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Job Title ⇒ Senior Support Officer, Regional Private Partnerships
]https//www.theugandanjobline.com/
Organization ⇒ International Rescue Committee IRC
Duty Station Kampala, Uganda
About US ⇒
The International Rescue Committee helps people whose lives and livelihoods
are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control
of their future. It was created by Albert Einstein more than 80 years and has
been working in Uganda since 1998. It has particularly working in the conflict
zones where tens of thousands of people have been kills and over 1.6 million
displaced. Following a peace agreement in 2006, Ugandans are returning home
and looking to rebuild their lives. The IRC is there to protect women and
children from violence and exploitation by fostering a safe environment and
encouraging education, and is supporting farmers and small businesses, and
helping communities promote peace and long-term development.
Job Summary ⇒ This new role, the first to focus solely on private donors
and partnerships between these departments, will contribute to the growing
private-sector portfolio of partnerships relevant to East Africa. The Support
Officer will act as a key liaison between partnership managers in IPP/the
high-value fundraising teams and the program teams in East Africa, for the
successful delivery of our donor commitments. This role is an integral part of
GPPS’ Program Services reporting into the Director, Program Services in
partnership with the Grants Director, East Africa.
Key Duties and Responsibilities ⇒ The role will serve as the primary focal
point and liaison between the private fundraising teams and country office
teams for all aspects of business development and grant management. The major
responsibilities will span across all grant lifecycle stages and include
New funding and proposal development 30%
⇗ Pursues new funding opportunities for the regionn 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 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 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 East 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.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience ⇒
⇗ A minimum of six years of experience working in private sector fundraising
with at least 3 years working in or closely with the East Africa region;
⇗ Demonstrable experience of running and 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,
foundation, 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 required; proficiency in French is a plus.
Desirable Skills & Experience
⇗ Experience implementing medium- to large-scale programs in humanitarian or
development settings;
⇗ Existing network of partners and donors in East Africa.

How to Apply ⇒
All suitably qualified and interested candidates are encouraged to apply
online at the link below.
Click Here
]https//rescue.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/homec=rescue&country=ug#/requisition/11953
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and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and
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Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-
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