IRC Environmental Health Global Practice Lead Jobs 2024 – Kenya NGO Jobs

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IRC Environmental Health Global Practice Lead Jobs 2024 – Kenya NGO Jobs.

IRC Kenya looking for “Environmental Health Global Practice Lead”.

Applicants with a University Degree may apply on or before April 20, 2024.

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a global humanitarian aid, relief, and development nongovernmental organization. Founded in 1933 as the International Relief Association, at the request of Albert Einstein, and changing its name in 1942 after amalgamating with the similar Emergency Rescue Committee, the IRC provides emergency aid and long-term assistance to refugees and those displaced by war, persecution, or natural disaster.

The IRC has published a job vacancy announcement on April 03, 2024 for qualified Kenya’s to fill in the vacant post of Environmental Health Global Practice Lead to be based in Nairobi, Kenya.

IRC Job Vacancy 2024

Major Responsibilities

Strategy, Program Design and Business Development

Act as the organizational leader for CRRD in Environmental health internally and externally
Lead strategic direction and delivery planning for Environmental Health in line with the organizational global strategy (both S100 and Health Strategy)
Lead the development of sustainable and scalable water solutions, mitigating the impacts of climate change on water security and human health.
Responsible for identifying global areas of programmatic risk in EH and elevating issues to Regional Leads and Health Unit leadership.
Collaborate with other Global Practice Leads to promote integrated program designs within Health, and across all IRC sectors that increase scale and deepen impact,
Facilitate collaboration across Health, Nutrition and EH Practice Areas on the development of climate adaptation, mitigation, and anticipatory actions.
Lead Technical Unit led global business development for Environmental Health and support strategic project level proposals.
Lead coordination with AMU to drive fundraising from Public and Institutional donors and with ER to drive fundraising from Private donors to meet the Health Unit strategic priorities related to EH.

Global Practice Implementation Support

Responsible for drawing on evidence-based best practice to provide technical oversight of IRC’s global technical standards, methodologies, and tools for EH, in partnership with Technical Advisors and specialists
Accountable for the development of a limited number of high-value tools and methodologies to better integrate cross-cutting issues into EH programs (e.g., gender equality, diversity and inclusion, climate adaptation, etc.).
Accountable for establishing information and knowledge management systems that support Regional Leads and Technical Advisors stay up to date on global technical standards, methodologies, and tools.
Establish competency framework for EH practice area and work closely with Regional Leads to identify competency gaps and drive capacity strengthening.
Accountable for ensuring Technical Advisors and Technical Coordinators have the tools and resources that are needed to measure EH programs.
Oversee Technical Unit-led strategic awards in EH, working closely with regional Technical Advisors as applicable and the Grant Operations and Analytics Team
Line manage global specialists, as applicable.
Support Technical Advisors and Technical Coordinators with thorny technical problems, career planning support, and mentorship, as appropriate.

Position in Organization:

Requisition ID: req48031
Job Title: Environmental Health Global Practice Lead
Sector: Health
Employment Category: Regular
Employment Type: Full-Time
Compensation: USD 125,000.00 – 150,000.00 Annually
Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Qualification:

Master’s degree in environmental health, Public Health and/or related fields or an equivalent professional experience background is required. Sound training on the use of data and research evidence for programmatic decisions and rigorous analytic skills are an advantage.
Established or growing recognition as an expert in the practice area, at regional or global level, with a minimum of 12+ years of progressive experience of designing, leading and implementing programs with 7+ years in the Environmental Health
Demonstrated experience leading programs in fragile/humanitarian settings and across the humanitarian development nexus.
Strong track record of driving uptake of evidence-based practice
Demonstrated experience in sectoral strategy design and planning.
Experience with sectoral policy and advocacy efforts and campaigns for change (as relevant)
Excellent communication, influencing, and storytelling skills.
Excellent management and leadership skills including coaching, mentoring, and performance management.
Demonstrated ability to identify and convert business development opportunities for self and staff.
Demonstrated ability to influence across a wide range of diverse stakeholders internally and externally.
Demonstrated ability to shape the vision and agenda within the domain area they are working.
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.
Track record of scaled innovations preferred, ideally including experience working on both digital and analog solutions.
Fluency in English required; Arabic, French and/or Spanish also strongly preferred.
Ability to travel globally up to 25% of the time, occasionally on short notice.