Thailand Women’s Protection and Empowerment (WPE) Program Coordinator
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 or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.
Scope: The Mae Sot - based WPE Coordinator is responsible for overseeing and coordinating programs that address gender-based violence prevention and assistance in three field sites on the Thailand-Myanmar boder. Key responsibilities include oversight of program expansion efforts in two project sites and providing technical oversight across all implementing field sites. The WPE Coordinator oversees all aspects of strategy development, program design, implementation, standardization, and evaluation of all related program activities within the IRC Thailand country program. In addition, the WPE Coordinator serves as the primary staff member for coordination with other NGOs, UNHCR and Community Based Organizations (CBOs). The primary focus is on program quality, with program progress being monitored and evaluated against quantifiable benchmarks.
Responsibilities: Program Quality – provide technical support to field sites to ensure that programs are of a satisfactory quality and implemented in accordance with national and international standards; ensure appropriate systems and tools are in place in each site to collect and monitor relevant data and ensure that information is used to modify programmatic responses; support the development of long-term behavior change strategies for prevention of gender-based violence, in addition to maintaining appropriate response systems; ensure integration with relevant program sectors and ensure all program sectors contribute to reducing the vulnerability of women and girls to violence.
Program Development – ensure that new proposals promote continued high quality programming by responding to identified needs, taking account of recognized best practices and minimum standards and improving on lessons learned from earlier programming, provide support for the mainstreaming of WPE principles and issues within all of IRC’s programming; take the lead in designing and conducting needs assessment tools and lead or assist in program evaluations as needed.
Capacity Building – Oversee capacity building of IRC Thailand and local partner program staff to design, implement and monitor high quality programming through ongoing informal mentoring and training, formal training sessions and evaluations.
Coordination and Representation – Ensure that IRC’s contribution to the WPE sector in Thailand is recognized and valued by all stakeholders through proactive participation in regular and ad hoc representation and coordination activities; maintain effective relationships with key programmatic counterparts, including donor representatives, sub cluster leads/members, and district officials.
This position reports to the Senior Protection Coordinator and supervises three field-based program managers.
This position is based in Mae Sot, Tak Province and requires regular travel to border areas and Bangkok.
Requirements • Post-graduate degree in social work, social sciences, public health, community health, or related field • At least three years field-based experience in gender-based violence programs, refugee protection, gender or human rights in conflict-affected areas • Demonstrated experience in capacity building, staff supervision and mentoring • Proven skills in program management, donor liaison and training • Program development, monitoring, and evaluation experience • Organized and detail-oriented with multi-tasking abilities • Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
Specific Security Situation/Housing : The security situation in Mae Sot is relatively stable.
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