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Assistant Programme Officer, Europe

2 weeks ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom Mercy Corps Full time

**Location: Edinburgh, London, UK, or NL**

**Position Status: Full-Time**

**Duration: open terms (note that NL contracts start with 6 months contract renewable to open terms)**

**Salary range**:Edinburgh: 18K-21,9K; London: 21K-25.6K; NL: 25.9K - 31.5K***

**The applicant must have the independent right to live and work at the location of assignment (ie., not require visa sponsorship)**

**About Mercy Corps**:
Mercy Corps is powered by the belief that a better world is possible. To do this, we know our teams do their best work when they are diverse and every team member feels that they belong. We welcome diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be stronger and have long term impact.

**The Department**:
Mercy Corps’ current operations in the Europe and Asia region focus on 14 countries (Afghanistan, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Poland, Timor-Leste, Thailand, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan). These are a disparate collection of countries with many different challenges and opportunities. Mercy Corps’ past and present activities in the region include: humanitarian response, large
- and small-scale conflict mitigation through market systems development, health awareness campaigns for TB eradication and mother and child health; education; nutrition; agribusiness and natural resource management; vocational training and job creation; renewable energy development; financial inclusion; technical assistance to governments and citizens for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR); and water and sanitation work targeting vulnerable populations.

**The Position**:
The Assistant Program Officer (APO) provides administrative support to the Senior Programme Officer (SPO), Programme Officers (POs), Regional Director (RD), Deputy Regional Director (DRD), other regional leaders and country teams for the growth and implementation of high quality and impactful programming in the Europe and Asia region.

**Essential Job Responsibilities**

GRANT ADMINISTRATION AND PROGRAMME SUPPORT
- Support the SPO/PO with administrative tasks such as maintaining required documentation for grants
- Assist in monitoring and ensuring grant compliance with donor regulations and Mercy Corps policies and procedures.
- Advise country teams on formats for donor reporting and define timelines to review.
- Provide comprehensive reviews of donor reports and ensure that reports are submitted in accordance with the agency’s Reporting Standard Operating Procedures and in adherence to deadlines and requirements set out in the grant agreement/contract.
- Supports the review process of donor agreements and contracts at HQ
- Initiate, coordinate and send out New Award Initiation Summaries and project Close-out messages.
- Serve as the primary point for internal communications, facilitate use of Mercy Corps web-based information systems to draft and update program materials
- Supports country teams with ad-hoc writing tasks such as drafting country and programme fact sheets/summaries, dollar handles, etc.

PROPOSAL COORDINATION
- Undertake donor research and identify appropriate funding opportunities from donors, also reviewing donor guidelines and carrying out eligibility checks for new funding opportunities identified.
- Provide administrative support for proposal development such as drafting Past Performance Reports/capacity statements/or other required documents, copy-editing, and final compilation for submission.
- For programmes requiring online submissions, lead on coordinating registration and submission via online portals

EXTERNAL REPRESENTATION
- With guidance from the SPO and PO, represent regional interests and programmes with external stakeholders, in concert with the field teams.

STRATEGY, PLANNING & LEARNING
- Support country teams with strategy development and planning
- Facilitate learning across country portfolios and the region, and share lessons learned
- Ensure country teams have access to and utilise agency resources/tools/best practices/etc.
- Coordinate with colleagues to organise and facilitate planning for regional meetings, as required

OTHER
- Act as a focal point for backstopping for SPO or PO during field trips or short-term absences
- Ad hoc administrative tasks for regional leadership as required

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**Accountability to Participants and Stakeholders**:
Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our program participants, community partners, other stakeholders, and to international standards guiding international relief and development work. We are committed to actively engaging communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.

**Knowledge and Experience**:

- BA/Sc in International Development or equivalent experience in related field.
- Two years of demonstrated experience in a professional environment or providing administrative/coordination support.
- Proven ability to c