The Outreach Officer role has been tasked with identifying the challenges faced by local Irish Red Cross branches, improving engagement with members, supporting the development of community-based activities to support Ukrainians and the wider community while creating a streamlined connection between branches and head office.
JOB DETAILS
Title: Branch Outreach and Engagement Officer
Duration: Fixed Term contract to end Dec 2025 This role can either be full time (35 hours/week) of we are open to two part time workers. Hours of work include week-day nights.
Salary: €38k - €42k, experience dependent1
Reporting to: National Services Manager
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
The Irish Red Cross Society (IRC) is part of the world’s largest independent humanitarian network, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The IRC is committed to and bound by its Fundamental Principles of Humanity, Impartiality, Neutrality, Independence, Voluntary Service, Unity and Universality. The vision of the Irish Red Cross is to be a leading humanitarian organisation, providing impartial services and support to vulnerable communities both at home and abroad. Our mission is to identify and deliver humanitarian assistance to those who are most in need.
Internationally, we create impact through our partnerships with our fellow Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies as well as with the global humanitarian organisations that we affiliate to the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Domestically, we have a national footprint with a significant part of our programmes are delivered by our 4,000+ members and associated 70+ branches around the country.
One of our strategic priorities is to ensure all branches are supported so that they are able to deliver relevant local services, to vulnerable people, through a network of volunteer-based units and local relationships. The collective capacity and the impact brought by our national footprint through strong branches contributes to the overall strength and visibility of the Irish Red Cross as a whole.
SUMMARY OF ROLE
The Outreach Officer role has been tasked with identifying the challenges faced by local Irish Red Cross branches, improving engagement with members, supporting the development of community-based activities to support Ukrainians and the wider community while creating a streamlined connection between branches and head office.
Project objective: To create a road map to build strong branches that deliver sustainable humanitarian action at grassroots level which can be scaled and replicated across the National Society. The process is to assess the capacity of each branch to show areas where the branch needs development and technical support from head Office. The tool, aligned to models of best practice from the IRFC, aims to capture this information is called a Branch Organisational Capacity Assessment (BOCA) an IFRC tool which is adapted for use by the National Society. The tool helps to identify and assess a branch’s strengths, limitations and challenges in relation to a wide range of organisational capacities.
The outreach process is comprised of four steps.
Step 1 Branch health check: Which is comprised of a branch mapping survey and completion of a BOCA workshop which covers 26 topics which look at the branch core capacity to exist, to organise, to relate and mobilise.
Step 2 Engagement Workshop: The Branch completes a workshop to identify priority areas for branch development.
Step 3 Development Workshop: The Branch completes a workshop to build new ways of working into existing activities, services or programmes or looks at how they can develop new activities, services or programmes. Support the introduction of community-based activities.
Step 4 Branch Plan: The branch creates a road map of how it will operate and develop over the next 12 to 24 months. Assist branches to align their work plans to the National Strategic Plan.
Please find full job description as the link below:
https://www.redcross.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Branch-Outreach-and-Engagement-Officer.pdf