Field Officer

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, managing and delivering large, complex programs to meet the needs in health, education, safeguarding, environmental health and livelihoods for displaced, poor and disaster affected communities. IRC works in partnership with local government and non-governmental organizations and is currently working across the country. 

Job Overview/Summary: The Field Officer will be responsible for the organization and managing Sanofi Aventis Health and Climate Change, water, sanitation, and hygiene activities, ensuring that activities are relevant, and successfully implemented.

Major Responsibilities:

• Create linkages between the communities and the project, the local government and the relevant departments in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, promotion.
• Mobilize community groups, sensitize, and train them on specific topics as required, and organize and facilitate meetings.
• To provide continuous promotion of hygiene and sanitation standards through campaigns, meetings, and community mobilization.
• Ensure maintained hygiene and sanitation standards among the community with the support of IRC team.
• Daily coordination with communities and project team to complete project milestones.
• Plan and manage the project activities in a phased and prioritized manner with full consultation and coordination with technical staff.
• Assist in ensuring daily reporting of problems regarding WASH facilities to the Senior Program Officer, in order to flag issues as soon as they arise. As much as possible, potential solutions should also be presented when reporting problems.
• Support achievement of sustainable Health, climate change and WASH outcomes for women, the poor, transgender and persons living with disabilities (PLWDs).
• In collaboration with the MEL unit organize assessments, design surveys and monitoring mechanisms for project sustainability.
• Strengthen the capacity of relevant communities to support and sustain project services.
• Develop work-plans for the sector and monitor compliance to ensure objectives and targets are met and achieved.

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to: Sr. Program Officer Position directly supervises: None

Job Requirements:

Education:

Minimum bachelor’s degree, Social/Environmental/life Science, or any other relevant field. Higher degree can be in lieu or experience and vice versa.

Work Experience:

Minimum 3 years’ experience in Health or WASH projects, preferably in NGO environment. Experience can be in lieu of higher education.

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

• Profound cultural awareness and knowledge of Health and WASH issues
• Highly effective verbal communication skills at the field level
• Strong planning, organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills

Language Skills: English, Urdu, and Pashto, also knowledge of local languages would be an asset

Others:  

Working Environment:  Works well in coordination and facilitates 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, Accountability and Equality. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces 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 s/he needs to uphold and abide by the IRC’s Child Safeguarding Policy.

Level of interaction with children: Less frequent direct contact with children

IRC ensures that its staff must actively practice the roles and responsibilities related to client responsiveness, and accountability to people in affected communities and must have competencies 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 commitment.

Women candidates and differently-abled persons are highly encouraged to apply.  ­­­­­­­