen global and regional support to IRC teams to deliver in the most complex, volatile and high-risk operating environments to reach the worst-affected and least-served people in need.
The International Rescue Committee’s Emergency Unit (EmU) leads IRC’s global emergency preparedness and response to sudden-onset crises, complex emergencies, and high-risk contexts.
EmU strengthens IRC’s ability to operate safely and effectively in volatile environments through surge capacity, systems development, and expert technical leadership.

Equal Opportunity

All International Rescue Committee workers must adhere to the core values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. Our Standards are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability.
In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Safeguarding, Conflicts of Interest, Fiscal Integrity, and Reporting Wrongdoing and Protection from Retaliation.
IRC is committed to take all necessary preventive measures and create an environment where people feel safe, and to take all necessary actions and corrective measures when harm occurs.
IRC builds teams of professionals who promote critical reflection, power sharing, debate, and objectivity to deliver the best possible services to our clients.