The International Rescue Committee is seeking a qualified professional with experience managing or coordinating health and/or nutrition programs in humanitarian or post-conflict settings. The Project Coordinator, Scaling Nutrition will work closely with the Research & Innovation and Health teams to support the coordination of a delivery model for scaling the treatment of wasting in multiple countries. The Project Coordinator will support the Project Director as the main operational lead on: progress monitoring, knowledge management and quality assurance. Fluency in English and French required.
For more information about scaling nutrition at the IRC, visit our webpage here.
Major Responsibilities
Progress Acceleration: Ensure the project to generates a timely, proactive response to challenges, delays and new opportunities by: (a) developing and sustaining a comprehensive project monitoring framework that tracks progress and risks and (b) providing consistent, supportive backstopping to country-level Delivery Advisors, in those countries in which they are seconded.
To this end, the Coordinator will:
- Update and adapt the global project delivery tracker, ensuring it provides both high-level and detailed snapshots of progress (or barriers to and implications of a lack of progress);
- Prepare monthly project management reports (internal) and progress reports (external);
- Develop tailored communications materials to highlight the project’s progress, (i.e., briefing notes, blog posts, social media posts, etc.);
- Ensure coherent flows of information so that all relevant stakeholders are updated regularly, with the most relevant materials for their role and participation level;
- In countries with seconded Delivery Advisors, act as the primary interface with each Delivery Advisor, supporting these roles to develop and detail country scaling action plans (and track progress against them);
- In countries without Delivery Advisors, as requested and appropriate, directly support local stakeholders to detail country implementation plans / SOWs;
Deliverables:
- Consistently updated global project delivery tracker
- Monthly project management reports / progress reports
- Draft country support and implementation plan / SOWs, in collaboration with Delivery Advisors and/or other country-level stakeholders, in at least 3-4 countries
- Concise and compelling project communications materials
Knowledge Management: Facilitate the seamless sharing of knowledge across stakeholder groups (especially between in-country support and the global project groups) and documentation of lessons learned.
To this end, the Coordinator will:
- Consolidate relevant resources (i.e., tools, guides, protocols, etc.) into a global ‘binder’ of resources for use by in-country partners, working with project teams to adapt or upgrading these resources to/for specific country contexts, where relevant;
- Ensure wide public accessibility of key products, including but not limited to Global Coordination Group (GCG) minutes and activities, as well as the binder of in-country resources;
- Create a system to capture, deepen and document lessons identified through the Global Coordination Group and Project Implementation Caucus;
- Lead the evaluation of the project’s support services, documenting user experiences through exit interviews and other methods to provide recommendations on future adjustments;
- Document progress, challenges, and lessons learned as countries develop scaling action plans, to fold into knowledge management work;
Deliverables:
- Accessible and user-friendly binder of resources for in-country partners
- Accessible knowledge projects (e.g. GCG minutes)
- Framework to capture GCG/PIC lessons learned, leading to 3 country case studies and an evaluation of available support services for scale
Quality Assurance: Ensure quality delivery within and across key project workstreams, such that deliverables and services meet and exceed stakeholder expectations.
To this end, the Coordinator will:
- Co-develop a cross-organization ways of working (‘call-down mechanism’) to facilitate expert service delivery, leveraging the strengths of existing models and assessing/anticipating potential administrative barriers to timely deployment
- Prepare, standardize and adapt onboarding and offboarding materials for key support roles (i.e., Delivery Advisors and Technical Experts)
- Provide consistent backstopping for these support roles - especially those in French-speaking contexts - during their secondments or deployments, ensuring that needs or challenges identified are appropriately addressed by the project or other relevant groups
- Provide surge support to the global technical assistance support mechanism, as needed and relevant over project implementation
- Oversee the development of meeting agendas for the Global Coordination Group and Project Implementation Caucus, ensuring that minutes with clear action points are circulated
Deliverables:
- Administrative roadmap to anticipate and prepare for the allocation (either remotely or in-person deployment) of country-level support via the various existing technical assistance support channels
- Accessible, streamlined onboarding/offboarding materials for support roles
- Weekly monitoring calls with support roles during deployments
- Development and dissemination of meeting agendas and minutes (including action points) for at least 5 GCG and 5 PIC meetings
Education: a Master’s/post-graduate degree in Public Health, Nutrition or equivalent.
Work Experience: At least 5 years of experience managing or coordinating health and/or nutrition programs in humanitarian or post-conflict settings, with significant and sustained collaboration with in-country stakeholders partners.
Language Skills: Fluency in English and French, both in terms of verbal and written French language skills
**To apply for this posting, please email a CV and cover letter to amy.passaro@rescue.org**