Program Development Advisor (f/m/d) – Great Lakes

In Bonn or Berlin | as soon as possible

In full- or part time (32-40 h/week) | limited contract for 2 years

About Us

Over the past 80 years, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) has developed unparalleled expertise in responding to emergencies and helping uprooted communities to rebuild. 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.

The Program Development Advisor (PDA), Great Lakes 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 Great Lakes region, which comprises programs in Burundi, the Central African Republic (CAR), the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Tanzania (with Cameroon and Chad to be added in early 2023). Candidates who are from these countries and/or have significant experience in the region are strongly encouraged to apply.

Major Responsibilities

• Collaborate with other AMU pillars to gather donor intel through desk research to identify funding leads and analyze resource mobilization trends in the region.
• Support country offices with Donor engagement and intel sharing for positioning; prepare for and participate in Donor calls as needed.
• Support the full proposal lifecycle including sharing initial assessment of new opportunities, supporting Go/No Go processes, preparing and sharing templates & 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
• Support coordination, communication, and inputs from consortium partners in accordance with donor and IRC processes
• Review agreements to ensure accuracy and highlight key compliance requirements, in coordination with post-award, compliance and country grants teams and support in award negotiation as required
• Deploy to country offices to lead on proposal development as needed
• Represent IRC externally to donors, peers, and partners
• Support with translation to regional or donor languages when necessary
• Participate in special projects as needed and other tasks as assigned

Person Specification

• 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, etc.
• Experience in collaborating with and supporting national and community-based partners
• You have English and French language skills at C2 level and German language skills at B2 level according to theCommon European Framework of Reference for Languages (CERF)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to effectively collaborate across a variety of relationships in a multicultural environment
• Experience in proposal budgeting
• Ability to travel internationally (approximately 20% of time)

What We Offer

• Meaningful work in a multi-cultural team
• Flexible hybrid-work options (working hours, office/homebased)
• 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
• Training and development opportunties

We are committed to empowerment and inclusion and actively counter all forms of discrimination. Therefore, applications from people with a history of flight and migration, experience of racism and discrimination are expressly welcome. We ask that you refrain from including photos in your application documents.

Please submit your complete application documents:

• Letter of motivation stating your possible start date and salary expectations (max. 1 page),
• curriculum vitae (max. 2 pages),
• at least three references

via our application portal. Unfortunately, we cannot consider applications submitted by e-mail.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Nicole Lajom (HR.Deutschland@rescue.org).

Please submit your application by 15 January 2023.