Awards, Partnerships & Project Management Lead

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Reporting to the Regional Project Director, the Awards, Partnerships & Project Management Lead is responsible for the operational backbone of the regional ECD portfolio. This encompasses the full lifecycle management of regional awards, the development and management of strategic partnerships, financial oversight, and project management. The role plays a critical part in ensuring smooth coordination and communication across IRC teams, partners, and donors at country, regional, and global levels, and contributes to business development efforts to sustain and grow the portfolio. The role directly manages an Awards & Project Manager and a Finance Coordinator, and may manage additional staff as the portfolio grows. Major Responsibilities Business Development Contribute to business development efforts to sustain and expand the portfolio, maintaining an active understanding of the public and private ECD funding landscape and flagging relevant opportunities to the Project Director in collaboration with the Regional Head of Business Development, Senior Support Manager for Private Partnerships, and Regional Technical Leads. Once funding opportunities are identified, lead the pre-award development process including Go/No-Go assessments, proposal design and coordination, budget development in close collaboration with the Finance Coordinator, and coordination of inputs from relevant internal and external stakeholders. Support regional and country teams with donor

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The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world's largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. A force for humanity, IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you're a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future. BACKGROUND The International Rescue Committee (IRC) helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC works with people forced to flee from war, conflict and disaster and the host communities that support them, as well as with those who remain within their homes and communities. In the MENA region (Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Libya, and Yemen) IRC responds to displaced people's acute and longer-term needs with integrated programs that improve health and safety, prioritize children's education, foster economic wellbeing, and empower communities to regain control over their lives. The IRC's MENA Early Childhood Development Portfolio The IRC's MENA Early Childhood Development (ECD) portfolio builds on over seven years of programming, starting with the Ahlan Simsim and Play to Learn initiatives, launched in 2018. These initiatives reached millions of children and caregivers with ECD services, generated a library of high-quality ECD content, and established a resource bank of proven program models. Partnerships with Ministries of Education, Health, and Social Development produced co-designed programs that are now embedded within government services across the region. The portfolio today spans multiple grants and donors across the MENA region, with an overarching aim of supporting the youngest children and their caregivers - particularly those affected by crisis and conflict - with high-quality, scalable, and sustainable interventions. Interventions target children directly and through their caregivers and communities. The portfolio also strengthens the capacity of the ECD workforce - including teachers, multi-sector facilitators, and health workers - advances national systems and policy through advocacy efforts, and delivers innovative digital technology solutions. The IRC works alongside key public and private stakeholders across health, protection, education, and economic recovery and development to co-design and expand partner-led interventions. For more information on the IRC's ECD work in the region, visit: https://www.rescue.org/ahlansimsim . The MENA regional ECD team manages core regional grants, supports country programs on country-specific awards, and actively contributes to business development efforts to expand programming reach, deepen impact, and mobilize resources from a growing base of public and private donors. The team also supports country programs in program quality and fidelity, content development, research and monitoring, policy, advocacy and communications, project and financial management, and digital technology solutions.

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