Appel d’offres : Comité International de Secours (IRC) recherche un Spécialiste des subventions (H/F), Etats-Unis.

 

 

 

 

Major Responsibilities:

Development and Grants Management

Prospecting :

  • Represent NorCal offices in all regional opportunities, particularly for restricted funding, in close coordination with Executive Director, Site Directors, Development Director, Technical Advisors, relevant program leads, and grant coordinators.

Proposal Development (Pre-Award) :

  • Lead concept note, proposal, and budget development, including ensuring logframes, program design, and narrative meet high quality standards in coordination with Programs/Site directors, Finance Director, and headquarters’ Resource Acquisition and Management (RAM), and ensure all supporting documentations in the applications are up to date;
  • Coordinate with RAM and Finance to ensure partners (i.e. potential subawardees) are vetted and agreements are developed and signed according to IRC’s Partnership Excellence for Equality and Results System (PEERS) pre-award protocols.

Grants Management (Post-Award)

  • Lead negotiation and agreements stage with donors and ensure contract terms are communicated with Finance and Programs through grant kick off meetings and recorded in Asana project tracking;
  • Modify final budgets as requested by donor and Site Director/program lead and communicated with NorCal Finance and RAM to ensure incoming restricted funds will be tracked;
  • Lead post-award PEERS process to ensure subawardees’ contracts are drafted with detailed information on scope of work, deliverables, fund disbursement, and monitoring plans in coordination with the partners and program staff, and in compliance with Finance and RAM.

Supervision & training:

  • Provide leadership and management of grants team across Northern California to ensure all offices are covered and team workload is managed in a way that respects and promotes work life balance and professional growth.

Systems & Accountability:

  • Maintain proposal calendar, pipelines, grants tracking, and regularly update senior management with up-to-date data;
  • Ensure the go/no-go review process of opportunities are consistently applied and strengthened by working with senior management to ensure proposals are of high quality and grants staff are at capacity;
  • Ensure continuous improvement on the utilization of Asana to track opportunity pipelines, award management, and reporting in coordination with senior management, Finance, and program staff;
  • Establish and continuously update a Standard of Practice (SOP) for Grants staff in coordination with NorCal’s Finance team and headquarters’ Resource Acquisition and Management (RAM);
  • Leverage regular communications with Finance, RAM, and individual NorCal office to improve SOP and workflow.

Secondary duties:

  • Support donor reporting on an as needed basis.

Key Working Relationships:

  • Position Reports to: Development Director
  • Position Supervises: All grants team members across NorCal

  • Indirect Reporting: Executive Director
    Other Internal and/or External Contacts:

    • Internal: Director of Finance, NorCal Site Directors, NorCal Program Managers & Coordinators, Technical Advisors, HQ Resource Acquisition and Management department;
    • External: Foundations and public funders at city, county, state, and federal levels.

Job Requirements:

Education:

  • Master’s Degree in nonprofit management, community development, social sciences, social work, or related fields, or demonstrated work experience of similar knowledge.
  • Certification or continuing education in project management, proposal development and/or fundraising a strong plus.

Work Experience:

  • Three+ years of nonprofit or public sector experience in development and grants
  • Three+ years of experience in a supervisory role

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

  • Excellent writing, research, and organizational skills;
  • Familiarity with grants process of government funding agency(ies) (federal, state, or county/city level);
  • Familiarity with the Northern California non-profit/philanthropy environment a plus;
  • Familiarity and comfort working with budgets and finance departments;
  • Ability to work autonomously in their scheduling and prioritizing within tight deadlines and focused on the work product;
  • Self-directed but with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work well within a team;
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications: Word, Excel, Outlook, and project management tools, e.g. Asana;
  • Experience in IRC systems of PEERS and OTIS a plus (for IRC internal candidates).

Language Skills:

  • Excellence in written and spoken English

Working Environment:**

  • Standard hybrid office environment (this is not a fully remote position);
  • Occasional travel to other regional sites (Oakland, Sacramento, San Jose, Turlock/Modesto) required.

Applications deadline : 19th February 2023

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