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Regional Partnerships and compliance officer

  • Organization: IRC - International Rescue Committee
  • Location:
  • Grade: Junior level - Junior
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Legal - Broad
    • Internal audit, Investigation and Inspection
    • External Relations, Partnerships and Resource mobilization
    • Ombudsman and Ethics
  • Closing Date: Closed

Location: In one of the following RAI Europe countries: Germany, Greece, Italy, Serbia, UK

 

The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, IRC offers life-saving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in more than 40 countries and in 22 U.S. cities, IRC restores safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. IRC leads the way from harm to home.
 
Working in partnership with local civil society, government and private sector actors is fundamental to the International Rescue Committee’s mission to help people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and gain control of their future. Effective local partnerships are central to the IRC’s strategic ambitions in Strategy100, resulting in more effective, responsive and durable assistance that reaches more people and produces better outcomes for the people we serve. Investing in local civil society organizations (CSOs) and government entities recognizes those organizations not only as allies in achieving outcomes, but also as catalysts and drivers of change. The Partnership Excellence for Equality and Results System (the ‘PEER System’ or ‘PEERS’) is the IRC’s authoritative source of policy, process, guidance and tools for working in partnership.
 
SCOPE OF WORK 
The Regional Partnerships Officer will provide support to RAI Europe country offices and to the Regional Program Support Team in the areas of 1. Partner scoping, identification and selection; administration and monitoring of sub grants with local civil society organizations and public entities, and in line with PEERS (70%) standards and processes; 2. Administering and managing a portfolio of grants in line with donor guidelines and IRC business processes including keeping online platforms, information and documentation management tools up to date (20%); and 3. Business development (10%).
 
SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES 
Specific responsibilities of the position will include 

Partnerships support (approximately 70%)
Support country offices in carrying out partner vetting and ensuring due diligence processes are carried out in line with PEERS standards  
Support country offices in organizing partnership meetings (scheduling, note taking, presentation prep, agenda) 
Support country offices with setting up or maintaining partnership / sub award trackers
Support drafting of partnership agreements, amendments and other PEERS required partnership documentation in line with PEERS processes and standards  
Support review of partner inputs including technical narratives and budgets 
Support partner communication, including acting as focal point for partner relations as required 
Support RAI Europe country offices to build nascent partnership relationships with civil society organizations, government entities and private sector actors, as well as with networks, including through research, outreach to partners and identification of partnership opportunities, and contributing to keeping the Europe partner database up to date 
PEERS Alignment – support the alignment of PEERS instruments to local legal contexts and languages (i.e. editing, formatting documents) 
Support successful delivery of the Strategy100 partnership ambition, in collaboration with other RAM team members 
Contribute to collection of partnership lessons learned including on implementation of PEERS policies, processes and tools
Support fostering and promotion of effective capacity sharing and systems strengthening approaches across RAI Europe country programs, including effective project support across other organizational functions as needed (finance, SC, HR)
Support interaction with RAI Europe partners to promote accountability and solicit guidance with respect to IRC’s role and partnership practices
Grant management and Compliance (approximately 20%)
Support country offices (where needed) and RPST with setting up or maintaining BD/Grants & partnership trackers as required
Contribute to the analysis of funding and grants trends within the region through information compilation, preparation, and analysis  
Draft internal documents in line with agreed processes including but not limited to secondment and collaboration agreements, internal GIAs and match agreements 
Support RGA in maintaining secondment tracker, match funding tracker and other specific components of the regional teams information systems 
Support RGA in development of Europe Grant management and compliance training modules, including PEERS
Support information management for the RAI Europe regional team, including maintaining and organizing the regional grants filing system 
Support the RPST on complex compliance issues as requested 
Other ad hoc support for grants management as required, including report reviews, supporting modifications to existing grants and other tasks
General administrative support the Resource Acquisition and Management team including liaising with other IRC HQ units, conference/workshop planning, managing platform subscriptions and other duties as assigned 
 
Business development (approximately 10%)
Support business development for RAI Europe region 
 
KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS 
Position Reports to the Regional Grants Advisor, RAI Europe, with a dotted line to the Senior Program Officer 
Position liaises closely with country office grants and partnerships staff, other members of the RAM team and regional finance, as well as with partners externally 

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