Programme Officer- Mena/europe Regional

Location: Edinburgh or London, UK or The Hague, Netherlands
- Position Status: Full-time, Regular
- Starting Salary Range: Salary range for this role will be £37,040- £43,990 in UK and € 44,320 - € 52,630 in NL - commensurate on experience

**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.

Mercy Corps Europe (MCE) has grown rapidly in terms of volume of activity and complexity with

offices in Edinburgh, London, Geneva and The Hague. The breadth and impact of our programmes makes Mercy Corps a unique and truly rewarding place to work. Our teams are proud of what we achieve in the country programmes and we are always looking for talented individuals who share our passion and commitment.

**The Programme / Department / Team**:
Mercy Corps implements a variety of programming throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe Region (MENA/Europe) and it continues to respond to humanitarian and development needs across Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Yemen, and Ukraine by forging meaningful and trusted partnerships and designing impactful programming. The country programs face humanitarian crises and significant development challenges, and operate in fragile and conflict-affected areas, displacement settings, emergency responses, as well as more stable developed settings. Mercy Corps’ focus in MENA/Europe has been in promoting good governance and conflict resolution, enhancing resilience, supporting market systems development, as well as gender and inclusion, and youth employment. Mercy Corps investment in thought leadership, continual learning, and adaptive programming allows us to make changes that are essential in a fluid context, with significant ambitions to learning and sharing through building an evidence base, investment in programme quality, including MEAL and additional specific research, to enhance adaptive and responsive programming in MENA/Europe.

**The Position**:
This Programme Officer (PO) position works in support of the MENA/Europe Regional Programme Team (RPT) based in Europe. The PO supports strategic, impactful, and high-quality programming. Reporting to the Senior Programme Officer (SPO), the PO supports the SPO, and Country Offices in many aspects of their country programme and grant administration. The PO plays a key role in connecting the field to HQ resources and represents the country/regional interests internally with various HQ teams as well as with external stakeholders. The PO works with the SPO and Country teams to provide the secondary check and supports the field (ultimate point of responsibility) in adhering to internal and external policies and regulations. The PO also provides guidance to the Assistant Programme Officer (APO) and helps with the administration that is necessary for robust and accountable grant management. The PO furthermore plays an important role in rolling out agency-wide initiatives in countries in the region. This role may be assigned a portfolio of countries, for which they will give specific support. This will depend on relevant experience, and requirements from the wider MENA/Europe Portfolio.

**Essential Responsibilities**:
PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT- Lead HQ coordination for proposals; throughout the proposal process, monitor the timeline, status of proposal and communicate to the relevant parties as appropriate.- Provide input to proposals, ensuring alignment with donor priorities and requirements. In addition, review drafts for coherence, provide copy-editing and rewrites as necessary, and manage submission to the donor. He/she may be appointed a different role in the design process and travel to the field if needed.- If needed, draft sections of and/or serve as “consolidating writer” (to ensure document flows clearly and coherently) for proposals, working closely with country teams throughout the proposal development process.

PROGRAMME & GRANT ADMINISTRATION- Serve as HQ point of responsibility for overall monitoring on grants/programmes for both external/donor requirements as well as Mercy Corps’ internal policies and requirements.- Provide ongoing monitoring of the status of programmes and complete regular check-ins on grant requirements (such as co-financing/match, BVA, data aggregation, etc.).- Serve as HQ point of contact to donor representatives- Support country team’s adherence to Mercy Corps internal policies and Programme Management minimum standards. As identified, support adherence to Mercy Corps’ Complex Programmes management standards.- Support country programmes, as needed, with planning and implementation challenges, and coordinating with other HQ departments, including Technical Support, Compliance, Finance, to provide additional support

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