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Job Title: Casework Manager, Resettlement Support Center Asia

Location: Mae Sot, Thailand

Application Deadline: 10 November 2021            

Background/IRC Summary: 

The IRC has a rich history of assisting refugees to apply for United States resettlement, from its founding in 1933 to help vulnerable individuals escape Nazi-occupied Europe, to pioneering the Joint Voluntary Agency which assisted Indochinese refugees for 22 years, to operations in Croatia, Sierra Leone and Sudan. Since 2005, RSC Asia has resettled over 180,000 refugees to the United States.

Based in Bangkok with field offices in Thailand and Malaysia, the IRC Resettlement Support Center (RSC Asia) is funded by the US State Department Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) to assist persons throughout Asia seeking permanent resettlement to the United States. Responsible for a portfolio of 37 countries, the RSC: prepares refugee applications for the United States Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) using START (a State Department–managed data system that supports the arrival and resettlement of refugees through technology); provides information to resettlement agencies about arriving refugees; and offers cultural orientation training to refugees bound for the United States.

Job Overview/Summary:

The Casework Manager ensures a high level of both general processing and casework services on behalf of refugee applicants to the United States Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) through leadership, supervision, casework management and quality control functions, including data entry of refugee case file information into START. The position ensures high-quality work completion for eligible refugee applicants and ensures their case files are ready for adjudication by a United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officer. This position will act as team lead supporting USCIS circuit rides to Thailand and the region. The position responsible for daily management of workload assigned and managing relationships and communication with partner agencies. This role requires the ability to create spreadsheets and analyze large amounts of data.

Major Responsibilities:

• Assist in leading and managing various aspects of Casework operations

• Implement strategies to ensure efficient and timely delivery of casework services to refugees

• Conduct advanced casework on complex cases in a manner demonstrating a senior level of understanding of case and circumstance complexities and details

• Ensure all refugee case processing functions within the department strictly adhere to the PRM, USCIS, RPC/START, IRC and RSC Asia policies, guidelines and procedures.

• Ensure all data entered into START by department staff is accurate in accordance with USRAP guidelines and the cooperative agreement by ensuring error detection and correction at every quality control check point

• Analyze processing systems to reach pre-screening and quality control targets, and various follow up tasks

•  Assist and/or lead organizing and managing casework teams during USCIS circuit rides including ensuring schedules are accurate, conduct briefings to the applicants, monitor completion of case files and document review prior to presenting a case to USCIS, complete quality check of documents after USCIS interview, complete case updates into START and quality check of data in START after circuit rides.

• Monitor report of quality check trends detected from case analysis of both the physical files and data in START and provide solutions to reduce data entry error to supervisor

• Coordinate with designated partner agencies on urgent protection or medical cases requiring expedited processing

• Interface with partner agencies and refugee representatives in a professional manner

• Maintain high professionalism when representing RSC at meetings with partners when required

• Ensure workload completion in time requested and keep supervisors advised of workload challenges

• Train, monitor, shadow and provide feedback to Senior Casework Officer (SCWO) Casework Officer (CWO) and Casework Assistants (CWA)

• Other duties as assigned

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to:  Senior Casework Manager

Position directly supervises: Casework Assistant, Casework Officer and Senior Casework Officer

Indirect Reporting:  Casework Coordinator

Other Internal and/or external contacts:

Internal:  All Bangkok and Malaysia RSC staff

External:  IOM, RPC, RAs, UNHCR, USCIS, and local partners as required

Job Requirements:

Education: University Degree in any field

Work Experience:

• At least two years of relevant professional experience collecting data collection and interviewing required

• Minimum one-year cumulative project management experience, including managing reports and allocating work, is required

• USRAP processing or other NGO experience is preferred

• Previous work in a multi-cultural environment is preferred

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

• Able to travel whenever required, both domestically and internationally

• Proven people management and leadership skills: ability to lead a team and promote productivity in a positive work environment

• Must be both team and detail oriented, flexible and able to achieve results in fast-paced, multi-cultural environment.

• Problem-solver who takes initiative to provide solutions

• High level of professionalism, integrity, and ability to maintain confidentiality

• Able to review and develop policies and procedures for the department

• Able to send proposals for policy and procedures improvement, and review the work of others for compliance, proving feedback in a professional and constructive way.

• Excellent interpersonal skill: ability to communicate and work effectively and professionally with partners and colleagues in a cross-cultural environment

• Able to train in large and small group settings

• Able to manage team’s performance, providing regular constructive feedback and holding team members accountable.

• Solid organizational skills with the ability to juggle multiple tasks, set priorities, effectively manage time, and meet deadlines and work well under pressure in a fast-paced team environment

• Proven advanced data entry skills

• Good team player, strong analytical skills and able to think and work independently as and when needed

• Ability to take direction from supervisors and cooperate with teammates

Language and Computer Skills: 

• Excellent verbal and written English language skills

• Working knowledge of a refugee language is beneficial

• High level of computer literacy and proficient in MS Office applications (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook) is required.

• Able to run and read high level spreadsheets and do advanced QC with a high level of attention to detail

• Proven advanced data entry skills with extreme accuracy, attention to detail, and self-checking abilities

• Ability to type 40 words per minute

Working Environment:

The position is currently based in Bangkok in an urban office environment. The position may require both domestic and international travel to support delivery of USRAP processing within Thailand and throughout the region. A valid passport and the ability to acquire US and other visas, as necessary, is a requirement.

The employee is required to adhere to The IRC Way for professional conduct, as well as to be in compliance with all relevant IRC and donor policies and procedures while carrying out his/her duties.

Standards of Professional Conduct:

The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way – Code of Conduct.  These are Integrity, Service, Accountability and Equality.  In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Harassment-Free Workplace, Fiscal Integrity, Anti-Retaliation, Combating Trafficking in Persons and several others.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

If you are interested, please apply via the below link:

https://rescue.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/20938?c=rescue