Requisition ID: req51375
Job Title: Deputy Partnership Coordinator
Sector: Governance
Employment Category: Regular
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: Not Applicable
Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Work Arrangement:
Job Description
Background/IRC Summary:
Founded in 1933, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a leading emergency response and development organization, supporting communities in transition in over 40 countries. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has implemented programs in Tanzania for over 20 years through education, protection, and health programs.
Job Overview
The Deputy Partnerships Coordinator will support the IRC Tanzania Country Program in its strategic management and oversight of its robust partnerships across the country. The Deputy Partnerships Coordinator will facilitate the Tanzania team’s delivery of high-quality partnerships that are strategic for IRC, compliant with IRC and donor requirements in order to provide quality services and outcomes for the communities we serve, consistent with the IRC’s PEER System. Working in close collaboration with the programs, grants and operations departments, the Deputy Partnership Coordinator will oversee all steps in the partnership management lifecycle ensuring that partnerships are appropriately integrated into the overall project cycle management.
With the support from the Deputy Director of Programs, the Deputy Partnerships Coordinator will also be a leader in building and promoting a culture, attitudes, and values conducive to collaborative partnerships among the team, based on a clear and shared understanding of IRC’s role and approach, and core partnership principles. The Deputy Partnerships Coordinator will report directly to the Deputy Director of Programs. The Deputy Partnerships Coordinator is based in Dar, with travel to the field sites when necessary.
Major Responsibilities
Strategy and Program Approach
Promote Effective Partnerships
Partnership Agreement Management
Partner Support and Capacity Sharing
Partnership Resourcing, Training, and Development
Key Working Relationships:
Qualifications
Working Environment: Security level yellow – The situation in most of the country is calm. Some parts of Kigoma region experience insecurity-highway banditry.
Partnership: The IRC is committed to working with partners as our preferred operating model and adhering to our six partnership principles: equality, complementarity, mutuality, solidarity, results orientation, and humility.
Commitment to Client Responsiveness: By committing to Client-Centered Programming, at the IRC Tanzania, we place the people we serve – our clients – at the center of our programming and services. The IRC Tanzania Staff have an important role to play in supporting the implementation of client-responsive programming through raising awareness to the community and clients about expected staff behavior, project information, the existing feedback mechanisms and how to use them including the response processes, access, and eligibility to services, and contribute to building an institutional culture that prompts staff to listen to clients and to communicate and respond to their requests, feedback, and complaints.
Professional Standards: The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way – Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusivity: IRC is committed to building a diverse organization and a climate of inclusivity. We strongly encourage applications from candidates who can demonstrate that they can contribute to this goal.
IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer: IRC considers all applicants based on merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, age, marital status, veteran status or disability. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
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