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Data Clerk (9 Months Non Renewable Contract)

Key Responsibilities.

• Participate actively in the enforcement of quality assurance, quality control and quality improvement measures for all program intervention.
• Support other RE:BUILD project staff members in registering clients using tablets, to program application database.
• support in the verification and cleaning of data to ensure compliance and avoidance of double servicing of clients within IRC programs and also within RE:BUILD implementing partners.
• Assist in verifying the accuracy of data collected at all stages of program implementation and ensure data entered into the Comm Care application is accurate and of good quality.
• Cooperate with the project team in developing and updating database and project indicator dashboards.
• Handle data collection during baseline surveys, end line surveys, follow-up surveys, business monitoring, and USLA monitoring exercises.
• Coordinate closely with program staff and management on targeting, data collection, data systems and information management.
• Support the Client Responsiveness Senior Officer in organizing and attending client and partners feedback sessions.
• Participate in M&E learning cycles and M&E capacity building workshops for project staff.
• Undertake any other duties as advised by the supervisor.

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Work with the other M&E staff to design and Implement Monitoring & Evaluation Plans.
• Conduct regular visits to project sites, as much as possible, to provide technical assistance and ensure proper monitoring of project activities.
• Work closely with Senior M&E Officer in the analysis and interpretation of data and in the creation of data exports and dashboards.
• Support the Senior M&E officer in preparing M&E monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports for the RE:BUILD management team and the donor, as needed and on-time.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Degree or Diploma in Information Systems, Database Management, Computer Science, or related field.
• At least 1 to 2 years of meaningful work experience in monitoring and evaluation, data management, data analysis, or similar livelihood programming.
• Experience handling data collection and analysis, with experience with or concrete knowledge of open-source tools such as ODK collect, KoBo Toolbox, or CommCare platforms.
• Experience in mobile data collection, entry & data cleaning with a large database would be an added advantage.
• Humanitarian organization experience preferred, or experience interacting with refugees or vulnerable youths.
• Experience conducting critical data analysis and report writing.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to develop relations with local counterparts, donors, and other collaborators.
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written.
• Fluency in English and Swahili required.

Business Development and Partnerships Senior Advisor

Job Overview: 

• The IRC’s Airbel Impact Lab designs, tests, and scales life-changing, cost-effective solutions for people affected by conflict and disaster. By applying the IRC’s deep technical expertise and field experience with multi-disciplinary problem-solving in humanitarian contexts, we work to develop breakthrough solutions. 
• Reporting to the Director of Finance and Operations, the Business Development & Partnerships Senior Advisor will drive Airbel’s partnerships and business development (BD) priorities with public and private donors. They will work in close collaboration with Airbel leadership, grants and strategy teams, and global and regional technical leaders to develop and implement a global fundraising strategy. This position will provide business development and program design support on proposals, focusing on both private and public donors, as well as cultivating strategic partnerships. Overall, the Business Development & Partnerships Senior Advisor is co-responsible with Airbel Senior Leaders for setting the BD strategy, crafting compelling proposals, and driving ultimate bid success through donor intel and positioning, strong bid submission, and effective cross-functional collaboration.

Major Responsibilities

Strategy and Capture

• Develop and drive a global donor funding strategy for Airbel in collaboration with Airbel & Global leadership.
• Serve as the main BD focal point for Airbel, coordinate knowledge sharing with fundraising departments, and provide accurate guidance to Airbel Senior Leaders for bid development.
• Develop and oversee pipeline of upcoming funding and partnership opportunities.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders to plan for staff needs and business development capacity requirements to successfully write and budget for winning proposals.
• Adapt, strengthen, and roll out new and existing fundraising tools and processes.
• Coordinate internal competition processes.
• Business Development and Program Design
• Lead proposal writing for Airbel-led proposals, ensuring overall quality, coherence and logic in project design, integration with other sectors as needed, meaningful engagement of partners, and adherence to IRC’s IMPACT quality standards and scale considerations.
• Review budgets to ensure consistency with the proposal design.
• Ensure Project Design Meetings take place on time and are of sufficient quality.
• Advance key decisions to senior leaders as relevant.

Partnerships Strategy

• Support defining and leading Airbel’s approach to partnerships including both global and local partnerships, ensuring successful pre- and post-award partnership operations.  
• Lead coordination to drive all aspects of partnership strategy and management for Airbel, with a strong focus on building effective partnerships with local civil society and other local actor organizations.
• Develop and evolve tools, processes and ways-of-working to be fit-for-purpose for Airbel-led projects and strategic priorities.
• Identify and evaluate opportunities for private sector partnerships required to effectively deliver the Airbel strategy both as part of but also outside specific BD opportunities.
• Identify and evaluate opportunities for partnerships with academic or research centers with a goal of identifying more research partnership opportunities from the global South.

Experience and Skills

Required Experience:

• Demonstrable experience leading proposal development for multi-million-dollar humanitarian and/or development projects
• Demonstrated success managing complex portfolios and winning large awards
• Experience with major public and private donors (USAID, BHA, FCDO, ECHO, etc.) 
• Track record of developing and implementing systems/processes across varied functional and technical program areas
• Experience building and negotiating partnerships, with understanding of localization and power-shifting trends

Required Skills:

• Strategic analysis and problem-solving using diverse data sources
• Ability to work independently and collaborate with remote, multicultural teams
• Stakeholder management and influence across organizational levels
• Strong project management and ability to balance competing priorities
• Fluency in English (French a plus)

BD Officer (Initiate)

The Purpose of the Role

To support IRC’s Initiate Funding strand in the recently launched global Business Development strategy. This new, entrepreneurial strand of work includes driving a major institutional funding campaign for IRC’s cross-organizational Movement Against Malnutrition and implementing innovative approaches for proactive public BD focused on IRC’s most important program priorities (known as “Impact @ Scale priorities”) across sectors including outcomes within health, education and economic wellbeing.

Working with the Director, the Initiate Funding Officer will bring their rounded and flexible capacity to develop and deliver this new area of the BD strategy. This will include establishing effective positive working relationships and standards of collaboration with colleagues across the organization, including AMU, International Division (CRRD), Private fundraising and with policy and advocacy teams.

The role will support in building an operational approach and developing a portfolio of tools and assets that allow IRC to proactively and effectively position our work and engage with donors to proactively pursue these priority outcome areas.

Major Responsibilities

Strategy

• In collaboration with the Initiate Funding Director establish the new Initiate team, define ways of working and set up structures to support successful delivery of the Initiate strand of the Public Funding Strategy
• Lead on specified Initiate actions from the Public Funding Strategy
• In collaboration with the Initiate Funding Director mobilize and influence engagement with the Initiate strategy across the organization. Working across IRC regions, technical units, public business development, private funding and advocacy.

BD Global Public Funding for Movement Against Malnutrition (MAM)

• Coordinate tracking and support the delivery of business development plans for MAM.
• In collaboration with the Initiate Funding Director and Donor Engagement colleagues, prepare materials to enable effective donor engagement and influence for MAM business development.
• Represent the IRC at external meetings, events, and forums as appropriate.
• Develop regular updates on BD activities, including communicating success and developing learnings to key internal stakeholders.
• Coordinate meetings and action plans between different stakeholders within IRC, including private and public fundraising to support the achievement of MAM funding goals.
• Lead analysis and maintain relevant data on donor strategies, peer activity and priorities in relation to malnutrition.
• Facilitate the dissemination of content for MAM with global, regional and country-based colleagues to contribute to effective MAM fundraising

BD for Priority Program Outcomes:

• Lead on competitive analysis, partner mapping and analysis of donor priorities across 5 priority program outcome areas.
• Coordinate across technical, geographic, and Donor Engagement team to develop, relevant materials and tools to support strong and effective priority outcomes for BD.
• Monitor and report on BD progress against Initiate objectives and Impact @ Scale priorities and targets.
• With the Director, ensure effective resourcing with bid leads (long-term funding or foundational) on the development of proactive bids.
• Support the development of proactive bids- including unsolicited BD- for priority outcomes.
• Establish and document effective BD processes for the initiate funding strand, including positioning, capture and unsolicited funding responses, involving relevant geographic, technical and BD collaborators.

Program coordination with Technical Teams (Tech Ex):

• Facilitate coordination of the technical units strategic pipeline, enabling strong routines to deliver on IRC’s BD strategy and the technical unit strategies for Business Development
• Plan and convene regular strategic pipeline reviews and planning across HQ program units.
• Coordinate the pipeline of unsolicited and globally flexible bid opportunities, in coordination with Business Development and Donor Engagement focal points, including supporting internal competition processes as appropriate.

Public and Private funding collaboration:

• Establish regular coordination with private fundraising colleagues as a priority in the new Global Business Development strategy
• Advise on systems to strengthen the interoperability of IRC systems between AMU and External Relations (Private funding), including the use of program assets and materials, process and pipelines and data.

Flexible support for BD technical assistance to teams across IRC.

• Develop and improve relevant BD tools, guidelines, learnings and training.
• Provide flexible support to the BD Associate as required in systematic improvements to the BD process manual and its roll-out.

Job Requirements

Skills, Knowledge and Qualifications:

Please note that diversity of experience counts (i.e., paid and volunteer work; lived experiences; transferable skills from another industry etc.)

• Experience in humanitarian or development business development, donor relations, policy or advocacy or a combination of these.
• Knowledge of having worked with humanitarian and development donors, including in US and/or European markets
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills, including development of briefing documents.
• Ability to prioritize and positively collaborate in a fast paced and changing environment with multiple partners.
• Good analytical skills and first-class attention to detail. Experience undertaking reviews of policies and reports, producing associated written and verbal guidance to relevant staff.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work as part of team.

Preferred Experience & Skills

• Relevant additional language skills, particularly French or Spanish

Finance Officer

Key Responsibilities

Field Finance Reporting and Auditing.

• Responsible for preparation of non-PO invoices journals and submission to the workflow for review and approval.
• Coordinate with Human resources department to ensure the incentive payroll is timely submitted to Finance by 20th of every Month for review and proper allocation is done to ensure the available grants are proportionately charged.
• Responsible for running the balance sheet accounts and reconciling in a timely manner. Follow up and monitor outstanding Advances and Payables for timely liquidation.
• Any long outstanding balances to be brought to the attention of the Finance Manager for further action.
• Support the Audit focal person during Audit procedures by Internal and External Auditor.
• Ensure all program advances are accounted for as per advance policy.
• Review and confirm the filling system is properly organized in the folder for easy accessibility and reference.
• Review of taxation schedule for per-diem prepared by Finance Assistant to ensure the information is properly captured and accurate before submission to Nairobi for payroll deduction by due date.
• Support Finance Manager in preparing BVA/Monitoring and participated during BVA review meeting.

Integra System Payment Processing.

• Reviewed and ensure approved vendor invoices and non-invoice processed by Finance Assistant are posted on integra system.
• Review and ensure that all supporting documents are fully signed and sequentially filed.
• Coordinate with all relevant staff to ensure that the outstanding POs are invoiced and accurately paid in time.
• Create and Upload Dynad journals entries arising from balance sheet account reconciliations and any other reclasses and submit to Finance Manager.
• Prepare payment Journal greater > USD 10K of invoice including incentive payroll and payment journals and submit to the workflow for approval and ensure timely posting and settlement is done.

Bank & Cash management.

• Responsible for reviewing bank reconciliation statement prepared by finance assistant to ensure its accuracy.
• Work with relevant departments to provide the necessary information to help us develop accurate cash forecasts and ensure adequate cash is available for field operations.
• Monitoring cash usage, requirements and regularly informing finance manager or field coordinator on the liquidity position.
• Review and ensure MPESA payment statement is reconciled with Integra Mobile money account and report unreconciled item to finance manager and relevant staff.

Staff Support, Training, and management.

• Daily supervision and review of other tasks of finance assistant for efficiency & effectiveness.
• Support the finance manager to create and sustain a healthy finance team environment of mutual respect and accountability where team members strive to achieve excellence.
• Provide integra users/members with capacity support, information, tools, and other resources to improve performance and achieve team/organizational objectives.
• Provide other support to volunteers, interns and other staff as may be necessary.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or CPA II.
• Computer literate with significant experience in excel, accounting packages & Integra accounting system will be an added advantage.
• The candidate should be mature, with a stable personality and ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Minimum working experience of 3 years in the same capacity.
• Knowledge of Excel and ERP system an added advantage.
• Working knowledge of accounting software such as Microsoft 365 a plus.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines and be well organized.
• Ability to carry out work with a high degree of integrity and maintain confidentiality.
• Strong communication skills.
• Any other duties as may be assigned by supervisor.
• Be adaptable and flexible with a view to taking on new tasks and new assignments in due course.

Method of Application

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• Data Clerk (9 Months Non Renewable Contract)
• Business Development and Partnerships Senior Advisor
• BD Officer (Initiate)
• Finance Officer