The Worldwide Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises, serving to to revive well being, security, schooling, financial wellbeing, and energy to folks devastated by battle and catastrophe. Based in 1933 on the name of Albert Einstein, the IRC is without doubt one of the world’s largest worldwide humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in additional than 40 nations and greater than 25 U.S. cities serving to folks to outlive, reclaim management of their future and strengthen their communities. A drive for humanity, IRC workers delivers lasting affect by restoring security, dignity and hope to hundreds of thousands. When you’re a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come be part of us in positively impacting the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals world-wide for a greater future.
Over the previous 16 years, the IRC has pioneered and applied packages that stop and reply to violence in opposition to ladies and youngsters, in addition to different weak teams in refugee settings and in different conflict-affected contexts, making the IRC a world chief on this subject. IRC is without doubt one of the first humanitarian organizations to carry collectively particular experience concerned in violence prevention and response in battle affected settings to make sure collaborative and nonetheless specialised assist to survivors and people susceptible to violence. This experience is housed within the Violence Prevention and Response Unit (VPRU), which is accountable for guaranteeing total high quality and communication of VPR work throughout the IRC by way of assist to the sphere and promulgation of world greatest follow.
Violence Prevention & Response Unit (VPRU)
The Violence Prevention and Response Unit (VPRU) works to cut back folks’s vulnerability to and assist their restoration from violence and promote transformative work for a future free from violence. The unit homes experience within the fields of Youngster Safety, Safety and Rule of Regulation, and Ladies’s Safety and Empowerment to assist ladies, youngsters and different weak teams by way of violence prevention packages that assist cease violence earlier than it occurs and violence response packages that guarantee lifesaving companies for folks affected by violence. IRC helps packages in 35 nations throughout Africa, Asia, Europe the Center East and Latin America.
Airbel Affect Lab
The Airbel Affect Lab – the Worldwide Rescue Committee’s (IRC’s) analysis and innovation crew – designs, exams, and scales life-changing, cost-effective options for folks affected by battle and catastrophe. By making use of deep technical experience and subject expertise with a variety of expertise from analysis to human-centered design, we take a multi-disciplinary strategy to downside fixing in humanitarian contexts. We’re a number one contributor of affect evaluations and different analysis in humanitarian settings. Our portfolio consists of almost 300 analysis and innovation initiatives throughout 40 nations; and we’ve collectively revealed over 150 journal articles in peer-reviewed publications on schooling, diet, violence prevention, well being and financial packages. We use this analysis to extend the IRC’s affect and to vary the best way humanitarian help is delivered all over the world.
The Objective of the Position
This Violence Prevention and Response Researcher would sit inside VPRU with a twin reporting line into the IRC’s Airbel Affect Lab, to offer oversight, steerage and assist to VPRU’s analysis portfolio on the prevention and response to violence in opposition to ladies in disaster and battle affected contexts. This position will work particularly on The What Works 2 Affect at scale Program- (WW2), a world flagship seven-year Program funded by the UK’s Overseas, Commonwealth and Growth Workplace (FCDO) to enhance prevention and response to violence in opposition to ladies and ladies. The WW2 Program is situated throughout the Violence Prevention and Response Unit (VPRU) at Worldwide Rescue Committee and is applied by a consortium of 5 companions specifically IRC, Elevating Voices, CARE, SD Direct and SAMYA/ Breakthrough. The position will coordinate with a analysis consortium that may ship affect evaluations and operational analysis to determine what works in stopping violence, from the interventions supported by the What Works 2 Program after which speaking it to decision-makers and a variety of various audiences to affect a simpler, scaled-up world response to finish VAWG. The place may also be accountable for supporting the event of a analysis technique for VPRU together with proactive engagement of college companions, particularly from the International South, and figuring out potential pipeline of analysis funding,
Key Accountabilities:
Violence Analysis technique design and implementation (20%):
• Co-lead with the Youngster Safety researcher the event of the VPRU analysis technique, in collaboration with VPRU GPLs, MEL colleagues and different VPRU and Airbel colleagues, together with the institution of annual targets and workplans to ship the analysis technique
• Assist analysis associated enterprise growth actions, together with creating idea notes and proposals, and assist new partnerships with International South Researchers for brand spanking new alternatives.
Work Works 2 (50%)
• Guarantee all research adhere to the What Works ‘methods of working’ together with collaborative decision-making and administration procedures and others
• Assist grantees and the Studying Partnership pillar technical advisors in brokering researcher-practitioner relationships in addition to mediating researcher-practitioner challenges
• Lead the scoping of doable initiatives/ analysis concepts for scaling VAWG prevention and assist analysis of grantee proposals for analysis potential and strategic worth in the direction of filling globally recognized proof gaps in violence in opposition to ladies and woman to be introduced to affix t consortia, FCDO and IAB
• Assist Studying Partnership pillar to advance standardization of capturing practice-based data for VAWG prevention and response
• Steward articulation and adherence of research-focused feminist ideas and values in research and doc classes realized for feminist-grounded analysis inside a big consortium and use insights to affect donors, lecturers, and policymakers.
• Guarantee clear communication and data administration of coordination and communications throughout research, pillars, and consortia, together with clear note-taking and sharing throughout month-to-month conferences.
• Synthesize accessible proof and disseminate it to the sphere of VAWG prevention along side the What Works Exterior Engagement and Influencing pillar
• Be part of the What Works Programme Administration Unit and the educational partnerships pillar
Key Working Relationships
**• Place Experiences to:**The researcher will report into the Senior Director in VPRU and the Senior Director of Analysis in Airbel.
**• Direct Experiences:**N/A
Key Inside Relationships:
• VPRU Deputy Director
• What Works 2 Challenge crew and companions
• Youngster Safety Researcher
• VPRU MEAL Lead
• International Apply Leads for Youngster Safety, WPE and PROL
• VPR Regional Leads throughout 6 areas, and regional Technical Advisors
• VPRU Inclusion Lead
• VPRU Coverage and Advocacy Lead and WPE Coverage Officer
• VPRU Enterprise Growth and Partnership Lead
• Airbel Affect Lab
Key Exterior Relationships: CP Alliance, CP AoR, GBV AoR, GPC, UNICEF, UNHCR
Particular person Specification:
Training: Masters or PhD; in social epidemiology, public well being, economics, sociology, quantitative or quantitative sciences
Work Expertise: Candidates with a PhD 3-5 years of expertise or Grasp’s with 6-8 years of expertise working in analysis on subjects associated to violence in opposition to ladies, humanitarian emergencies or different violence centered associated subjects
Demonstrated Expertise and Competencies
• Potential to work throughout sectors coordinating analysis research and produce folks collectively from totally different perspective to work collaboratively
• Information of moral ideas associated to delicate research subjects, comparable to ladies safety and violence analysis
• Sturdy community of International South researchers
• Confirmed qualitative and quantitative information assortment and evaluation expertise, with a stronger give attention to participatory qualitative approaches
• Expertise conducting analysis and analysis in violence prevention in humanitarian settings
• Wonderful oral and written communication and a spotlight to element
• Sturdy analysis publication and funding observe report
• Dedication to stick to Gender, Equality, Range and Inclusion ideas and uphold Youngster Safeguarding requirements.
• English is required, French is extremely most popular, and Arabic, Spanish, Swahili or different language could be helpful.
Working Setting: Normal work surroundings. The place would require roughly 25% journey. This place may very well be primarily based in UK, Lebanon and Cote D’Ivoire.
Compensation:
Posted pay ranges apply to US and UK-based candidates. Ranges are primarily based on numerous elements together with the labor market, job kind, inner fairness, and funds. Precise affords are calibrated by work location, particular person candidate expertise and expertise relative to the outlined job necessities.
US Advantages:
The IRC affords a complete and extremely aggressive set of advantages. All US workers are eligible for sick time, a 403b retirement financial savings plans: as much as 4.5% instantly vested matching contribution, plus an 3-7% further IRC contribution, and an Worker Help Program which is obtainable to our employees and their households to assist in occasions of disaster and psychological well being struggles.
As well as, full-time workers are eligible for 10 US paid holidays, 20-25 paid time without work days, incapacity & life insurance coverage, medical, dental, and imaginative and prescient insurance coverage (worker contribution beginning at $135, $7, and $5 monthly respectively) and FSA for healthcare, childcare, and commuter prices. Half-time workers are eligible for a proportionate quantity of paid time without work. These further advantages apply to workers who work at the least 6 months inside a 12 month time interval.
**Normal of Skilled Conduct:**The IRC and the IRC employees should adhere to the values and ideas outlined within the IRC Manner – our Code of Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Accountability, and Equality.
Dedication to Gender, Equality, Range, and Inclusion: The IRC is dedicated to creating a various, inclusive, respectful, and secure work surroundings the place all individuals are handled pretty, with dignity and respect. The IRC expressly prohibits and won’t tolerate discrimination, harassment, retaliation, or bullying of the IRC individuals in any work setting. We purpose to extend the illustration of ladies, folks which can be from nation and communities we serve, and individuals who determine as races and ethnicities which can be under-represented in world energy buildings.
Methods to apply
https://careers.rescue.org/us/en/job/req51125/Researcher-in-Violence-Prevention-and-Response