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. If you're a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future.
The IRC is delivering healthcare services in humanitarian settings around the world, including conflict-affected countries and refugee settings. The IRC’s vision is to lead the humanitarian field by implementing high-impact, cost-effective programs for people affected by crisis and by using our learning and experience to shape policy and practice. To achieve that vision, the IRC’s Technical Excellence Unit (TE) provides technical assistance to IRC’s country program staff and shares what we learn to influence policy and practice. The TE Unit is comprised of six technical Units, all of which have deep expertise in their respective sectors: Education, Economic Wellbeing, Gender Equality, Governance, Health, Violence Prevention and Response.
These technical units work closely with the Research and Innovation Unit.
The health technical unit is organized in three sectors: Health (comprehensive primary healthcare including sexual and reproductive health, communicable and non-communicable diseases, MHPSS and child health), environmental health and nutrition. The Health Unit MEAL team is committed to the development of systems,tools, and processes that enable country programs to collect and analyze quality data across IRC’s health, nutrition, and EH programming, and its ambition is to utilize data to design, monitor, and evaluate projects and support the collection and dissemination of learning at a global level. We also aim to support and lead high quality assessments and surveys that help country programs to monitor, evaluate, and learn from their programs.
Job Overview/Summary:
The Health Unit MEAL Advisor will lead the Health Unit’s coordination of the annual statistics process, management of core indicators, analysis and interpretation of global and regional data sets, development and management of data collection tools for core indicators, and management of cross sectoral
MEAL tools. The HU MEAL Advisor will also provide MEAL Advisory support for Health Unit and country led evaluations and research projects. The specific responsibilities include:
Global Support (estimated 70%)
• Lead the coordination of the Annual Statistics process, including liaising between the Measurement Unit, Technical Advisors and country programs to review submitted health data, ensuring completeness, correctness and identifying gaps in data.
• Lead the maintenance of the health, nutrition and environmental health Core Indicator List (CIL), including liaising with Global Practice Leads, Regional Technical Leads, MEAL focal persons, country programs and the Measurement Unit, to ensure the list is up to date within the Indicator Selection Tool (IST) and useful for standard program monitoring.
• Lead the development and updating of data collection tools, including maintenance of all tools within the METAL tools and learning repository, and the socialization of this repository across the HU.
• Lead the analysis and interpretation of global and regional data – including annual statistics, program expenditure, client satisfaction, and program indicators – for use in briefing notes to leaders across the IRC. Support the writing of this analysis for reports such as HU Annual Report, Leadership Briefing on Annual Statistics, and regional and practice area portfolio reviews.
• Lead the capacity strengthening of HU use of the Program Indicator Dashboard (PID) and other data visualization tools.
• Lead the development and updating of cross-sectoral Health Unit tools that support the implementation of the Health Unit MEAL Strategy. For example, technical data review guidance, HU MEAL resource document.
• Provide advisory support to Health Unit and country program staff about health, nutrition and environmental health MEAL.
• Support data needs for health focused advocacy and communication.
Project support (estimated 30%)
• Provide monitoring, evaluations and learning advisory support for Health Unit and country led monitoring, evaluations and research projects. This will include a range of tasks including data analysis, development of protocols, development of data collection tools, support for data collection, analysis and write up of results, support with dissemination of results.
• Support MEAL sections for Health Unit business development.
Key Working Relationships:
Position Reports to: Health Unit MEAL Lead
Position directly supervises: None
Internal: Regular relationships with Global Practice Leads, Regional Technical Leads, Technical Advisors,
Regional Measurement Advisors, and the Measurement Unit. Interacts with IRC internal departments across
CRRD and other technical units
External: May participate in outside meetings and academic forums with donors, other non-governmental
organizations and inter-agency groups as needed.
Job Qualifications:
Education: University degree in related field plus Master’s degree in Public Health, Statistics, or related field is required. At least seven years of experience working in public health within low resource contexts.
Skills: Ability to work optimally and respectfully on diverse teams and across diverse contexts. Good technical acuity, takes initiative and produces results, ability to accept feedback and integrate it, strong communication and presentation skills and a dedication to contribute to a positive work environment. Strong data analytical skills and understanding of health monitoring and evaluation in low resource contexts is required; Committed to upholding diversity, equality and inclusion principles. Good level interpersonal skills with a high level of
English oral and written skills. Ability to proficiently communicate and write in French, Arabic or Spanish is highly desirable, but not required. Experience working with digital technology for health platforms (CommCare, PowerBi) is desirable.
Work Experience:
A minimum of 3-5 years of international experience is required leading health M&E within humanitarian settings. Expertise and experience working on the monitoring and evaluation of primary health care is required, and knowledge of environmental health is a plus.
Working Environment: Based in an IRC office that is willing to host HQ staff. Ability to travel up to 30% is required. Must be willing to travel to IRC country offices and field sites, sometimes in very difficult conditions
Language Skills: Fluency in English is required, and French, Arabic or Spanish is highly desirable.
Compensation: Ranges are based on various factors including the labor market, job type, internal equity, and budget. Exact offers are calibrated by work location, individual candidate experience and skills relative to the defined job requirements.
Only candidates who meet the required work experience will be considered
PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS
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.
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Compensation: Posted pay ranges apply to US-based candidates. Ranges are based on various factors including the labor market, job type, internal equity, and budget. Exact offers are calibrated by work location, individual candidate experience and skills relative to the defined job requirements.
US Benefits: We offer a comprehensive and highly competitive set of benefits. In the US, these include: 10 sick days, 10 US holidays, 20-25 paid time off days depending on role and tenure, medical insurance starting at $163 per month, dental starting at $6.50 per month, and vision starting at $5 per month, FSA for healthcare and commuter costs, a 403b retirement savings plans with immediately vested matching, disability & life insurance, and an Employee Assistance Program which is available to our staff and their families to support counseling and care in times of crisis and mental health struggles.
Equal Opportunity Employer: IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
