Technical Specialist – Partnering
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locations Karen, End Date: January 20, 2025 (4 days left to apply)job requisition idJR39303
With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Key Responsibilities:
Job Responsibilities:
Partnership management
- Coordinate the implementation of the Partner of Choice action plan (including the review and implementation of the partnership engagement and management plan).
- Lead other departments to conduct partner mapping and build a network of
- key partners, keeping abreast of evolving trends (social, economic, and political), including the application of innovation to program and partnership development
- Develop relationships and identify meaningful engagement opportunities to deepen partner penetration by establishing strategic relationships etc.
- Develop/input/review all key partnership documents to ensure quality and compliance: reviewing all partnering MOUs/agreements and/ contractual documents, prequalification procedures and tailored sub-grant management SOPs using WV standards and procedures,
- Coordinate and collaborate with relevant partnership personnel at NO, Regional office as well as key business units (Grants, Finance, Programme Operations) to ensure aligned and coherent interactions with partners.
- Develop, track and report on partner performance metrics.
- Facilitate the annual partnership health check to build and review partner portfolios based on Partnership Performance and Health Checks and support the development of an adaptive action plan
- Provide input for donor reports and proposals as needed in relation to partnerships and localization
- Work with the grants management team to ensure that partnership tools and financial standards meet donor requirements
- Provide strategic direction to the Partnering committee; a cross functional committees that coordinates an end to end partnering process.
- Partnering capacity strengthening
- Collaborate with P&C (Human Resource) and the Programme Impact and Effectiveness team to assess and support staff capacity building requirements for partnering
- Coordinate across teams to carry out partner organizational capacity assessments and analyze assessments to identify specific capacity strengthening and organizational development needs
- Coordinate the handover of partner capacity assessment reports in the project handover and the capacity building plans in collaboration with Operations, Governance, Risk and Program effectiveness
- Coordinate the development of partnering guidelines
- Working with other departments e.g. communications, coordinate capacity building for staff, consortium partners, sub-grantees in partnering, negotiation networking, collaboration & sub-granting etc.
- Partnership communication and information management
- Lead the development of partnering management information system that consolidates partnering documents as well as monitor performance
- Contribute to the dissemination and sharing of best practices and lessons learned in forums for planning and knowledge building on partnership development in collaboration with the communication manager.
- Collaborate with Communications manager to ensure we have effective partner journeys, care, and stewardship
- Work with the DMEAL manager to create online knowledge sharing platform for and with other key partners.
- Collaborate closely with different departments to consistently institutionalize partnering in WVK systems and processes.
- Provide regular feedback on existing systems, tools and resources to ensure its relevance to day-to-day operations
- Other duties.
- Any other duty that may be assigned by the supervisor or designee as assigned from time to time
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- Required Professional Experience
- Experience in developing and executing partnerships with multilaterals, international development organizations, governments, foundations, international NGOs or private sector organizations.
- Practical experience in working with national and international partners on programming and partnering capacity-strengthening.
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience in donor compliance and procedures across the project cycle
- Prior experience in acquisition and grant management coupled with business intelligence
- Prior experience working in international organizations, international development, post-disaster and/or emergency contexts would also be an advantage.
- Excellent problem solving and good analytical skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Excellent writing and reporting skills required
- Required Education and Certifications
- Master’s degree in international development studies, social sciences and/or business administration, public administration, Marketing, Communications or related field from a recognized university.
- A minimum of 5 years in International and organizational development
- Practical trainings or courses in partnerships principles and capacity-strengthening
- Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications
- Business strategy and relationship management
- Computer proficient in use of Microsoft office
- Coordination and engagement skills
- Police Clearance Certificate
- Applicant Types Accepted:Local Applicants Only
