Program Development Advisor, MENA

IRC (International Rescue Committee) Germany is looking for a

Program Development Advisor, MENA

Berlin | as soon as possible

full-time | 1 year

 This position is currently meant for IRC employees only

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.

The Program Development Advisor (PDA), MENA will support country programs to pursue funding opportunities in line with IRC’s Business Development Strategy. Support will include all phases of the business development process, from opportunity identification to contract signature, including pre-positioning, partnerships building, proposal development, and due diligence phases. The successful candidate will have a strong track record of working on new funding opportunities in humanitarian and international development with a range of multilateral and bilateral donors (USAID, US Department of State, FCDO, EU and DG ECHO, GFFO, BMZ, Sida, SDC, World Bank, etc.), as well as experience collaborating with local partner organisations.

The PDA will support business development for institutional donors in the IRC’s MENA region, which comprises programs in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, and Yemen. Candidates who are from these countries and/or have significant experience in the region are strongly encouraged to apply.

Major Responsibilities

• Collaborate with country teams to proactively identify and address their priorities and support needs in BD.
• Collaborate with other AMU pillars to gather donor intel through desk research to identify funding leads and analyze resource mobilization trends in the region.
• Lead or support pre-positioning for specific opportunities, including facilitating technical brainstorming, partner and competitor landscape analysis and win theme sessions with technical and country staff.
• Support country offices in setting up annual regional metrics and analyzing the Quarterly Strategy Review for the regional leadership.
• Support the full proposal lifecycle including sharing initial assessment of new opportunities, supporting Go/No Go processes, preparing, and sharing templates and timelines, ensuring adherence to deadlines, supporting recruitment, assisting in reviewing budgets, ensuring document completion, organizing meetings, and compiling notes, and drafting and proofreading proposal sections.
• Facilitate the identification of consultants, partners and other proposal development support as needed in collaboration with the country team.
• Collaborate with technical units, country offices, and other colleagues to support conceptualization of winning proposal and bid designs for new project activities and/or amendments to current projects.
• In line with IRC’s Partnership Ambition, and in collaboration with regional Partnerships teams, contribute to increasing the volume and equity of IRC's work with local and regional partners (with a focus on women-led national organizations) by coordinating support to country offices in identifying partnership opportunities, identifying strong partners, and finalizing teaming arrangements.
• Facilitate internal post-submission debrief sessions, (i.e., After Action Reviews) with country teams, technical units, regional team, and other relevant stakeholders to collect lessons learned.
• Participate in special projects as needed and other tasks as assigned.

Your Profile

•     Experience in developing and supporting humanitarian and development proposals for NGOs.
•      Experience with strategies and proposal processes of key government/statutory donors – US, UK, EU, German, Scandinavian.
•      Experience in collaborating with and supporting national and community-based partners and in proposal budgeting.
•     Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to effectively collaborate across a variety of relationships in a multicultural environment.
•      Demonstrated ability to collaborate equally effectively with colleagues in remote and diverse teams, including as team leader for proposals.
•      Ability to travel internationally (approximately 20% of time)
• You have English language skills at C1 – C2 level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CERF)

What We Offer

•      Meaningful work in a multi-cultural team
•      A starting salary between 61,000- and 65,000-Euro gross per year as well as an annual salary increase
•      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
•      Flexible hybrid-work options (working hours, office/homebased)
•      Training and development opportunities.

As an organization committed to an empowering and inclusive work environment, we avoid any form of discrimination. We welcome applications from people regardless of their national origin, gender, sexual orientation, disability status or age and strongly encourage applications from candidates with a history of migration and resettlement. We believe in fair and equal treatment of all applicants and therefore kindly ask you to refrain from including photos in your application documents.

Please submit your complete application documents via our application portal:

Pleas answer the questions on the application portal (no cover letter needed), and then attach:

·       curriculum vitae (max. 2 pages),

·       at least three references

 Unfortunately, we cannot consider applications submitted by e-mail.

If you have any questions, also on the topic of inclusion, please do not hesitate to contact Domtillah Herbrand (HR.Deutschland@rescue.org).

Please submit your application by 05.02.2024

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