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The Contracts & Grants Officer leads strategic initiatives to ensure compliance with contractual and grant terms governing incoming funds and with Ipas policies and procedures. This role is central to supporting Ipas’s expanding portfolio of subawards and grants, which requires a seasoned professional with robust global experience in contracts, grants management, and capacity building. The role will be responsible for reviewing and negotiating award/grants agreement and contracts, ensuring efficient setup and maintenance of award data in Ipas’s award library and ERP system – Workday.

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 Background 

The Global Survivors Fund (GSF) was launched in October 2019 by Dr Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, 2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureates. Its mission is to enhance access to reparations for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence around the globe, thus responding to a gap long identified by survivors. GSF acts to provide interim reparative measures in situations where states or other parties are unable or unwilling to meet their responsibilities. GSF advocates for duty-bearers and the international community to develop reparations programmes. It also guides states and civil society by providing expertise and technical support for designing reparations programmes. GSF’s survivor-centric approach is the cornerstone of its work. Role Summary The intern will be responsible for supporting the activities of the ACT team working on interim reparative measures projects and will report to the Regional Coordinator for Africa. In addition, the intern will provide support to other members of the ACT team, in particular to the ACT management team and the IRM Projects Assistant. 

Position Responsibilities 

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to the following activities: 
• Contribute to data analysis, research, drafting of note and reports related to ongoing or upcoming interim reparative measures projects; 
• Participate and report on projects meetings, including with partners; 
• Support the organisation of exchanges on lessons learnt; 
• Support ACT internal coordination, including the collection of quotes, the update of projects flowcharts, of the mission calendar and other reporting documents; 
 • Support the research and translation of tools in the ACT toolkit, from and into English/French, and Spanish if possible; 
• Participate and report on ACT team meetings; 
• Participate in GSF team meetings. 

Position Requirements 
Education and Experience 
The position is open to students currently enrolled in a master’s programme in international relations, international law, or a related discipline. Please note a tripartite agreement is mandatory for this internship. 

Other Requirements 
• Interest and/or work experience on one or more of the following areas: reparations, transitional justice, conflict-related sexual violence, women's rights; • Excellent research and analytical skills; 
• Ability to draft high quality texts, briefs, or other documents; 
• Strong teamwork skills; 
• Good computer skills; 
• Full working proficiency in English and French; 
• Spanish is an asset; 

It’s a great time to join both CARE International UK and the global Women Lead in Emergencies team as we embark on an exciting period of growth and change. CARE International UK has a new Chief Executive and refreshed Vision 2030 strategy focused on Local and Women’s Leadership, Humanitarian Action and Climate Justice. You will be joining the Women Lead in Emergencies team at an exciting time as we scale up our Women Lead programming with CARE offices around the world.

 Role Purpose
The Programme Officer for Women Lead in Emergencies and Humanitarian will work closely with the Team Leader and Deputy Team Leader to deliver an efficient and responsive global WLiE service to the confederation, whilst also providing discreet administrative support to the Programme and Policy Department, with a particular focus on improving processes for our humanitarian work.

Specific areas of responsibility will include administration, information management and contract management for the WLiE team, coordination with other CARE offices and WLiE project teams, organisation of meetings and events. The role will support effective CIUK coordination (particularly for humanitarian work) through information management, supporting the Programme and Policy Team Heads with accessing and distributing key information to a range of stakeholders both internal and external to CARE UK.

About you

We are looking for a Programme Officer who is committed to women’s rights and gender equality. You will have excellent administration, information management and organisational skills, a good eye for detail and experience of working in an INGO.
• Relevant degree or equivalent alternative levels of work experience and/or training 
• Fluency in English (written and verbal) 
• High level of competency in information technology, specifically MS Office software. Desktop Publishing and online content management skills (e.g. Sharepoint) considered an asset. 
• Ability to organise own work and to manage time and resources efficiently. 
• Good level of inter-personal and relationship building skills, including collaboration with people of different backgrounds and cultures. 

Job Description

Estimated Duration: 01-Dec-2025 to 31-Dec-2028 (Extendable)

Scope of Work

The Consultant will oversee the implementation and monitoring of the Gender Action Plan (GAP) and all other gender-related activities under the project. The Consultant will ensure timely implementation of project activities in coordination with PMU consultants, consulting and non-consulting service providers, and in compliance with the requirements of ADB and the Kingdom of Tonga.

Detailed Tasks and/or Expected Output

The Consultant’s responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

Minimum Qualification Requirements