Senior Grants Officer

Yangon

Organization: IRC - International Rescue Committee
Location: Yangon
Grade:
Occupational Groups:
- External Relations, Partnerships and Resource mobilization
- Grant writing
Closing Date: Closed

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/IRC Summary

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a private, non-political, non-profit, and non-religious organization. For over 90 years, we have been providing humanitarian assistance to communities affected by conflict and natural disasters in more than 40 countries. Since 2008, the IRC has been active in Myanmar, delivering humanitarian assistance in areas such as health, protection, water, and sanitation, specifically targeting families impacted by conflict and natural disasters.

Job Overview/Summary:

To further enhance these response and recovery efforts, IRC is seeking an experienced Grants Management Professional to join our team as a Sr. Grants Officer. Under the direct supervision and guidance of the Sr. Grants Manager and Head of Grants and Partnership this role will work with departments including programs, finance, partnership, supply chain and field offices to ensure effective project cycle management especially for earthquake response grants; this includes but is not limited to managing internal and external reporting with programs and finance, providing high-quality, well-written and timely reports, that meet donor and IRC requirements. Support project teams in managing donor and IRC compliance and providing support in organizing budget vs actual and project cycle meetings (PCMs) to keep track of project progress and ensuring effective use of resources.

Major Responsibilities: the responsibilities include:

Work closely with Sector leads, grants, partnerships and finance team on all grants related tasks specifically focused on reporting and grants administration.
Acquire and disseminate updated information regarding donor formats (proposals and reports) and other donor-related information.
Coordinate and draft high quality donor and internal reports with support from sector leads.
Prepare and share compliance summary sheets or presentation with teams, explaining IRC and donor compliance according to grants agreements and policies.
Support Sr. Grants Manager in organization and follow-up of project review and budget vs actual meetings during implementation stage.
Ensure grants management tools are updated, able to generate reports for management review.
Organize and where required facilitate the PCMs
Manage archiving on grant files regularly on Box and OTIS and prepare them for any audit.
Support head of Grants and Partnerships in Maintaining updated Grants Tracker
Managing communication and coordination between teams listed above for grants administration
Able to take on other duties as necessary and/or as requested.

Key Working Relationships:
Position Reports to: Sr. Manager Grants
Position directly supervises: Not applicable at this stage.

Minimum Qualifications:

Job Requirements:

Bachelors or Master’s in English or Communications or Social studies

Minimum 3-5 years’ experience of grants management within NGO/INGO or in similar role.

Specialist in MS Office, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

Knowledge of logical framework, program design, budgets highly desired.

Knowledge of donor rules and regulations for reporting desired (e.g., BPRM, USAID, ECHO, Sida)

Strong ability to work independently, coordinate work, meet deadlines, maintain composure, prioritize work with minimum supervision, coordinate multiple tasks and maintain attention to detail

Excellent communication, coordination, and interpersonal skills.

Excellent spoken and written skills in English

Myanmar nationals with relevant skills sets and proven experience of working at international level are strongly encouraged.

The IRC Core Values and Commitments.

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

IRC is committed to ensuring that IRC staff are suitable to work with children and have the knowledge s/he needs to uphold and abide by the IRC’s Child Safeguarding Policy.

Level of interaction with children: Frequent direct contact with children.

IRC ensures that its staff must actively practice the roles and responsibilities related to client responsiveness, accountability to people in affected communities and must have competencies to solicits and listens to feedback and other’s perspectives, responds to feedback with maturity and sensitivity and takes appropriate decisions and makes changes to behavior or actions in response to feedback.

IRC recognizes that gender equality is fundamental to the achievement of our organizational mission. As such, IRC is committed to the promotion of gender equality in all aspects of our operations and programs. Our organizational policies, procedures and actions demonstrate this commitment.

Standard of Professional Conduct:The IRC and the IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way – our Code of Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Accountability, and Equality.

This vacancy is now closed.