Over the previous 80 years, the Worldwide Rescue Committee (IRC) has developed unparalleled experience in responding to emergencies and serving to uprooted communities to rebuild. Based in 1933 on the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC provides lifesaving care and life-changing help to refugees pressured to flee from conflict or catastrophe.
The Worldwide Rescue Committee is a world community with its headquarters in New York. The IRC is on the bottom in additional than 40 nations, offering emergency aid, relocating refugees and rebuilding lives within the wake of catastrophe.
The IRC is dedicated to a tradition of daring management, innovation in all points of our work, artistic partnerships and, most crucially, accountability to these we serve. The IRC is a tireless advocate for probably the most weak.
The Awards Administration Unit (AMU)
Established in January 2016, the Awards Administration Unit (AMU) is a world division with the accountability for figuring out, securing, and managing all funding from statutory/authorities donors. The division contains the next groups: Program and Award Help, Strategic Partnerships, Compliance and Coverage, Enterprise Growth, and Coaching.
The AMU is a bridge between donors and nation applications: offering skilled technical recommendation to the nation groups, whereas sustaining portfolio-level visibility to make sure consistency and compliance and handle danger. This unit ensures that donor compliance insurance policies and procedures are carried out persistently and helps all employees working throughout the award administration cycle for all restricted funding from world authorities sources.
The Disaster Response, Restoration and Growth (CRRD) Division
The Disaster Response, Restoration and Growth (CRRD) Division has a rising portfolio of humanitarian aid, post-crisis restoration, and improvement applications below their remit. This work focuses assist in 5 key areas: guaranteeing security from hurt, enhancing well being, growing entry to schooling, enhancing financial well-being and guaranteeing folks have the facility to affect choices that have an effect on their lives. In all these applications, there’s a drive to handle the distinctive wants of ladies and women (who characterize nearly all of these displaced) – and the common limitations they face.
The CRRD works throughout 6 areas globally, together with West Africa, East Africa, Nice Lakes, Center East and North Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The regional groups are the hyperlinks between nation workplaces and key HQ departments, and intention to assist and supply recommendation to nation applications with a variety of points from strategic planning, enterprise improvement to compliance, awards administration and partnerships administration.
Job overview
The Program and Award Advisor performs an important position throughout the Regional Program and Award Help Group overseeing an award portfolio of humanitarian aid and post-crisis restoration applications. The Program and Award Advisor liaises with nation applications, HQ departments and donor contacts to make sure prime quality steerage and assist to nation workplaces all through the award lifecycle. The position works with nation workplaces to make sure compliance with donor guidelines and rules and IRC techniques and processes and leads on the evaluation and submission of high-quality donor deliverables. The Program and Award Advisor represents the area and nation workplaces to inside and exterior stakeholders and manages donor relationships.
Key Working Relationships
Studies to Director, Awards Administration. Works carefully with all Regional Program and Award Help group members, and throughout all groups inside Awards Administration Unit, Disaster Response Restoration and Growth Division, World Partnerships and Philanthropy, World Provide Chain, Finance, Workplace of Basic Counsel, Technical Excellence, and different key departments inside IRC. Donor and associate level of contact as relevant per area.
Fundamental obligations
Awards Administration and Compliance (45%)
• Oversee a portfolio of awards for the West Africa area. Fundamental donors in portfolio will embody USAID, BHA, CDC, PRM, DOS, and UN funding businesses, however can also embody different donors as assigned.
• Function the primary level of contact for nation workplace Grants and Partnerships groups and supply steerage and assist on issues associated to donor compliance and communication, challenge administration (e.g. challenge cycle conferences), OTIS and partnerships (PEERS).
• Take part in in common conferences with nation workplaces to offer assist and collaborate with nation program groups on points associated to donor compliance, submissions of stories and different put up award deliverables, and/or monitoring/awards administration.
• Information nation workplaces in managing partnerships with native or worldwide companions, guaranteeing that IRC’s Partnership Excellence for Equality and Outcomes System (PEERS) is being adopted, evaluation and course of sub-grant/partnership agreements in alignment with PEERS, and coordinate with the compliance group in supporting compliant and efficient partnerships as wanted.
• Evaluation agreements and lead negotiation of award phrases and situations with donor counterparts in alignment with inside processes.
• Information nation workplaces, in partnership with different related departments, within the improvement and submission of award amendments/modifications, guaranteeing high-quality, compliant submissions.
• Supervise Program and Award Officer(s) within the evaluation and submission of donor stories and different deliverables, guaranteeing enter from related technical and monetary employees.
• Present assist on personal alternatives and awards administration, in coordination with the Regional Help Supervisor and personal fundraising group as assigned.
• Present assist to and monitoring of initiatives to make sure progress in opposition to goals and compliance with donor tips and IRC inside necessities. Monitoring of awards can take the form of monitoring visits, participation in challenge implementation conferences and different common calls.
• Facilitate and construct interdepartmental relationships to handle nation workplace wants and clear up issues in relation to awards administration, partnership administration and compliance.
• Preserve a powerful relationship with regional and AMU management and escalate problems with concern as wanted
• Supervise direct stories in finishing up essential capabilities as they relate to nation program assist
• Keep knowledgeable about programmatic points and safety and political developments within the area and the way they may have an effect on program implementation
• Coordinate with RPOs for different areas for data sharing and to ascertain a coherent program assist and backstopping perform between headquarters and the sphere.
• Journey to nation workplaces to offer surge assist and monitoring throughout the areas of applications, awards, and partnerships, together with for gap-filling functions as requested.
Proposal Growth (15%)
• In collaboration with the regional Program Growth group, assist enterprise improvement within the area by offering efficient proposal assist, starting from proposal administration to complete assist and high quality assurance for UN and non-European donors as wanted.
• Present high quality assurance and high quality compliance assist on proposals, main proposal improvement and coordination as wanted. Guarantee responsiveness to and compliance with solicitation paperwork and with IRC’s necessities.
• Evaluation and advise on inside coverage and donor necessities, budgets and supporting documentation for proposals in coordination with AMU and HQ Finance Division.
• Facilitate and/or take part in inside post-submission debrief periods with nation groups, technical items, regional group and different related stakeholders to gather classes realized as wanted.
• Preserve full and correct digital information, together with closing submission packages and inside trackers, in coordination with the regional Program Growth group.
Donor Liaison and Illustration (15%)
• Preserve contact with donors relating to updates, amendments, or key programmatic adjustments.
• Liaise with donors on ongoing and future alternatives.
• Signify IRC externally to donors and stakeholder networks, as acceptable.
• Take part in representational visits, occasions and conferences as requested.
Capability Constructing and Coaching (10%)
• Mentor and coach Grants and Partnerships employees on IRC techniques and processes to make sure capability is constructed at nation degree.
• As requested, develop coaching supplies and ship coaching to IRC nation program employees in coordination with the Administrators, Awards Administration and the AMU Coaching and Compliance group.
• In coordination with the Administrators, Awards Administration, develop and preserve work-processes and checklists for awards implementation and opinions, in addition to document classes realized.
• Onboard new nation workplace Grants and Partnerships employees and new Program and Award Help group to assigned donors, insurance policies and/or IRC processes.
Workers Administration, Studying & Growth (10%)
• Coach, prepare, supervise and mentor direct stories, together with speaking clear expectations, offering common and well timed efficiency suggestions, doc/talk about efficiency points if wanted, and ship high-quality documented annual efficiency opinions.
• Guarantee direct stories are skilled on all related IRC processes and donor rules.
• Help direct stories in reaching annual goals, appearing as a trusted and accountable supervisor, mentor {and professional} useful resource, together with selling collaboration, enabling ample resourcing and guaranteeing accountability.
Different Duties (5%)
• Contribute to AMU and regional strategic priorities and initiatives.
• Liaise with communications and exterior relations employees to tell IRC media merchandise as wanted.
• Take part in particular initiatives as wanted and different duties as assigned.
Job necessities
Abilities, Data and {Qualifications}:
• 5 years of progressive work expertise in award administration or enterprise improvement with donors corresponding to USAID/BHA, the U.S. Division of State/PRM and UN businesses
• Two years of worldwide subject expertise extremely fascinating, familiarity with nations within the area most well-liked
• Venture administration expertise most well-liked
• Monetary evaluation expertise most well-liked
• Wonderful written and oral communication expertise, together with expertise in talking on related points with inside and exterior audiences
• Confirmed potential to successfully handle relationships (e.g., with inside actors, friends, donors)
• Efficient folks administration expertise: potential to guide employees and promote productiveness in a pleasing work setting
• Confirmed potential to handle a number of and complicated duties and thrive below strain
• Strong organizational and artistic problem-solving expertise: potential to be versatile and work effectively below strain in a fast-paced multi-tasking group setting
• Good pc expertise
• Fluency in English and French, each spoken and written
• Capacity and willingness to journey internationally
Expertise:
• Expertise in working at a distance and supporting field-based employees
• Expertise writing, reviewing and modifying narrative and monetary stories and glorious consideration to element
COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement: In accordance with IRC’s responsibility to offer and preserve a office that is freed from identified hazards and our dedication to safeguard the well being of our workers, shoppers, and communities, IRC requires new hires to furnish proof of vaccination in opposition to COVID-19 with a purpose to be thought of for any in-office or hybrid positions. All IRC US workplaces require full vaccination to attend any in-office capabilities (e.g., conferences, trainings).
Dedication to Range and Inclusivity: IRC is dedicated to constructing a various group and a local weather of inclusivity. We strongly encourage functions from candidates who can reveal that they will contribute to this aim.
Equal Alternative Employer: We’re an equal alternative employer and worth variety at our firm. We don’t discriminate on the premise of race, faith, shade, nationwide origin, intercourse, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital standing, veteran standing, or incapacity standing. We are going to be certain that people with disabilities are supplied affordable lodging to take part within the job utility or interview course of, to carry out important job capabilities, and to obtain different advantages and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request lodging.
US Advantages:
We provide a complete and extremely aggressive set of advantages. Within the US, these embody: 10 sick days, 10 US holidays, 20-25 paid day off days (relying on position and tenure), medical insurance coverage beginning at $145 monthly, dental beginning at $7 monthly, and imaginative and prescient beginning at $5 monthly, FSA for healthcare, childcare, and commuter prices, a 403b retirement financial savings plans with as much as 4.5% instantly vested matching contribution, plus a 3-7% base IRC contribution (3 yr vesting), incapacity & life insurance coverage, and an Worker Help Program which is accessible to our employees and their households to assist counseling and care in occasions of disaster and psychological well being struggles.
Compensation: Posted pay ranges apply to US-based candidates. Ranges are primarily based on varied elements together with the labor market, job kind, inside fairness, and price range. Precise provides are calibrated by work location, particular person candidate expertise and expertise relative to the outlined job necessities.
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