Partnerships Officer

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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.

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