Partnerships Officer

Requisition ID: req49231

Job Title: Partnerships Officer

Sector: Operations

Employment Category: Fixed Term

Employment Type: Full-Time

Open to Expatriates: No

Location: Kharkiv, Ukraine

Work Arrangement:

Job Description

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 Partnership Working Group to ensure effective sub-grants management and build strong, sustainable partners. The Partnerships Officer will support the Partnerships Senior Officer and Partnerships Coordinator 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.
• Supporting Partnership 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 the Partnership Working Group members 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 the Partnership Working Group 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

• Mandatory:
• BA degree or equivalent in International Development or Affairs, Finance, Business or related field; Advanced degree a plus – or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 1 year experience with I/NGOs
• Demonstrated 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.

Key Working Relationships:

• 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.