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Duty Team Leader Job at International Rescue Committee
International Rescue Committee
Job Description
The Deputy Team Leader / Technical Director provides strategic technical leadership and operational oversight for the ReSET programme. Reporting to the Team Leader, this role ensures the technical quality, and coherence of programme delivery across all sectors and pillars.
Duties, Roles and Responsibilities
- Provide overarching technical direction across ReSET’s multi-sector portfolio, ensuring alignment with FCDO requirements, Sphere Standards, and IRC quality standards.
- Lead the development and harmonisation of programme technical frameworks, including cash-first delivery models, protection mainstreaming, and graduation approaches.
- Oversee context-adaptive implementation, ensuring evidence-based adjustments across both pillars.
- Champion accountability to affected populations (AAP) and ensure gender-sensitive, inclusive programme design and delivery.
- Lead consortium partner technical support and capacity-strengthening efforts within IRC’s localization framework.
- Support national and local NGO partners to progressively assume greater implementation and leadership responsibilities.
- Facilitate partnership governance mechanisms, including joint planning, learning, and review processes.
- Lead development and use of VfM metrics and frameworks to demonstrate ReSET’s cost-effectiveness to FCDO.
- Work closely with the Finance Director and consortium partners to monitor burn rates, flag underspends or overspends, and initiate timely budget revisions and realignments where required.
- Ensure all procurement, sub-grant management, and operational processes adhere to IRC and FCDO compliance standards, including anti-fraud, anti-corruption, and conflict-of-interest policies.
- Coordinate with internal audit and compliance teams to ensure appropriate risk management and audit readiness throughout the programme cycle..
- Represent IRC and ReSET in high-level coordination fora, including the Uganda Refugee Response coordination architecture (UCRRP), Protection Cluster, Cash Working Group, and OPM-led platforms.
- Maintain strategic relationships with FCDO’s programme team, UN agencies (UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, OCHA), OPM, and consortium partners to ensure programmatic coherence and shared accountability.
- Support the Team Leader in preparing for FCDO programme reviews, Annual Review processes, and any mid-term or end-of-programme evaluations, including development of required documentation and evidence packages.
- Identify and document emerging evidence, learning, and policy-relevant findings from ReSET for strategic communication and influence with FCDO and the broader humanitarian and development sector.
- Oversee the production of high-quality programme reports including quarterly, semi-annual, and annual reports, ensuring findings are evidence-based, reflect programme learning, and demonstrate progress against logframe milestones.
- Champion a culture of learning and adaptive management across the consortium, facilitating after-action reviews, lessons-learned exercises, and pause-and-reflect sessions.
- Ensure documentation and dissemination of programme learning, best practices, and innovations for internal use and external policy influence.
- Lead inter-agency and consortium coordination, ensuring effective collaboration, avoiding duplication, and maximising complementarity across all implementing partners.
- Engage proactively with OPM, district local government, and settlement authorities to ensure ReSET activities are aligned with national refugee policies and locally-owned response frameworks.
- Represent IRC in relevant technical working groups, cluster meetings, and inter-agency coordination platforms relevant to ReSET’s scope.
- Line-manage senior technical leads and provide mentoring and performance support.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, learning, and continuous improvement within the ReSET team.
Qualifications, Education and Competencies
See all details of the qualifications, competencies and education for this role under the "How to Apply" section below.
Apply here: https://theirc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Careers/job/Kampala-Uganda/Duty-Team-Leader_JR00003219
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