Senior Program Quality and Learning Officer – POWER Partnership

About the role

The Senior Program Quality and Learning Officer coordinates quality and learning across the six POWER country programs. The role works through country WPE and program teams, POWER’s women‑led local partners, the WPE Global Practice, and liaises with the Award Management Unit that manages the donor relationship with Irish Aid.

Key responsibilities

• Provide quality oversight to ensure survivor‑centered response, case management, safe spaces, clinical and MHPSS referral pathways, and social‑norms work meet IRC WPE technical standards and the IASC GBV Minimum Standards.
• Serve as the connective role between the POWER partnership and the WPE Global Practice, translating core standards into partnership contexts and feeding partnership‑generated practice back into the core.
• Track and report delivery against scope, timeline and budget across the six countries, flagging deviations early for adaptive management.
• Ensure MEAL and program data directly inform program adaptation, linking evidence to wider sector trends and debates.
• Lead the design and delivery of the partnership learning pillar, coordinating cross‑country learning cycles, documentation and structured reflection.
• Support partner institutional strengthening across governance, financial systems, safeguarding and MEAL, and enhance surge capacity for emergency response.