Human Resources Assistant

at Regional Service Centre Entebbe (RSCE)
Location Kampala, Uganda
Date Posted September 3, 2023
Category Human Resources
Job Type FULL_TIME
Currency UGX

Description

Ensure that monitoring and evaluation systems are effectively designed, measure protection outcomes, and integrated into all stages of the project.
Contribute to the technical interpretation of M&E data and apply output and outcome indicator findings to improve program quality.
Liaise with PRoL, WPE and CP Technical Advisors regularly and proactively, and pursue technical guidance as needed.
Stay abreast of developments in the IRC Violence Prevention and Response Unit (VPRU) and global working groups related to new tools and guidelines.
Promote and apply IRC’s Partnership Excellence for Equality and Results system (PEERs), ensuring that IRC’s partnership principles, skills and approaches are applied by staff across projects with partners.
Partnership Management

Ensure collaborative program design processes that fully leverage the perspectives, experience and expertise of local actors, where possible based on collaborative needs assessment processes.
Support Partner Identity and Background Review (Vetting) checks and Partner's Project Capacity Review (PPCR) of potential partners, as relevant.
Promote and actively practice full partner participation in project decision making, including any project adaption based on data.
Lead timely and effective partnership project review and reflection (monitoring), identifying appropriate follow up actions.
Review partnership project reports and provide feedback as appropriate.
Ensure that supported partner projects are consistent with humanitarian and sector principles and standards.
Support partners whenever possible in coordination with other entities such as government, UN, other humanitarian actors and coordination mechanisms.
Engage with partners to identify and jointly pursue shared advocacy priorities.
Explore with partners potential capacity strengthening support, including system strengthening for government partners, and organizational development for civil society partners, and identify needed resources, in collaboration with the Partnership Coordinator.
Integrate technical capacity sharing approaches, including how IRC can learn from local partners.
Representation, coordination and advocacy

Coordinate with CD, DDP and other technical coordinators to forge connections and strategic partnerships with key government counterparts at the Office of the Prime Minister and Local Government; UNHCR and other UN, I/NGOs, human rights actors and other sub-national government actors.
Represent the IRC in high level and strategic meetings involving protection actors such as protection working group meetings, inter-agency coordination meetings, and bilateral meetings.
Ensure representation and active participation by program managers in district and settlement sector working group meetings.
Regularly coordinate with internal program and operational stakeholders, the PRoL, WPE and CP Technical Advisors, and other IRC colleagues.
Identify advocacy opportunities together with the DDP and Communications and Advocacy Coordinator and based on information received from the field.
Human Resources Management

Coach, train, and mentor protection staff with the aim of strengthening their technical capacity, exchanging knowledge within the team, and providing professional development guidance.
Support the development of sound performance objectives among staff and provide regular feedback on staff progress toward realizing those objectives.
Ensure ongoing training and targeted capacity building of staff.
Support recruitment of PRoL, WPE and CP staff, as relevant.
Support Field Coordinators to ensure that program managers and deputy coordinators put capacity development plans in place for the PRoL and WPE (and potentially CP) teams based on documented capacity needs assessments exercise.
Maintain open and professional relations with team members, promoting a strong team spirit and providing oversight and guidance to enable staff to successfully perform in their positions.
Ensure timely completion and submission of interim and annual employee performance reviews.