Partnership Officer

The Partnership Officer supports the FCDO Consortium on partnerships by strengthening future partnerships with national NGOs, community-based organizations, and civil society. The role involves mapping and identifying new partnerships, assessing partner capacities, providing administrative and grant support, facilitating capacity strengthening, ensuring donor compliance, and coordinating partner organizations throughout project implementation.

Responsibilities

• Participate in Consortium’s partnerships and localization strategy in coordination with the Consortium Unit, Trocaire and relevant partners.
• Contribute to maintain productive links between CMU, Trocaire and the partners for the WLO pot.
• Coordinate across teams to carry out partner organizational capacity assessments and analyse assessments to identify partners.
• Support identification of specific capacity strengthening and organizational development needs, and provide administrative support, coordinating training and targeted capacity strengthening support to partners.
• Support partner staff in understanding and adhering to donor compliance for national partnerships across the WLO pot.
• Support relevant departments in their respective roles and responsibilities for partnership communication, support, engagement, financial management etc.
• Review and contextualize existing partnerships resources, identifying and recommending additional needs to support capacity assessment, monitoring, compliance, project cycle management.
• Facilitate regular meetings, ensuring documentation is in place with the partners and CMU.
• Serve as primary focal point for partners ensuring information is shared regularly and good working relationships are maintained.
• Manage partnership/grants compliance along with Technical lead, providing administrative support to facilitate partnerships with support of Technical Coordinators, Finance, and Grants Management.
• Analyse results of ongoing partnerships, monitor workplan, achievements and results to produce lessons learnt and inform strategic decision-making.
• Participate in initiatives to improve partnership practices by assessing DRC Sudan’s partnership approach, capturing lessons learned and best practices, and making recommendations for improvement.
• Prepare and ensure sub-grant agreements are issued, managed, monitored, and closed in accordance with applicable requirements ensuring appropriate documentation is in place/filed as per DRC/donor compliance.
• Ensure a tracking process is in place for monitoring the grant, regularly engaging with partners who have received the grant.
• Raise payment requests, ensuring the right documentation is in place whilst engaging the CMU finance coordinator for timely partner payments and financial liquidations.
• Support timely resolution of any partnership queries and follow-up actions raised by donors, DRC, consortium partners or WLOs.
• Provide input for donor reports and proposals as needed in relation to partnerships and localization.
• Ensure partnership tools and financial standards meet donor requirements.
• Ensure documentation and consolidation of partner success stories, coordinating with DRC’s advocacy & communications team for external communication.
• Support coordination of preparation, consolidation, review, and submission of DRC and consortium donor reports in accordance with donor requirements and deadlines.
• Ensure adherence to DRC’s Age, Gender, and Diversity policy and AGD programmatic minimum standards.
• Ensure compliance with zero-tolerance to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse policy, Safeguarding Policy, and Child Safeguarding Policy.
• Perform other relevant tasks as requested by and in discussion with the Chief of Party.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in political science, international development, Gender or relevant field.
• Practical trainings or courses in partnerships principles and capacity-strengthening.
• Minimum 3 years of practical experience working with either with a NGO/CSO in project cycle management role or with a INGO in a partnerships role.
• Demonstrated experience in capacity-strengthening support to national partners and strong understanding of partnerships principles.
• Experience in donor compliance and procedures across the project cycle.
• Demonstrated commitment to apply an age, gender, and diversity (AGD) and Conflict Sensitive approach to programming.
• Familiarity with MS Word and Excel.
• Strong interpersonal skills including the ability to work collaboratively in a multi-cultural environment as well as independently.
• Excellent organizational/administrative skills, ability to prioritize, and attention to detail.
• Fluent in English and Arabic.

Skills

• Partnerships Principles
• Capacity Strengthening
• Project Cycle Management
• Donor Compliance
• Grant Management
• Partner Capacity Assessments
• Age Gender Diversity Approaches
• Conflict-Sensitive Programming
• MS Word
• Excel
• Organizational Skills
• Administrative Support
• Multi-cultural Team Collaboration

Languages

English, Arabic