Institute for Women's Policy Research

Director

• Provide overall strategic and operational leadership for COSMA, ensuring high-quality delivery and strong partnerships with stakeholders.
• Lead the project, ensuring effective planning, supervision, and financial and administrative management.
• Develop and implement a human resources development plan that embeds robust PSEAH mechanisms, ensuring protection for staff, partners, and beneficiaries and compliance with organisational and donor standards.
• Guide and coach the team in applying systemic and facilitative approaches, strengthening partnerships and engagement with key stakeholders.
• Oversee MEL systems for evidence-based learning, reporting, and adaptive management.
• Support the Strategic Steering Committee and technical coordination forums, including preparation of agendas and papers, secretariat support, follow-up on decisions, and facilitation of coordination across COSMA partners and complementary donor-funded programmes.
• Support governance and coordination forums, including the Strategic Steering Committee, with secretariat, agenda, and follow-up support.
• Lead regular mini political economy analysis (mini-PEA) cycles to inform adaptive planning, prioritisation of interventions, and ongoing assessment of reform feasibility, risks, and opportunities in a dynamic political and social context.
• Manage service providers, including ToRs, selection, contracts, and quality assurance of technical outputs.
• Ensure timely, high-quality narrative and financial reporting to SDC, including review and validation of partner reports, synthesis of learning and results, and compliance with donor reporting requirements and timelines.
• Represent the project externally and build strategic partnerships with civil society, media, government, and private sector actors.
• Ensure all interventions embed inclusion, sustainability, and social cohesion as cross-cutting principles.

Team Leader/Project Director

Events

• Responsible for programmatic and logistical organization and delivery of IWPR workshops, forums and other events
• Related communications on project activities and events through IWPR, partners and outside channels
• Conducting annually up to 10 workshops, 10 webinars, and a few other events for CSOs and media organisations across Ukraine
• Map potential project counterparts and events participants in Ukraine
• Develop effective working relationships with project partners and stakeholders
• Support training and capacity building needs analysis for targeted organisations and individuals
• Ensure the delivery of project outputs and compliance with approved annual activity plans
• Maintain databases and mailing lists of current, past and potential partners and participants
• Draft and manage contracts for events consultants and vendors
• Prepare and/or review related invoices and payment requests for accuracy and completeness
• Ensure monitoring and evaluation data collection at the events
• Coordinate activities with other implementers, stakeholders, and institutions
• Undertake all other related duties that may be assigned.

Training – Events Coordinator

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Provide support to field financial management and record keeping.
• Facilitate the work of the Field Finance Manager of the project.
• Contribute to the subgrant reports review, preparation of payment requests and reports.
• Review and approve assigned subgrant reports.
• Prepare and/or review assigned payment requests, expense reports for accuracy and completeness.
• Support project managers in drafting, executing and managing contracts for staff, consultants and vendors.
• Manage correspondence related to administration and finance.

Finance Officer

Program Manager

• Technically oversee grant programmatic management of the designated subawards
• Justify and prepare local grant agreements, due diligence and vetting procedures
• Monitor grantees’ narrative and financial reports
• Collect monitoring data and interact with Program MEL Officer
• Coordinate engagement of subgrantees into capacity building events and mentoring
• Track subgrantee progress for contribution to larger reports
• Assist subgrantees in articulating specific impacts of their programming
• Map potential project counterparts in Ukraine and develop effective working relationships with project partners and stakeholders
• Ensure the delivery of project outputs and compliance with approved annual activity plans
• Manage the subgrant selection process, including determining call priorities and selection criteria in coordination with the program team
• Administer subawards, monitor program deliverables and outputs
• Maintain a grant tracking system to ensure compliance and correct execution of all grant agreements
• Review reports by grantees against the local legislation, IWPR and donor requirements
• Perform training webinars, consultations, site visits and audits as needed to assist subgrant partners in financial management and reporting
• Monitor grantees’ programmatic performance in accordance with MEL systems, objectives and indicators already set up
• Gather information and preparing reports for program MEL procedures
• Draft, edit and contribute to programmatic reporting

Team Leader/Project Director

Training – Events Coordinator

Finance Officer

Subgrant Program Manager