Job Summary
Applications are invited from qualified persons for the above vacant position.
Minimum Qualification:Bachelor
Experience Level:Senior level
Experience Length:7 years
Job Description/Requirements
Requisition ID:req11979
Job Title:Partnerships Development Advisor (Global)
Sector:Awards Management
Employment Category:Regular
Employment Type:Full-Time
Open to Expatriates:Yes
Location:Nairobi, Kenya
Job Description
This
opportunity can be based in any IRC location.
The
Partnership Development Advisor will work closely with Award Management
Unit’ Senior Program Development Advisers (SPDAs) and Technical
Excellence country facing Technical Advisers (S/TAs) to support and
guide IRC country offices to identify and pursue opportunities to build
collaborative, principled, strategic partnerships with civil society,
government and private sector actors in each context, to enable the
delivery of the IRC’s Strategy100 partnership ambition. The Advisor will
collaborate with the Capture Advisors to specifically support IRC
country offices and technical teams to ensure they have the
collaborative partnerships in place for multi-year complex funding
opportunities with bilateral and multi-lateral public donors.
Key Working Relationships:
Position reports to:Partnership
Director, Awards Management Unit (AMU) and Governance Technical Unit
under the Crisis Response, Recovery and Development (CRRD)
Close collaboration with:regional and country facing Award Management Unit Senior Program
Development Advisers/Program Development Advisers and Senior Technical
Adviser/Technical Advisers. Interacts with IRC internal departments, including external relations, finance, and global supply chain departments.
RESPONSIBILITIES
•
Collaborate with Governance Unit country facing TAs to analyze the
roles, capacities and relationships between local government, civil
society, and private sector actors, based on the stakeholder analysis
process
• Based on the stakeholder
analysis, and guided by anticipated bids and donor strategies, work with
technical unit leads to identify the civil society organizations,
government entities and private sector actors with which we will build
partnership relationships, and which existing partnerships we will
continue to build (seeking alignment with S100 strategic partnerships)
•
For specific USG, FCDO, and other competitive bids, collaborate with
and support country facing SPDAs/PDAs/STAs/TAs to support country
offices to define IRC’s approach based on how it can best ‘add value’,
prioritizing opportunities to support and reinforce local capacities and
systems (asking ‘why not partner’), and reflecting the strategies of
targeted bilateral and multi-lateral public donors
•
Guide AMU and TE country facing staff in supporting the early phase
development of collaborative, principled partnerships with local actors,
through the application of PEERS policy, process, guidance, and tools
•
In collaboration with the Capture Advisors, Governance TAs and AMU
SPDAs, provide partnership related support to business development
strategies and approaches, as well as donor submissions
•
In collaboration with Governance TAs, promote inclusive governance and
management approaches, including full participation of local actors in
consortia
• Support country facing TAs
across Technical Excellence to promote approaches that maximize
collaboration in the design and development of programs, identify,
understand and build partnerships that leverage the complementary
capacities of each partner
• Where
relevant, promote and guide principled, collaborative risks analysis and
management with partners across all organizational functions,
consistent with PEERS
• Collaborate
with Governance TAs in supporting country programs to conduct
partnership capacity self-assessments, and to address the priority
strengthening opportunities identified through those self-assessments
• Support with the recruitment of staff with significant partnership responsibilities for targeted opportunities
• Contribute to the continued development and strengthening of PEERS policies, processes, and tools
•
Contribute to the pro-active building of our reputation with key donors
and potential primes as a leading humanitarian partnership agency
Qualifications
•
Bachelor’s degree in relevant field, including international relations,
political science, public administration, and communications or other
related field.
•
Seven years’ plus experience leading partnership work; demonstrated
expertise in building successful, principled, collaborative partnerships
with civil society, government and private sector actors.
• Experience working with USAID, FCDO, EU institutions, and/or other European donors, including developing proposals.
• Excellent written and oral communication; able to convey complex concepts clearly and concisely in writing and orally.
•
Demonstrated ability to collaborate equally effectively with colleagues
in ‘remote’ and diverse teams; outstanding interpersonal skills,
including the ability to effectively manage a variety of relationships
in a multicultural environment;
• The ability to work productively and accurately while under pressure in a fast-paced, demanding environment;
• Flexible
work attitude: the ability to work in a team environment and
independently and ability to meet unexpected demands, prioritize and
multi-task;
• Ability to travel internationally (up to 20% of time);
• Fluency in English; proficiency in French, Arabic, and/or Spanish is an asset.
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