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<p><font size="4"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial;">RequÃªte nÂº:</span></strong><span style="font-family:Arial;"> req29582</span></font></p><p><span size="4" style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="4"><strong>IntitulÃ© de poste: </strong>Senior Program Development Advisor, West Africa</font></span></p><p><span size="4" style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="4"><strong>Secteur dâ€™activitÃ©: </strong>Administration du programme</font></span></p><p><span size="4" style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="4"><strong>Type de contrat:</strong> RÃ©gulier</font></span></p><p><span size="4" style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="4"><strong>Taux dâ€™occupation:</strong> Plein temps</font></span></p><p><span size="4" style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="4"><strong>Ouvert aux expatriÃ©s:</strong> Oui<br></font></span></p><p><span size="4" style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="4"><strong>Lieu de travail:</strong> New York, NY HQ USA</font></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><font size="4">Descriptif du poste</font></span></strong></span></p><p><span size="4" style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="4"></font></span></p><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><strong>The Awards Management Unit (AMU)</strong><br></font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">Established
 in January 2016, the Awards Management Unit (AMU) is a global 
department with the responsibility for identifying, securing, and 
managing all funding from statutory/government donors. The department is
 includes the following teams: Program and Award Support, Strategic 
Partnerships, Compliance and Policy, Business Development, and Training.</font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><br></font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">The
 AMU is a bridge between donors and country programs: providing expert 
technical advice to the country teams, while maintaining portfolio-level
 visibility to ensure consistency and compliance, and manage risk. This 
unit ensures that donor compliance policies and procedures are 
implemented consistently, and supports all staff working across the 
award management cycle for all restricted funding from global government
 sources.</font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><strong><font size="3"> </font></strong></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><strong><font size="3">The Crisis Response, Recovery and Development (CRRD) Department </font></strong></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">The
 Crisis Response, Recovery and Development (CRRD) Department has a 
growing portfolio of humanitarian relief, post-crisis recovery, and 
development programs under their remit. This work focuses support in 
five key areas: ensuring safety from harm, improving health, increasing 
access to education, improving economic well-being and ensuring people 
have the power to influence decisions that affect their lives. In all 
these programs, there is a drive to address the unique needs of women 
and girls (who represent the majority of those displaced) â€“ and the 
universal barriers they face. </font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"> </font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">The
 CRRD works across 6 regions globally, including West Africa, East 
Africa, Great Lakes, Middle East and North Africa, Asia, and Latin 
America. The regional teams are the links between country offices and 
key HQ departments, and aim to support and provide advice to country 
programs with a range of issues from strategic planning, business 
development to compliance, awards management and partnerships 
management. </font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><br></font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><strong><font size="3">The Purpose of the Role</font></strong></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">The
 Senior Program Development Advisor (SPDA), West Africa leads IRCâ€™s new 
business development efforts in support of West Africaâ€™s country 
programs, in line with IRCâ€™s Business Development Strategy and country 
Strategy Action Plans (SAPs). Support includes all phases of the 
business development process, from opportunity identification to 
contract signature, including pre-positioning and capture, partnerships,
 proposal development, and due diligence phases. </font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><br></font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">The
 SPDA serves as the regional focal person for all business development 
for institutional donors in the IRCâ€™s West Africa region, which 
comprises country programs in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Cote 
Dâ€™Ivoire, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone. </font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><strong><font size="3"><br></font></strong></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><strong><font size="3">Key Working Relationships</font></strong></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">Reports
 to the Director, Awards Management, West Africa, and the Director of 
Business Development, Regional. Works closely with team members of 
Regional Program and Award Support, Business Development, and across all
 teams within Awards Management Unit, Crisis Response Recovery and 
Development Department, Finance, and other key departments within IRC. 
Donor and partner point of contact as applicable per region.</font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><br></font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><font size="3">Key accountabilities</font></span></strong></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><br></font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Maintain
 up to date knowledge of donor funding priorities and geographical 
interests relevant to IRCâ€™s area of work, collaborate with country 
programs to successfully position for new funding. </font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Lead
 and assist country teams in the identification, tracking and updating 
of new business opportunities across a variety of technical sectors and 
donors, including facilitating technical brainstorming, partner and 
competitor landscape analysis, and win theme sessions with technical and
 country staff.</font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Serve
 as a member of the Regional Program and Awards Support Team (RPAS), 
serving as the business development point of contact for the regionâ€™s 
Senior Management Team (SMT) and participating in RPAS team initiatives 
to best support the region and country programs.</font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Serve
 as a member of the regional Program Development (PD) team, coordinating
 with other S/PDAs to share best practices and lessons learned to ensure
 high quality proposal submissions globally. </font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Provide
 strategic planning support to country office teams in the setup of 
funding priorities and targets and supporting the achievement of the 
regional and country targets. </font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Drive
 business development in the region by providing effective proposal 
support, ranging from proposal management to comprehensive support and 
quality assurance. </font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Coordinate
 concept note and proposal development, including sharing initial 
assessment of new opportunities, preparing timelines, ensuring the 
proposal team adheres to deadlines, supporting recruitment, assisting in
 budget development, ensuring document completion, organizing meetings 
and compiling notes, and drafting and proofreading proposal sections. 
This includes support to country office teams in the management and 
maintenance of IRCâ€™s awards management system.  </font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Collaborate
 with technical units, country offices, and other colleagues to support 
conceptualization of winning program and bid designs for new project 
activities and/or amendments to current projects. Provide guidance on 
USG, FCDO, EU, and other donor policies and ensure project design is 
responsive and compliant with donor expectations, rules and regulations.</font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Coordinate
 and communicate with consortium partners. Negotiate and finalize 
teaming agreements with partners and ensure vetting of partners is 
performed by country offices as per IRCâ€™s requirements. Compile inputs 
from proposal team members, including consultants and partners. Identify
 partners, consultants, and other proposal development support as 
needed. </font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Provide
 quality assurance and quality compliance support on proposals. Ensure 
responsiveness to and compliance with solicitation documents and with 
IRCâ€™s requirements. </font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Support in building IRCâ€™s visibility with donors, peers, and partners.</font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Support
 country programs in increasing local ownership of projects in alignment
 with IRCâ€™s partnership strategy and internal subaward management 
system, through growing IRCâ€™s collaboration with and support to local 
organizations in West Africaâ€™s country programs. </font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Facilitate
 the identification of consultants and/or additional support for 
opportunities in collaboration with the country and regional teams. </font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Contribute to business development systems, tools, and process improvement initiatives.</font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Facilitate
 internal post-submission debrief sessions with country teams, technical
 units, regional team and other relevant stakeholders to collect lessons
 learned. </font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Work with RPAS colleagues to incorporate lessons learned from implementation at the proposal stage. </font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Participate in developing, updating, and delivering proposal training for the organization.</font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Develop,
 strengthen, and share capacity of other IRC staff (including direct 
reports, IRC country and regional teams) to identify opportunities and 
develop strong program design and proposals.</font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Maintain complete and accurate electronic files, including final submission packages, and internal trackers. </font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><strong><font size="3"> </font></strong></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><strong><font size="3">Staff Management, Learning & Development </font></strong></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Coach,
 train, supervise and mentor direct reports, including communicating 
clear expectations, providing regular and timely performance feedback, 
document/discuss performance issues if needed, and deliver high-quality 
documented annual performance reviews.</font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Ensure direct reports are trained on all relevant IRC processes and donor regulations.</font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Support
 direct reports in achieving annual objectives, acting as a trusted and 
accountable manager, mentor and professional resource, including 
promoting collaboration, enabling adequate resourcing and ensuring 
accountability.</font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><br></font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><strong><font size="3">Other Responsibilities </font></strong></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Contribute to AMU and regional strategic priorities and initiatives.</font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Liaise with communications and external relations staff to inform IRC media products as needed.</font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Participate in special projects as needed and other tasks as assigned.</font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><br></font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><font size="3">Qualifications</font></span></strong></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"> </font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><strong><font size="3">Skills, Knowledge and Qualifications:</font></strong></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>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 ECHO, 
GFFO, BMZ, Sida, SDC, World Bank, etc.), as well as experience 
collaborating with local partner organizations.</font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Substantial
 experience and a successful track record leading large proposal teams 
on complex subject, multi-year, multi-partner proposals with minimal 
supervision.</font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Experience in developing and supporting humanitarian and development proposals for NGOs.</font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Experience
 with strategies and proposal processes of key government/statutory 
donors:  US Government (USAID, OFDA, BPRM, etc.), FCDO, EU institutions 
(ECHO, EUTF), and other donors (GAC, Sida, FCDO, GFFO, SDC, etc.).</font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Experience in collaborating with and supporting national and community-based partners. </font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Experience in proposal budgeting a plus.</font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Excellent
 communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to 
effectively collaborate across a variety of relationships in a 
multicultural environment.</font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Demonstrated
 ability to collaborate equally effectively with colleagues in remote 
and diverse teams, including as team leader for proposals.</font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Clear, compelling writing skills, preferably with previous experience with proposal writing.</font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Ability to multi-task and prioritize effectively.</font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Ability to travel internationally (approximately 20% of time).</font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Fluency in English and French. </font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Candidates who are from the region and/or have significant experience in the region are strongly encouraged to apply.</font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><br></font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><strong><font size="3">Experience:</font></strong></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Experience in working at a distance and supporting country-based staff</font></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">â€¢<span> </span>Experience writing, reviewing and editing proposals and excellent attention to detail</font></span></font></div><p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><strong>US Benefits: </strong>We offer a comprehensive and highly competitive set of
benefits.  In the US, these include: 10 sick days, 10 US holidays, 20-25
paid time off days (depending on role and tenure), medical insurance starting
at $145 per month, dental starting at $7 per month, and vision starting at $5
per month, FSA for healthcare, childcare, and commuter costs, a 403b retirement
savings plans with up to 4.5% immediately vested matching contribution, plus a
3-7% base IRC contribution (3 year vesting), disability & life insurance,
and an Employee Assistance Program which is available to our staff and their
families to support counseling and care in times of crisis and mental health
struggles. </font></span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><strong>COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement:</strong> In accordance with IRCâ€™s
duty to provide and maintain a workplace that is free of known hazards and our
commitment to safeguard the health of our employees, clients, and
communities, IRC requires new hires to furnish proof of vaccination
against COVID-19 in order to be considered for any in-office or hybrid
positions.  All IRC US offices require full vaccination to attend any
in-office functions (e.g., meetings, trainings).<br><strong><br>Commitment
to Diversity and Inclusivity:</strong> IRC is committed to building a diverse organization and a
climate of inclusivity.  We strongly encourage applications from
candidates who can demonstrate that they can contribute to this goal. <br><strong><br>Equal
Opportunity Employer: </strong>We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our
company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national
origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital
status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals
with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the
job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and
to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to
request accommodation.</font></span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><strong>Standards
of Professional Conduct:</strong> The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in
IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Accountability
and Equality. 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</font></span></font></p><p></p>

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