NGO JOBS

Organization: International Alert
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Closing date: 05 May 2014

Salary: £14,570 per annum, pro rata

Based: London

Duration: 6 months (with the possibility of extension)

We are currently looking to recruit an Intern for the South Caucasus programme’s Economy and Conflict (E&C) strand of work. The work of this strand is directed towards improving understanding on the inter-linkages between economy, conflict and peace in the South Caucasus. Under this strand, we conduct & combine innovative regional economy and conflict/peace research with tangible economic initiatives to promote regional economic cooperation as a peacebuilding strategy.

The successful candidate will be responsible for providing support towards difference aspects of implementation and administration of E&C strand of work in close cooperation with the Senior Projects Manager and Project Coordinator.

You will be highly motivated and with ambition to work in the peacebuilding sector, demonstrate a talent for working with people and have previous logistical and/or administrative experience.

With a degree in a subject related to peacebuilding and/or development studies, you will be interested in gaining experience and knowledge pertinent to peacebuilding work as well as a deeper understanding of the economic dimensions in peacebuilding and the different conflict contexts in the South Caucasus.

A working knowledge of Russian language – ability to read, write and conserve in Russian – is essential for this position.

How to apply:

Note: The above are some of the requirements for the job. For the full job requirements and an application pack (the person specification section of which will form the basis of short-listing), please visithttp://www.international-alert.org/jobs**. In your application, please indicate the full job title of the role you are applying for.**

To apply, please send a completed application form and equal opportunities form tojobs@international-alert.org**, both of which can be found under ‘Downloads’.**

Please note we do not accept CVs

As it is unlikely that we will be able to obtain a Work Permit for this role, all job applicants must already have the right to work in the UK.

Closing date: Monday 5^th May 2014 at 5pm (UK time)

Interviews will take place the week commencing 12^th May 2014.

WhileInternational Alert will endeavour to contact all candidates within a reasonable time, this may not always be possible due to limited resources. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date, you can assume that your application has, on this occasion, been unsuccessful. International Alert is an equal opportunities employer. All applicants will be judged strictly on the basis of merit.

Organization: International Rescue Committee
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Closing date: 30 Sep 2013

Reports to: Senior Grants Manager
Location: London
Salary: Competitive plus contributory pension
Hours: 37.5 hours per week

BACKGROUND
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is one of the world’s leading humanitarian relief organisations. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people survive, recover and rebuild their lives. The IRC delivers emergency aid, protects children, provides health care, prevents and responds to violence against women and girls, safeguards human rights and helps to kick-start economic recovery. Working in more than 40 countries, the IRC has restored hope and opportunity to many millions of people.

The IRC is committed to a culture of bold leadership, innovation in all aspects of our work, creative partnerships and, most crucially, accountability to those we serve. The IRC is a tireless advocate for the most vulnerable.

The IRC’s global headquarters are in New York. Our European headquarters – IRC-UK - were established in London in 1997 to support the organisation’s global activities and particularly to diversify its donor base and be able to better advocate with European policy-makers on behalf of the people we serve. IRC-UK comprises approximately 40 staff across five departments. The International Programmes Team (IPT) currently comprises 14 staff: Director, IPT Assistant, Senior Grants Manager, Regional Grant Officers and six Regional Programme Managers (RPMs).

JOB PURPOSE
The International Programmes Team’s key objective is to enable the organisation to increase and improve the quantity and quality of support to beneficiaries by ensuring sustained programme funding. Regional Grant Officers (RGOs) are central to this work. RGOs:
• Provide support to country field offices in relation to quality reporting and donor requirements during programme implementation
• Manage the successful implementation of IRC European donor contractual requirements and reporting, ensuring compliance, accurate information and good quality narratives on programme outputs
• Ensure good and professional working relationships with European donors.

WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
• Report to the Senior Grants Manager
• Works as part of the wider IPT team Close coordination with:
• the RPM covering same geographical region
• field country offices
• regional staff for programme implementation
• finance department on matters of financial management.

TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
A. Contribute to Project Cycle Management
• Managing a regional portfolio of European grants (currently – Asia, Caucasus, Middle East and North Africa); responsible for ensuring quality project implementation
• Reviewing narrative and financial reports; consulting with and ensuring input from relevant technical and financial staff
• Monitoring projects to ensure progress against objectives and compliance with donor guidelines, including:
o Monitor cash flow and risks on contracts, and advise field where required
o Track expenditure disallowances, ensuring that lessons are learned and fed into operational training
o Review procurement decisions for European grants against donor requirements.
• Ensuring lessons learned from finalised projects are feed into the design of follow on or related proposal.

B. Build and Maintain High Quality Knowledge Base
• Providing best practice advice related to European grant management
• Assisting in developing training materials and occasionally carrying out training of IRC field staff on European donor rules
• Assisting in the development and maintenance of work-processes and checklists for grant implementation and report review
• Participating in donor strategies, taking the lead in grant management related issues around a specific donor or identified topic.

C. Liaise with the International Development Community
• Representing IRC externally at country specific meetings, and stakeholder networks
• Assisting in advocating with European donors for manageable and reasonable rules and regulations.

D. Other
• Maintaining tracking systems for grants and other office systems, including inputting raw data into IPT’s tracking systems (grants database)
• Providing support to the IPT and more generally to IRC-UK staff as required
• Contributing to the strategic planning of IPT and IRC UK
• When timely, working with Regional Programme Managers on developing new proposals, by the RPM’s.

PERSON SPECIFICATION
Essential qualifications, skills and experience
• Experience and a good understanding of European institutional donors and their requirements
• Good understanding of humanitarian aid and development programming
• Experience in working at a distance and supporting field-based staff
• Experience of writing, reviewing and editing narrative and financial reports and excellent attention to detail
• Good financial management and budgeting skills
• Ability to analyse and synthesise information
• Excellent communication skills including active listening and verbal and written English
• Good IT skills (Word, Outlook, Excel)
• Ability to work on own initiative and collaboratively as part of a diverse team and manage a varied workload
• Self motivated, flexible and adaptable to the needs of the team and organisation
• Committed to IRC values and mandate

Desirable qualifications, skills and experience
• Degree in a subject related to IRC’s work
• Worked in a developing country, preferable in a international NGO context
• Able to communicate effectively in French
• Advanced excel

How to apply:

To apply, please send your CV (two page max) and a cover letter describing:
• Your reasons for applying
• Your relevant skills and experience and how you meet the person specification for this position
• Where you saw the job advertised
• Current salary

Please send to: applications@rescue-uk.org

The closing date is: 10am Monday 30th September 2013 (GMT)

In order to minimise administrative costs, IRC-UK will only contact short-listed candidates.

Candidates must have the right to work in the UK.

IRC-UK strives to be an equal opportunities employer. IRC-UK is committed to equality of opportunity and to non-discrimination for all job applicants and employees, and we seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce regardless of gender, race, religious beliefs, nationality, ethnic/national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability.

Organization: International Rescue Committee
Country: United States of America
Closing date: 14 Oct 2013

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is one of the world’s leading humanitarian relief and development organizations. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC today responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps uprooted people survive, recover and rebuild their lives in the aftermath of armed conflict and natural disaster. We are committed to a culture of bold leadership, innovation in all aspects of our work, creative partnerships and thorough accountability to those we serve.With operations in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, the IRC is the only refugee assistance agency with large-scale international and domestic operations. Projections call for the IRC’s 2013 budget to exceed $440 million.The programs in the CASAMENA region represent the range of IRC’s work with conflict-affected populations—from emergency relief to post-conflict development. The region includes two of IRC’s longest running programs, Pakistan (established 1979) and Afghanistan (1988), newer interventions in Yemen and the Palestinian Territories, and a long-standing project in Chechnya (Northern Caucasus/Russia). It is also home to the largest single award in IRC’s history, the USAID-funded Pakistan Reading Project. The region integrates care and assistance for IDPs as well as capacity building efforts with community-based organizations in humanitarian and developmental contexts. With over 1,000 staff located throughout the region, and encompassing some of the most challenging environments IRC works in, CASAMENA is one of the most diverse units within the organization.

SCOPE:

Based in New York City, the Regional Director is an exciting opportunity to provide strategic and dynamic leadership for the IRC’s Caucasus, South Asia, Middle East & North Africa (CASAMENA’s) growing country programs. The Regional Director leads program and operational excellence with a focus on quality and impact in the CASAMENA region, which currently consists of country programs in Afghanistan, North Caucasus (Russia), Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, and Yemen. The Regional Director supervises all Country Directors, the Pakistan Reading Project Chief of Party, and the CASAMENA regional team.

The Regional Director will play a pivotal role in regional advocacy, fundraising, communications and media engagement. The Regional Director will provide outstanding human resource and financial management and lead regional efforts in donor relations and new program development, with an emphasis on strategic partnerships. He/she is also expected to formulate and advance key advocacy messages and assist in agency-wide initiatives spanning external relations and branding.

The Regional Director will be an inspiring and experienced leader with demonstrated success in a senior management role within large, complex and multi-cultural contexts. He or she will bring strong leadership, expertise, innovation and passion to the CASAMENA region and to IRC’s mission, people, partners and donors.

The Regional Director will be an outstanding communicator and collaborator. He/she will effectively manage relationships between the country programs, senior International Programs staff and IRC departments including Finance, Human Resources, Development, Global Supply Chain, Government Relations, Legal, Advocacy and Communications. He/she will also play an active part in delivering on IRC’s ambitious new five year Strategic Plan. The Regional Director will report to the Vice President, International Programs.

The Regional Director will be required to travel regularly to country program field sites to maintain an acute understanding of the regional context, provide expertise and guidance, and lead in all aspects of IRC CASAMENA’s programmatic and operational work. With the Regional Director’s leadership, CASAMENA’s clients and partners will have an increased opportunity to improve their lives and to build a sustainable and peaceful future.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Leadership and ManagementEnsure alignment of CASAMENA’s country programs within the IRC’s mission, vision, and strategic plan goalsDirectly supervise and lead CASAMENA’s country directors, Pakistan Chief of Party, and regional team (currently consisting of nine staff based in New York, Nairobi and Amman), supporting performance management and country program strategic planning and deliveryIn collaboration with the IRC HQ Finance department, provide oversight of country program Operating Budgets, burn rates, and financial planning, as well as manage the CASAMENA regional unit budget and allocate usage of unrestricted funds to country programsIn collaboration with other key stakeholders, maintain IRC’s commitment to technically sound and evidence based program design, monitoring and evaluationPromote a local-first approach that makes certain CASAMENA is supporting the efforts of state, civil society and market actors to respond to crisis and rebuildSupport the IRC-UK in working with key European donors and ensure that approaches to donors are integrated in the strategy and operational plans for CASAMENAEngage senior leadership to optimize business practices to ensure appropriate control and compliance and empower country program decision-makingManage, in collaboration with the Regional Senior Safety and Security Officer, the risks associated with working in dangerous and volatile security environmentsChampion staff development efforts, in collaboration with Human Resources, including efforts to diversify leadership in country programsAdvise IRC’s senior leadership team on strategic trends, needs and opportunitiesExternal Relations and DevelopmentDevelop and maintain a high level of understanding of donor priorities, country plans and planned funding initiatives, and coordinate those plans with IRC’s strategiesCollaborate with External Relations (especially Institutional Philanthropy) and Business Development units to identify, cultivate and maintain existing and develop new relationships with donors, partners and constituents, both domestic and internationalRepresent IRC CASAMENA with a range of key donors, policy makers, host governments, public and private partners, and news mediaAdvocacyWork closely with the Vice President, Public Policy and Advocacy, to strengthen IRC’s advocacy work by implementing existing plans and developing new plans in relation to the countries in the region and other emergencies that ariseIn coordination with U.S., U.K. and European Union advocacy teams, act as Regional/country program representative in donor and policymaker advocacy in key fora, including in Washington DC, London, Brussels and GenevaQualifications:

10 or more years of senior management experience, with career path demonstrating increasing levels of responsibilityExtensive field experience leading humanitarian programs, with proven ability to manage complex and insecure working environmentsDemonstrated experience starting up and overseeing large, multi-year USAID projects with multiple international and local partnersExcellence in effectively and passionately leading, motivating, mentoring, developing and retaining staffDemonstrated ability to balance pressing needs in the emergency context with strategic and longer term planningProven success leading remote global teams of different cultural backgrounds in multiple countries with an emphasis on accountability and transparencyStrong understanding of current advocacy and policy issues in the region, including but not limited to the situation in Afghanistan and PakistanStrong presentation, negotiation and diplomacy skillsAbility to listen and communicate with colleagues at all levels and a decisive manner tempered by an inclusive consensus-building approach to managementProven ability to maintain professional grace under pressureFluency in English; Arabic proficiency a plusUniversity degree, with graduate study in international relations, general management, or similar disciplines preferredCommitment to IRC’s core values of Integrity, Service and Accountability

How to apply:

Please apply online:http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH02/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=IRC&cws=1&r...