Partnership Officer

Job description

The Partnership Officer supports the effective implementation of projects delivered by local partners, ensuring alignment with agreed plans, compliance requirements, and NRC standards. The role facilitates coordination, monitors progress, and contributes to strong, equitable and accountable partnerships.

Specific responsibilities

1. Collaborate with other departments, Grants, Safe & Inclusive Programming (SIP), Finance, Logistics, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) to ensure mainstreaming of core NRC principles and procedures across operational partners.
2. Support partnership project cycle management (PCM) activities and assist in applying NRC’s PCM framework in collaboration with partners, including cross-cutting programme elements.
3. Support partners in becoming familiar with NRC’s reporting procedures and templates.
4. Support the identification, assessment, and selection of potential partners in alignment with NRC’s strategic priorities.
5. Contribute to partnership mapping, analysis, and reporting to strengthen NRC’s partnership efforts.
6. Support the development and management of partnership agreements, ensuring compliance with NRC policies and donor requirements.
7. Assist in monitoring partner compliance with NRC’s requirements and relevant donor guidelines.
8. Conduct partners organisational assessment.
9. Assess the partner's priority needs in terms of capacity strengthening. 
10. Assist in developing and implementing capacity strengthening plans to support partners with technical needs
11. Provide and oversee necessary assistance to partners to ensure smooth implementation of partnership agreements and foster partners' overall development. 
12. Maintain filing and documentation of all partner projects and partnership documents, ensuring correct and up-to-date maintenance of Partnerships Trackers.
13. Support with the MEL aspects of the partnership and provide MEL capacity building as necessary to partners.
14. Support the maintenance of up-to-date dashboards to track progress and disaggregated data of partner-implemented projects, helping ensure timely and accurate information for reporting and communication purposes
15. Support Safeguarding and Community Engagement initiatives with partners.
16. Support the implementation of NRC’s partnership strategy under the guidance of the Partnership Manager.
17. Support the Partnership Manager as necessary, including representation and attendance at meetings as required, and coordination with teams.
18. Support in identifying and mitigating risks related to partnership implementation, including operational, reputational, and programmatic risks.
19. Ensure partner feedback mechanisms are in place, documented, and integrated into continuous improvement processes.