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  • Posted: Jan 12, 2022
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    The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a global humanitarian aid, relief and development nongovernmental organization. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers emergency aid and long-term assistance to refugees and those displaced by war, persecution or natural disaster. The IRC is currently working in over 40 countries and 22 U...
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    Senior Regional Support Manager, Private Partnerships

    Requisition ID: req23668
    Sector: Fundraising
    Employment Category: Regular
    Open to Expatriates: No

    Major Responsibilities

    • The role will serve as the primary focal point and liaison between the private fundraising teams, the regional team, and country office teams for all aspects of business development and grant management.
    • The major responsibilities will span across all award lifecycle stages and include:

    New funding and proposal development (30%):

    • Pursues new funding opportunities for the region suitable for presenting to private sector entities including corporations, foundations, wealthy individuals and faith and membership organisations;
    • Ensures that country office funding needs and priorities are well represented across IPP/high-value fundraising teams on an ongoing basis, and proactively shares information, and advocates as needed on behalf of country offices;
    • Scans the programme work in the region to identify new areas of work that can be proactively worked up and offered to new partners and donors;
    • Manages proposal development processes as required for single-country, multi-country and/or multi-region opportunities, bringing together teams across IPP, program regions and technical units;
    • Reviews and provides substantive feedback and content on all private donor proposals and drafts proposals with inputs from country programs when needed;
    • Reviews budgets and supporting documentation for proposals in coordination with the HQ Finance Department and assists country programs in creating budgets when necessary.
    • Private funding portfolio management (45%):
    • Maintains an up-to-date record of all private sector partnerships in the region to inform effective and timely delivery of relevant updates, progress and insight to the relevant business teams;
    • Ensures consistency and compliance across private partnerships for the entire duration of a partnership in close coordination with country teams to ensure donor requirements are met and compliance issues are raised to RGD;
    • Keeps up-to-date with developments around programme implementation, flagging risks and challenges around implementation, and ensures timely flow of information to support efficient delivery of donor reports;
    • Proactively reviews and provides substantive feedback or content on donor reports, guides country offices with budget realignments, and supports grant amendments;
    • Coordinates and ensures clear, reliable reporting and data-points for maximum partnership impact, including drafting and finalising donor reports and communication materials for country offices as needed;
    • Flags donors who need to be stewarded by Fundraising to maintain and deepen relationships, especially if there have been any issues with programme implementation;
    • Supports country offices to apply internal procedures and systems such as OTIS (IRC’s grant information tracking system), and PEERs (IRC’s partnership management system) for private funding portfolio and ensure SNAP entries are up to date;
    • Maintains an ear to the ground on programmatic issues and security & political developments in West Africa and how they might affect private partnerships;
    • Provides project management support on large multi-year and multi-country opportunities and grants as requested from IPP, the region and TUs.

    Process improvement (25%):

    • Responsible for establishing the foundation for the development of processes and systems that would advance our private-sector partnerships pursuits;
    • Coordinates with relevant teams in ER to ensure optimal support for country program offices;
    • Reviews and proposes improved processes as needed to help reduce time, and ensure appropriate partner sign off, to better match private sector donor timescales.

    Essential Qualifications

    • Approximately 6 years working in private sector fundraising with at least 3 years working in or closely with the West Africa region;
    • Demonstrable experience in running and/or monitoring large, multi-sectoral and multi-country private sector partnerships and working across various teams and functions;
    • Knowledge of the drivers and motivators for support from corporations, foundations, wealthy individuals & faith and membership-based organizations, and experience working directly and supporting private sector fundraisers;
    • Experience in developing and leading successful complex proposals and providing impactful reporting for high-value donors;
    • Ability to effectively manage and coordinate with geographically dispersed teams throughout all stages of the private grant lifecycle;
    • Experience managing donor compliance, budgeting, negotiating agreement provisions, technical and financial reporting;
    • Understanding of the private donor mentality and pace of work and the differences from public funding culture;
    • Ability to analyze and synthesize information and excellent attention to detail;
    • Willingness and ability to regularly travel to the region, sometimes on short notice and to volatile areas;
    • Outstanding people skills: strong ability to communicate constructively across culturally diverse teams and contribute to a pleasant work environment;

    Solid organizational skills:

    • Ability to be flexible and in a fast-paced multi-task team environment;

    Language skills:

    • English and French fluency required

    Desirable Skills & Experience:

    • Experience implementing medium- to large-scale programs in humanitarian or development settings;
    • Existing network of partners and donors in West Africa.

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    Finance Assistant

    Requisition ID: req23664

    Sector: Finance

    Employment Category: Regular

    Employment Type: Full-Time

    Open to Expatriates: No

    Location: Nigeria

    Job Description

    Background/IRC Summary:  Founded in 1933, the International Rescue Committee (www.rescue.org) is a world leader in relief, rehabilitation, and post-conflict development services for those uprooted or affected by violent conflict and oppression. The IRC is currently working in over 40 countries around the world, addressing both the immediate and lifesaving needs of conflict affected people in emergencies and the reconstruction needs of post-conflict societies.

    The IRC Nigeria country program is implementing multi-sectorial interventions in the sectors of: Health and Nutrition; Environmental Health; Child Protection; Education; Women’s Protection and Empowerment; Food Security and Livelihoods and Protection. Most of these programs are driven in partnership with strategic local NGOs. Currently, the IRC is expanding programs in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe state to address the needs of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and host communities in recently liberated LGAs.

     Job Overview/Summary: The Finance Assistant will be a key member of the Abuja finance team and will contribute towards the achievement of the field’s finance objectives. Under the direction of the Finance Manager, the Finance Assistant will maintain the cash books, remit all statutory and maintain their folders, make all petty cash payments.

    Major Responsibilities:

    • Maintain a real time cashbook
    • Ensure bank reconciliations are carried out weekly.
    • Petty cash count should be done daily.
    • Assist to respond to pension complaints from staff.
    • Prepare and Remit statutory deductions as at when due.
    • Ensure all advances are liquidated.
    • Maintain both hard and soft folders for VAT report, PAYE report, NSITF report and WHT Report.
    • Ensure that all cash and bank payments documents are properly filed and stalled in the archive timely and accurately.
    • Ensuring that cash and bank payment documents are distributed to authorizer timely and in line with operating authorization matrix.
    • Ensure accurate and timely retrieval of documents for audits as the audits come up.
    • Ensure that all documents used for audit are accurately returned to appropriate boxes and stalled a soon as the audit is over.
    • Maintaining the receipt book and ensuring that authorized receipts are issued upon receipt of monies.
    • Submit VAT report to FIRS monthly.
    • Collect NSITF receipt from the bank monthly
    • Archiving of prior years’ finance documents.
    • Diligent follow-up to ensure fully signed mandates are processed to vendor.
    • Verify documents are complete before you distribute.
    • Any other duty as assigned by the supervisor

    Key Working Relationships:

    Position Reports to:  Finance Manager
    Position directly supervises:  No

    Indirect Reporting: Report to the Finance Cordinator/Assistant Finance Controller any irregularities that occur within the IRC office, staff compound and sites on policy and procedures.

    ­InternalReports to the Finance Manager

    External:

    • Regular and open communication with IRC staff from all departments and field offices.
    • Represents the Abuja field office for cash withdrawal with external banks.
    • Represents the country office with external TAX and other statutory authorities.

    Qualifications

    • BSC/HND in Accounting from recognized College/Institutions.
    • Minimum two(2) years experience in the financial area of a non-profit organization.
    • Experience in working with computerized accounting systems, standard spreadsheet and database programs, preferably SUN systems and excel.
    • Knowledge of statutory deductions in Nigeria.
    • Experience in capturing in the cashbook the IRC way.

    Work Environment:

    The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct.  These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability.  In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.

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