Requisition ID: req59287

Job Title: Partnerships Officer

Sector: Grants

Employment Category: Fixed Term

Employment Type: Full-Time

Open to Expatriates: No

Location: Ukraine

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 the Partnerships team to ensure effective sub-grants management and build strong, sustainable partners across the country. 

This position will be based in an IRC office (Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, or Mykolaiv), with regular travel to partner/program locations in Ukraine. 

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 Manager and/or Partnerships Manager and all PEERS processes / documentation.
•Support the program teams 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 Manager and/or Partnerships Manager.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Mandatory:
•BA degree or equivalent in International Development or Affairs, Finance, Business or related field
•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:

Position reports to: Partnerships Sr. Manager
Position directly manages: 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 position.
•Internal: Technical Coordinators, Partnerships team, Finance team, Supply Chain team, Programmatic teams
•External: Partner staff