Acting Senior Partnership Manager (Short Term) – Ukraine

Global Communities works at the intersection of humanitarian assistance, sustainable development and financial inclusion to save lives, advance equity and secure strong futures. We support communities at the forefront of their own development in more than 35 countries, partnering with local leaders, governments, civil society and the private sector to achieve a shared vision of a more just, prosperous and equitable global community.

Global Communities is responding to the crisis in Ukraine, delivering humanitarian, recovery, and development assistance through a community-led response. Global Communities’ response is designed with the goal of saving lives, reducing suffering, and addressing urgent needs while supporting communities to lead their own response and prepare for recovery.

The Acting Senior Partnerships Manager will directly manage and coordinate all relevant partnerships for the humanitarian response in Ukraine, including contributing to the partnership approach strategy, designing tools, collaborating on grant making and monitoring and supporting capacity development plans. The position will be based in Ukraine and will report to the Program Director.

The role of the Acting Sr. Partnerships Manager is key to our coordination with national organizations within Ukraine. This role will be responsible for developing and managing relationships with organizational leadership, supporting with collaborative and partner-led capacity assessments, supporting partner-led capacity development plans and ensuring appropriate monitoring, evaluation and learning of partner programming. This role is pivotal to Global Communities’ approach and prioritization of a locally delivered humanitarian response in Ukraine.

This is a short-term position focusing on program start-up responsibilities within the broader Partnerships function, including hiring and training partnerships staff, developing initial work plans and work processes, and supporting the development of initial award deliverables.

Responsibilities

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES: Management, Representation and Advocacy

• Provide technical vision and strategy and corresponding tools for the Ukraine humanitarian response’s partnership programming and contribute to the partnership strategy for the humanitarian response.
• Review technical vision and strategy of Global Communities’ past partnership management strategy through development programming and develop a cohesive strategy that considers future development and humanitarian needs.
• Provide management support for partner organizational capacity development through tools, coaching, mentoring and aligning resources with needs.
• Support partners in leading their own capacity assessments and development plans and collaborate with partners to set milestones.
• Develop monitoring plans and collaborate with MEAL team to ensure appropriate monitoring and documentation of monitoring results throughout program delivery.
• Coordinate with program management teams, technical and operational teams to provide capacity building and oversight support to partner programs.
• Coordinate closely with grants management, M&E and feedback mechanism teams to ensure safe, accountable, equitable and compliant delivery of humanitarian assistance.
• Collaborate with project leadership of civil society/governance programs to minimize risks of duplication across humanitarian and development programs.
• Support the development of advocacy priorities specifically related to partners or locally led humanitarian assistance in Ukraine.
• Represent GC in relevant fora to coordinate and collaborate on partnership approaches.

Responsibility Area: Technical Support

• Develop Partnership Management SOPs
• Develop and implement tools required for partnership programming – including capacity assessments, capacity development plans, monitoring of organizational development and learning and adapting approaches and tools.
• Provide mentoring support to partner organizations where required.
• Support the identification of and accessibility of training resources for partners specifically linked to partner capacity development plans, humanitarian assistance or safety and security for partners.
• Update Global Communities partnership related tools to align with engaging smaller organizations involved in Ukraine response.
• Build partner capacity as needed to apply safeguarding standards in line with Global Communities’ Safeguarding Framework and international standards

Responsibility Area: Reporting and Knowledge Management

• Contribute to required internal and external reporting, by support of drafting of bi-weekly/monthly/quarterly program reports, and success stories related to partner programming as required.

POSITION SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Promote a culture of excellence, inclusion, learning, support, diversity and innovation.
• Visit project locations and partner activities in Ukraine as required for appropriate oversight and representation with up to 50% travel within Ukraine.
• Supervision responsibilities.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• Proven ability to work in a fast paced, demanding environment, often working under pressure in insecure environments.
• Management in complex environments skills.
• Ability to process information and synthesize for key decision- makers.
• Knowledge of Knowledge of civil society and governance best practices and partnership management, including working with local NGOs, CSOs or national response mechanisms.
• Strong cross cultural communication skills.
• The ability to identify and problems as they arrive and proposing solutions across organizations.
• Strong interpersonal and representational skills.
• Knowledge of humanitarian response coordination architecture, mechanisms and standards.

Qualifications

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Undergraduate degree in a related discipline and a minimum of six years of related work experience or a minimum of them years of related work experience.
• At least 2 years’ experience working in emergency, conflict, post-conflict, or post-disaster settings.
• Demonstrated experience working on civil society and governance programming and working directly with partners in Ukraine.
• Demonstrated experience with developing and implementing tools for partnership selection and management.
• Demonstrated experience with capacity development or developing and facilitating training.
• Prior experience working on USAID (incl BHA), UN or other donor funded programs preferred.
• Experience managing diverse and multi-functional teams.
• Experience with negotiations with local partners and demonstrated ability to adapt to new environments and work with multi-national staff.
• Working proficiency in Ukrainian or Russian and English required.
• A passion for the mission and values of Global Communities.

Global Communities is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Global Communities is committed to ensuring a safe and respectful environment for all staff, representatives, partners, participants, and anyone with whom Global Communities interacts worldwide, especially children and adults at risk.