Partnerships Manager

• Promote and apply the IRC's Partnership Excellence for Equality and Results system (PEERS).
• Contribute to building a strong understanding of PEERS throughout the Country Program, and to ensuring that IRC's partnership principles, skills and approaches are applied by staff across programs and projects with partners.
• Facilitate systematic partner feedback on IRC's management of the partnership relationship, including the documentation of, and response to partner feedback.
• 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 IRC's strategy, role and approach, and IRC's core partnership principles.
• Ensure that IRC's partnership principles, skills, and approaches are applied across programs and projects.

• Facilitation and coordination of all partnership management processes to ensure well planned, timely, coordinated and coherent partnership management.
• Lead in the overall management of all partnerships in your portfolio and all PEERS processes/documentation.
• Conduct & coordinate Partner Identity and Background Review (Vetting) processes, including completion of the vetting report.
• Coordinate and co-lead Partnership Capacity Analysis (PCA) processes, including contributing to and facilitating the collaborative risk analysis and management.
• Support facilitation of Partnership Project Cycle: Opening, Review and Closing Meetings.
• Coordinate narrative and finance reporting processes, including reviews and feedback.
• Support IRC functional teams to ensure timely and effective partner program, finance, and compliance review and reflection (monitoring).
• Support the IRC functional teams to ensure project support plans are implemented in line with agreements.
• Process sub-awards modifications in a timely manner ensuring that the relevant IRC units (in-country and at the HQ) provide their inputs and approve the modification.
• Facilitate management processes to ensure the smooth close out of partner projects, as applicable.
• Maintain complete and organized partnership files for each partner, and ensure Partnership Project Tracker / Monitoring & Reporting Schedule and other trackers are kept up-to-date.
• Foster ongoing learning, honest dialogue, and reflection at team level to strengthen safeguarding, wellbeing and duty of care, and to promote IRC values and adherence to IRC policies.
• Lead by example and support IRC's commitment to taking all necessary preventive measures and creating an environment where people feel safe and can report misconduct.

• BA degree or equivalent in International Development or Affairs, Finance, Business or related field; Advanced degree a plus - or equivalent work experience

• Experience with I/NGOs (desired)
• Demonstrated successful experience working with partners
• Knowledge of key donor rules and regulations (in particular U.S. Government, SIDA, and ECHO)
• Highly organized, close attention to detail, and ability to effectively prioritize tasks in a fluid environment

• English knowledge: at least upper-intermediate
• Ability to work well independently but also coordinate with other teams
• Willingness to travel frequently to field offices and partner locations
• Very strong computer skills.

• This role requires full-time work in the office or hybrid type of working is possible after probation period
• Travel to other locations is needed up to 30% of time
• Exempt from overtime
• Sometimes work on weekends may be required
• Work in the matrix organization
• Fast pace of working, multitasking and stressful work
• The organization cares about staff and provides flexible working options (start early-finish early, start later-finish later, remote work)
• Staff can ask for accommodation of a workplace. Specific requests can be discussed with HR.

• Competitive salary
• Purposeful job and development opportunities
• English classes and unlimited online training courses
• Life Insurance
• Medical insurance for staff and family members
• Free psychological support to employees and their family members
• 30 calendar days of annual vacation with flexibility beyond the legally set minimum requirements
• Up to 10 days of paid medical leave

International Rescue Committee