Identify And Secure Highly Cost-effective Funding Opportunities

• 1 master list of highest-likelihood funding opportunities, matched to potential funders and supported with collateral below.
• 15 funding opportunity concept notes with accompanying back-of-the-envelope calculations (BOTECs) for cost-effectiveness and room for more funding (“absorptive capacity”).

Build capability within the BUR team

• Lead review sessions and provide written feedback for ~5-10 BOTECs produced by BUR team members.

Payment Rate And Schedule

Based on a rate of US$90 per hour, IRC shall compensate the consultant up to a maximum amount of US$64,800.

The consultant shall submit monthly invoices. Payments shall be made within thirty (30) calendar days of the IRC’s receipt and approval of the consultant’s invoice(s) and successful completion of the consultant’s deliverables. The consultant agrees and acknowledges that IRC reserves the right to withhold final payment until all deliverables are received and approved by IRC.

Presumptive draft schedule

Deliverable 1 Cost-evidence-based funder strategy

Month 1

Deliverable 5 public-facing articles

Month 1-5 (~5 per month)

Deliverable 8 cost-evidence-based funder briefs

Month 2

Deliverable 1 master list of highest-likelihood funding opportunities

Month 3-6 (ongoing)

Deliverable 15 funding opportunity concept notes

Month 3-6 (~5 per month)

Deliverable 5-10 BUR BOTEC reviews

Month 1-6 (ongoing)

Fees are all-inclusive. IRC does not pay per diem expenses, benefits, or insurance. No expenses are reimbursable under this TOR unless separately agreed in writing in advance.

Requirements

• 8+ years of cost-evidence-based funding or fundraising experience, including demonstrated success disbursing or securing multi-year $5+ million grants. Strong preference for 3+ years of work experience in low- or middle-income countries.
• Strong quantitative skills, including the ability to build, interpret and defend a cost-effectiveness analysis or BOTEC in a donor conversation. Strong preference for candidates with experience (a) analyzing humanitarian programming in Fragile and Conflict-affected Situations and (b) building and using AI tools to support analysis.
• Excellent writing and communication skills, including the ability to write for both technical and lay audiences, fluency in cost-evidence-based funder terminology (for example tractability, room for more funding, fungibility), and adherence to cost-evidence-based funder values of high reasoning transparency, truth-seeking and humility.
• Demonstrated ability to work as a strategic, proactive thinker who can design and prioritise their own workplan.
• High attention to detail, including for project and knowledge management.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects and multiple stakeholders in a large organization to efficiently drive progress.
• The ability to be flexible and work well under pressure, dealing with competing priorities, in a fast-paced team environment.
• Fluent in English; French a plus.

Professional Standards

All International Rescue Committee workers must adhere to the core values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. Our Standards are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Safeguarding, Conflicts of Interest, Fiscal Integrity, and Reporting Wrongdoing and Protection from Retaliation. IRC is committed to take all necessary preventive measures and create an environment where people feel safe, and to take all necessary actions and corrective measures when harm occurs. IRC builds teams of professionals who promote critical reflection, power sharing, debate, and objectivity to deliver the best possible services to our clients.