Job
International Rescue Committee
Deputy Director for Grants and Accountability
📍 Kenya
🏷 Governance & Public Policy
🗓 Posted 9 Jul 2026
- Across two refugee camps, Dadaab and Kakuma, and four counties (Garissa, Turkana, West Pokot and Nairobi), the IRC implements programs in the sectors of health, Nutrition, governance & rights, and women’s protection & empowerment, Economic Recovery and Development, as well as providing emergency response through a network of four field offices and a range of institutional and community-based partnerships.
- The Deputy Director for Grants and Accountability (DDGA) is a central figure within the IRC country program management and support infrastructure and a member of the senior management team (SMT). Under the supervision of the Country Director (CD), the DDGA leads a team of approximately 20 staff with a portfolio focusing on effective awards and donor relationship management, oversight of business development processes, partnerships, monitoring, evaluation, and learning and client accountability. The DDGA is responsible for significant elements of IRC’s SAP100 strategy implementation including leading on achieving partnerships and client accountability goals, as well as management of key humanitarian donor relationships together with the CD. The DDGA collaborates closely with all SMT members, but particularly the Deputy Director for Programs (DDP) to ensure effective delivery on all awards.
- *Awards Management and Business Development (40%)**
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