# Grants & Partnership Coordinator

**Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
**Location**: Bujumbura
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Non-profit

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## Description

The Grants & Partnership Coordinator is responsible for resource mobilisation, proposal development, and coordinating the management of IRC Burundi's grants portfolio.

**Business and Proposal Development (30%)**

- Identify new funding opportunities by tracking and analysing donor strategies and funding trends

- Support effective internal communication and information management processes

- Lead the tracking and analysis of the country program's opportunity pipeline

- Work with the DDP, national technical coordinators, and regional colleagues to identify international partners and negotiate the IRC's role in proposal consortiums

- Support country team staff in developing and maintaining key relationships with donors, partner organisations, and private sector actors

**Grants and Information Management (15%)**

- Coordinate the management of IRC Burundi's grants portfolio

- Serve as the focal point for communications with headquarters on all grants and partnership administration functions

- Review donor agreements and coordinate their review and signature with the relevant headquarters offices

- Lead and/or support all project revisions, amendments, and budget realignments

**Partnership Management (15%)**

- Actively contribute to the relevant sections of the Partner Capacity Analysis (PCA) and to the development of resulting partner support plans

- Coordinate the implementation of IRC Burundi's partnership strategy and partnership ambitions

- Support the Partnerships Manager in facilitating IRC Burundi's Partnership Working Group

**Donor Compliance (15%)**

- Provide Programs and Operations teams with day-to-day technical guidance to ensure all grants are implemented in accordance with IRC and donor regulations

- Coordinate with headquarters on specialised compliance issues

- Proactively flag potential compliance issues to senior management

**Reporting (10%)**

- Oversee the development and submission of all internal and external reports

- Maintain a comprehensive reporting tracker and communicate regularly with relevant team members about upcoming deadlines and the specific requirements of each report

**Departmental Leadership and Staff Management (15%)**

- Lead the Grants and Partnerships units and provide staff with professional development opportunities

- Ensure a clear delineation of roles and responsibilities and a logical distribution of the portfolio among team members

- Coordinate performance management within the department and foster a high-performance culture

**Job Requirements**

- Significant experience in humanitarian grants management within a multi-donor, multi-sectoral environment

- Demonstrated experience in an inter-departmental coordination role

- Extensive experience leading the development of large-scale, multi-sectoral funding proposals

- Advanced skills in writing and compiling donor reports

- In-depth knowledge of institutional donor compliance required

## Skills

### Required
- grants management
- proposal development
- donor compliance
- partnership management
- reporting
- leadership

### Nice to have
- French
- MS Office suite
- artificial intelligence tools

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