Regional Program Development Assistant (Africa and Asia)

Job Description

TERMS OF REFERENCE

Title: Regional Program Development Assistant (Africa and Asia)

Department: Regional Support Office (RSO), Africa and Asia

Location: Remote (Bangladesh & Pakistan - time-zone preferred)

Reporting to: Regional Program Development Manager (Africa & Asia)

* This role is classified as requiring advanced pre-employment checks

About Relief International

Relief International (RI) is a leading non-profit organization working in 16 countries globally to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises, and chronic poverty.

RI combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact and resilience. We focus on health/nutrition, education, economic opportunity, and water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) programming while integrating protection, environment/climate change, and conflict mitigation in partnership with the communities we serve. We empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.

RI includes the three corporate members of the RI Alliance: RI-US, RI-UK, and MRCA/RI-France. Under our alliance agreement, we operate as a single, shared management structure.

About our Programs

RI is active in 16 countries around the world, including some of the most fragile: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, and Yemen. Often, RI is the only organization providing assistance to highly vulnerable communities.

RI employs about 5,000 staff and auxiliary workers

97% of staff are local nationals and there are about 90 international (expat) staff.

RI receives funding from a broad range of institutional donors for humanitarian assistance supported by the US, UK, Europe, and the UN, to delivery life-saving and resilience building programming with communities and local and international partners. RI supports solutions that reinforce and improve upon existing in-country systems. Where such systems do not exist or are chronically underperforming, RI’s crisis response lays the foundation for long-term, sustainable change.

Position Summary

Relief International seeks a Programme Development Assistant (Africa and Asia) to support its programme development efforts across two regions – Africa and Asia. This position will be responsible for providing a wide range of administrative and proposal development support to the Regional Programmes Team including capture planning, programme development administration, programme development compliance, and proposal development.

The position will report to the Regional Programme Development Manager (Africa and Asia), and work closely with the Regional Programmes Unit, Regional Finance Unit, Awards Management unit, and the Africa and Asia country offices.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Search for new opportunities through various portals (US Government portals, European Union portals, United Nations Partners’ Portal (UNPP), and other institutional and non-institutional donor portals)
• Take full lead on the Go/no go process including organising meetings with relevant Go/No go attendees, record meeting notes and actions, circulating relevant documentations and fill out and circulate Go/No go forms
• Execute pipeline management actions through internal software, including SmartSheet and NetSuite (trainings will be provided)
• Execute actions related to internal compliance at proposal development stage, including but not limited to circulating documentation for signature (SF Forms, cost share memos, Teaming agreement and non disclosure agreements, and other partnership related documents)
• Maintain Relief International’s folder structure for developing and archiving proposals
• Copy/edit proposals for grammar and formatting as per donor’s guidelines as well as provide inputs in proposals in non-technical sections, as required.
• Execute submissions of proposals through donor platforms, as and when required
• Conduct research to support creation of documents to be prepared for donors, such as capacity statements, one/two pagers, boilerplate concept notes, etc.
• Assist in managing knowledge repositories and central programme development folders, ensuring easy access to critical information for staff and stakeholders.
• Support ad hoc tasks assigned by the supervisor or the Regional Programme Director, as required.

Other related tasks that may arise from time to time.

• Uphold and promote RI’s commitment to ensuring the safeguarding and safety of the vulnerable communities we serve.
• Consistent with RI’s safeguarding and protection policies, contribute to ensuring that all those who come into contact with Relief International staff and the communities we serve can be trusted to work safely with them
• Support and develop systems that create and maintain an environment that prevents sexual exploitation and abuse and promotes the implementation of the Code of Conduct and safeguarding policies.
• Work collaboratively with the Global Safeguarding Manager to advocate for the inclusion of safeguarding activities and resources within program
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge of donor requirements of safeguarding standards and protection from exploitation and abuse

Role requirements

Experience and skills required for the role.

• Bachelor’s degree – International development or related field preferred but not required
• At least one year experience of working with an NGO
• Familiarity and demonstrated experience working with institutional donors would be an asset
• Comfort with multi-tasking, and willingness to work a flexible schedule to accommodate competing deadlines
• Excellent coordination and communication skills: oral, written and editing
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to prioritize multiple responsibilities and meet deadlines
• Strong computer skills and experience with Microsoft Office applications, especially Word, Excel, Outlook, SharePoint and OneDrive
• Demonstrated ability to follow instructions and carefully review work for accuracy
• Ability to travel up to 10%, as needed

RI Values

Guided by the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence, as well as “Do No Harm,” Relief International Values:

We value

• Integrity
• Adaptability
• Collaboration
• Inclusivity
• Sustainability

Please apply immediately as we will be reviewing applicants on a rolling basis, therefore may withdraw the position for the job board closing date.

Please apply by uploading your cover letter and up-to-date CV on our website.

Due to limited resources, only short-listed candidates will be contacted

Relief International has a zero-tolerance policy for unlawful harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse. Relief International is committed to protecting our staff and the communities we work with from abuse and harm including sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and sexual harassment.

All staff are expected to abide by our Code of Conduct.

Recruitment to all roles in Relief International include a criminal records self-declaration, references and other pre-employment checks, which may include police and qualifications checks.

About the Organization

Relief International is an international non-profit organization that partners with communities impacted by conflict, climate change and disaster to save lives, build greater resilience and promote long-term health and wellbeing.

People living in fragile settings face complex, interconnected and deep-rooted crises that often tear a hole in the social fabric of communities. When this happens, our teams work closely with community leaders; first focusing on critical health needs, and then, as communities recover, focusing on both health and wellbeing programming that helps reweave the social fabric for greater resilience in the future.

Our team of more than 7,000 staff and local volunteers work in 15 countries across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, providing Health and Nutrition, WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene), Education and Livelihoods programming that is safe, truly local, conflict sensitive, climate smart, evidence based, and reaches those in need.

Relief International is a 60-year-old international NGO alliance that is the product of mergers and alliances between four organizations. Today, Relief International is comprised of Relief International, Inc., Relief International-France, Relief International-UK and Relief International-Europe, all of which are led by a single senior leadership team.