Overview
The Partnerships & Ecosystem Development Analyst supports the strengthening of the partnership ecosystem and provides operational and coordination support to country teams to ensure they can access the Accelerator’s service offering.
Key Responsibilities
- Support and help implement partnership approaches and strategies.
- Facilitate two-way learning by adapting global insights to country contexts and documenting lessons.
- Provide and adapt tools, diagnostics, and collaboration models.
- Monitor ecosystem dynamics and contribute insights.
- Assist Governments to design or update multisectoral national school meals plans.
- Support broadening and strengthening of the national school meals ecosystem.
- Support Governments in translating priorities and technical needs into concrete partnership opportunities.
- Follow up on technical assistance with partners.
- Help establish or strengthen national and subnational coordination platforms.
- Contribute to building systems-leadership capacity.
- Monitor multisectoral ecosystem performance and partner coordination.
- Support knowledge exchange, peer learning, and collaboration across countries, partners, and teams.
- Contribute to updating and maintaining guidance, tools, and resources.
- Synthesize insights and emerging trends from partnership and country engagement.
- Contribute to knowledge products, learning resources, and cross-team learning.
Required Experience
- At least 3 years of experience working in complex, multistakeholder settings, including exposure to government led processes, multisectoral coordination, or ecosystem building across public, private, or social sectors, with a demonstrated commitment to supporting country owned approaches.
- Demonstrated international experience collaborating with diverse partners (governments, International Financial Institutions, UN agencies, civil society, private sector, academia) across regions and organizational levels.
- Experience supporting country facing work, including contributions to diagnostics, coordination processes, strategy discussions, or cross sector planning, with an emphasis on listening to country priorities and reinforcing national ownership.
- Experience contributing to the coordination of diverse actors around shared priorities, using relational skills, curiosity, and constructive engagement to support joint problem-solving and collective understanding.
- Ability to help identify how partner mandates and comparative advantages relate to government defined needs, including navigating differing incentives and interests with sound judgment and awareness of political dynamics.
- Experience supporting the design, adaptation, or implementation of collaboration approaches in contexts where pathways to change are non linear and require ongoing learning, experimentation, and reflection, consistent with the SMA’s systemic leadership approach.
Qualifications
Advanced University degree in Political Science, International Development, Development Economics, International Relations, Law, Marketing, Communications or other relevant field; or a first university degree with additional years of relevant professional experience and/or advanced training.
