Overview
The Partnerships Coordinator supports the Ukraine country program in managing and overseeing partnerships, facilitating the delivery of high-quality partnerships with local organizations, and ensuring compliance with IRC and donor requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Support Technical and Field Coordinators in identifying and engaging with new potential partners.
- Introduce IRC, its mission, principles, and humanitarian response strategy to local responders.
- Proactively engage local responders in program development and strategy validation.
- Promote and apply the IRC’s Partnership Excellence for Equality and Results system (PEERS).
- Contribute to building a strong understanding of PEERS throughout the IRC Ukraine country program.
- Support the IRC Ukraine Country Program to identify and rectify implicit institutional biases.
- Facilitate systematic partner feedback on IRC’s management of the partnership relationship.
- Create Ukraine-specific SOPs and other guidance documents.
- Represent IRC at external localization-focused events.
- Support Sr. Partnership Coordinator in overall management of partnership portfolio.
- Support the program team in facilitation of Partnership Project Opening, Review and Closing Meetings.
- Coordinate narrative and finance reporting processes.
- Support Partnership Managers to ensure timely and effective partner program, finance, and compliance review and reflection.
- Support Partnership Managers to ensure project support plans are implemented in line with agreements.
- Maintain complete and organized partnership files for each partner.
- Maintain up to date Partnership Project Tracker / Monitoring Schedule.
- Process sub-awards modifications in a timely manner.
- Ensure the smooth close out of partner projects.
- Facilitate the collaborative development and delivery of the partner project support plan.
- Ensure IRC understands partner capacity strengthening priorities.
- Support the resourcing of organizational development support where appropriate for partners.
- Collaborate with technical coordinators to integrate technical capacity sharing approaches.
- Promote and identify ways for continual learning between IRC staff and partners.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience with I/NGOs
- Demonstrated successful experience working with partners
- Demonstrable understanding of project planning and management cycles, and strong program design skills
- Significant knowledge of key donor rules and regulations (in particular U.S. Government, Sida, and ECHO)
- Team leadership and supervision experience and skills
- Experience in training internal staff and partner staff.
Qualifications
• BA degree or equivalent in International Development or Affairs, Finance, Business or related field; Advanced degree a plus – or equivalent work experience
