# Grants, Partnerships and Communications Coordinator

**Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
**Location**: Bogota
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Non-Profit

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## Description

The Grants, Partnerships and Communications Coordinator will lead resource mobilization and the timely production of high-quality funding proposals, modification requests and donor reports; play a lead role in the full award management cycle, including compliance; facilitate partnership development and management processes; lead the communications strategy that positions the IRC's work with donors, partners and the public and protects the organization's reputation; and coordinate grants management-related capacity building efforts among IRC staff and partners.

**Business Development and Resource Mobilization:**

- Lead the development and annual update of a resource mobilization strategy for IRC Colombia and Venezuela

- Manage the funding pipeline: investigate and track funding opportunities, maintain an up-to-date pipeline tracker, and regularly report on its status to country leadership

- Lead the Go/No-Go analysis for each opportunity, assessing strategic fit, competitiveness, implementation capacity, risks, cost recovery and compliance requirements

- Drive donor diversification and positioning beyond traditional institutional donors

- Lead program design workshops for new business development opportunities

- Develop, lead, and track proposal development processes

**Grants/Sub-Grants Management:**

- Ensure that IRC awards and sub-awards in Colombia and Venezuela are well-administered and implemented in compliance with the relevant donor regulations and IRC procedures

- Lead award start-up, including grant summaries and kick-off meetings

- Lead the review and negotiation of grant and sub-grant agreements

- Coordinate award modifications, including cost and no-cost extensions, budget realignments and changes in scope

- Take the lead on internal and external reporting

- Maintain award tracking systems, including the grants tracker, reporting and deadline calendars and award dashboards

**Partnerships Management:**

- Play a lead role in stakeholder analysis and potential partner mapping and vetting

- Identify, liaise on, and negotiate teaming arrangements with potential partners

- Ensure and coordinate adherence to IRC's Partnership Excellence for Equality and Results System (PEERS)

- Co-lead the review of the performance of different partnerships

- Support country leadership in promoting an enabling environment for effective work in partnership

**Staff management and capacity building:**

- Maintain a broad and deep understanding of donor policies, regulations, and procedures and build this knowledge among grants team members

- Build grant management capacity of field staff, and provide supportive supervision

- Maintain open and professional relations with team members, promoting a strong team spirit and providing oversight and guidance

**Communications:**

- Lead the development and implementation of a communications strategy for IRC Colombia and Venezuela

- Ensure consistent and appropriate use of the IRC brand across materials, events, field sites and partner activities

- Lead Colombia and Venezuela's efforts in designing, writing and editing key communication materials

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## Skills

### Required
- grant management
- partnership development
- communications strategy
- donor relations
- compliance

### Nice to have
- ECHO
- Sida
- GFFO
- UN agencies
- OCHA-managed pooled funds

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