Partnerships Manager

The Opportunity

On 6th February, two earthquakes 7.6 M and 7.7 M struck southern Türkiye in the province of Kahramanmaraş, just nine hours apart. At least 4.6 million children live in the most affected provinces of Türkiye, with 2.5 million of them in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. Save the Children is rapidly scaling up a multi-sectoral response with the primary response being delivered through partners. SCI is rapidly looking at increasing our partner portfolio in terms of funding, number of partners and systems and processes for delivering high quality capacity strengthening.

This role includes:

1. leading and providing strategic, operational and technical leadership in the development, implementation and follow-up of a common partnership workflow for effective partnership management across SC Turkiye earthquake response;
2. ensuring that the full partnership perspective and our objectives for partnership management are effectively included, captured and supported in all central processes and systems in SCI Turkiye
3. Ensuring the mainstreaming of the partnership workflow across the entire organization; gathering and analysing partnership best practice, effective coordination of learning and capacity strengthening support; and coherence and alignment between the operational and strategic dimensions of the organization’s partnership work.

In the event of a major event, deadline, incident or risk related to partnership work, the role holder may be expected to work outside the normal job description and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

In order to be successful you will bring/have:

Essential

• Strong experience managing field operations
• Strong practical experience and knowledge of partnership work on the ground working with implementing and strategic partners, both in development and humanitarian contexts.
• Experience of managing organisational risks
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to influence others, to liaise with a wide range of people at all levels and across different cultures and to act with credibility, tact and diplomacy
• Excellent planning, management and coordination skills. Strong time management skills with an ability to plan ahead, anticipate requirements, problems and obstacles. Ability to juggle competing priorities successfully, and to work to tight deadlines with the capacity to organise a substantial workload comprised of complex, diverse tasks and responsibilities
• Excellent business partnering, communication and relationship building skills. Demonstrated ability to develop and manage productive relationships with SC member agencies and senior staff
• Fluency in English and Turkish
• Experience of managing teams, including (geographically) remote relationships
• Strong and clear commitment to Save the Children’s values

Desirable

• A second language, preferably Arabic
• Experience in change management, organisational development
• Experience of implementing continuous improvement or knowledge management initiatives in a large organisation

Position holder will be based in Istanbul, Hatay or Gaziantep, therefore legal right to work in Türkiye is necessary at the time of application.

The Organisation
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
Save the Children is committed to create a truly inclusive, effective and representative organisational culture, encouraging equity and diversity among its employees and eliminating discrimination. Having a diverse profile of employees, different age groups, backgrounds, cultures, gender identities and expressions, sexual orientation etc., including a range of different experiences and capabilities helps us understand, represent and serve children better. Therefore all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, or age.

Application Information:
Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application, and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. A copy of the full role profile can be found at www.savethechildren.net/careers

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our global anti-harassment policy.