Partnership Officer Job in International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Kenya

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Kenya serves vulnerable populations in the Turkana region and refugees in the Kakuma, Dadaab camps and in the Eastleigh, Nairobi.

The IRC implements programs in the areas of comprehensive primary health care, nutrition, protection, peace building, sanitation and hygiene and HIV/AIDS and prevention and response to gender based violence issues.

Applications are invited for the position of: Partnership Officer

Job Summary:

The IRC GBV program implements a holistic set of services to respond to the needs of women and girls who have experienced gender-based violence and works with all actors to minimize their vulnerability to ongoing violence.

To meet the needs of the incoming refugee population, the IRC GBV program is implementing an emergency GBV response program in Kambioos Camp.

The emergency program will reflect the overall program strategy of the IRC’s GBV emergency program model, the two key elements of which are advocacy and provision of, and access to, comprehensive GBV response services. In the longer term, GBV programming will be devolved to a local partner.

Initial support will be provided by a Partnership Officer to strengthen their organizational and programmatic capacity on GBV to support the transition of GBV programming in Kambioos over a 18-24 month period.

The Partnership Officer will be 100% dedicated to the GBV programme to initiate and oversee all interactions and support to the local partner identified to work with in Kambioos.

She/he will be responsible for the documentation and monitoring all aspects of the partnership as IRC transition services under the GBV programme to the local partner.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Partnership Process Management

• Provide management oversight to all capacity assessment processes for the local partner identified, ensuring that a strong baseline for improvement is established.
• Working in collaboration with GBV Manager to establish detailed capacity building plans for partner to strengthen organizational and technical capacity on GBV.
• Monitor partners’ progress adapting the plans against targets and indicators that have been decided upon by the IRC and partner organization.

Partner Performance and Accountability Management

• Work in collaboration with IRC Finance to verify, streamline, deploy and manage appropriate sub-grant agreements and Memorandum of Understanding with GBV program partner.
• Provide structured corrective support to the partner while evolving capacity building plans to reflect where additional focus is required.

Coordination

• Drafting of all appropriate partnership forms and contracts in conjunction with the Kenyan country program and input from the GBV Manager
• Management of all the partnership plans including setting realistic partnership expectations with targets and indicators.
• Creation of a master partnership plan to guide the transition of GBV programming in Kambioos with detailed timelines.
• Coordination of all partnership activities and partnership development in line with the approved plan
• Work closely with IRC GBV staff in Kambioos to ensure activities are complimentary and coordinated
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with relevant stakeholders including IRC health and GBV, community leaders and other implementing partners, represent the program in all stakeholders meetings and communicate outcomes with the rest of the program staffs and partner staff.

Training and capacity building

• Provide ongoing supervision, leadership, training and technical support and guidance on GBV programming to partner ensuring engagement with clients adheres to best-practice principles when working with survivors.
• Support trainings and mentoring for partner staff and
• Hold regular meetings with partner and IRC GBV staff to discuss issues, problems, accomplishments, and assist in finding solutions to problems identified.

Monitoring and support

• Ensure continuous monitoring and evaluation so that activities are appropriate and based on a clear understanding of the problems, causes, contributing factors, and issues in individual settings.
• Monitor the timely submission of accurate financial and activity reporting where appropriate within sub-grantee agreements with IRC.

Reporting and payments

• Conduct and oversee regular partner monitoring visits to ensure that partners operate in compliance with IRC and donor sub-grantee regulations.
• Ensure partners provide timely reports
• Prepare reports, and document lessons learned.

The partnership Manager reports to the GBV Program Manager

Requirements

• BA/BSc in Social Work, Psychology, Development, or a related field preferred.
• At least 3 years experience in direct service provision for survivors of gender-based violence.
• Previous experience in project management in emergency setting.
• Thorough understanding of gender-based violence response protocols and service provision.
• Proven experience supervising GBV social work/case management and outreach staff.
• Demonstrated leadership, communication, training and facilitation skills.
• Experience in training, participatory techniques and community mobilization
• Able to coordinate multiple tasks while maintaining attention to quality and detail.
• Strong knowledge of computer applications, including MS Word and Excel, GBV IMS
• Good coordination and networking skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills and flexibility
• Ability to live in a high security environment
• Fluency in English, including writing clear and concise reports.
• Excellent organizational skills, independence, maturity, respect for others, and flexibility

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in a refugee setting.
• Knowledge of and fluency in Somali.
• Experience working with a local partner on GBV programming

All interested candidates are requested to submit a cover letter and an updated CV (Do Not attach Certificates) to the following email address: HRKenya@rescue.org by 5th November, 2011.

IRC is an equal opportunity employer

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