Overview
Oversee the planning, implementation, and monitoring of the FPIL project in Somalia, ensuring alignment with program objectives and national SRHR priorities. This role leads the day-to-day operational delivery of the gender norms change intervention.
Tasks Summary
- Lead implementation readiness and operational planning for the gender norms intervention, including workplans, staffing, training, community entry, safeguarding, partner coordination, and logistics.
- Lead coordination with internal technical teams, partners, and key stakeholders, translating feedback into practical implementation requirements.
- Lead day-to-day delivery of gender norms intervention in the field, supervising field teams/partners, managing operational risks, and ensuring intervention fidelity and quality documentation.
- Establish and maintain comprehensive documentation systems for all FPIL program implementation activities.
- Create standardized documentation protocols and templates for field staff.
- Lead project activities planning, implementation, and monitoring.
- Ensure strong alignment and integration of the project’s interventions with WISH2 program objectives and activities.
- Develop joint implementation protocols with WISH2 team.
- Develop detailed project workplan and procurement plans.
- Provide coordination across internal teams.
- Lead, prepare for, and actively participate in Project Implementation Cycle (PIM) meetings.
- Conduct routine supportive supervision and troubleshooting.
- Coordinate field-level logistics and operational support for IRC-led complementary research components.
- Work closely with MEAL and research project team at HQ level to ensure quality assurance.
- Ensure adherence to ethical approvals, informed consent processes, safeguarding policies, and data protection standards.
- Ensure intervention fidelity and dose monitoring systems are implemented.
- Monitor and document any protocol deviations.
- Support synthesis of implementation learning and field insights.
- Support IRB/ethical approval processes.
- Coordinate learning exchanges with the South Sudan FPIL team.
- Coordinate with Ministry of Health (federal and state levels).
- Oversee engagement with community leaders, youth champions, and religious leaders.
- Represent IRC in SRHR, research, and technical coordination forums.
- Coordinate partner relationships and stakeholder communication.
- Oversee routine monitoring, field visits, progress tracking, and documentation of FPIL activities, challenges, and lessons learned.
- Implement rigorous data quality assurance protocols specific to RCT requirements.
- Lead preparation of donor reports, internal updates, research summaries, and learning products.
- Facilitate learning sessions, evidence-sharing platforms, and reflection workshops.
- Lead development and review of decision-support dashboards, learning briefs, and adaptive management recommendations.
- Ensure data quality assurance, corrective action follow‑up, and fidelity monitoring.
- Ensure FPIL learning is systematically captured and fed back into design, prototyping, and implementation phases.
- Ensure implementation monitoring data and documentation are complete and timely.
- Oversee project budget utilization, expenditure tracking, and financial forecasting.
- Ensure that procurements, documentation, and internal controls adhere to IRC and donor compliance frameworks.
- Conduct monthly Budget vs. Actual (BvA) reviews.
- Supervise project staff and consultants.
- Provide coaching, mentorship, and performance management.
- Build staff capacity on research ethics and gender‑transformative programming.
- Ensure teams understand required field procedures.
- Oversee training and performance supervision of enumerators, research staff, and community facilitators.
Experience Requirements
- 3–5 years of experience managing community-based programs, ideally including gender-transformative/social norms or SBC interventions, and experience supporting implantation research.
- Experience in Somalia’s humanitarian contexts and collaboration with government and research institutions.
- Demonstrated experience coordinating multi-stakeholder implementation with strong attention to documentation, protocol adherence, and quality assurance (asset for trial/evaluation contexts).
Qualification Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in public health, social sciences, development studies, gender studies, education, or other relevant fields (required).
- Master’s degree in public health or SRHR-related field (preferred).
