Partnership Finance Manager – Haiti

The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and can help people to endure and rebuild their lives. Established in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, IRC provides lifetime-saving care and everyday living-switching guidance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At operate today in much more than 40 nations and in 22 U.S. metropolitan areas, IRC restores security, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted by conflict or catastrophe. IRC potential customers the way from hurt to home.

The IRC worked in Haiti from 2010 as a result of 2016, in the beginning launching an unexpected emergency reaction to the earthquake and later delivering boy or girl safety, water and sanitation, overall health, women’s defense and empowerment, and financial recovery plans in Port-au-Prince and past. Since the closure of its place place of work in 2016, the IRC has continued to present operational, specialized, and fiscal help to a modest amount of Haitian NGO associates, together with in response to the 2021 earthquake. The IRC is scaling up its aid to spouse-led packages in Haiti. Applications will reply to the new escalation of violence in Port-au-Prince and the ensuing increase in humanitarian requirements related to cholera, foods insecurity, safety, and displacement. The IRC will perform with regional actors with the knowledge and capability to supply crisis products and services in afflicted communities, then build collaborative partnerships to fund, enhance, and scale the function of these companies. Technological gurus from IRC’s Emergency Reaction Group (ERT) will function closely with associates on the design and shipping of applications.

Career Overview

The Partnerships Finance Manager is a critical posture that offers assist to IRC partners’ courses in Haiti. The place will spend roughly 80% of time giving economical oversight for IRC’s sub-awardees. The placement will be liable for capacity creating for sub-awardees to establish their monetary management and administrative capability. The Partnerships Finance Supervisor will evaluation sub-awardee budgets at the proposal phase, take part in pre-award due diligence processes, document all financial matters related to sub-awardees’ finances to assure audit readiness, and manage sub-awardee finance files/experiences together with funds evaluation, financial report critique, and offering guidance and instruction similar to finance to sub-awardees in get to reinforce their capacity. The Partnerships Finance Supervisor functions as the focal level for money and compliance areas of sub-awards, which includes making sure large-high-quality economic checking of sub-awardees. The remaining 20% of time will be spent supporting finance processes for IRC’s internal operations.

This posture reviews to the Head of Office environment, with a specialized reporting line to the Emergencies & Humanitarian Motion Unit (EHAU) finance direct.

Distinct Obligations

Companion Money Administration

• Participate in the Lover Ability Assessment (PCA) of likely companions as essential and contribute to initiatives to collaboratively review and manage materials pitfalls identified.

• Get the job done collaboratively and supportively with associates to create and finalize budgets and price range amendments, and (in the case of milestone-based partnership agreements) in figuring out the costing of milestones.

• Evaluate draft partnership settlement terms relating to advancements, reporting and any unique ailments relating to finance.

• For cost-reimbursable partnership agreements, concur with partners the certain documentation necessary to guidance each and every style of cost, adjusting typical necessities to the running context and the companion.

• Take part in Partnership Challenge Opening, Critique and Closure Conferences, such as to overview successes, troubles, and classes acquired with the associate, and capture helpful finance tactics for potential partnerships.

• Work collaboratively with associates to make certain the well timed provision of funding to companions in accordance with the partnership agreement to assure method continuity, making sure obvious conversation with the spouse and effective resolution wherever for regardless of what explanation this is not attainable.

• Collaborate with partners to ensure completeness, correctness, and accuracy of economic reports and cash requests.

• Assessment associate fiscal studies (and narrative reports for consistency) and supporting documents to be certain compliance with the partnership arrangement, donor rules and IRC coverage, and supply responses to the lover as acceptable.

• Watch partner budgets and genuine spending in collaboration with specialized coordinators, pinpointing difficulties and operating proactively and collaboratively with partners to resolve them.

• Guide timely and powerful finance evaluation and reflection (checking), pinpointing suitable follow up actions, and providing done experiences to Partnership Guide.

• Help in the close-out of partnership agreements, including in relation to monetary verification and asset confirmation.

• Take part in the critique of the effectiveness of the associate, of the IRC, and of the partnership, together with successes, issues and classes figured out.

• Review partners’ internal procedure of history retention to ensure compliance with IRC coverage and the area laws.

• Be certain associates have enough processes for retention of paperwork, right and systematic submitting for relieve of obtain.

• Main member of the Partnerships Functioning Group (PWG), actively participate in all conferences.

Lover Aid & Capacity Sharing

• Supply finance and accounting schooling and mentoring aid to partners, in accordance with partner undertaking assist designs, with a concentrate on supporting the associate to bolster fiscal administration techniques and capacities that are responsive to the desires of the lover.

Inner Economical Administration

• Conduct financial evaluation of Obtain Requests (PRs) and bid investigation making sure correctness of coding, availability of resources and IRC processes.

• Execute cost evaluate of payments, vacation, and developments to be certain adequacy of supporting documentation and compliance with IRC policies and techniques.

• Make sure everyday monitoring of response fees in excel with the assist of a committed ERT DDF or EHUA Finance

• Overview and consolidate funds projections submitted for equally husband or wife and IRC operations guarantee that timely funds transfer to the associates and industry workplaces.

• Evaluate money, financial institution and other journal entries for completeness and accuracy prior posting.

• Ensure spouse associated expenses, advances and application costs are submitted to EHAU Finance to uploading into Integra.

• Do the job carefully with EHAU Finance to reconcile response linked balances.

• Be certain PowerBi stories for partner price range, spending and paying out options are reviewed and shared with stakeholders.

• Find EHAU Finance steering on accounting and inner command difficulties

Other

• Any other relevant duties as assigned by the Head of Workplace

Task Necessities:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, finance, or any relevant subject.

• Bare minimum 5 yrs of progressive perform knowledge in a non-gain environment overseeing and controlling money factors of jobs funded by key institutional donors.

• In depth expertise of donor policies and laws, and related administrative guidelines and needs related with funding. Expertise of BHA is an gain.

• Practical experience in and enthusiasm for training, capability building, and mentoring of NGOs and CBOs in finance difficulties.

• Outstanding oral and created communication competencies, which include the potential to existing to groups of all sizes.

• Self-starter with ability to function independently and portion of a staff.

• Established capability to produce in a advanced and rapid-paced context, and manage a number of simultaneous tasks and demands coming from a number of sources.

• Remarkable interpersonal expertise tact, endurance, diplomacy, and proper assertiveness.

• Proficiency in MS Business software package suite – like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

• Experience operating with databases and/or other tracking techniques.

• Fluent in French and Haitian Creole. Proficiency in English is an advantage.

Doing the job Environment: This place is dependent in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

The IRC and IRC personnel will have to adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way – Benchmarks for Expert Carry out. These are Integrity, Company, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces guidelines on Beneficiary Defense from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.