Economic Empowerment Project Lead

Lead the Economic Empowerment project for refugees and migrants in Poland with the International Rescue Committee, focusing on partnership management and program implementation.

• Identify, assess, and select implementing partners (local organizations, institutions, service providers) in line with organizational procedures.
• Negotiate and manage partnership agreements (sub-grants/sub-contracts), including scope of work, budgets, and indicators.
• Conduct regular partner performance reviews and support partners in strengthening organizational capacity.
• Ensure partner compliance with donor requirements, safety and safeguarding standards, and organizational policy.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for partners on operational and strategic matters.
• Resolve disputes and issues with partners in a constructive and timely manner.
• Oversee day-to-day project delivery in line with approved work plans, timelines, and scope.
• Coordinate across technical, operational, and support teams to ensure coherent delivery of activities.
• Identify implementation risks and bottlenecks and propose corrective actions.
• Ensure timely delivery of project outputs in line with donor and organizational quality standards.
• Prepare and update implementation plans (work plans, procurement plans, spending plans).
• Lead regular project team coordination meetings and report progress to the Head of Program.
• Oversee the implementation of MEAL frameworks across projects, including logframes and indicators.
• Ensure regular collection, verification, and analysis of data on indicator progress.
• Coordinate midline and endline evaluations, as well as project reviews.
• Implement community accountability mechanisms, including complaints and feedback mechanisms (CFM).
• Foster a culture of learning: document good practices and lessons learned and use them to inform program adaptation.
• Ensure the quality of data reported to donors and compliance with their monitoring requirements.
• Prepare, monitor, and update project budgets in coordination with the finance team.
• Conduct regular Budget vs. Actuals (BvA) reviews and take corrective action in case of variances.
• Manage the process of budget reallocations and project modifications (no-cost extensions, budget amendments).
• Ensure expenditure compliance with donor rules and the organization's financial policies.
• Support partners in managing their sub-budgets and review partner financial reports.
• Contribute to budget preparation for new grant proposals.