Program Development 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 and disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore 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 approximately 40 years, managing and delivering large, complex programs to meet the needs in health, education, safeguarding, environmental health and livelihoods for displaced, poor and disaster affected communities. With the support of the federal and provincial governments, and generous donors like FCDO, ECHO, USAID, GAC and Australian Aid Agencies the IRC is currently implementing projects across the country.

Job Overview/Summary: The person will work under the direct supervision and guidance of the Program Development Manager and provide support in development process of concepts and proposals, tracking potential funding opportunities that further IRC Pakistan’s Country Program Strategic Plan, program/ sector specific capacity statements and the relevant program sector strategies.

Major Responsibilities:

·         Under the mentorship of Program Development Manager, identify and track new business opportunities.

·         Assist Program Development Manager in preparing opportunity analysis for Internal Go/No-Go process and document feedback from all SMT members

·         Draft timelines for the proposal/concept note development and ensures proposal development checklist is followed Assist Program Development Manager in proposal development through collecting secondary data on sector- specific needs, contextual analysis, stakeholder analysis

·         Acquire and disseminate updated information regarding donor formats (concept note and proposal)

·         and other donors’ related information.

·         Assist in organizing meetings for proposal development when required. Preparing meeting minutes and action points.

·         Ensure that exemplar dedications at the design stage are addressed and documented for each proposal/concept note

·         Support Program Development Manager to keep OTIS workflow up to date, review OTIS opportunities and upload all related documents

·         Maintain and update opportunity tracker regularly

·         Support 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: Program Development Manager

Position directly supervises: None

Job Requirements:

Education: Master 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.

Level of interaction with children: Frequent direct contact with children

·  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, minorities group and person with disability are highly encouraged to apply.