Pre-Award Officer

Background/IRC Summary:

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. 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. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home. IRC has been working in Pakistan for over 40 years, and manages & delivers large, complex programs to meet needs in health, education, protection, environmental health and livelihoods for displaced, poor & conflict-affected communities. IRC works in partnership with local government and non-governmental organizations and currently implementing a vast portfolio in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and Sindh provinces.

Job Overview/Summary:

Under the supervision of Senior Program Development Manager, Pre-Award Officer’s primary responsibility will be to assist the Pre-Award in day-to-day Flood Response program development related tasks in-country office.

Major Responsibilities:

• Assist Senior Program Development Manager in managing and coordinating grant application and pre-award processes. 
• Assist the Senior Program Development Manager in strategic and tactical discussions regarding the emergency funding opportunities. 
• Contribute to the internal approval processes of funding opportunities. 
• Maintains funding opportunity databases and track pending awards; track deadlines to ensure proposals are submitted on time. 
• Provide a smooth transition of grant to post-award through managing OTIS and other necessary documentation and communication. 
• Acquire and disseminate updated information regarding donor formats (concept note and proposal) and other donors’ related information. 
• Participating in project design meeting and preparing meeting minutes and action points. 
• Ensure that exemplar dedications at the design stage are addressed and documented for each proposal/CN. 
• Maintain and update opportunity tracker regularly •
• Support Senior Program Development Manager in maintaining donors’ scoping/mapping and keep donors’ engagement plan up to date 
• Work with dedication, integrity and accountability to the “IRC Way” – Global Standards for Professional Conduct. 
• Perform other duties, including administrative, as necessary and/or as requested.

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to: Senor Program Development Manager Position directly supervises: None September 2022

Job Requirements:

• Education: Master’s degree in social sciences, or relevant field. Work Experience: At least 1 (one) years of work experience on similar role Demonstrated Skills and Competencies: 
• Familiarity with budgeting using MS Excel 
• Good interpersonal skills •
• Excellent computer skills and competency in Word, Excel and PowerPoint; •
• Excellent drafting skills in English. • Clear and precise writing style. •
• Logical thinking. • Attention to detail. • Knowledge of logical framework,

Language Skills:

Good written and spoken English and Urdu skills; The IRC Core Values and Commitments. 

The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons. 

IRC is committed to ensuring that IRC staff is suitable to work with children and have the knowledge s/he needs to uphold and abide by the IRC’s Child Safeguarding Policy. 

IRC ensures that its staff must actively practice the roles and responsibilities related to client responsiveness, accountability to people in affected communities and must have competencies to solicits and listens to feedback and other’s perspectives, responds to feedback with maturity and sensitivity and takes appropriate decisions and makes changes to behavior or actions in response to feedback. 

IRC recognizes that gender equality is fundamental to the achievement of our organizational mission. As such, IRC is committed to the promotion of gender equality in all aspects of our operations and programs. Our organizational policies, procedures and actions demonstrate this commitment. Women candidates and persons with disability are highly encouraged to apply.