- Country: Geneva, Switzerland
- No of vacancies: N/A
- Salary: N/A
- Organization: IRC
- Gender: Both
- Deadline: N/A
Job Overview
The Global Practice Lead in Primary Health Care is the organizational leader for Primary Health Care for the Crisis Response, Recovery and Development (CRRD) department and is a core member of the Health Technical Unit’s leadership team. They are responsible for devising and leading strategies to raise the quality, impact, and scale of IRC’s PHC programming.
The PHC Global Practice Lead will ensure the scope, quality and relevance of global technical standards, including the generation and promotion of evidence in their technical area. Global Practice Lead will closely collaborate with Regional Leads , PHC Technical Advisors, and Technical Coordinators in promoting technical best practice in CRRD programming. They will facilitate Technical Unit-led and high impact strategic business development by providing excellent technical insights and developing and maintaining strategic relationships and networks. In line with the Health Strategy, the Global Practice Lead will lead strategic planning for the Primary Health Care practice area. The PHC Global Practice Lead reports into the Senior Director, Health Unit and will manage highly specialized experts/Specialists in Infectious Diseases, Immunization, Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD), Mental Health and Psychosocial Services (MHPSS), Community Health, Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control to generate global evidence and best practice and support countries to adopt those practices, and oversee TU-led and multi-regional strategic projects.
Major Responsibilities
Strategy, Program Design and Business Development
• Act as the organizational leader for CRRD in Primary Health Care internally and externally
• Lead strategic direction and delivery planning for Primary Health Care in line with the organizational global strategy (both S100 and Health Strategy)
• Responsible for identifying global areas of programmatic risk in Primary Health Care 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.
• Lead Technical Unit led global business development for 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 Health Unit’s strategic priorities related to Primary Health Care.
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 Primary Health Care
• Accountable for the development of a limited number of high-value tools and methodologies to better integrate cross-cutting issues into health 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 Primary Health Care 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 programs in PHC.
• Oversee Technical Unit-led strategic awards in Primary Health Care, 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.
Research, Data, Knowledge Management, and Organizational Learning
• Accountable for establishing and maintaining a Community of Practice and other channels for Primary Health Care practice area to ensure pro-active and inclusive management with sustained learning, development, innovation, and best practice sharing.
• Coordinate with Regional Leads and Technical Advisors to lift up program learning for cross-sharing and incorporation into global best practice.
• Guide research and evidence use efforts in Primary Health Care, working closely with colleagues and leaders in Airbel, the Health Unit, other technical units, and regional colleagues.
• Provide technical inputs to PHC-specific MEAL tools and methodologies, and support data interpretation in learning routines.
External Influence, Relationships and Representation
• Act as a key strategic advisor to Policy & Advocacy, Research & Innovation, and External Relations teams on advocacy campaigns and priority policy and practice shifts related to Primary Health Care.
• Responsible for identification, development, and maintenance of strategic relationships and global partnerships with relevant stakeholders (e.g. donors, UN agencies, NGOs, research and educational institutions, private sector actors) in [Global Practice] area.
• Represent IRC in external forums as relevant.
Key Working Relationships
• Position Reports to: Senior Director, Health Unit, CRRD Technical Excellence
• Member of Health Unit’s Leadership Team
• Direct Reports: 6-8 Technical Experts/Specialists, TU-led Project Directors as appropriate, 2 MIPs with VPRU and Governance Teams.
Key Internal Relationships:
• Health Unit Senior Management Team
• Health Unit’s Deputy Director, Enabling Areas Leads and other Global Practice Leads
• Health Regional Lead team across 6 regions, and regional Technical Advisors
• Policy Solutions, Advocacy Influence, and Systems Change Global Teams
• CRRD Senior Management Team and Leadership Group; Regional Leadership Teams
• Global leaders in the areas of Governance, VPRU, ERD, Education,
• Global HQ and AMU, Airbel, EHAU, IPP
• Key External Relationships: INGO counterparts; UN Agencies, Public and Private Donors
Desired Experience and Skills
• Established or growing recognition as an expert in Public Health, at regional or global level, with a minimum of 12+ years of progressive experience of designing, leading and implementing programs with 7+ years in Public 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.
Education: Master’s degree in 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.
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