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| Partnership Officer | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Afghanistan | Province | Herat, |
| Categories | Program, | Type | Full Time |
| Post Date | 2022-06-27 | Close Date | 2022-07-04 |
| Vacancy No | WCUK/22/356 | Gender | male female |
| No Of Jobs | 1 | Contract Duration | 6 months with possible extension |
| Education | University degree | Experience | Minimum of 2 years of experience in working with local partners or similar role preferably in humanitarian INGOs. |
| Organization | Opportunities for you | Salary | As per WCUK salary Scale |
About Company
About War Child UK: War Child, the specialist charity for children affected by conflict. For more than two decades we’ve delivering high-impact programmes that are rebuilding lives across Afghanistan, Iraq, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Central African Republic and Yemen. We understand children’s needs, respect their rights, and put them at the centre of the solution - from reintegrating children formerly associated with armed groups and armed forces (CAAFAG) in the Central African Republic to reuniting children with their families in Afghanistan. We look forward to a world in which the lives of children are no longer torn apart by war. This is a vision that can only be realised through the collective actions of children themselves, communities and their leaders, organisations like War Child, governments and key decision makers.
Job Description
Job Purpose
The Partnership Officer Will assist the Grants and Compliance Manager in strengthening the partnerships with local and international organizations in line with WCUK’s partnerships policy and framework. He/She will lead on the capacity needs for partner’s organisations starting from organisational needs assessment and developing capacity development plan and ensure its implementation to foster joint programme development and implementation. The position holder will act as a key focal point for facilitating meetings and discussions between WCUK technical advisors and partners and support onboarding of new partners through orienting them on WCUK’s processes and requirements.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
Manage and strengthen partner relationships:
- Support Grants and Compliance Manager in identifying potential partners inside Afghanistan and maintaining an up-to-date potential partner database.
- Maintain regular communication and schedule regular visits to the partner offices when needed to ensure consistent relationships, up-to-date information, and ongoing two-way feedback is being provided and received.
- Promote an atmosphere of mutual respect and development among partners – including facilitating information sharing between WCUK’s partners and establishing relationships based on the partnership principles.
- Ensure WCUK’s partnership approach is effective with all partner organizations and escalates any issues of non-compliance when necessary.
- Facilitate the meetings to review and update the partner monitoring plans on quarterly bases including scheduling the meetings, updating the plans and coordinating and follow-up with the relevant departments within WCUK.
- Responsible for storage and updating of documentation for all pre-assessed partners.
- Document all decision-making meetings and be responsible for finalizing selection memos for partner’s selection.
- Be responsible for documenting and Archiving all Partnerships files.
- Support capturing lessons learned from past experiences with a view to refining WCUK’s approach to working with partners and strengthening civil society.
Monitor, support and strengthen partner relationships:
- In cooperation with the head of units, the Partnerships Coordinator will be responsible for conducting a Monitoring review for all of WCUK’s Partners in a quarterly basis.
- Support Grants and Compliance Manager in conducting Partners’ satisfaction survey on a bi-annual basis and ensure that all WCUK’s relevant staff are aware of partners’ feedback and the best way to respond to any concern raised.
- Support Grants and Compliance Manager in initiating Kick-off and closeout meetings for any project with Partners.
- Conduct regular meetings internally with WCUK programme and support staff and with partners.
- Be responsible to update the issues tracker in a monthly basis and work with Grant and Compliance Manager and Unit Heads to support partners in closing all issues recorded on time.
- Work with programme and support teams to ensure that communication between WCUK and partners is clear and issues are solved in a timely manner.
- Ensure that partners submit donor reports on time and as per quality standards in close coordination with Reporting coordinator.
- Ensure that a Due Diligence assessment is conducted for all of WCUK’s Partners at the assessment phase and follow up with relevant units to provide the needed support to relevant partners.
- Assist the Grants and Compliance Manager in conducting regular reviews of WCUK’s partnership approach and partnership management system including contributions to the development and follow-up of the revision of the existing processes and tools.
- Maintain an up-to-date profiles for all partner organizations.
Safeguarding:
- Contribute to creating a culture committed to the safeguarding of children and adults and compliant to War Child’s Child Safeguarding and Adults at Risk Policies.
Our Values
Bold
We use our passion and creativity to deliver high quality evidence-based work designed to maximize our beneficial impact for children in conflict.
Accountable to Children
Children can rely on us to respond to their voices and to treat them with respect and dignity.
Transparent
We expect to be held to account by our supporters and beneficiaries and we respond with openness and honesty.
Committed to each other
We support each other and our partners to achieve ambitious goals and to the best we can be we are honest and open with each other, sharing our success and confronting our challenges
Job Requirement
Person Specification
War Child in Afghanistan operates in a dynamic environment with a team of highly motivated and dedicated staff. The right candidate will share these qualities and bring effective leadership to a diverse team. The position requires strong relationship management and coordination skills, experience in humanitarian programming and protracted emergencies, supporting partners in a remote setting, a good knowledge of the challenges of operating in cross border environment, and experience with capacity assessment and capacity building.
Experience and mandatory criteria:
- University degree
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in working with local partners or similar role preferably in humanitarian INGOs.
- At least 1-year relevant experience in emergency and child protection response projects
- Strong networking capability
- Ability to organize and facilitate training sessions
- Ability to develop capacity building frameworks and work plans
- Solid experience and skills in negotiation and relationship brokering
- Strong organizational skills.
- Pro-active and helpful attitude, ready to take on a variety of new tasks.
- Good understanding of partnership principles, mechanisms and requirements.
- Good understanding of partner monitoring and evaluation mechanisms.
- Ability to work well under pressure and work to deadlines
- Excellent communication skills, in particular in written English;
- Excellent coordination, facilitation and negotiation skills
- Excellent communication and influencing skills across a range of stakeholders, but particular with partners
- Strong organizational, interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to analyze and solve problems and facilitate effective decision making
- High level of self -awareness and good interpersonal relations
- High frustration-tolerance level and ability to cope with stressful working conditions
- Good problem-solving skills and ability to work independently
- Proficiency in English and local languages (both written and verbal)
Submission Guideline
How to apply
- Please go to this link: https://airtable.com/shrQJkNlOHsS7RFEK, fill in your information and attach your documents before the closing date - (4-Jul-2022).
- Applications after closing date will not be accepted.
- Please note that there is no telephonic inquiry and only shortlisted applicants will be contacted for written test/interview.
Child safeguarding and Adults at Risk
Our work with children and at-risk adults to keep them safe is the most important thing we do. We are committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults in all areas of our work. We have zero tolerance for any behaviours and practices that puts children and/or vulnerable adults at risk of abuse and/or harm. Successful applicants will be expected to be compliant and sign up to our Child Safeguarding policy, our Code of Conduct and PSEA: Adults at Risk Policy. You can find the Child Safeguarding and Adults at Risk policy here: Child Safeguarding
Pre-employment checks
Employment with War Child will be subject to the following checks prior to your start date:
a satisfactory police record check to include a International/National Criminal Record Check, and a clear vetting and Due Diligence check
- receipt of three satisfactory references