Manager PROL
Qualifications of Manager PROL:
- Location: Muyinga
- Vacancy No: 59382
- Salary: N/A
- Organization: IRC International Rescue Committee
- Deadline: Varies
Brief details about Manager PROL:
About
Information about the organization that has offered the job:
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises, helping people survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC provides lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee war or disaster. Working today in more than 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, the IRC restores safety, dignity, and hope to millions of people uprooted and struggling to survive.
The IRC opened its offices in Burundi in 1996 and initially focused on lifesaving interventions and providing immediate assistance to refugees and displaced persons. IRC Burundi now focuses on post-conflict interventions to support the country’s transition to lasting peace and stability.
IRC Burundi has a dynamic post-conflict program encompassing prevention and response to gender-based violence, child protection, social cohesion, protection and the rule of law, economic recovery and development (ERD), and environmental health. Clients are vulnerable and marginalized populations, including refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees, and other vulnerable groups such as women, children, and youth. IRC works with the Burundian government, local, and international partners to increase the protection, economic empowerment, and social cohesion of these groups. The IRC’s main office is in Bujumbura, serving not only as headquarters but also as a base for programs in Bujumbura Rural and Bujumbura City Hall. Field offices are located in Muyinga and Ruyigi.
With funding from the European Union, IRC Burundi will implement a project aimed at the sustainable reintegration of returnees in their areas of return.
Job Description
The Protection and Rule of Law Manager, based in Muyinga, is directly supervised by Project Manager KAZE TWIYUNGE. He/she will make regular trips to the municipalities in the project’s provinces. He/she is responsible for the development and management of the project. He/she must ensure that the activities of the Reintegration and Cross Border / Protection Component projects are implemented in accordance with the activity plan agreed with the donor, and in compliance with IRC policies and procedures.
The project implemented by this position consists of sustainable reintegration activities for returnees in their areas of return. The activities consist of:
- Legal assistance for Burundian returnees, particularly in the areas of access to land and property;
- Support in civil documentation;
- The provision of responsive information services for returnees in return areas;
- Land certification;
- Capacity building of local structures and local actors, who play a role in social regulation, protection of the vulnerable and reintegration of returnees, particularly in land matters.
- The project will collaborate with the Provincial Directorates of Family and Social Development (DPDFS) in all provinces of the action area and the ICIRORE C’AMAHORO association for the provision of legal representation services.
1. Responsibilities / Tasks:
Project management
Under the direct supervision of the KAZE TWIYUNGE project manager, the PROL Manager is responsible for:
- Establish the action plans, purchasing plan, expenditure plan and recruitment plan for the project, in collaboration with the project manager, the Supply Chain manager, and the Deputy Director in charge of finance, and update them regularly;
- Ensure that project activities are implemented in accordance with the agreed action plans, so as to achieve the expected results and the desired impact;
- Provide direct supervision and team management of systems strengthening and dissemination of information on access to services and available assistance, consistency and coordination between them and the quality of services provided to project clients;
- Plan the capacity building of the staff under his supervision as well as their coaching to achieve the project results;
- Collaborate with the M&E department in the implementation of program data collection tools, facilitate the collection of data in the field as well as their archiving;
- Monitors the activities of the local partner responsible for raising awareness among communities on legal issues;
- Participates in the analysis of technical and institutional constraints hindering the project implementation methodology;
- Produce a monthly progress report on the activities of the projects under his/her responsibility. Provide timely information necessary to document the drafting of project proposals and project reports to donors;
- Organize, in collaboration with the M&E officer, the participation of project beneficiaries and stakeholders in the various monitoring and evaluation activities;
- Supervise the organization and participate in coordination meetings with other members of the project consortium for greater coordination in the implementation of project activities and complementarity;
- Work closely with other IRC protection sectors to harmonize programmatic approaches to protection;
- To ensure that the program is implemented in an impartial manner in the target municipalities and that the program activities are conducted in a manner appropriate to local socio-cultural realities and in compliance with international law and government initiatives.
Staff management
The PROL Project Manager is the direct line manager of the Senior Officer and the PROL Officers. He/she is responsible for:
- Ensure the recruitment of the staff necessary for the implementation of the project;
- Provide the necessary support to the staff under his responsibility to enable them to achieve their professional objectives and continually improve their performance;
- In cooperation with his/her supervisor and the PRoL Technical Advisor, assess the capacities of the staff under his/her responsibility and identify appropriate training opportunities to strengthen their capacities;
- Ensure an appropriate working environment and team organization enabling the staff under his responsibility to carry out productive work;
- Ensure the setting of objectives for the staff under his supervision, mid-term evaluation as well as a final evaluation;
- Ensure proper use of project assets and resources made available to staff under his/her responsibility.
Financial management
- Ensure responsibility for the proper management of funding as a whole: compliance with commitments and deadlines, planning and systematic monitoring of budgets;
- Ensure monthly expenditure forecasts for project activities and submit them to management for consolidation;
- Monitor monthly the expenses of the project under his responsibility;
- Produce timely expenditure forecasts for monthly activities;
- Propose useful actions in time to maintain the project expenditure under its responsibility at an appropriate level;
- Provide useful information to assist in the development of budgets for new project proposals and the drafting of financial reports for donors;
- Review the expenditure plan according to the activity planning;
- Ensure compliance of expenditures with IRC and donor policies and procedures;
- Regularly analyze the budget to ensure that activity expenses are correctly allocated.
Reporting
- Submit a monthly progress report to project managers and the M&E coordinator;
- Draft and transmit in a timely manner minutes of the various workshops, meetings, training courses, etc. conducted in the field with the beneficiaries or partners of the program, including members of the consortium.
Accountability and behavior
- Familiarize yourself with and comply with the current IRC Burundi Security Management Plan;
- Fully adhere to the commitments and regulations established in the Program Participant Protection Policy and the Code of Conduct;
- Ensure the proper functioning of the complaint management mechanism;
- Report any violation of the Code of Conduct to your superior; this is everyone’s duty;
- Contribute as much as possible to the achievement of eligibility objectives including the IRC’s commitments to the CHS (Core Humanitarian Standards);
- Maintain the confidentiality of all information acquired in the course of carrying out his/her duties and responsibilities, whether from colleagues or concerning any other activity carried out by the IRC in general and which has not yet been made public by Management.
Minimum Qualifications:
Qualifications, professional experience and job requirements
- University level studies preferably in law or social sciences;
- Minimum 3 years’ experience with an international NGO in managing the implementation of protection project activities (budget management, team management, activity management);
- Knowledge of legal instruments protecting human rights and Burundian law in matters of land law, family law and criminal law;
- Experience in training, awareness raising or dissemination of information in the legal field, protection or peaceful conflict resolution;
- Experience in implementing access to justice activities
- Experience working with communities, authorities, leaders and knowledge of returnee protection/reintegration techniques and tools;
- Experience in facilitating training and leading coordination meetings for community protection actors;
- Experience with participatory approaches;
- Ability to manage time and meet deadlines (working under pressure with strict deadlines);
- Experience working with vulnerable or marginalized populations;
- Leadership skills, team management experience
- Negotiation skills and possess assets for fluent communication;
- Continuously develop skills in leadership, project management, protection and financial management;
- Perfect command of French. Knowledge of English is an asset.
Assets
- Great coordination skills;
- Excellent communication skills;
- Need to know how to manage a team and master staff development;
- Good oral and written communication skills and team spirit;
- Respect the instructions and safety rules;
- Good command of Word, Excel, Access and Powerpoint software;
- Be punctual, available and versatile;
- Have a sense of responsibility and commitment.
Supervision :
This position directly supervises three Justice Systems Strengthening Officers and indirectly four Information Dissemination Assistants on access to services and available assistance.
This position is directly supervised by the Director of Programs.
Standards of Professional Conduct: The IRC and IRC employees must adhere to the values and principles set forth in The IRC Way – Standards of 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 protection, anti-workplace harassment, fiscal integrity, and anti-retaliation.
Gender Equality: IRC is committed to closing the gender gap in leadership positions. We offer benefits that create an environment conducive to the participation of women in our workforce, including parental leave, gender-sensitive safety protocols, and other supportive benefits and allowances.
Equal Opportunity Employer: IRC is an equal opportunity employer. IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
All applications must include: A cover letter addressed to the People and Culture Coordinator, IRC Burundi. • Copies of certified diplomas, copies of certificates of services rendered • Identity card • A curriculum vitae • 3 references (Name and surname, Telephone and E-mail).
Application files are submitted electronically.
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The deadline for submitting applications is September 3, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. local time. Only those who are pre-selected will be invited by IRC to participate in a written test and/or an interview.