Program Award Officer

vor 2 Wochen


Berlin, Deutschland International Rescue Committee Vollzeit

**Requisition ID**: req41672

**Job Title**:Program Award Officer - West Africa

**Sector**:Awards Management

**Employment Category**: Fixed Term

**Employment Type**: Full-Time

**Open to Expatriates**: Yes

**Location**: Berlin, Bonn

IRC (International Rescue Committee) Germany is looking for a

**Program Award Officer - West Africa**
- Berlin, Bonn | as soon as possible_
- full-time 40 hrs. | 2 years_

**About Us**

Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. In 2016, IRC Germany was founded and is involved in the areas of education, economic wellbeing, and safety, legal protection, and empowerment throughout Germany.

Established in January 2016, the Awards Management Unit (AMU) is a global department with the responsibility for identifying, securing, and managing all funding from statutory/government donors. The department includes the following teams: Program and Award Support, Strategic Partnerships, Compliance and Policy, Business Development, and Training. The AMU is a bridge between donors and country programs: providing expert technical advice to the country teams, while maintaining portfolio-level visibility to ensure consistency and compliance and manage risk.

The Program and Award Officer is responsible for providing awards and partnerships management and operational support to the regional unit as well as the seven (7) country programs of the region: Burkina Faso, Cote D’Ivoire, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. This role supports the Program and Award Advisors and country programs in their efforts to ensure successful implementation of IRC donor award requirements and reporting, ensuring basic compliance, accurate financial information, and good quality narratives on program outputs.

**Major Responsibilities**
- Support the Program and Awards Advisors and country programs in the management of the award portfolio for the region.
- Review, edit, and provide substantive feedback on donor narrative and financial reports, coordinating with and ensuring input from relevant staff prior to donor submission and submit reports in a timely manner.
- Support budget realignments and award amendments/modifications, where necessary.
- Collaborate with Program and Award Advisor in review of sub-award and partnership packages, including sub-award proposals, sub-award agreements and modifications, as well as collaboration agreements and MOUs, ensuring compliance with donor requirements and IRC’s Partnership Excellence for Equality and Results System (PEERS).
- Maintain a strong relationship with the regional team members, with all AMU teams, with country program awards teams.
- Assist with the development and maintenance of work-processes.
- Assist with the development of training materials and facilitate training.
- Provide coverage for key program/support functions remotely and in-country as requested, to assist with short-term gaps and emergency support.

**Your Profile**
- Understanding of institutional donors and their requirements; experience working with DG-ECHO and German donors preferred.
- Experience writing, reviewing, and editing narrative and financial reports and excellent attention to detail.
- Good understanding of humanitarian aid and development programming
- Ability to work collaboratively yet in a calm manner and have a flexible work attitude as part of a diverse team and manage a varied workload while adhering to tight deadlines.
- You have English & French language of skills according to C1 Level of the** **Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CERF) German language is an added advantage.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, the ability to liaise with people successfully and effectively within and across departments in a multi-cultural environment.
- Solid organizational skills, detail oriented, ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks, and to learn quickly.
- Good IT skills (Word, Outlook, Excel)
- In country experience a plus, especially experience working in West Africa

**What We Offer**
- Meaningful work in a multi-cultural team
- Attractive benefits for employees such as gym membership, company pension plan, job bike leasing, job ticket subsidy and special leave days
- 30 days of annual leave
- A starting salary between 49,000 and 53,000 Euro gross per year as well as an annual salary increase.
- Flexible hybrid-work options (working hours, office/homebased)
- Training and development opportunities.
- Letter of motivation stating your possible start date and salary expectations (max. 1 page),
- curriculum vitae (max. 2 pages),
- at least three references

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