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Partnerships Officer

Dnipropetrovska

  • Organization: IRC - International Rescue Committee
  • Location: Dnipropetrovska
  • Grade: Level not specified - Level not specified
  • Occupational Groups:
    • External Relations, Partnerships and Resource mobilization
  • Closing Date:

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.
JOB OVERVIEW
The Partnerships Officer is a key position supporting the Ukraine Country Program. With the overall objective of achieving high quality and compliant programming, the main goal of this position is to support a portfolio of partnerships and assist the country program to ensure effective sub-grants management and build strong, sustainable partners. The Partnerships Officer will support the Partnerships Manager in the daily management of IRC sub-awards.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Promote Effective Partnerships:

- Promote and apply the IRC’s Partnership Excellence for Equality and Results system (PEERS).
- Contribute to building a strong understanding of PEERS throughout the Ukraine Country - Program, and to ensuring that IRC’s partnership principles, skills and approaches are applied by staff across programs and projects with partners.
- Support Partnerships Management:
- Assist in the overall management of all partnerships as delegated by the Partnerships Senior Officer and/or Partnerships Manager and all PEERS processes / documentation.
- Support the program team in facilitation of Partnership Project Opening, Review and Closing Meetings.
- Assist narrative and finance reporting processes, including reviews and feedback.
- Where required, provide administrative and language translation support to IRC functional leads to ensure timely and effective partner program, finance, and compliance review and reflection (monitoring).
- Maintain complete and organized partnership files for each partner.
- Maintain up to date Partnership Project Tracker / Monitoring Schedule.
- Support IRC functional leads to ensure the smooth close out of partner projects, as applicable.
- Any other relevant tasks, set by the Partnerships Senior Officer and/or Partnerships Manager

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Education: BA degree or equivalent in International Development or Affairs, Finance, Business or related field; Advanced degree a plus – or equivalent work experience

Experience: Minimum of 1 year of experience with I/NGOs (preferred) or other organizations that required managing multiple tasks in dynamic environments

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:
- Experience working with partners
- Awareness of key donor rules and regulations
- Highly organized, close attention to detail, and ability to effectively prioritize tasks in a fluid environment
- Ability to work well independently but also coordinate with other teams
- Willingness to travel occasionally to field offices and partner locations
- Professional fluency in spoken and written English and Ukrainian and/or Russian; able to communicate concisely
- Strong computer skills

REPORTING STRUCTURE AND TEAM COLLABORATION

Reports to: Partnerships Manager
Other Internal and/or external contacts: the position regularly corresponds and attends meetings with external and internal audiences, thus a strong ability to communicate and maintain positive working relationships is highly desirable for this position.
Internal: Technical Coordinators, Partnerships Department Staff, Finance team, Supply Chain team, Programmatic teams.
External: Partner staff.

IRC employees are eligible to the following benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Purposeful job and development opportunities
- English classes and unlimited online training courses
- Life Insurance
- Medical insurance for staff and family members
- Free psychological support to employees and their family members
- 30 calendar days of annual vacation with flexibility beyond the legally set minimum requirements
- Up to 10 days of paid medical leave

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.

Commitment to Gender, Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: The IRC is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, respectful, and safe work environment where all persons are treated fairly, with dignity and respect. The IRC expressly prohibits and will not tolerate discrimination, harassment, retaliation, or bullying of the IRC persons in any work setting. We aim to increase the representation of women, people that are from country and communities we serve, and people who identify as races and ethnicities that are under-represented in global power structures.
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