IRC Director Awards Management Jobs Ethiopia 2024
IRC Director Awards Management Jobs Ethiopia 2024: International Rescue Committee has announced latest Job vacancy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. You can apply to the job before the Application deadline Oct 30th, 2024. Before applying we suggest read the job description very carefully and also requirements about this position.
Position Quick Info
- Job Id: req54714
- Country: Ethiopia
- Category: Awards Management
- Employee Category Regular
- Job Type: Full Time
- Work Arrangement: In-person
- Open To Expatriates: Yes
- Currency: United States Dollar
- Compensation: Annually
Job Description
Duties and Responsibilities:
Accountable for excellence in proposal and award management support to country offices by leading and empowering the regional program support team in supporting the country-based grants staff, co-designing solutions, ensuring capacity building, partnership management, and coordinating support with stakeholders across the organization.
Define and drive forward critical business decisions and processes that respond to the needs of regions, country programs, and the organization, including contributing to the development, deployment and utilization of financial and operational policies, procedures, and systems to deliver compliance with IRC and donor requirements.
Lead and manage an ambitious and high performing regional program support team, acting as a trusted and accountable manager, mentor and professional resource, including promoting collaboration, enabling adequate resourcing and ensuring accountability.
Responsible for maintaining regional level oversight of award portfolio and pipeline including:
In partnership with the Business Development Director, Regions supporting the regional Senior Program Development Advisor to work with country programs in setting and implementing their business development plans, attaining their targets through proactive planning and reviewing progress in support and consultation with regional leadership.
Leading the team in developing and maintaining positive, strategic relationships with donors to sustain regional impact – providing insight/information into donor thinking and developments in addition to escalating issues as appropriate.
Liaise with internal stakeholders including: Finance, Measurement, Ethics and Compliance, and Office of General Counsel to deepen understanding/application of organisational objectives and problem solving.
Seek opportunities to introduce efficiencies and eliminate redundancies in existing business processes, including sharing of best practices across regions.
Represent the voices and needs of the country grants teams to wider AMU, External Relations and IRC, and support strong collaboration in particular with AMU’s Business Development and Compliance & Policy teams.
Ensure collaboration between country offices, the region and External Relations around private sector funding priorities. Alongside the CRRD Regional Vice President and Deputy Regional Director, represent the region in quarterly finance, business development, regional roundtable meetings and other key engagements as appropriate.
Requirements:
At least 7-10 years of experience with a relief and development NGO or multilateral agency
International experience, especially in the region, preferred
Program and/or grants management experience with key donors, such as USAID, FCDO, European Union/ECHO, UN agencies, and others
Experience managing for donor compliance, proposal writing, budgeting, and representing implementers to donors
Proven ability to lead, manage, and develop teams, including staff working at a distance
Proven ability to manage multiple work streams and to coordinate across teams/functions
Excellent relationship-management skills with colleagues in country offices and HQ, senior stakeholders, and donors
Written and spoken fluency in English and required languages of operation of country programs
Ability to travel internationally approximately 15% of the time.