International Rescue Committee is hiring Grants Coordinator 2022 in Cox’s Bazar

International Rescue Committee is hiring Grants Coordinator 2022 in Cox’s Bazar

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage IRC Bangladesh Business Development strategy, support CD, DDP, Sr.Co- Grants Partnerships and Accountability (GPA) and Technical Coordinators in proactive engagement with potential and existing donors for fundraising to implement its Strategic Action Plan (SAP) and meet business development vision.     
• Lead the process of concept notes and proposal development by working closely with Country Management and Leadership team and Regional and Headquarter based Award Management Unit teams
• Support the country program in organizing and leading program design workshops for new business development opportunities as necessary. Lead on the writing of new proposals and maintain an efficient system for proposal development. 
• Maintain clear responsibilities outlined for management, programs, finance and operations departments – that yields timely, high quality submissions. Ensure that proposals are aligned with the IRC’s Bangladesh Strategy and Strategy Action Plan (SAP) outcomes and based on analysis of local needs and gaps
•  Ensure proposals are timely tracked with standard IRC tracking tools (e.g. FM01, OTIS). Be the primary interlocutor for the HQ-based (NYC and London) Bangladesh focal points with regards to proposal processing
• Coordinate proposal and project/program revisions (issuing and management of timelines and development processes, writing and editing as needed, providing review, liaison with reviewers, etc.)
• Represent IRC with relevant partners/consortia, donors, and coordination bodies (working groups, clusters) as appropriate
• Where projects will be implemented with partners, support the Partnership Team in different aspects of partnership life cycle.  
•  Assess partners’ risks on grants management and Compliance perspective, develop and roll out capacity building actions in coordination with all concerned.
• Review donor contracts and outline major concerns to relevant country and HQ based colleagues. Summarize in writing, key reporting and compliance requirements (compliance checklist) including potential issues for Grant Opening Meetings
• Work with the relevant Technical Teams and other functions to ensure Grant Opening Meetings, Grant Review Meetings, Grant Closure Meetings and Program Cycle Meetings are timely organized ensuring desired quality, and all mandatory internal documents are in place (internal log frame, internal budget, procurement plan, M&E matrix)
• Responsible for the finalization of timely donor reports ensuring consistency between narrative and financial reports and that they meet quality standards
• Support and advise colleagues with queries related to donor compliance on grants within portfolio, and work with other departments (i.e. programs, finance, M&E, supply chai) to ensure all documentation required is ready and available for audits
• Undertake proactive assessment of potential risks in managing donor contracts throughout the project cycle management, anticipate risks, inform and support all concerned including SMT to take timely risk mitigation measures   
  • Where projects are implemented with partners, ensure timely review of partners’ financial and narrative reports in accordance with the terms of their partnership agreements, coordinating with Partnership and Finance Team. 
  • Maintain and coordinate partner program, finance, and compliance monitoring and review meeting schedules, and coordinate support for partners to address any concerns or issues that may arise. Ensure any issues are attended to
• Work under tight deadlines while dealing with competing priorities
• Coordinate and gather the necessary inputs from other functions/roles while meeting the necessary quality within tight deadlines
• Work with diverse country, region and headquarter based teams and ensure adherence to organizational and donor compliance requirements while ensure quality and meeting deadline
• Inadequate capacity of local partner NGOs who may need significant hand holding support and monitoring   
• Deliverables Up to date business development strategy and its socialization among all concerned internal stakeholders
• Secure income from both UN and non UN donors for the country program as per business development targets set by the regional office and in consistent manner
•  Ensure that all donor contracts are managed effectively (e.g. compliances, no disallowance and minimum return of funds) while adhering to internal and donor standards
• Ensure IRC continues to improve and maintain its relationship with existing and new donors
• Support in partnership following IRC’s standard policy and practices
• All budget holders have increased capacity to understand and manage donor contracts as well as partnership management
• Effective management of direct reports following IRC way, success model and people management standards
• Timely fulfilment of grants related requirement to out of Integra in Bangladesh CP 
• Actively contribute on various management priorities especially around staff engagement and well-being, gender equality, SAP 20XX, client’s responsiveness etc.

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