The role will be based in IRC headquarters in New York City with significant travel to camps in Tanzania.
This is a limited-term role with potential for creating a longer-term role either on the core R&D team or in one of programs in the field
Major Responsibilities
- Work collaboratively with the Project lead, other team members at the Airbel Center, IRC Education Unit, and field staff to manage prototyping, build-out, testing and continuous improvement of solutions to improve primary school education and social emotional learning for people in crisis
- Participate in different stages of the design research process such as in-person interviews, workshops, ideations, service design, survey design, pilot design and more
- Drive project progress and coordinate activities of cross functional team members, including high-level planning and detailed short-term activity scheduling.
- Proactively manage project risks, dependencies, issues, gaps, reporting and resource conflicts.
- Identify local stakeholders and enlist them in community-based testing and feedback, giving them an opportunity to participate in the innovation process;
- Engage and facilitate meetings with stakeholders across globally distributed business units, and coordinate stakeholder communications.
- Ensure that project communications are timely, relevant and accurate, including regular status updates. Quickly channel insights to IRC researchers and implementation partners working remotely
- Provide input to budget management processes so that expenditure can be tracked and accurate projections can be maintained.
- Identify opportunities for fundraising and program development to advance project
