Global Lead, Women's Protection and Empowerment Systems Transformation

BackgroundThe International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping people to survive, recover, and gain control of their future. The Violence Prevention and Response Unit (VPRU) is one of IRC's four Technical Units, bringing together Child Protection, Women's Protection and Empowerment, and Protection Rule of Law across over 35 countries. VPRU is increasingly strengthening connective tissue across GBV, child protection, and case management through a shared social work systems lens, in service of IRC's Safety Strategy. IRC's Technical Excellence teams offer five core services to IRC country programs: Program Design, Quality Assurance, Business Development, Research and Learning, and External Influence.Job OverviewThe WPE field is at a strategic inflection point. The humanitarian system is contracting, siloed sectoral programming by default is under scrutiny, and the organizations that will define the next decade of protection practice are those that can ground a social work systems approach in feminist practice, building connective tissue with child protection, rule of law, and case management bridge prevention and response as two expressions of a single protective logic, and take seriously the financing of services for those most at risk of violence as a structural condition of impact rather than a donor-cycle variable.The Global Lead, Women's Protection and Empowerment Systems Transformation is hired for this moment. They are IRC's organizational leader on GBV prevention and response and women's and girls' empowerment, a core member of the VPRU senior management team, and the person responsible for transforming how IRC delivers, finances, and positions its...