Requisition ID: req56966 Job Title: Partnerships Officer Sector: Operations Employment Category: Fixed Term Employment Type: Full-Time Open to Expatriates: No Location: Odesa, Ukraine Work Arrangement: 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 country program to ensure effective sub-grants management and build strong, sustainable partners. The Partnerships Officer will support the Partnerships Manager 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. - Support Partnerships 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 IRC functional leads 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 IRC functional leads 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 Education:BA degree or equivalent in International Development or Affairs, Finance, Business or related field; Advanced degree a plus – or equivalent work experience Experience:Minimum of 1 year of experience with I/NGOs (preferred) or other organizations that required managing multiple tasks in dynamic environments Demonstrated Skills and Competencies: - 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 REPORTING STRUCTURE AND TEAM COLLABORATION 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. IRC employees are eligible to the following benefits: - Competitive salary - Purposeful job and development opportunities - English classes and unlimited online training courses - Life Insurance - Medical insurance for staff and family members - Free psychological support to employees and their family members - 30 calendar days of annual vacation with flexibility beyond the legally set minimum requirements - Up to 10 days of paid medical leave