Regional Gender, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

**Requisition ID**: req25396
**Job Title**:Regional Gender, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Director, Europe
**Department**:Gender, Diversity, Equality, & Inclusion Unit (GEDI)
**Employment Category**: Permanent
**Employment Type**: Full-Time

**Location**: European HQ locations
- Brussels, London, Berlin, Bonn, Geneva or Stockholm

**Background/IRC Summary**: The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people _whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their lives_. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC works with people forced to flee from war, conflict and disaster and the host communities which support them, as well as those who remain within their homes and communities. At work today in over 40 countries, we improve outcomes in the areas of health, safety, economic wellbeing, education, and power.

**Job Overview/Summary**:
As Europe Gender, Diversity, Equality, & Inclusion (Europe GEDI) Advisor, you will lead regional strategy development and implementation efforts that build an inclusive culture across IRC office in Europe and ensure diversity, equality, and inclusion are central to everything we do.

The Europe GEDI Advisor is envisioned to also be responsible for contributing to special initiatives, including supporting underrepresented or marginalized employee groups, advocacy and research, and collaboration with other organizations and sectors serving refugees. The Europe GEDI Advisor will report to the Chief GEDI officer and Senior Director Policy & Planning, Europe.

**Major Responsibilities**:
**(1) GEDI Action Plan**

(a) Foster an inclusive working culture

Build GEDI capacity and understanding in European offices to ensure adequate knowledge across staff on basic GEDI and feminist principles, mechanisms, and language.
- Work with European leaders to develop contextually relevant and adapt proven and innovative approaches to promoting and building an inclusive office culture and environment.
- In collaboration with HR, support GEDI learning and development of inclusive leadership and management practices for European leaders.
- Collaborate with relevant teams to embed approaches to monitoring and evaluation and a culture of continuous improvement and learning in relation to GEDI.
- Advice on design and implementation of more equitable and inclusive organizational policies and processes.

(b) Global coordination & internal communication
- Support the roll-out of the Global GEDI Action Plan at the European level.
- Communicate regional GEDI priorities, action plans, and progress made at the European and Global levels.
- Represent Europe in Global GEDI Coordination mechanism and Community of practices across the organization to ensure alignment and cross-learning.

(c) Support the development of local GEDI Action plans:

- Advice IRC Europe’s leaders in the development of European and country-specific priorities for the roll-out of GEDI action plans and embedding in key business processes (Strategy100, Budget etc.).
- Partner with the European teams and actors to confirm shared accountabilities in delivering on the GEDI action plan and support change management efforts needed to achieve success.
- Support the implementation of GEDI related policies and practices in partnership with the country teams.

**(2) **Technical Leadership**

(a) Subject Matter Expertise and Technical Support
- Serve as a resource, thought partner, and catalyst of change and progress
- Provide technical support to regional GEDI initiatives/projects.
- Support Europe teams in obtaining the technical support needed to achieve their GEDI priorities.
- Coordinate data gathering and analysis to inform European interventions and track progress made.
- Serve as a hub of GEDI knowledge for the Europe teams to provide technical knowledge and expertise, monitor new practices, and document the results.

(b) External engagement
- Support inclusion of GEDI priority in IRC advocacy and external communication efforts as relevant.
- Add to the sector’s knowledge base about what works best.
- Represent IRC in GEDI-related forum as needed.

**(3) Team Leadership and staff engagement**
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**In collaboration with the Senior Director of Policy & Planning, assemble and lead a community of practice throughout Europe where everyone is accountable for progress on defined Gender, Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion goals.
Support Europe’s country leadership in developing and implementing the best approach to ensure meaningful staff engagement and two-way communication around GEDI including developing shared contextual understanding of the concept, challenges, and priorities.
- Provide support to Europe DEI council.
- Represent in regional forums and conferences focusing on GEDI and other related fields.
- Other duties as assigned.

**Key Working Relationships**:
**Direct Reporting**:Chief GEDI off