Background/IRC Summary: The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war and disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.

IRC has been working in Pakistan for approximately 40 years, leading and delivering large, complex programs to meet the needs in health, education, safeguarding, environmental health, and livelihoods for displaced, poor and disaster affected communities. With the support of the federal and provincial governments, and generous donors like FCDO, ECHO, USAID, GAC, and Australian Aid Agencies the IRC is currently implementing projects across the

Job Overview/Summary: The Program Officer under the supervision of the Team Lead ensures that project activities, goals, and objectives are successfully implemented and monitored; the prioritized technical sectors/areas are well coordinated into the overall programming and projects being implemented appropriately. This position supports the team in the oversight of implementation and support in coordination functions with partners. Ensures that all project management roles are covered accurately including HR, Supply Chain, Finance, Program Administration, and Implementation.

Major Responsibilities: Actively participate in all aspects of the overall project management with a focus on timely and quality results while ensuring coordination, collaboration, empowerment, accountability, and client-centered focus. The incumbent will work with numerous counterparts, partners, and technical leads. Major duties as well as technical, programming, and management responsibilities are described below.

Responsibilities

·         Provide support and backstopping for assigned tasks, ensuring all program objectives and goals are met in compliance with donor regulations.

·         Source and extend technical assistance, as needed.

·         Track project deliverables and supervise project performance in the assigned topics and/or geographic areas.

·         Prepare, review and/or edit regular project updates reports

·         Inform supervisor/management of any critical issues as they arise.

·         Prepare and compile quarterly reports for the donor and submit timely

·         Represent the team at meetings, conferences, and workshops, as needed.

·         Provide updates, reports, and critical analysis of the field and report to the Team lead.

·         Coordinate with relevant departments to ensure effective support to the field

·         Support and contribute to the development of Workplans and spending plans.

·         Analyze work plans against the project requirements.

·         Ensure adherence and compliance to IRC and donor policies and procedures.

·         Other duties, as assigned.

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to: Team Lead (TEACH)

Position directly supervises: None

Job Requirements:

Education:

·        Bachelor’s with relevant experience or master’s degree in business, project management or any related discipline 

Experience:

·         2 – 4 years of experience in relief/development projects working in diverse teams.

·      Experience of working in a large complex organization, including working with partners. 

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

·       Strong coordination skills with the ability to manage information (report writing and presentations).

·  Team players and has experience of working remotely and coordination with field teams

Language Skills:

• Fluent, professional level speaking, reading, and writing in English and Urdu.
• The ability to speak using sufficient, structured, and accurate vocabulary in formal conversation.
• The ability to use the language to satisfy professional needs.
• The ability to read and write at a normal speed and with almost complete comprehension of a variety of materials, unfamiliar subjects, styles and forms pertinent to the job needs.

Working Environment: Works well in and promotes teamwork, flexible and able to handle pressure well.

The IRC Core Values and Commitments.

• The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and implements policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons.
• IRC is committed to ensuring that IRC staff is suitable to work with children and have the knowledge they need
• to uphold and abide by the IRC’s Child Safeguarding Policy.

Level of interaction with children: Frequent contact with children

• IRC ensures that its staff must actively practice the roles and responsibilities related to client responsiveness, accountability to people in affected communities and must have proficiencies to solicits and listens to feedback and other’s perspectives, responds to feedback with maturity and sensitivity and takes appropriate decisions and makes changes to behavior or actions in response to feedback.
• IRC recognizes that gender equality is fundamental to the achievement of our organizational mission. As such, IRC is committed to the promotion of gender equality in all aspects of our operations and programs. Our organizational policies, procedures and actions demonstrate this dedication.

Women candidates, ethnic minorities and differently abled persons are highly encouraged to apply.