Global Practice Lead, Environmental and Climate Health
IRC - International Rescue Committee •Program Design: We support country and regional teams to design state of the art programming, incorporating the best available evidence, cost data, and expertise of what has worked elsewhere, with the knowledge that country teams, partner organizations and our clients bring to the table. •Quality Assurance: We partner with our measurement teams to design and drive the use of indicators to measure progress towards outcomes we partner with regional and country teams to review program delivery progress and help address implementation challenges and adapt interventions to changed circumstances. •Business Development: We partner within and outside the IRC to design winning bids and identify winning consortia we deploy technical expertise in public events and private meetings to position IRC as a partner of choice. •Research & Learning: We partner with our research lab to design cutting edge research to fill evidence gaps, and with country teams to learn from implementation such that we continuously improve our future design and delivery. •External Influence: We showcase the IRC’s programs, technical insights and learning in order to influence and improve the humanitarian sector’s policy and practice. Technical Excellence has completed a change process called "Regional and Technical Alignment." We are doing this to ensure that the impact of our programs and the influence of our ideas create meaningful change for people affected by crisis. This next phase of IRC's commitment to program quality will more deliberately resource and link global thought leadership with practice on the ground. Updated Technical Unit structures will have new roles with clearer mandates. The Global Practice Lead is a new leadership role introduced by this change process. About the IRC’s Health Unit IRC’s health programs comprise the largest proportion of its overall program budget and are essential to both IRC emergency response and long-term programming worldwide. In 2023, IRC’s health programs provided over 10 million outpatient consultations to people in some of the world’s most challenging and fragile settings. We admitted over 578,000 children for acute malnutrition treatment and treated 581,000 children for malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia through community health worker programs.  The Health Technical Unit is a dynamic team of more than 70 professionals in Primary Health Care, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Nutrition, Mental and Environmental Health. They provide IRC’s 40 plus country offices and emergency response team with world class technical expertise, capacity building and a cross country view of what works to achieve outcomes in terms of both evidence and practical experience. They also lead focused research agenda, influencing donor policy to support interventions and innovations proven cost effective to achieve positive change in people’s lives. Desired Experience And Skills •Recognized expertise: Established or growing recognition as an expert in WASH, Environmental Health or Climate-Health nexus at a regional or global level, with a minimum of 12+ years of progressive experience designing, leading, and implementing programs, and at least 7 years specifically in Environmental Health. •Strategic and visionary leadership: Proven experience in strategy design and planning for WASH, Environmental Health or related sectors. •Innovative solutions: Track record of scaled innovations preferred, ideally including experience with both digital and analog solutions. •Business development: Demonstrated ability to identify and convert business development opportunities for self and staff.  •Humanitarian experience: Demonstrated experience leading programs in fragile or humanitarian settings and across the humanitarian-development nexus. •Evidence-based practice: Strong track record of driving the uptake of evidence-based practices. •Policy and advocacy: Experience with sectoral policy and advocacy efforts and campaigns for change, as relevant. •Leadership and management: Excellent management and leadership abilities, including coaching, mentoring, and performance management. •Stakeholder influence: Proven ability to influence a wide range of diverse stakeholders, both internally and externally. •Operational excellence: Ability to work, manage, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment outstanding business acumen, critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. •Interpersonal skills: Superb interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate across countries, cultures, and departments. •Communication skills: Exceptional communication, influencing, and storytelling skills. •Language proficiency: Fluency in English is required proficiency in Arabic, French, and/or Spanish is strongly preferred. •Global mobility: Ability to travel globally up to 25% of the time, occasionally on short notice. Education: Master’s degree in WASH, environmental health, Public Health and/or related fields or an equivalent professional experience background is required. Sound training and experience using data and research evidence for programmatic decisions and rigorous analytic skills are an advantage. 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:  The IRC offers a comprehensive and highly competitive set of benefits. All US employees are eligible for sick time, a 403b retirement savings plans: up to 4.5% immediately vested matching contribution, plus an 3-7% additional IRC contribution, and an Employee Assistance Program which is available to our staff and their families to support in times of crisis and mental health struggles. In addition, full-time employees are eligible for 10 US paid holidays, 20-25 paid time off days, disability & life insurance, medical, dental, and vision insurance (employee contribution starting at $135, $7, and $5 per month respectively) and FSA for healthcare, childcare, and commuter costs. Part-time employees are eligible for a proportionate amount of paid time off. These additional benefits apply to employees who work at least 6 months within a 12 month time period. #LI-4 #LI-HYRBID Standard of Professional Conduct:The IRC and the IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way – our Code of Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Accountability, and Equality. Commitment to Gender, Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: The IRC is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, respectful, and safe work environment where all persons are treated fairly, with dignity and respect. The IRC expressly prohibits and will not tolerate discrimination, harassment, retaliation, or bullying of the IRC persons in any work setting. We aim to increase the representation of women, people that are from country and communities we serve, and people who identify as races and ethnicities that are under-represented in global power structures. We do our best to provide you the most accurate info, but closing dates may be wrong on our site. Please check on the recruiting organization's page for the exact info. Candidates are responsible for complying with deadlines and are encouraged to submit applications well ahead. Before applying, please make sure that you have read the requirements for the position and that you qualify. Applications from non-qualifying applicants will most likely be discarded by the recruiting manager. 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