PARTNERSHIP MANAGER – UKRAINE RESPONSE

CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe. Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us, and fight with CARE

CARE is seeking a Partnership Manager who will be responsible for the provision of technical leadership and management of CARE’s partnership strategies and related activities in-country for CARE Ukraine Support. the Partnership Manager will support the development and implementation of CARE’s partnership strategy and help the Program Managers and other program staff in their coordination and work with local partners, with the aim of building effective partnerships and the capacity building of local partners.

The person in this role will work closely with the program management team at all levels to ensure that CARE’s partnerships with civil society organizations and the government authorities are well maintained and properly communicated to key stakeholders. In coordination and under the guidance of the Team Leader, the Partnership Manager will support and provide partners with training in order to strengthen their capacity to respond to the emergency and development needs in their communities.

The Partnership Manager will assist program managers in establishing and developing effective working relationships with CARE’s partners in all its operation areas. They will also work closely with Grants and Finance Leads to support the pre-award and post-award in accordance with CARE policies and donor requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Strategy Development and Implementation
• Capacity Strengthening of Local Partners
• Documentation, Information Sharing, and Learning
• Support partner funding agreement management
• Perform other duties assigned by manager

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject required; relevant postgraduate diploma or degree desired
• Four years of work experience, of which at least 2 years in an international and/or humanitarian operating environment
• Strong oral and written communication skills in English and Polish
• Strong coaching, mentoring, training facilitation, and team-building skills
• Strong knowledge, understanding, and experience of partnership work in similar contexts
• Experience in partnership development, and capacity strengthening
• Strong coordination, negotiations, and facilitation skills
• Fluent in verbal and written communication and presentation skills
• Extensive experience in capacity strengthening of civil society organizations and other partner organizations
• Experience in grants and contracts management
• Experience in facilitating mutual risk assessments, due diligence assessments, co-design, capacity strengthening, monitoring processes, and management of partnership relationships
• Experience working with international organizations of similar size with CARE