Partnerships Officer – IRC jobs in Ukraine
- Location: Kharkiv, Ukraine
- Vacancy No: N/A
- Salary: N/A
- Organization: IRC
- Gender: Both
- Deadline: N/A
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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