Sr. Officer, Finance & Partnerships

International Rescue Committee

The Worldwide Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises, serving to to revive well being, security, training, financial wellbeing, and energy to folks devastated by battle and catastrophe. Based in 1933 on the name of Albert Einstein, the IRC is without doubt one of the world’s largest worldwide humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in additional than 40 international locations and greater than 25 U.S. cities serving to folks to outlive, reclaim management of their future and strengthen their communities. A drive for humanity, IRC staff delivers lasting affect by restoring security, dignity and hope to thousands and thousands. In case you’re a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come be part of us in positively impacting the lives of thousands and thousands of individuals world-wide for a greater future.

Technical Excellence and Grant Operations & Analytics Group

On the IRC, we outline and measure our success as constructive modifications in folks’s lives in relation to 5 end result areas: well being, training, financial wellbeing, security and energy, whereas serving to to slim the gender hole. To realize these outcomes – to drive our affect – our applications should be primarily based on the most effective out there proof and aligned with our theories of change; tailored to context; conscious of shopper wants and preferences; and repeatedly improved by producing proof, measuring what we do, and performing on what we study. The Technical Excellence (TechEx) crew helps the supply of this.

Established in April 2021, the Grant Operations & Analytics Group (GOAT) introduced collectively grants, enterprise growth, finance, and analytics features and employees from every TechEx Unit to 1 centralized crew to extend effectivity, effectiveness and high quality management throughout the division’s grants and enterprise operations. The first goal of this crew is to harmonize capability and capabilities and drive efficiencies by establishing constant, high-quality requirements and greatest practices to the service of improved budgeting, grants & contracts administration, partnership administration, enterprise growth, and knowledge assortment and analytics. GOAT strives to construct a various and inclusive crew in any respect ranges who as people, and as a bunch, create a working atmosphere characterised by essential reflection, energy sharing, debate, and objectivity for us to attain our aspirations as a crew and ship the very best service to our shoppers!

The Position:

The Sr. Officer, Finance & Partnerships is liable for offering oversight and day-to-day monetary administration of the companions (together with subcontractors) and supply help on monetary administration extra broadly. This place acts as the point of interest for monetary compliance of our partnerships, together with guaranteeing high-quality budgets, monetary studies, and monitoring. This place can also be liable for any monetary capability sharing, steerage and coaching to companions recognized all through the partnership.

Moreover, the position will probably be liable for offering the standard assurance of GOAT and TechEx funds, reviewing journal entries, program budgets, and month-to-month transactions. They’ll work with GOAT members by offering suggestions and monetary help, guaranteeing that every one monetary work is on the highest high quality.

Particular Tasks

Partnerships Finance (50%)

Promote Efficient Partnerships

o Promote and apply the IRC’s Partnership Excellence for Equality and Outcomes system (PEERS). Contribute to constructing a powerful understanding of PEERS all through TechEx, and to making sure the organizational ideas, expertise and approaches are utilized by employees throughout applications and tasks with companions.

o Facilitate systematic companion suggestions on IRC’s administration of the partnership relationship, together with the documentation of, and response to companion suggestions.

Program Supply

• Member of Partnership Working Group (PWG), and co-responsible for delivering the features of the PWG.

• Lead on monetary elements of the due diligence processes together with audit overview and finishing related tabs of the Associate Capability Evaluation (PCA) and collaborative partnership danger administration.

• Work collaboratively and supportively with companions to develop and finalize budgets and amendments, and (within the case of milestone-based partnership agreements) in figuring out the costing of every deliverable

• Evaluate draft partnership monetary settlement phrases.

• For cost-reimbursable partnership agreements, agree with companions the particular documentation required to help every sort of price, adjusting customary necessities to the working context and the companion.

• Work collaboratively with companions to make sure the well timed provision of funding to companions in accordance with the partnership settlement to make sure program continuity, guaranteeing clear communication with the companion and environment friendly decision the place for no matter cause this isn’t attainable.

• Take part in PCM, together with to overview successes, challenges, and classes discovered with the companion, and seize efficient finance practices for future partnerships.

• Collaborate with companions to make sure completeness, correctness, and accuracy of monetary studies and money requests.

• Evaluate companion monetary studies (and narrative studies for consistency) to make sure compliance with the partnership settlement, donor laws and IRC coverage, and supply suggestions to the companion as applicable.

• Monitor companion budgets and precise spending in collaboration with technical coordinators, figuring out points and dealing proactively and collaboratively with companions to resolve them.

• Take part in monitoring and reflection together with the main on the overview of companion monetary report help paperwork and figuring out applicable observe up actions.

• Help within the closeout of partnership agreements, together with in relation to monetary verification and asset affirmation.

• Take part within the overview of the efficiency of the companion, of the IRC, and of the partnership, together with successes, challenges and classes discovered.

Program Help & Capability Sharing

• Present finance and accounting coaching and mentoring help to companions, in accordance with companion challenge help plans, with a deal with supporting the companion to strengthen monetary administration methods and capacities which can be conscious of the wants of the companion (somewhat than replicating IRC’s methods and insurance policies).

• Coach, practice, and mentor inner with the intention of strengthening their technical capability, exchanging data throughout the crew and offering skilled growth steerage.

Different

• Some other duties as assigned by the Sr Partnership Adviser

Finance (50%)

Evaluate & Guarantee High quality Assurance of GOAT Funds

• Evaluate TechEx journal entries/bill journals in Integra (Microsoft Dynamics 365), guaranteeing that reclassifications are corrected earlier than submitting for approval from the Affiliate Director, Program Finance

• Evaluate program budgets in Integra earlier than submitting for approvals

• Evaluate award proposal budgets and realignments and procure approvals the Finance Dept for submission to donors

• Evaluate and approve of price middle accounting codes of all TechEx timesheets in TETRA (Time & Effort monitoring system), guaranteeing that HQ and nation program payroll will course of right price middle

• Help GOAT Sr. Finance Officer in monitoring nation program TechEx allocations (TU2%) and transactions, guaranteeing that our TU2% BvA is as correct as attainable

Monetary Administration

• Evaluate unrestricted bills month-to-month, getting ready reclassifications to right price middle coding errors

• Coordinate with reward processing within the fundraising departments, guaranteeing that TechEx presents are coded to the right accounting codes and budgets, guaranteeing that the funding is captured and budgeted

• Help in drafting the departmental Working Budgets by inputting monetary knowledge from numerous funding streams, guaranteeing that monetary knowledge align with restricted award spending plans.

• Put together and submit reclassifications as wanted.

Monetary Coaching & Help to GOAT

• Present coaching and steerage to GOAT employees on monetary points as wanted

• Work with the Pre and Publish Award crew to make sure that monetary and different inner processes are adopted

Key Working Relationships:

**Place Reviews to:**Senior Partnerships Adviser and the Deputy Director of Enterprise Operations

Place straight supervises: N/A

Different Inner and/or exterior contacts:

Inner:

• Common contact with Finance, Technical Items, International Provide Chain crew and the Awards Administration Unit

• Collaborate intently with nation program employees.

• Exterior: Work together with donors, companions, distributors, contractors, and consultants.

Job Necessities

• Minimal 4 years of progressive work expertise in a non-profit setting overseeing funds. Expertise with managing companions’ tasks funded by main institutional donors required.

• Expertise of working collaboratively with companions

• Expertise in coaching, capability constructing, and mentoring of employees, NGOs/CBOs.

• Glorious oral and written communication expertise, together with the flexibility to current to teams of all sizes; exhibiting tact, persistence, diplomacy, and applicable assertiveness

• Self-starter and solutions-oriented, with capability to work independently and a part of a crew.

• Demonstrated capability to work successfully below stress and deal with a number of simultaneous duties and calls for coming from a number of sources.

• Laborious-working, sharp and detailed oriented.

• Proficiency in MS Workplace software program suite together with Phrase, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

• Expertise working with databases and/or different monitoring methods.

• Fluency in English required, different language expertise a plus

Compensation:

Posted pay ranges apply to US and UK-based candidates. Ranges are primarily based on numerous components together with the labor market, job sort, inner fairness, and funds. Actual affords are calibrated by work location, particular person candidate expertise and expertise relative to the outlined job necessities.

US Advantages:

The IRC affords a complete and extremely aggressive set of advantages. All US staff are eligible for sick time, a 403b retirement financial savings plans: as much as 4.5% instantly vested matching contribution, plus an 3-7% extra IRC contribution, and an Worker Help Program which is offered to our employees and their households to help in occasions of disaster and psychological well being struggles.

As well as, full-time staff are eligible for 10 US paid holidays, 20-25 paid break day days, incapacity & life insurance coverage, medical, dental, and imaginative and prescient insurance coverage (worker contribution beginning at $135, $7, and $5 monthly respectively) and FSA for healthcare, childcare, and commuter prices. Half-time staff are eligible for a proportionate quantity of paid break day. These extra advantages apply to staff who work at the very least 6 months inside a 12 month time interval.

**Commonplace of Skilled Conduct:**The IRC and the IRC employees should adhere to the values and ideas outlined within the IRC Means – our Code of Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Accountability, and Equality.

Dedication to Gender, Equality, Range, and Inclusion: The IRC is dedicated to creating a various, inclusive, respectful, and secure work atmosphere the place all individuals are handled pretty, with dignity and respect. The IRC expressly prohibits and won’t tolerate discrimination, harassment, retaliation, or bullying of the IRC individuals in any work setting. We intention to extend the illustration of ladies, folks which can be from nation and communities we serve, and individuals who establish as races and ethnicities which can be under-represented in international energy buildings.

Methods to apply

https://careers.rescue.org/us/en/job/req51126/Sr-Officer-Finance-Partnerships

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