Key Responsibilities

• Providing excellent line management to Health Regional Leads in close collaboration with the Deputy Regional Director for each region, to enable colleagues to succeed, feel supported, and work well in a regionally aligned structure.
• Creating strong connections and communication between the Regional Leads and the Technical Unit, as well as across each other.
• Cultivating a strong and inclusive culture of performance, accountability, and collaboration, and ensuring high-quality technical support is provided by the team to IRC’s country programs.
• Ensuring TA is fit for purpose and innovative, as a key bridge between regions and countries and global practice and technical leaders and amplifying the voices of our clients and frontline staff.
• Providing strategic leadership to the design of programs that are evidence-based where possible and
  evidence-generating where necessary, Collectively and in close collaboration with the Senior Director, as well as with key stakeholders within and outside of the Health Unit.
• Representing the Senior Director as required.

Key Working Relationships

• Position Reports to Senior Director, Health, CRRD Technical Excellence
• Direct Reports: Overall responsible for leading a team of 40+ technical regional & country teams
• Direct manages a regional leadership team across 6 CRRD regions and Health Unit operations roles

Key Internal Relationships:

• Health Unit Leadership Team
• Health Unit Global Practice functions
• CRRD Senior Management Team and Leadership Group; Regional Leadership Teams
• Global leaders in the areas of VPRU, Education, ERD, Governance
• Global HQ, Awards Management, and External Relations teams
• Key External Relationships: INGO counterparts; United Nations Agencies, Foundations and Donors

Professional Profile

Work experience desired:

• 12+ years of relevant experience, including programmatic experience in a service delivery NGO or international organization.
• Experience and familiarity with Health donors, peer agencies, and national contexts required, preferably in humanitarian and transitional, post-crisis contexts, with familiarity with development programming strategies.
• Leadership and management experience in complex global organizations at regional/global levels.
• Experience and expertise in raising funds from bilateral, multilateral, and private donors, and leading teams to design winning bids.
• Experience undertaking strategic planning and leading teams through change.

Demonstrated skills and competencies:

• Deep expertise in Health programming and hands-on experience (preferably in 1 or more of the Health Technical Unit’s sub-sectors – Primary Health Care, nutrition, and environmental health/WASH.
• Understanding of the humanitarian/development sectors and effective practices used by aid organizations to design, implement, and measure the progress of interventions.
• Fluency in the relevance and use of empirical evidence to know what works best to achieve meaningful program outcomes.
• Excellent analytical skills and a demonstrated ability and comfort in effectively managing and using data and evidence to inform program design, adaptation monitoring, and learning.
• Demonstrated leadership and management proficiencies including the ability to build a diverse team, foster an inclusive team culture, encourage confidence and trust, and lead the team in a unified vision and strategy.
• Commitment to creating a learning culture and supporting internal learning within and beyond the team.
• Communicates effectively with IRC program leadership, technical peers, and colleagues in fundraising, communications, and advocacy.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate a large multi-national organization.
• An established and collaborative professional network in humanitarian and development communities.
• Excellent public speaking and writing skills are essential.

Education: 

• Masters’ degree in Public Health and/or relevant fields or an equivalent professional experience background is required. Sound training on the use of data and research evidence for programmatic decision-making and rigorous analytic skills are an advantage.

Language Skills:

Excellent spoken and written English essential. Proficiency in French or additional IRC-relevant languages (Arabic, Spanish) is strongly preferred.

Working Environment:

Travel up to 30% of the time. Preferably based in one of our international hubs in London, Nairobi, or New York. Other IRC locations may be possible.