Program Officer, Communities and Governance Practice (NEW)

IREX is a global development and education organization. We strive for a more just, prosperous, and inclusive world-where individuals reach their full potential, governments serve their people, and communities thrive. With a projected annual portfolio of more than $150 million and more than 750 staff worldwide, we work with partners in more than 100 countries in four areas essential to progress: cultivating leaders, empowering youth, strengthening institutions, and increasing access to quality education and information.

The Program Officer will provide strategic, technical, financial, operational, administrative, and compliance support for program implementation and partner grant management for the USAID program and other programming related to mitigating online threats to women’s public participation. This includes contributing to work planning, budgeting, reporting, meetings and events, and communications, and providing oversight and support activities and deliverables, both for the program and partners. The Program Officer will build effective collaboration and communications across team members and partners to accomplish these goals.

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Your Background & Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in international development, international relations, or related field, master’s degree preferred.
• 3+ years of relevant experiences.
• Experience supporting international development programs, preferably interest in the areas of anti- GBV, women empowerment and leadership, and mitigating digital/online harms or women’s empowerment.
• Demonstrated activity management experience and experience managing multiple tasks at once.
• Experience with financial management, especially for complex budgets. Grant support experience preferred, especially for local organizations.
• Demonstrated research and writing experience in professional settings.
• Excellent writing and editing skills.
• Strong communications, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated cross-cultural sensitivity and commitment to inclusivity.
• Ability to work in a team environment, including team members in multiple time zones.
• Demonstrated organizational, time management, and work planning skills.
• Detail-oriented with ability to multitask and prioritize.
• Speaking, reading, and writing proficiency in English required.
• Proficiency in using Microsoft office products, especially Excel.
• Must demonstrate valid proof of unrestricted authorization to work in the United States.

Your Daily Tasks

• Contribute to program and partner work planning, budgeting, and reporting to support the delivery of high quality and timely program deliverables. Provide day-to-day support for program and partner activities and deliverables.
• Support financial management, including expenditure analysis, budget forecasting, and financial reporting.
• Conduct desk research on topics relevant to the Transform program and other initiatives mitigating online threats to women’s public participation.
• Draft knowledge products such as reports, articles, fact sheets, and other program deliverables.
• Convene, prepare for, and facilitate internal and external meetings, workshops, trainings, and events.
• Support program travel planning, events coordination, and partner/network management.
• Ensure program compliance with IREX policies and procedures and USAID regulations. Manage efficient and compliant procurement processes for the program.
• Support program start-up and close-out activities.
• Coordinate program visibility efforts and public communications as appropriate, including design of the program webpage, one-pagers, knowledge products, and more.
• Manage regular program updates to internal and external audiences. Draft internal and external communication materials including emails, memos, reports, presentations, meeting summaries, social media posts, and more.
• Lead on program reporting to the donor.
• Plan and execute internal and external activities and events.
• Coordinate program visibility efforts and public communications as appropriate, including design of the program webpage, one-pagers, knowledge products, and more.
• Manage regular program updates to internal and external audiences. Draft internal and external communication materials including emails, memos, reports, presentations, meeting summaries, social media posts, and more.
• Lead on program reporting to the donor.
• Plan and execute internal and external activities and events.
• Manage subawards with international, regional, and local partners, including monitoring of deliverables and processing of subaward payments through IREX internal systems.
• Provide business development support as needed.
• Support the management of the program budget within IREX budgeting systems, including analyzing projections versus actuals, forecasting, and recasting, both for IREX and subgrantees.
• Ensure that all fiscal and performance activities comply with IREX policies and procedures and funder regulations.
• Oversee procurement needs including background checks, vendor set up, and contract/agreement management in IREX’s internal systems.
• Oversee the solicitation of new vendors and the management of existing vendors by drafting consultancy postings and/or requests for proposals, drafting agreements, and managing contracts and agreements related to program work.
• May guide, mentor, train or coach other staff, as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

We conduct background checks on all successful candidates.

This position is eligible for Remote Work. The eligible employee is a regular, full-time DC-based staff who works from a worksite outside the DC area on a more permanent or ongoing basis.

This position is not eligible for Immigration Sponsorship.

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EOE – Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/vets.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
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