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TTA - Director, Awards Management, East Africa
| Hours | Full-time, Part-time |
|---|---|
| Location | New York, New York |
About this job
Please Email an Updated CV to Aska.Pickering@rescue-uk.org. You must subject your email "TTA- Director, Awards Management, East Africa". This Opportunity is Intended for IRC Current Staff.
Purpose of the Role
The Awards Management Unit complements and supports the IRC's regional structure and is tasked with direct support and oversight of business development and grants implementation to meet country and IRC-wide priorities. As part of the regional structure the Directors of Awards Management ensure high quality guidance and support throughout the awards lifecycle to IRC country teams and external stakeholders. This is done by leading on/contributing to the development of best practice in business processes, overseeing the regional program support team and representing country and regional perspectives. Directors of Awards Management act as connectors, striving to establish a strong culture of collaboration across HQ, country and regional levels.
The Directors of Awards Management ensure their teams and AMU colleagues provide key interface between the country offices, grants teams and the wider IRC in all aspects of award management for all donors (private and public) in their respective regions. This includes providing insight into the range of grants-related activities in the region, support for private sector and institutional donors, resourcing gaps in country teams and delivering training.
Direct Reports:
7 direct reports (+ short term consultants as needed)
Leadership of full Regional Program Support Team
KEY ACCOUNTABLITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Accountable for excellence in proposal and award management support to country offices by leading and empowering the regional program support team in supporting the country-based grants staff, co-designing solutions, ensuring capacity building, partnership management, and coordinating support with stakeholders across the organization.
- Lead and manage an ambitious and high performing regional program support team, acting as a trusted and accountable manager, mentor and professional resource, including promoting collaboration, enabling adequate resourcing and ensuring accountability.
- Responsible for maintaining regional level oversight of award portfolio and pipeline including:
- In partnership with the Business Development Director, Regions supporting the regional Senior Program Development Advisor to work with country programs in setting and implementing their business development plans, attaining their targets through proactive planning and reviewing progress in support and consultation with regional leadership.
- Leading the team in developing and maintaining positive, strategic relationships with donors to sustain regional impact - providing insight/information into donor thinking and developments in addition to escalating issues as appropriate.
- Liaise with internal stakeholders including: Finance, Measurement, Ethics and Compliance, and Office of General Counsel to deepen understanding/application of organizational objectives and problem solving.
- Represent the voices and needs of the country grants teams to wider AMU, External Relations and IRC, and support strong collaboration in particular with AMU's Business Development and Compliance & Policy teams.
- Ensure collaboration between country offices, the region and External Relations around private sector funding priorities. Alongside the CRRD Regional Vice President and Deputy Regional Director, represent the region in quarterly finance, business development and regional roundtable meetings.
- Ensure responsiveness and appropriate levels of in-person and remote award management support to all country offices, plus serve as technical resource for country grant staff recruitment. This includes identifying resourcing gaps in-country grants & partnerships teams and finding solutions to ensure proper coverage of immediate needs while providing advice on structural changes for healthy portfolio management.
- Lead on and support AMU and regional strategic priorities and initiatives more widely.
- Ensure identified issues are escalated and proactively work with leadership to find solutions.
Key Relationships:
All pillars within AMU, IRC UK, IRC DE and other European offices, CRRD, External Relations, Supply Chain, Finance, ECU, OGC, HR and IT
Minimum Qualifications:Ability to start by end March 2024
Existing understanding of the DAM role, and/or East Africa RPAS and portfolio is a positive
Commitment to Gender, Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: The IRC is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, respectful, and safe work environment where all persons are treated fairly, with dignity and respect. The IRC expressly prohibits and will not tolerate discrimination, harassment, retaliation, or bullying of the IRC persons in any work setting. We aim to increase the representation of women, people that are from country and communities we serve, and people who identify as races and ethnicities that are under-represented in global power structures.
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