Senior Program Quality and Learning Officer, POWER Partnership
International Rescue Committee · Burundi, Kenya, Uganda · Apply by November 30, 2026
About this role
Background The International Rescue Committee helps people affected by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and regain control of their future. The Violence Prevention and Response Unit leads IRC's work across women's protection and empowerment, child protection, and protection and rule of law, positioning social work in crises as the connective practice across these areas. POWER is a multi-country strategic partnership funded by Irish Aid, running from 2025 to 2027 across Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan. Its core logic is holistic gender-based violence prevention and response delivered through strengthened local women-led organizations, including partners such as SSWC in Somalia and FODDAJ in Kenya, with a quarter of country budgets channeled directly to local partners under a feminist partnership framework and the PEERS power-sharing principles. The program includes a dedicated advocacy pillar, an emergency response pillar, and a partnership learning pillar, and it works through practices such as women-led safety audits that already constitute community-generated risk analysis feeding into local advocacy and decision-making. Job overview The…