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Formation / DiplĂŽmes
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the worldâs 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 worldâs 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 youâre a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future. On 15 May 2026, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) declared its seventeenth Ebola outbreak after cases were confirmed in Ituri Province. The outbreak has since spread to North Kivu, South Kivu, Haut-UĂ©lĂ©, and Tshopo. As of 12 August 2026, 4,566 confirmed cases and 2,128 deaths had been recorded across 53 of 140 health zones. The response is unfolding amid conflict, displacement, and weak health systems, with persistent gaps in infection prevention, WASH infrastructure, and essential supplies that heighten the risk of healthcare-associated transmission. These challenges continue to increase the risk of healthcare-associated transmission, compromise the safety of health workers and patients, and disrupt the continuity of essential health services. In response, IRC has rapidly launched an integrated Ebola emergency response in close collaboration with the Ministry of Health, provincial and health zone authorities, and other partners. The response combines Health, Infection Prevention and Control (IPC), WASH, Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE), Protection, and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) interventions to strengthen outbreak prevention, detection, and response at both health facility and community levels. To support the implementation and scale-up of these interventions, IRC is recruiting a Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) Coordinator, for an initial 12-month assignment, to provide continued strategic technical leadership and operational support for RCCE programming. The RCCE Coordinator will be responsible for the delivery of RCCE programming for the Ebola response, including cross-cutting support to mainstream accountability and safeguarding across IRCâs multisectoral response. Scope of work The RCCE Coordinator will provide technical oversight and support the delivery of community-based RCCE activities for the Ebola response, working closely with RECOs, community leaders, health authorities, and other sectors. He/She will support RECOs to conduct two-way responsive information and risk communication, community engagement, rumor management, community feedback, early alert promotion, and engagement on Ebola prevention measures. Where required, the Coordinator may support activities in health facilities, ensuring strict adherence to IPC procedures and appropriate PPE use in high-risk areas. Reporting Lines:  The RCCE Coordinator will report to the Ebola Deputy Director of Programs, working in close coordination with emergency team and country program counterparts, particularly the Protection, Health, and WASH/EH Coordinators. The position directly supervises the RCCE Managers (Ituri and North Kivu), with technical oversight of the RCCE Officers, and community engagement officers across the response.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategy and technical leadership
Lead the continued implementation of IRCâs RCCE strategy for the Ebola response, and workplan, including community-based activities, RECO engagement, capacity building, monitoring, and adaptation based on community feedback and emerging risks,scale-up plans, staïŹng, resource requirements, and geographic prioritization. Lead implementation and technical support to the expansion of RCCE activities to new or emerging areas for IRCâs Ebola response. Ensure RCCE programming is aligned with IRCâs Emergency Response Framework, national response priorities, and global technical standards. Contribute to programme development and resource mobilisation for RCCE, including development of concept notes, proposals, budgets, donor reports, and other programme documents to support sustained RCCE programming Build safeguarding risk analysis and relevant risk mitigation measures into project design and implementation. Champion a culture of effective and respectful partnerships. Promote partner-led programming in line with IRCâs âwhy not partner?â and âpartner as equalsâ approach.
Autres informations
Ensure partnership considerations are embedded throughout the emergency response plan, with local partners actively engaged in response design and delivery, so that each programâs approach reflects how IRC can best support, reinforce, and complement local actors. Program Leadership and Quality Lead the ongoing management, staffing, and capacity-building of the RCCE team and RECOs, ensuring adequate coverage across targeted communities and continuity of key RCCE functions, and promoting collaboration and cross-learning across Ebola response sites. Ensure RCCE activities are implemented according to quality standards and adapted to the local context, community needs, feedback, rumors, and evolving Ebola risks. Ensure effective RCCE programme management, including activity planning, monitoring, procurement, budget and expense tracking, MEAL indicators, documentation, and timely programme/project reporting. Coordinate closely with the wider DRC country programme and other sectors to ensure alignment between Ebola RCCE programming, community structures, and longer-term RCCE, health promotion, and community engagement strategies. Actively contribute to the relevant sections of Partner Capacity Analysis (PCA) and the subsequent development of partner support plans. Review and provide feedback on partner technical tools, reports, and data as required. Collaborate with partners on recommended adaptations or process improvements. People Management Directly manage, coach, and support the professional development of RCCE Managers, Officers, Assistants, and RECOs, ensuring clear workplans, regular supervision, and performance management. Lead recruitment, onboarding, and continuous capacity-building of RCCE staff and RECOs, including induction, technical training, coaching, and mentoring on RCCE approaches and Ebola-related communication. Foster a collaborative, safe, inclusive, and accountable team culture across dispersed RCCE teams and community-based structures. Technical Support Identify and execute new approaches to strengthen community engagement, increase awareness and understanding of the IRCâs work, and open, two-way communication between the community and the IRC. Ensure that RCCE proactively solicits and addresses community perceptions, information needs and gaps, preferences, priorities, and barriers to social behavior change. Work closely with the IPC/WASH teams to ensure that they are incorporating inclusive, two-way community engagement activities into their work, and to ensure that sufficient community engagement and information activities precede IPC/WASH work in new locations. Work closely with the Protection teams to support and strengthen their community engagement activities. Serve as a bridge between the IPC/WASH activities and the Ebola community engagement and risk mitigation activities carried out by Protection Maintain up-to-date awareness of community perceptions of and feedback on Ebola response efforts, particularly those led by the IRC. This may involve secondary document reviews, carrying out community meetings, etc. Lead and strengthen the work of RECOs and other community structures to ensure regular community sensitization, dialogue, feedback collection, rumor identification and referral of alerts through established mechanisms. Establish and strengthen community feedback and accountability mechanisms, ensuring that community concerns, rumors, perceptions, and information needs are systematically documented, analyzed, referred, and used to adapt RCCE activities and programme approaches. Ensure RCCE activities and messages are informed by community feedback, social and behavioral data, and evolving Ebola risks, with particular attention to inclusion of women, youth, persons with disabilities, and other potentially marginalized groups.= Stakeholder Coordination Represent and / or coordinate with focal points to ensure IRCâs active engagement in key response coordination fora, including RCCE, Communicating with Communities, and MHPSS. Maintain working relationships with UN and NGO partners carrying out RCCE activities to promote strong coordination, information sharing, and referrals across the response. Contribute to strong internal coordination and information sharing across IRCâs response, including emergency and country team focal points for Health, WASH, Protection, Safeguarding, and others.
REQUIREMENTS:
Expérience
The ideal candidate will have a background in social and behaviour change, health promotion, community engagement, or a related field, with experience leading community-based communication activities and working with community volunteers/RECOs during public health emergencies. âHighly desired criteriaâ include previous experience in Ebola or other viral hemorrhagic fever responses, experience working in outbreak or high-risk settings, strong knowledge of RCCE, community feedback and rumor management, and experience coordinating with health, IPC/WASH, Protection, and community structures. Experience supervising and building the capacity of RECOs and frontline staff, developing evidence-based messages, and adapting RCCE activities based on community feedback is highly desirable. Fluency in French and English ( Swahili is an added advantage) Excellent understanding of RCCE framework in emergency situations and knowledge of emergency standards (Sphere)
Strong leadership, management, planning, analytical, interpersonal, and communication skills; Ability to live and work in stressful and insecure environment; Excellent initiator, able to manage multiple tasks. Able to work under pressure and good at timely decision making. Competent in Microsoft Office, Word and Excel including CAD softwares. Demonstrated commitment to inclusion and fair treatment of staff, and ability to identify and address barriers to inclusion for marginalized groups in emergency responses. Experience working with diverse teams and communities, including women, youth, persons with disabilities, and other groups at risk of exclusion. Knowledge and/or experience in conflict management, protection, or other related field. Excellent professional approach and strong team building skills.
Présentation du poste
CONTEXTE :  Le 15 mai 2026, la RĂ©publique dĂ©mocratique du Congo (RDC) a dĂ©clarĂ© sa dix-septiĂšme Ă©pidĂ©mie dâEbola aprĂšs la confirmation de cas dans la province de lâIturi. LâĂ©pidĂ©mie sâest depuis propagĂ©e au Nord-Kivu, au Sud-Kivu, au Haut-UĂ©lĂ© et Ă la Tshopo. Au 12 aoĂ»t 2026, 4 566 cas confirmĂ©s et 2 128 dĂ©cĂšs avaient Ă©tĂ© enregistrĂ©s dans 53 des 140 zones de santĂ©. La rĂ©ponse se dĂ©roule dans un contexte de conflit, de dĂ©placement et de systĂšmes de santĂ© fragiles, avec des lacunes persistantes en matiĂšre de prĂ©vention des infections, dâinfrastructures EAH et de fournitures essentielles. Ces difficultĂ©s continuent dâaccroĂźtre le risque de transmission associĂ©e aux soins de santĂ©, de compromettre la sĂ©curitĂ© des agents de santĂ© et des patients, et de perturber la continuitĂ© des services de santĂ© essentiels. En rĂ©ponse, lâIRC a rapidement lancĂ© une rĂ©ponse intĂ©grĂ©e Ă lâurgence Ebola en Ă©troite collaboration avec le MinistĂšre de la SantĂ©, les autoritĂ©s provinciales et des zones de santĂ©, et dâautres partenaires. La rĂ©ponse combine des interventions en SantĂ©, PrĂ©vention et ContrĂŽle des Infections (PCI), Eau, Assainissement et HygiĂšne (EAH), Communication sur les Risques et Engagement Communautaire (CREC), Protection, et SantĂ© Mentale et Soutien Psychosocial (SMSPS) afin de renforcer la prĂ©vention, la dĂ©tection et la rĂ©ponse Ă lâĂ©pidĂ©mie, tant au niveau des structures de santĂ© quâau niveau communautaire. Pour appuyer la mise en Ćuvre et la montĂ©e en puissance de ces interventions, lâIRC recrute un(e) Coordinateur/trice Communication sur les Risques et Engagement Communautaire (CREC), pour une mission initiale de 12 mois, afin dâassurer un leadership technique stratĂ©gique continu et un appui opĂ©rationnel Ă la programmation CREC. Le/la Coordinateur/trice CREC sera responsable de la mise en Ćuvre de la programmation CREC pour la rĂ©ponse Ebola, y compris de lâappui transversal Ă lâintĂ©gration de la redevabilitĂ© et de la sauvegarde dans lâensemble de la rĂ©ponse multisectorielle de lâIRC.
PORTĂE DU TRAVAIL
Le/la Coordinateur/trice CREC assurera la supervision technique et appuiera la mise en Ćuvre des activitĂ©s communautaires de CREC pour la rĂ©ponse Ebola, en travaillant en Ă©troite collaboration avec les RECO, les leaders communautaires, les autoritĂ©s sanitaires et les autres secteurs. Il/elle appuiera les RECO dans la conduite dâune communication dâinformation et de risque bidirectionnelle et rĂ©active, lâengagement communautaire, la gestion des rumeurs, la collecte de retours communautaires, la promotion de lâalerte prĂ©coce, et lâengagement autour des mesures de prĂ©vention dâEbola. Si nĂ©cessaire, le/la Coordinateur/trice pourra appuyer des activitĂ©s au sein des structures de santĂ©, en veillant au strict respect des procĂ©dures PCI et Ă lâutilisation appropriĂ©e des EPI dans les zones Ă haut risque. Lignes hiĂ©rarchiques : Le/la Coordinateur/trice CREC relĂšvera du/de la Directeur/trice Adjoint(e) des Programmes Ebola, en Ă©troite coordination avec lâĂ©quipe dâurgence et les homologues du programme pays, en particulier les Coordinateurs/trices Protection, SantĂ© et EAH/SE. Le poste supervise directement les Responsables CREC (Ituri et Nord-Kivu), avec une supervision technique des Agents CREC et des agents dâengagement communautaire sur lâensemble de la rĂ©ponse.
Responsabilités
StratĂ©gie et leadership technique Diriger la mise en Ćuvre continue de la stratĂ©gie CREC de lâIRC pour la rĂ©ponse Ebola et de son plan de travail, y compris les activitĂ©s communautaires, lâengagement des RECO, le renforcement des capacitĂ©s, le suivi et lâadaptation en fonction des retours communautaires et des risques Ă©mergents, les plans de montĂ©e en puissance, les besoins en personnel et en ressources, et la priorisation gĂ©ographique. Diriger la mise en Ćuvre et lâappui technique Ă lâextension des activitĂ©s CREC vers des zones nouvelles ou Ă©mergentes pour la rĂ©ponse Ebola de lâIRC. Veiller Ă ce que la programmation CREC sâaligne sur le Cadre de RĂ©ponse aux Urgences de lâIRC, les prioritĂ©s nationales de la rĂ©ponse et les normes techniques mondiales. Contribuer au dĂ©veloppement de programmes et Ă la mobilisation de ressources pour la CREC, y compris lâĂ©laboration de notes conceptuelles, de propositions, de budgets, de rapports aux bailleurs et dâautres documents de programme pour soutenir la pĂ©rennitĂ© de la programmation CREC. IntĂ©grer lâanalyse des risques de sauvegarde et les mesures dâattĂ©nuation correspondantes dans la conception et la mise en Ćuvre des projets. Promouvoir une culture de partenariats efficaces et respectueux. Favoriser une programmation pilotĂ©e par les partenaires, conformĂ©ment Ă lâapproche « pourquoi ne pas sâassocier ? » et « partenaires dâĂ©gal Ă Ă©gal » de lâIRC. Veiller Ă ce que les considĂ©rations de partenariat soient intĂ©grĂ©es dans lâensemble du plan de rĂ©ponse dâurgence, avec un engagement actif des partenaires locaux dans la conception de la rĂ©ponse et sa mise en Ćuvre, afin que lâapproche de chaque programme reflĂšte la maniĂšre dont lâIRC peut au mieux soutenir, renforcer et complĂ©ter les acteurs locaux. Leadership de programme et qualitĂ© Diriger la gestion continue, la dotation en personnel et le renforcement des capacitĂ©s de lâĂ©quipe CREC et des RECO, en assurant une couverture adĂ©quate des communautĂ©s ciblĂ©es et la continuitĂ© des fonctions clĂ©s de CREC, tout en favorisant la collaboration et lâapprentissage croisĂ© entre les sites de la rĂ©ponse Ebola. Veiller Ă ce que les activitĂ©s CREC soient mises en Ćuvre selon des normes de qualitĂ© et adaptĂ©es au contexte local, aux besoins des communautĂ©s, aux retours, aux rumeurs et Ă lâĂ©volution des risques liĂ©s Ă Ebola. Assurer une gestion efficace du programme CREC, y compris la planification des activitĂ©s, le suivi, les achats, le suivi budgĂ©taire et des dĂ©penses, les indicateurs SREA, la documentation et la production de rapports de programme/projet dans les dĂ©lais. Coordonner Ă©troitement avec lâensemble du programme pays RDC et les autres secteurs pour assurer lâalignement entre la programmation CREC Ebola, les structures communautaires, et les stratĂ©gies Ă plus long terme de CREC, de promotion de la santĂ© et dâengagement communautaire. Contribuer activement aux sections pertinentes de lâAnalyse des CapacitĂ©s des Partenaires (ACP) et Ă lâĂ©laboration ultĂ©rieure des plans de soutien aux partenaires. Examiner et commenter les outils techniques, rapports et donnĂ©es des partenaires selon les besoins. Collaborer avec les partenaires sur les adaptations ou amĂ©liorations de processus recommandĂ©es. Gestion des ressources humaines GĂ©rer, encadrer et soutenir directement le dĂ©veloppement professionnel des Responsables, Agents, Assistants CREC et des RECO, en veillant Ă des plans de travail clairs, une supervision rĂ©guliĂšre et une gestion de la performance. Diriger le recrutement, lâintĂ©gration et le renforcement continu des capacitĂ©s du personnel CREC et des RECO, y compris lâintĂ©gration, la formation technique, le coaching et le mentorat sur les approches CREC et la communication liĂ©e Ă Ebola. Favoriser une culture dâĂ©quipe collaborative, sĂ»re, inclusive et responsable au sein des Ă©quipes CREC dispersĂ©es et des structures communautaires. Appui technique Identifier et mettre en Ćuvre de nouvelles approches pour renforcer lâengagement communautaire, accroĂźtre la sensibilisation et la comprĂ©hension du travail de lâIRC, et ouvrir une communication bidirectionnelle entre la communautĂ© et lâIRC. Veiller Ă ce que la CREC sollicite et traite de maniĂšre proactive les perceptions, besoins dâinformation, lacunes, prĂ©fĂ©rences, prioritĂ©s et obstacles au changement social et comportemental des communautĂ©s. Travailler en Ă©troite collaboration avec les Ă©quipes PCI/EAH pour veiller Ă ce quâelles intĂšgrent des activitĂ©s dâengagement communautaire inclusives et bidirectionnelles dans leur travail, et pour garantir que des activitĂ©s suffisantes dâengagement communautaire et dâinformation prĂ©cĂšdent le travail PCI/EAH dans les nouvelles zones. Travailler en Ă©troite collaboration avec les Ă©quip
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