Description
The Senior Partnerships Officer supports the growth and quality of partnerships within the IRC Jordan Country Program.
The post contributes to identifying, building, and sustaining strategic partnerships with government actors, civil society organizations, women-led and women-focused organizations, community-based organizations, and private sector actors.
Major Responsibilities:
Strategic partnership development and localization
- Maintain and regularly update a partnership ecosystem map and stakeholder analysis
- Support the development and maintenance of a prioritized pipeline of prospective strategic partners
- Support targeted outreach, networking, exposure visits, and relationship-building with prospective partners
- Support structured relationship management with strategic partners
- Contribute to equitable co-design and co-delivery by supporting the engagement of community-based organizations, women-led organizations, and other local actors
- Support business development with partners by identifying joint funding opportunities
- Advocate internally for a partnership-first approach in program design and proposal development
- Support the capacity-sharing agenda with partners
- Track and report progress against Country Program partnership commitments
- Capture and share evidence and lessons from partnerships
Partnership lifecycle management
- Screen the prospective partners list and conduct basic stakeholder analysis and social network analysis
- Schedule and lead meetings with prospective partners and complete the organizational snapshot tool
- Schedule design meetings with selected partners
- Collect partners' documents and file them properly in the system
- Support the development of partners' scope of work and the government approval cover letter
- Prepare the teaming agreement or Pre-Award Letter (PAL) with partners for review and signature
- Organize and conduct the Partner Capacity Analysis (PCA)
- Consolidate IRC scoring based on the information collected
- Facilitate the development of the Project Support Plan
Planning and start-up phase
- Draft the Partnership Agreement with all annexes
Program implementation phase
- Schedule the opening meeting with partners
- Support the application of the GEDI Marker at the project opening meeting
- Share all reporting templates with partners
- Schedule, coordinate, and document partner monitoring visits and meetings
- Follow up with partners on regular reports
- Coordinate the review of partners' financial and technical reports
- Request, collect, review, and archive supporting documents
- Schedule, conduct, and document reflection meetings with partners
Learning and closeout phase
- Collect partners' feedback forms
- Schedule and document the closing meeting with partners and programs
- Draft the closure letter for the Country Director's signature
- Ensure final reports and closing documents are complete and properly filed
- Provide the certificate of closure to partners
- Draft the partnership project review memorandum
- Prepare the government progress report and the project closeout cover letters with partners
Coordination, compliance, and reporting
- Provide contextual research and analysis to inform partnership choices and business development
- Track sub-awards and partner budgets in coordination with Finance
- Support partnership compliance with IRC policies and donor requirements
- Maintain accurate, accessible partnership records, trackers, and filing systems
- Prepare partnership-related reports for internal and donor audiences
- Maintain effective working-level relationships with partners, coordination bodies, and other stakeholders
General
- Promote and actively participate in initiatives and efforts to build team engagement, inclusion, and cohesion
- Foster ongoing learning, honest dialogue, and reflection to strengthen safeguarding
- Perform any other related duties as assigned by the supervisor