GBV Strategic Partnership Advisor

• Over 6 years of progressive experience designing, leading and GBV response, prevention and empowerment programming in humanitarian emergencies and protracted, recovery contexts.

• Strong grant and project management experience.

• Experience leading teams to deliver high quality, context driven programming and learning.

• Strong record working with women and girls organizations and movements to shift power and resources to local actors in humanitarian response.

• Experience driving uptake of evidence-based, accountable practices.

• Demonstrated experience in strategic design and planning.

• Excellent communication, influencing, and storytelling skills.

• Demonstrated ability to successfully lead business development opportunities.

• Demonstrated ability to influence across a wide range of diverse stakeholders internally and externally.

• Ability to work, manage, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment; outstanding business acumen, critical thinking, problem solving and decision-making skills required.

• Superb inter-personal, written and verbal communication skills with ability to collaborate across countries, cultures, and departments.

• Fluency in English required; and French preferred.

• Ability to travel globally up to 25% of the time.

• Over 6 years of progressive experience designing, leading and GBV response, prevention and empowerment programming in humanitarian emergencies and protracted, recovery contexts.

• Strong grant and project management experience.

• Experience leading teams to deliver high quality, context driven programming and learning.

• Strong record working with women and girls organizations and movements to shift power and resources to local actors in humanitarian response.

• Experience driving uptake of evidence-based, accountable practices.

• Demonstrated experience in strategic design and planning.

• Excellent communication, influencing, and storytelling skills.

• Demonstrated ability to successfully lead business development opportunities.

• Demonstrated ability to influence across a wide range of diverse stakeholders internally and externally.

• Ability to work, manage, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment; outstanding business acumen, critical thinking, problem solving and decision-making skills required.

• Superb inter-personal, written and verbal communication skills with ability to collaborate across countries, cultures, and departments.

• Fluency in English required; and French preferred.

• Ability to travel globally up to 25% of the time.

Strategic Development

• Work closely with the IRC’s Frameworks and Global Awards team (Irish Aid) to provide technical guidance and strategic direction to the Irish Aid GBV Strategic Partnership.

• Develop strategies to advance evidence generation and use, accountability to women and girls in all their diversity, and scaling through feminist partnership and localization within the GBV Strategic Partnership.

• Support IRC’s WPE technical advisors, emergency response and country program teams and partners to understand and apply the scaling, evidence, inclusion and accountability strategies.

• Lead regular analysis of outcomes and learning across the Strategic Partnership, in collaboration with the VPRU MEL team.

• Every third year, organize the external evaluation of the partnership in collaboration with Irish Aid.

Program Implementation & Technical Assistance

• Implement the Irish Aid GBV Strategic Partnership learning activities (Pillar 4), including:

o Lead the organization and facilitation of the annual WPE learning forum which engages 100 WPE and VPRU teams and partners from 45 countries.

o Capture learning from the forum to produce and disseminate the WPE learning brief each year in English, French, Arabic and Spanish.

• Provide technical guidance and quality assurance across all pillars of the partnership:

• Lead a community of practice for WPE technical teams and partners in Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan, together with regional WPE Technical Advisors, to promote quality programming and partnership within the Strategic Partnership (Pillar 1).

• Review all emergency response requests, proposals, and reports together with the EHAU VPRiE STA (Pillar 2).

• Provide technical guidance to WPE P&A Pillar priorities, strategies and report design and delivery (Pillar 3).

• Work closely with the VPRU MEL advisor to strengthen monitoring, evaluation and learning activities across all pillars.

• Participate in annual country program visits with Irish Aid and the IRC’s Frameworks and Global Awards team (Irish Aid).

• Oversee, in coordination with the TechEx grants and operations team, the appropriate grant and financial management of Learning Pillar activities.

Business Development

• Work closely with the IRC’s Frameworks and Global Awards team (Irish Aid) to deliver a high-quality design for the next phase of the Strategic Partnership from 2025-2027.

• Lead the technical design process for the next phase of the partnership engaging WPE pillar leads and partners in country programs, emergency response, Partnerships and policy teams.

• Work with VPRU WPE technical advisors and the MEL team to create a monitoring, evaluation and learning framework for the next phase of the strategic partnership.

• Support the Frameworks and Global Awards team in communication with Irish Aid related to the continuing partnership.

External Representation

• Represent VPRU in external meetings and coordination for anything related to the GBV Strategic Partnership.