The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world's largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 50 countries and more than 25 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. A force for humanity, IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you're a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future. **RESPONSIBILITIES** **Major responsibilities** - ** **Provide strategic direction, leadership and overall technical and management support to protection, Women’s Protection and Empowerment (WPE), Child Protection (CP), programs in Colombia, ensuring it is needs-based, context-appropriate, responsive, coherent, collaborative, and operationally feasible and in line with the Strategic Action Plan. - Lead a comprehensive assessment of opportunities for greater cross-sector integration within IRC’s program units, and develop/review the work plan for reaching integration goals, both with respect to programs implemented directly by IRC as well as those delivered in partnership; as required, support development of cross-sector SOPs, tools, training modules, etc. - Promote joint work across the three teams (CP, WPE and PRoL) to enhance the quality of programming and a holistic approach to addressing the needs of our clients. - Ensure projects and activities are of high technical quality, meet humanitarian standards, mainstream protection, align with IRC’s Outcomes and Evidence Framework, and respond to community and monitoring feedback. - Plan, organize, recruit, supervise and develop the team and individuals needed to achieve program goals and maximize national leadership. - When relevant, ensure integration of CP and WPE, program interventions to promote holistic service provision and best outcomes for the target population. - In collaboration with the MEAL department, ensure safe and ethical data collection, storage, management, and sharing standards are in place for both direct and partner-led implementation, safeguarding personal information. - Lead technical trainings on key program interventions and approaches (for CP, WPE) targeting program and partner staff. - Develop and/or adapt technical tools and approaches, and deliver creative solutions to mitigate challenges in the operating context, to facilitate response start-up and day-to-day implementation. - Lead assessments and context-appropriate research aimed at generating a strong evidence base for IRC protection programming, as well as informing IRC advocacy. - Liaise with CP, WPE, and ProL Technical advisors to ensure relevant support, tools, and resources are being provided and integrated into programming. - Working closely with the Partnership team, to ensure adequate support to partners to facilitate quality program implementation and provide capacity development, where needed, as well as, co-design, regular exchange, and project performance monitoring to achieve program objectives, in line with IRC’s PEERs (Partnership Excellence for Equality and Results System). - Review partner technical tools, reports, and data; recommend adaptations or process improvements as required. **Grants and Financial Management** - ** **Collaborate with IRC grants and finance staff to finalize proposals, reports, and respond to any requests for additional information. - Proactively continue to grow the Colombian protection, women’s protection, and child protection portfolio through the development of concept notes and high-quality technical proposals to existing and new donors, maintaining a coherent strategy with country’s Strategic Action Plan across IRC’s areas of intervention in Colombia. - Manage grant/program implementation, including recruitment and training, work plan development, procurement and inventory planning, budget management, and Project cycle meetings (PCM). - In collaboration with program, finance, HR, and Supply Chain departments, ensure smooth management, implementation, integration, and compliance of project work plans and budgets (budget forecasting, spending plans, procurement plans, and expenditure), with best use of resources across activities and delivering on time, to scope and within budget. **Staff Management and Development** - Recruit, onboard, and supervise protection staff, training, and strengthening their technical capacity, exchanging knowledge within the team, and providing professional development guidance. - Coordinate performance management within the department and ensure a culture of high performance through staff engagement and accoun