Strategic Partnership Program Lead

The International Rescue Committee is a global humanitarian aid, relief and development nongovernmental organization.Job overview

The Strategic Partnership Program Lead coordinates quality and learning across the six POWER country programs. The role works through country WPE and program teams, POWER’s women-led and local partners, and the WPE Global Practice, and coordinates with the Award Management Unit (AMU), which leads the donor relationship with Irish Aid. It is accountable for technical quality assistance against IRC core WPE standards and the IASC GBV Minimum Standards for the design and delivery of the partnership learning pillar, and for tracking and reporting delivery against scope, timeline, and budget across the six countries so that deviation is identified early. The position contributes to the partnership’s advocacy pillar and to the design of the next partnership phase.

Major responsibilities

The role holds the technical quality of POWER delivery to IRC’s WPE standards, keeps the partnership and the WPE Global Practice in two-way exchange ,rather than a one directional flow of standards downward, and tracks delivery across six countries against scope, timeline and budget so that deviation is flagged early enough for adaptive management