Health Unit Advisor

Position: Health Unit MEAL Advisor
Location: New York

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world's largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities.

A force for humanity, IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you're a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future.

The IRC is delivering healthcare services in humanitarian settings around the world, including conflict-affected countries and refugee settings. The IRC’s vision is to lead the humanitarian field by implementing high-impact, cost-effective programs for people affected by crisis and by using our learning and experience to shape policy and practice. To achieve that vision, the IRC’s Technical Excellence Unit (TE) provides technical assistance to IRC’s country program staff and shares what we learn to influence policy and practice.

The TE Unit is comprised of six technical Units, all of which have deep expertise in their respective sectors:
Education, Economic Wellbeing, Gender Equality, Governance, Health, Violence Prevention and Response.

These technical units work closely with the Research and Innovation Unit.

The health technical unit is organized in three sectors:
Health (comprehensive primary healthcare including sexual and reproductive health, communicable and non-communicable diseases, MHPSS and child health), environmental health and nutrition. The Health Unit MEAL team is committed to the development of systems,tools, and processes that enable country programs to collect and analyze quality data across IRC’s health, nutrition, and EH programming, and its ambition is to utilize data to design, monitor, and evaluate projects and support the collection and dissemination of learning at a global level.

We also aim to support and lead high quality assessments and surveys that help country programs to monitor, evaluate, and learn from their programs.
** Job Overview/

Summary:

** The Health Unit MEAL Advisor will lead the Health Unit’s coordination of the annual statistics process, management of core indicators, analysis and interpretation of global and regional data sets, development and management of data collection tools for core indicators, and management of cross sectoral  MEAL tools. The HU MEAL Advisor will also provide MEAL Advisory support for Health Unit and country led evaluations and research projects.

The specific responsibilities include:
** Global Support (estimated 70%)*
* • Lead the coordination of the Annual Statistics process, including liaising between the Measurement Unit, Technical Advisors and country programs to review submitted health data, ensuring completeness, correctness and identifying gaps in data.  
• Lead the maintenance of the health, nutrition and environmental health Core Indicator List (CIL), including liaising with Global Practice Leads, Regional Technical Leads, MEAL focal persons, country programs and the Measurement Unit, to ensure the list is up to date within the Indicator Selection Tool (IST) and useful for standard program monitoring.  
• Lead the development and updating of data collection tools, including maintenance of all tools within the METAL tools and learning repository, and the socialization of this repository across the HU.  
• Lead the analysis and interpretation of global and regional data – including annual statistics, program expenditure, client satisfaction, and program indicators – for use in briefing notes to leaders across the IRC. Support the writing of this analysis for reports such as HU Annual Report, Leadership Briefing on Annual Statistics, and regional and practice area portfolio reviews.  
• Lead the capacity strengthening of HU use of the Program Indicator Dashboard…