Early Childhood Development Technical Lead

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Reporting to the Deputy Project Director for Content and Delivery, the Early Childhood Development (ECD) Technical Lead provides technical leadership and day-to-day management of Arabic ECD content and program development across the IRC ECD portfolio in. The role ensures that high-quality, evidence-based ECD content is developed, adapted, and effectively deployed in a way that can be delivered efficiently - including in-person, remote, and hybrid modalities - in MENA. The ECD Technical Lead works in close collaboration with the Digital Portfolio Senior Manager and the wider digital team, ensuring that content developed for in-person and remote delivery is appropriately adapted and integrated into digital products and platforms, and that insights from digital reach and engagement inform content development and improvement. While the digital portfolio is managed separately, the ECD Technical Lead and digital team operate as one integrated unit under the Deputy Project Director, with a shared commitment to ensuring content and delivery are coherent, complementary, and collectively advancing IRC's ECD goals for children and caregivers across the region. Major Responsibilities High-Quality Content Development Oversee the development, adaptation, and effective utilization of IRC's ECD content and materials for child-facing programs, especially for children ages 0-8; caregiver-facing programs, including parenting programs and caregiver support; and cont

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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. BACKGROUND The International Rescue Committee (IRC) helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future. 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 that support them, as well as with those who remain within their homes and communities. In the MENA region (Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Libya, and Yemen) IRC responds to displaced people's acute and longer-term needs with integrated programs that improve health and safety, prioritize children's education, foster economic wellbeing, and empower communities to regain control over their lives. The IRC's MENA Early Childhood Development Portfolio The IRC's MENA Early Childhood Development (ECD) portfolio builds on over seven years of programming, starting with the Ahlan Simsim and Play to Learn initiatives, launched in 2018. These initiatives reached millions of children and caregivers with ECD services, generated a library of high-quality ECD content, and established a resource bank of proven program models. Partnerships with Ministries of Education, Health, and Social Development produced co-designed programs that are now embedded within government services across the region. The portfolio today spans multiple grants and donors across the MENA region, with an overarching aim of supporting the youngest children and their caregivers - particularly those affected by crisis and conflict - with high-quality, scalable, and sustainable interventions. Interventions target children directly and through their caregivers and communities. The portfolio also strengthens the capacity of the ECD workforce - including teachers, multi-sector facilitators, and health workers - advances national systems and policy through advocacy efforts, and delivers innovative digital technology solutions. The IRC works alongside key public and private stakeholders across health, protection, education, and economic recovery and development to co-design and expand partner-led interventions. For more information on the IRC's ECD work in the region, visit: https://www.rescue.org/ahlansimsim . The MENA regional ECD team manages core regional grants, supports country programs on country-specific awards, and actively contributes to business development efforts to expand programming reach, deepen impact, and mobilize resources from a growing base of public and private donors. The team also supports country programs in program quality and fidelity, content development, research and monitoring, policy, advocacy and communications, project and financial management, and digital technology solutions.

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