Senior Partnerships Officer

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.
Between February 7-23, 2022, an IRC team undertook a scoping mission covering Poland and Ukraine to better understand the context, humanitarian and civil society landscape, and anticipated service gaps in the event of an escalation of conflict in Ukraine and consequent displacement into neighboring Poland. As of February 24th, the IRC has pivoted to an emergency response, and have identified partner agencies in Ukraine to facilitate immediate assistance that can be used where it is the most needed. Simultaneously, the IRC is establishing operations across Ukraine to complement partner response services either in breadth or scale.

This position will be based in Dnipro, with occasional travel to other locations in Ukraine as permitted and occasionally to Rzeszow Poland, and other locations. As this is a fluid and rapidly changing context, the location of this position and length of assignment may change based on the needs of the program.

Job Overview
The Sr. Partnerships Officer is a key position supporting the Poland Country Program. With the overall objective of achieving high quality and compliant programming, the main goal of this position is to support a partnership portfolio and assist the Partnership Working Group to ensure effective sub-grants management and build strong, sustainable partners. The Sr. Partnerships Officer will support the Partnerships Manager 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.
Facilitate systematic partner feedback on IRC’s management of the partnership relationship, including the documentation of, and response to partner feedback.
Supporting Partnership Management
Support the Partnership Working Group with facilitation and coordination of all partnership management processes to ensure well planned, timely, coordinated and coherent partnership management.
Assist in the overall management of all partnerships as delegated by the Partnerships Manager and/or Coordinator 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.
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).
Carry out responsibilities as assigned within project support plans and ensure all responsibilities are carried out in line with the agreed support plans
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 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 3 years’ experience with I/NGOs
Demonstrated successful experience working with partners
Awareness of key donor rules and regulations (in particular U.S. Government and ECHO)
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 frequently to field offices and partner locations
Professional fluency in spoken and written English and Ukrainian and/or Russian; able to communicate concisely.
Very strong English writing and editing skills; strong computer skills.

Key Working Relationships:
Position Reports to: Partnerships Manager
Position directly co-supervises: N/A
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 positon.
Internal: Technical Coordinators, Partnerships Department Staff, Finance team, Supply Chain team,
External: Partner staff.
Standards of Professional Conduct: The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way – Code of Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Harassment-Free Workplace, Fiscal Integrity, Anti-Retaliation, Combating Trafficking in Persons and several others.

Gender Equality: IRC is committed to narrowing the gender gap in leadership positions. We offer benefits that provide an enabling environment for women to participate in our workforce including parental leave, gender-sensitive security protocols and other supportive benefits and allowances.
IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability

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