Work Arrangement:

Job Description

As the Partnership Finance Manager, you play a pivotal role in the heart of our project's success. Your responsibilities extend beyond finance; you become a crucial link in supporting key project objectives. This role offers a unique opportunity to collaborate closely with a dynamic, passionate, and highly motivated team, contributing to initiatives that directly impact vulnerable groups in Lebanon. Your critical involvement will not only shape the financial landscape but also foster meaningful partnerships, ensuring that the project's impact reaches those who need it most.

Main Responsibilities

Program Delivery

- Contribute to the development of the Request for Applications (RFA) and the scoring criteria for the selection of partners. - Participate in the Partner's Project Capacity Review (PPCR) of potential partners as appropriate and contribute to efforts to collaboratively analyze and manage material risks identified. - Work collaboratively and supportively with partners to develop and finalize budgets and budget amendments, and (in the case of milestone-based partnership agreements) in determining the costing of milestones. - Review partnership agreement terms relating to advances, reporting and any special conditions relating to finance before sharing with finance and HQ for final sign off. - For cost-reimbursable partnership agreements, agree with partners the specific documentation required to support each type of cost, adjusting standard requirements to the operating context and the partner. - Participate in Partnership Project Opening, Review and Closure Meetings, including to review successes, challenges, and lessons learned with the partner, and capture effective finance practices for future partnerships. - Collaborate with partners to ensure timely disbursement of funding as per the partnership agreement, facilitating clear communication and swift resolution in cases where challenges arise preventing timely provision of funds. - Prepare cash requests and process partners' payments, ensuring all necessary supporting documentation and journal vouchers are provided as required. - Review partner financial reports (and narrative reports for consistency) and supporting documents to ensure compliance with the partnership agreement, donor regulations and IRC policy, and provide feedback to the partner as appropriate. - Monitor partner budgets and actual spending in collaboration with project lead, identifying issues and working proactively and collaboratively with partners to resolve them. - Lead timely and effective finance review, checking and reflection with the partners (monitoring), identifying appropriate follow up actions, and providing completed reports to Project Lead. - Assist in the close-out phase of partnership agreements, - Participate in the review of the performance of the partner, of the IRC, and of the partnership, including successes, challenges and lessons learned. - Assist during the audit process for the partnership portfolio. - Ensure the availability of all necessary financial documentation and records for audit purposes. - Program Support & Capacity Sharing - Provide finance and accounting training and mentoring support to partners, in accordance with financial management best practices, donor compliance and partner project support plans.

Key Working Relationships:

- Position Reports to: Project Lead - Position directly supervises: NA - Technical dotted line management: Senior Finance Manager - Other Internal and/or external contacts: - Internal: Partnership Unit Staff, Finance, HR and Supply chain departments, HQ and Regional grants/compliance teams, Program Coordinators, Regional partnership team, Senior Coordinator - External: Partner organizations

Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline. Master’s degree a plus. - Demonstrated successful experience working with partners and/or grants management. - Demonstrated experience in finance and accounting. - Demonstrable understanding of project planning and management cycles, and strong program design skills. - Highly organized, diplomatic, close attention to detail, and ability to effectively prioritize tasks in a fluid environment. - Professional fluency in spoken and written English; able to communicate concisely and with impact. - Very strong English & Arabic writing and editing skills; strong computer skills.

Working Environment: Staff will be based in Beirut with possible travel to field locations, upon business needs.

Candidates agree to disclose to IRC any situation of actual potential conflict of interest that impacts the capacity to serve the best interest of IRC and understand that any misstatement or misrepresentation described during the recruitment process and/or after hiring may lead to his/her disqualification or dismissal by IRC, and/or sanctions by the Donor (World Bank).

The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Equality, Accountability and Equality. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.