IRC Deputy Director of Grants and Partnership Jobs 2024 – Ethiopia NGO Jobs

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IRC Deputy Director of Grants and Partnership Jobs 2024 – Ethiopia NGO Jobs.

IRC Ethiopia looking for “Deputy Director of Grants and Partnership”.

Applicants with a Post Graduate Degree may apply on or before 30th March, 2024.

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a global humanitarian aid, relief, and development nongovernmental organization. Founded in 1933 as the International Relief Association, at the request of Albert Einstein, and changing its name in 1942 after amalgamating with the similar Emergency Rescue Committee, the IRC provides emergency aid and long-term assistance to refugees and those displaced by war, persecution, or natural disaster.

The IRC has published a job vacancy announcement on 16th March, 2024 for qualified Ethiopia’s to fill in the vacant post of Deputy Director of Grants and Partnership to be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

IRC Job Vacancy 2024

Major Responsibilities:

Business Development Strategy: Develop and manage IRC´s Ethiopia Business Development strategy, and support the CD, DP, and Technical Coordinators in donor engagement to secure funding for the IRC’s Strategic Action Plan (SAP). This might include building and cultivating relationships with potential new donors and maintaining strong relationships with existing ones.
Strategic guidance: Assess prospective and existing funding opportunities and advise IRC teams on how to make funding requests more competitive and responsive to donors’ priorities.
Donor mapping: Contribute to the identification of potential donors, maintenance of donor relations and mobilization of resources to support planned work as per the SAP.
Proposal development: Ensure high quality and timely submission of funding proposals by providing guidance overseeing the grants team and escalating issues of concerns to the SMT. This could include support in areas such as work design, coordination of technical, financial, and regional input, writing overviews, editing, and formatting proposal documents, and ensuring internal approvals before donor submission.
Quality control: Ensure that the grants team submits quality proposal packages to the RPAS that comply with donors’ rules and IRC’s internal requirements.
Capacity strengthening: Strengthen the capacity of IRC team members for fundraising and business development by promoting industry best practices.
Co-creation: Promote the involvement of stakeholder groups, including implementing partners and beneficiaries (where possible), in designing new projects/ programs.
Grant tracking: Ensure that teams keep an updated grant tracker that summarizes the status of proposals, active projects, and closed projects and discusses regularly with DP and other stakeholders.
Workplans: Fairly distribute the workload and create monthly plans with team members in response to monthly priorities, which include project cycle meetings (PCM), reports, spending plans, and other key deliverables.
Project Cycle meetings and Budget vs Actuals (BVA) meetings: Ensure the effective implementation of PCM and BVA meetings and escalate issues of concern identified during these meetings to SMT.
Reporting: Ensure team members submit high-quality and compelling reports to donors as agreed with RPAS.
Grant files: Ensure that grants teams maintain an effective information management system that contains all key documents related to the project cycle.
Compliance: Ensure that the donor’s compliance policies are applied correctly in active projects and provide advice and training to the country teams so that they have the necessary information to do so.
Capacity strengthening and quality control: Strengthen the capacity of IRC team members on best practices for grants management and reporting and work with grants and program teams to improve their report writing and coordination skills.
Partnerships ambition: In collaboration with the Sr. Partnerships Coordinator, CD, and DP advance the partnership agenda and support the Partnerships Coordinator in all aspects of partnership management in alignment with IRC’s partners system (PEERS). This includes promoting internally and externally IRC’s core partnership principles of responsibility, results-oriented approach, equality, transparency, and complementarity.
Scoping of partners and funding: Collaborate with the Sr. Partnership Coordinator, DP, CD, and technical coordinators to proactively identify potential partners and funders and advance VCR´s partnership agenda.
Resolution of challenges: Assist the partnership team in resolving any challenges (internal and external) faced that put at risk the achievement of IRC Ethiopia’s partnership ambitions.

Position in Organization:

Requisition ID: req50879
Job Title: Deputy Director of Grants and Partnership
Sector: Grants
Employment Category: Regular
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: Yes
Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Minimum Requirements:

Education:

Post-graduate qualification or equivalent relevant experience in a relevant discipline.

Experience:

Six years or more of experience working with international non-governmental organizations in business development, grants management, and/or project management.
Extensive experience in managing donor contracts and fundraising activities, with humanitarian and development donors, such as ECHO, UNHCR, BHA, PRM, GFFO, SIDA, etc.
Successful experience developing projects, writing proposals, and managing awards for public and private donors.

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