Activity Description
This function is open to modern IRC employees handiest.
The Awards management Unit (AMU)
The Awards control Unit (AMU) is responsible for constructing, maintaining, and strengthening relationships with public and institutional donors and function IRC as a associate of preference for handing over applications for our clients. This indicates operating to extend IRC’s portfolio and diversify our relationships, as well as helping the a success and compliant control and implementation of awards, whether or not directly or via companions.
AMU Compliance & policy
AMU Compliance & coverage (C&P) develops and manages donor compliance-associated gear, steering, and templates; it tracks and communicates changes in donor rules and builds expertise of compliance all through the IRC. The C&P group gives escalated aid in case of complicated donor and partnerships compliance questions and to carry out supplementary opinions of agreements where wanted. C&P includes Donor experts, who have understanding in specific donors’ rules and rules in step with their portfolio, and Subaward & Partnership (S&P) body of workers, who have expertise in compliance and implementation of IRC’s inner partnership system (peers) and the operationalization of IRC’s partnership ideas throughout all donors.
Purpose of the position
Beneath the path of and in collaboration with the Senior Director of Compliance and coverage, the Subaward & Partnership Compliance Deputy Director is responsible for main the IRC’s C&P Subaward & Partnership group. The director contributes to shaping regulations and practices, offers advice on and helps the efficient and compliant management of subawards, partnerships, and subcontracts targeted on making sure conformity with award phrases and situations, donor rules and regulations, mitigation of enterprise threat, and adherence to IRC rules and techniques.
Key working relationships
All AMU teams, crisis reaction, restoration and improvement (CRRD), Resettlement, Asylum and Integration (RAI), Ethics and Compliance Unit, Finance, office of the overall counsel, worldwide deliver Chain, Human sources.
Key accountabilities
Leadership
• As a part of the Compliance & coverage control group (Senior Director of Compliance and policy, Compliance Director for USG awards, and Compliance Director for eu and UN donors, and this position) and AMU Leaders team, serve as a key partner and relationship builder to strengthen collaboration inside AMU and with IRC departments.
• Take part in AMU-good sized and/or IRC-tremendous initiatives/tasks as discussed with the Senior Director – Compliance & coverage
• Oversee recruitment, development, control and retention of high-performing group participants.
• make certain that the team is a various and inclusive team that could entice expertise from all backgrounds and has a supportive internal subculture where people sense valued, respected and blanketed.
• Set a high wellknown for HQ support to AMU/other IRC service departments and area aid to CRRD and RAI offices, with an information of field constraints and the final impact of IRC’s paintings.
• preserve a consequences-pushed, solution-orientated and empowering tradition that values donor compliance across the full subaward cycle.
Systems improvement
• In collaboration with settlement readinesscolleagues, aid the improvement of policies, suggestions, methods, standards, paintings strategies, manuals, metrics and methodologies for a hit and comprehensive subcontract control.
• work closely with the Senior Director C&P, the wider C&P team and different IRC carrier departments to expand, evaluate and update IRC policies, equipment, templates and guidelines as had to make sure ultimate implementation of friends and subcontracting SOPs/manuals.
• In collaboration with the broader C&P crew, support the group in growing relevant templates and terms and situations for sub-contracts and partnership agreements, and other steering documents and education classes as needed.
• answerable for ensuring that efficient and donor compliant subaward management procedures are to be had throughout IRC, such as via satisfactory-tuning subaward templates and gear, streamlining the subaward control approaches, surfacing improvements associated with the shape and execution of subawards
Escalated subaward advice (partnerships and subcontracts)
• assist S&P team participants in presenting sophisticated and professional recommendation on the application of friends from pre-award to shut-out for partnerships and subcontracts.
• perceive areas of considerable dangers and propose senior control and challenge body of workers on crucial subaward management issues and danger mitigation.
• Manual S&P group members and IRC businesses to problem-shoot and find out answers to donor compliance problems wherein they get up underneath a particular subaward or subcontract
• offer steering to assist all elements of the subaward strategies in accordance with IRC’s partnership and subcontracting standards and policies, which includes but now not restricted to offering advice and guidance on deciding on, negotiating, and awarding sub-awards;
• assist, and at instances lead, communications with partners and subcontractors on compliance topics and award negotiations.
• help in problem-taking pictures troubles as they rise up.
• other duties as assigned by way of the Senior Director.
Qualifications
• at the least five years helping a donor compliant subaward procedure;
• complete know-how of partnership concepts;
• enjoy with one or extra of IRC’s statutory donors (USAID, FCDO, ECHO, and so forth);
• Supervision revel in;
• proven particularly green danger assessment and analysis practices;
• powerful partnership capacity building enjoy;
• outstanding written and research talents;
• strong interpersonal abilties, collegial and collaborative, high electricity, and innovative chief;
• potential to create and preserve powerful systems for coping with statistics and equipment for making facts reachable and understandable to a extensive target audience.