IRC (International Rescue Committee) Germany is looking for a

 

Senior Advisor, German Development & Global Donor Engagement (f/m/d)

Berlin or Remotely Germany-wide | as soon possible

full-time | 2 years

 

About Us

IRC Germany was founded and is involved in the areas of education, economic wellbeing, and safety, legal protection, and empowerment throughout Germany.

AMU has responsibility for identifying, securing and managing all funding from government donors for the IRC. AMU is a bridge between donors and the IRC’s work on the ground. The team provides expert technical advice to colleagues delivering our services around the world, ensures consistency and compliance with our donors’ policies and procedures, and manages risk. The unit also supports all IRC staff working on awards from government donors and partnerships.

The Senior Advisor will work closely with the Director of European Donor Engagement, with Executive Leadership in IRC Germany and across IRC. The role will have primary responsibility for German Development donor engagement and growth. This will include serving as a donor focal point to ensure the coordination of relevant materials, information and knowledge management is shared across IRC’s BD and awards teams.

The Senior Advisor will support the development and implementation of strategies for proactive donor and partner relationships with German Development donors. The role will work closely with technical and proposal development teams who will provide the operational BD capacity to secure significant growth in its funding portfolio, and it will liaise closely with the GFFO donor advisor, relevant senior staff in IRC program regional BD and program and award teams and with IRC Germany.

Major Responsibilities

      Reporting to the Director of European Donor Engagement, the role will coordinate, develop, track and deliver comprehensive business development strategic plans for relevant German development donors, with emphasis on BMZ and KfW (secondary priority GIZ). These will be based on sound research, data generation and analysis for priority donors in the engagement portfolio.      Working with compliance, regional and technical staff the role will review, look at due diligence and management of new German Development Donors (or as required) other global donors assessment processes as identified.     Manage the development of plans for German Development donor engagement across the organization.     Through the use of IRC’s preferred CRM, Salesforce, plan, track and maintain a register of German development donor engagement at country, regional and global levels; triangulate information at different levels and ensure staff are well briefed and consistent in their donor engagement and influence.     Serve as the primary German Development Donor focal point for business development and awards support teams. Working with BD teams ensure bid specific German Development donor engagement at the global level is well managed and supported.     Support the development of materials to ensure those engaging with German development donors are well equipped to deliver concrete outcomes.     Proactively identify and broker relationships with key officials and stakeholders.     Maintain up-to-date knowledge of German development donor strategies relevant to IRC’s work, such as funding priorities, geographical interests and political climate, providing analyses and synopses of press releases, policies and other announcements, and disseminating this information internally.     Support the Director, European Donor Engagement to develop and improve German Development donor tracking tools and resources to support engagement and relationship building.     Coordinate all globally and technically flexible BD opportunities to identify strategic, donor responsive bid decisions.     Conduct and manage internal competition process to select which concept IRC will put forward to a donor in the event the IRC faces a limit on the number of applications.     Develops and facilitates a pipeline and presentations where necessary on the status global opportunities.     Working with Director, European Donor Engagement provide effective support to new or emerging donors, including as required, due diligence assessment, information gathering and analysis, donor engagement strategy and direct oversight of donor engagement plans.

Your Profile

Significant experience of working with organizations that engage closely and directly with German Development donors. Strong working understanding of the German political environment and trends relevant to German Development donors, and knowledge of their structure, priorities, and financing mechanisms Strong networking, influencing and collaboration approaches, in a large organizational setting Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills, including development of influential reports and briefing documents. Ability to work well under pressure in a fast paced and changing environment with multiple stakeholders Ability to lead and manage projects, including working as part of remote/virtual teams. Good analytical skills and first-class attention to detail. Experience Undertaking reviews of policies and reports, producing associated written and verbal guidance relevant to senior and operational staff. Excellent interpersonal skills. Ability to collaborate with others and work as part of team. Experience of working in developing countries, preferably in the context of a European donor, NGO or International Organization. Understand programmatic and financial contractual arrangements with donors and partners, including experience of negotiating with donors. You have German and English language skills at C1 level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CERF)

What We Offer

     Meaningful work in a multi-cultural team     A starting salary of 70,000 EUR gross per year as well as a Merit annual salary increase     Attractive benefits for employees such as gym membership, company pension plan, job bike leasing, Deutschland ticket and special leave days     30 days of annual leave     Flexible hybrid-work options (working hours, office/homebased)     Training and development opportunities.

As an organization committed to an empowering and inclusive work environment, we avoid any form of discrimination. We welcome applications from people regardless of their national origin, gender, sexual orientation, disability status or age and strongly encourage applications from candidates with a history of migration and resettlement. We believe in fair and equal treatment of all applicants and therefore kindly ask you to refrain from including photos in your application documents.

Please submit your complete application documents via our application portal

·       Please answer the questions on the application portal (no cover letter needed), and then attach

·       curriculum vitae (max. 2 pages),

·       at least three references

Unfortunately, we cannot consider applications submitted by e-mail.

If you have any questions, also on the topic of inclusion, please do not hesitate to contact Domtillah Herbrand (HR.Deutschland@rescue.org).

 

Please submit your application by 12.11.2024

 

The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. On this basis, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Client Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.

 

You can find more information about IRC Germany at IRCDeutschland.de.

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