fbpx
OpenIGO | International Careers Development Network
PARTNERSHIP MANAGER

Opportunities

PARTNERSHIP MANAGER

Are you interested in this opportunity and want to land the job? We can help you with that! Check out our online store! There you will find ebooks and services that will help you in this endeavor.

Organization: Acción contra el Hambre España

Location: Sudan, Port Sudan

Grade:

Occupational Groups:

Donor Relations/Grants Management

Closing Date: 2024-09-10

You’ll contribute to ending world hunger by …

The Partnerships Manager is a key position supporting the oPt to develop and manage strong partnerships with a wide variety of partners in line with ACF’s Partnership policy and donor regulations.

They will lead the overall capacity assessment process, as well as capacity building plans, ensuring partners have the tools and support to deliver on projects, strategies, and services.

Key activities in your role will include

Objective 1: Partnership Management

Tasks:

  • Support the partnership management process; from identification, development, risk management, project and agreement development, sub-award management, monitoring, and accountability, through to closure – ensuring cross-collaboration with the partnerships team and all program, operations, and finance components.
  • Conduct & co-lead Partner Due Diligence processes, including completion of the report, the capacity analysis processes, including contributing to and facilitating the collaborative risk analysis and management.
  • Review Partners’ submitted proposals and budgets and support key technical and finance staff in this task before the project proposal.
  • Coordinate with project leads to agree/review appropriate partnership agreement type and draft agreement, taking into account the due diligence outcomes and specific project and donor requirements.
  • Liaising with HQ for approvals and/or review of documents and agreements.
  • Support and co-lead Partnership Kick-Off Meeting, Review, and Closing Meetings, together with the relevant team members.
  • Coordinate and participate in timely and effective partner program, finance, and compliancemonitoring, and work with the technical leads and finance staff to address any project performance issues.
  • Work collaboratively with partners and ACF staff to constructively resolve any issues that may arise.
  • Support in providing coaching and training for partners and/or coordinate providing training and support to partners staff as per the identified support plan.
  • Coordinate narrative reporting processes and liaise with finance on finance reporting processes, including review and feedback.
  • Coordinate any partner support/capacity development as identified during the PCA or implementation.
  • Coordinate with Finance to ensure timely transfer of payments to partners.
  • Draft and process sub-award modifications in a timely manner ensuring that the relevant ACF departments (in-country and at the HQ) provide their inputs and approve the modification.
  • Maintain complete and organized partnership files for each partner.
  • Maintain up to date Partnership Tracker/Monitoring Schedule.
  • Support the Grant Coordinator with partnership agreement closeout processes.

Objective 2: Partnership Strategy and Program Approach

Tasks:

  • Support the coordination of the ACF’s external engagement with NGO, INGO and UN actors in Sudan with respect to local partnerships to establish and maintain strategic partnership relationships.
  • Ensure that Partners are adhering to ACF Policies and International Strategic Priorities (ISP 3)
  • Collaborate with the Grant Coordinator and program leads to proactively identify potential partnerships with NGOs and local organizations, including deliberate pursuit of partner entities that are led by women and serve women and girls.
  • Objective 3: Promote an effective and respectful Localization Strategy
  • Tasks: RRHH
  • Promote and apply the ACF’s Localization Strategy
  • Contribute to build a strong understanding of ACF’s Localization Strategy throughout the country program team, and to ensuring that ACF’s partnership principles, skills and approaches are applied by staff across programs and projects with partners.
  • Support in building a culture of effective and respectful partnerships. Foster and promote attitudes and values conducive to collaborative partnerships across the field staff and among partners based on a clear and shared understanding of ACF’s strategy, role and approach, and ACF’s core partnership principles.
  • Facilitate systematic partner feedback on ACF’s management of the partnership relationship, including documentation of and response to partner feedback.
  • Support the Grant Coordinator in representing the ACF’s partnerships effort in Sudan through maintaining effective communication with other INGO, NGO, local organizations, and partners

Do you meet the profile required criteria?

  • Formation: Knowledge in humanitarian project management. Knowledge/Studies in International Cooperation/development.
  • Specific technical knowledge: Technical knowledge of institutional donors, partners, consortiums and technical knowledge in micro-grants and large contracts compliance aspects; strategic and operational planning, Project Cycle Management; Risk mapping and analysis; data analysis and reporting Representation skills.
  • Previous experience: Minimum of 5 years of experience in NGO, including at least 2 years of partnership experience in the field, and experience with international public donors.
  • Cooking of the humanitarian sector: Humanitarian sector knowledge and experience with macro grants, institutional donors, and large-scale partnerships.
  • Action Against Hunger Knowledge: Knowledge of Action Against Hunger and its operation department areas of work
  • Languages: English and Arabic
  • Office automation and specific systems: Windows domain (Excel, Power Point, Word)
  • Mobility (national/international) Availability to travel
  • Commitment to Gender Equality Valuable previous experience on issues related to the promotion of gender equality or personal commitment to gender equality.

Our remuneration package:

  • Based in: Sudan – Port Sudan – Capital office
  • Position length: 1 year (renewable based on Evalution)
  • Line manager: Grants and Reporting Coordinator.
  • Salary: 1650 USD (Gross)
  • Annual Leave: 20 days/ year
  • Emotional care service at the service of the employee and family.

Notes:

  • This is a national job for Sudanese only.
  • Candidates may be contacted for other suitable positions within Action Against Hunger.
  • Due to the high number of applications received, only potential applicants will be contacted.
  • Women are more encouraged to apply for this job.

Action against Hunger is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work such as but not limited to sexual harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and/or financial misconduct; We expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through endorsing our code of conduct and other related policies and only those who share our values and code of conduct will be recruited to work for us.

How to apply

You can apply from here Accion Contra El Hambre – Trabaja con Nosotros (acf-e.org)

Are you interested in this opportunity and want to land the job? We can help you with that!

OpenIGO has helped dozens of professionals from all around the world to kick-start their international careers with intergovernmental organizations. Our high-qualified team of professionals and human resources specialists have put together a series of products and services to help make your dream come true!

On our online store, you will find comprehensive eBooks, mock interviews, application reviews, and other related services, which have been prepared for you with the utmost care! What are you waiting for? Get started on your international career now!


Other jobs

By continuing to browse this site, you agree to our use of cookies. Read our privacy policy

I understand