Associate, Asia And Eurasia

Position Title: Associate, Asia and Eurasia

Department: Global Programs

Location: Remote in CT, FL, GA, IL, MD, MA, NY, NC, PA, Puerto Rico, TN, TX, VA, and WA

Key Relationships: Reports to: Associate Director, Eurasia Partnerships

Direct Reports: None

Assignment Type: Full-time

Compensation: $48,000

Benefits: Click here to learn more about our benefits!

About Americares:

Americares is a health-focused relief and development organization that saves lives and improves health for people affected by poverty or disaster. Each year, Americares reaches 85 countries on average, including the United States, with life-changing health programs, medicine, medical supplies, and emergency aid. Americares is one of the world’s leading nonprofit providers of donated medicine and medical supplies. For more information, visit americares.org.

About the position:

The Associate will play a central role in managing Access to Medicine partnerships in the region, including managing medicine and medical supply donations to the region’s partners. The Associate will ensure effective collaboration between internal stakeholders and external partners to maximize the impact of Americares support.

Key Outcomes:

In the first 90 days, the Associate should be able to accomplish the following key deliverables:

• Continuous improvement: Start to identify areas for improvement in the partnership management and GIK coordination processes and suggest innovative solutions to enhance efficiency.
• Partnership management: Successfully familiarize themselves with the entire portfolio of partners across Eurasia and begin to find ways to strengthen relationships with existing partners by initiating and maintaining regular communication, exploration of new opportunities and ways to collaborate.
• GIK coordination: Effectively manage the process of coordinating GIK donations to the region, ensuring smooth logistics, paperwork, compliance, and timely reporting.
• Team collaboration: Demonstrate a collaborative and proactive approach by actively engaging with other teams, colleagues, making contributions and providing support in achieving team objectives.
• Documentation and reporting: Maintain comprehensive and accurate records of partnership documents, GIK donations, and provide regular updates to their supervisor.

In the first 6 months, the Associate should be able to accomplish the following:

• Deepened partnership network: Successfully identify and start implementing new effective improvements in the GIK coordination process, resulting in streamlined operations and increased value delivered to beneficiaries.
• Cross-departmental collaboration: Actively engage with other departments within Americares to leverage expertise and resources, fostering a collaborative approach to global program development.
• Innovative needs-to-donation matching process: Collaborate with partners and internal stakeholders to maximize existing inventory and find ways to attract more targeted products.
• Stakeholder communication: Establish clear and effective communication channels with partners, internal departments, ensuring timely reporting and feedback.

In the first year, the associate should be able to accomplish the following:

• By this time, it would be great for the associate to have travelled to the region at least a couple of times to get a stronger familiarity with partners to be able to recommend improvements and make partnerships more effective.
• Start looking at assuming new cross-departmental tasks and responsibilities outside of the daily routine work.
• Continuously improve GIK coordination process through data-driven meaningful insights and feedback from partners, optimizing selection, allocation, and distribution of donated resources.
• Successfully maintain partnerships, resulting in a robust network and enhanced depth of support.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain a shared understanding of partnership expectations with each partner, including the nature and volume of product donations, impact on partner organization of product donations, Americares policies and standards, partner capabilities and other resources available to the partner.
• Support donor stewardship through effective donation planning, gathering distribution reports, and working with partners to gather success stories.
• Other duties as assigned
• Partner Management Support:
• GIK Coordination:
• Cross-team Collaboration:
• Program Planning and management:
• Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with partners, serving as the liaison between the recipient organization and Americares. This requires close and effective communication with partners in each country, at times in different time zones and requires periodic site visits to ensure compliance and to build relationships.
• Collaborate with other departments within Americares to ensure effectiveness of our support to the partnership and Americares ability to deliver the highest quality service and advocate for the partner.
• Oversee the process of gift-in-kind donations, including finding the right match, allocations, working with logistics, reporting.
• Develop and maintain in-depth understanding of local and national health issues through independent research as well as dialogue with each partner in order to inform partner activity as well as decisions regarding areas of growth.
• Capacity Building:

We’d love to hear from you if…

• You are oriented to feedback, learning and improvement
• You have 2-3 years in a health program or non-profit experience; international development experience is a plus
• Russian language would be a plus
• You have MS Office proficiency (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint). SharePoint is a plus.
• You have related work experience
• You are a problem solver and team player.
• You pay attention to detail and are highly organized
• You have US work authorization (required)
• You have demonstrated ability to manage overlapping tasks, balance priorities and meet deadlines
• You have an interest in and passion for Americares humanitarian mission
• You have language skills in at least one of our core languages: Spanish, Tagalog, Hindi, Kiswahili, Haitian Creole (this would be a plus, but is not a requirement)
• Bachelor’s degree with study experience preferred
• You are a collaborative/active listener
• You have the ability to travel internationally, as needed
• You are a strong communicator with the ability to present information clearly and effectively, tailored to the intended audience; excellent interpersonal skills
• You have h igh energy; even-keeled temperament

Additionally, our core competencies as an organization are:

• Ownership and results
• Communication
• Leadership
• Problem solving
• Teamwork and conflict resolution
• Management
• Equity and inclusion
• Decision making
• Strategy and planning
• Prioritization

We know not all applicants will demonstrate all the competencies we’re looking for. We encourage you to apply even if you do not check all the boxes above, and we look forward to reviewing your application holistically.

What you can expect:

• Video interview with Hiring Managers (90 minutes)
• Background check and onboarding
• Reference check
• Offer
• Competency exercise
• Interview with People and Talent (45 minutes)

As a global health organization, we are committed to ensuring a safe environment for our staff, partners, and visitors. All Americares staff and visitors who are on-site at any of our locations or will be traveling for work are required to be fully vaccinated (which includes a booster, when eligible) against COVID-19 unless an exemption required by law is applicable.

Americares is currently authorized to support remote work employees in the following locations: Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Washington . Please note that we do not provide relocation assistance at this time.

Americares is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

To request a disability accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact us at [email protected].