Country: Ireland
Closing date: 04 Jun 2019
Reports to: Senior PAL (Programme Approaches and Learning) Advisor
Job location: Dublin with some overseas travel
Pay Band: 5 (€45,563 to €53,603)
Contract: 9 months (maternity leave cover) – starting September 2019
Job Purpose: To support Concern country offices to work through and with partners, ensuring effective capacity building of local organisations and institutions towards long-term development objectives. This will be achieved through direct support to country offices along with documenting and sharing best practise and current developments in this area
Key Responsibilities:
Documentation:
• Produce policy documents, discussion papers, ‘best practice’ documents and tools, and developing effective strategies for Partnership/Capacity Building
• Gather information and produce a document outlining the pattern of Concern’s work in partnership over the last seven to ten years, identifying key patterns and issues emerging.
• Maintain an online database of documentation and guidance materials on partnership through engagement with selected staff in the country offices and within the programme directorates (International Programmes, SAL, Emergencies)
• Stay abreast with the localisation debate in the humanitarian sector and work with the Emergencies Directorate and SAL colleagues to identify and document Concern’s approach to localisation
• Update guidance on capacity building for local organisations
• Develop guidance for working through partners in fragile contexts taking into account innovative approaches and best practise in this area
Working with Country Offices
• Explore with a sample of Concern country offices, the drivers of working with or without partners, highlighting both contextual and organisational incentives and disincentives for working with partners.
• Support country offices in assuring and improving the quality of their work through and with partners.
• Support the country offices where they do not work with partners to explore what their options are to build the capacities of local organisations and institutions with long-term development objectives in mind, especially mindful of issues of sustainability and replication or coverage.
• Input into programme proposals, advising on programme design, planning, implementation and monitoring from the perspective of working with and through partners
• Review and update Capacity Assessment tools and methods to assist in selection of partners
• Roll out of any guidance documents developed among country teams
• Support Concern country offices to introduce and rollout Concern programme strategies and tools to ensure a harmonised approach to programming among partners
• Support to country teams to monitor and strengthen approaches to accountability, codes of conduct, programme participant protection, child safeguarding, anti- fraud and anti-trafficking in persons
Monitoring and Evaluation
• Maintaining a database of past, current and perspective partners in Concern programme countries
• Set up a monitoring system to track capacity development of partners over time
• Working with Concern’s HQ DDG team, develop capacity monitoring tools and dashboards on Concerns Digital Data Gathering System
Cross Organisational Support and Learning
• Work with SAL adviser colleagues to develop specific partnership guidance and support per sector (Education Health, Livelihoods)
• Work with other departments to increase understanding of partnership approaches and roll out any guidance documents developed
• Carry out trainings, workshops and webinars as appropriate
Representation/Networking:
• Establish and maintain relationships with Partnership/Capacity Building specialists in other NGOs, institutions and with professional groups.
• Represent Concern in dealings with relevant institutes/universities/NGOs/IOs and with donors on areas related to Partnership/Capacity Building
• Provide information on Concern’s Partnership/Capacity Building work for other INGOs, IOs and donors, if requested.
Skills and Experience Required:
Essential:
Experience of supporting partner implementation
• At least three years working in developing countries or supporting developing country programmes working through a partnership model
• Specific experience in approaches to working in partnership and/or support indirect programme implementation
• Practical experience of developing relationships with a variety of stakeholders in supporting a partner based approach to programme implementation
Working within other agencies and with donors
• Experience in liaising with counter parts in other agencies as well as with donors on programme related issues.
• Confidence in representing partnership methodologies, findings and priorities to donors
Experience of capacity building
• Experience of capacity building of both internal and external partner staff
• Experience of developing practical guidance and templates for field staff and partner organisations
Team Work
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills and ability to operate as part of a team as well as
• working independently.
• Excellent spoken and written English
Documentation and Presentation
• Ability to communicate complex information in an accessible format
• Excellent presentation skills
Desirable:
• Ability to work through French and/or Spanish
• Practical experience working in consortia and developing consortium level partnership tools and guidance
To apply: CVs should be submitted through our website at https://jobs.concern.net by closing date: 4th June 2019
Candidates must be legally entitled to work in Ireland at the time of application.
Concern is an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all section of the community.
Concern has a Programme Participant Protection Policy and an organisational Code of Conduct which have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organisation, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context, staff have a responsibility to the organisation to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Programme Participant Protection Policy and the Concern Staff Code of Conduct as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing the Programme Participant Protection Policy and the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the contents of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Programme Participant Protection Policy and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these two documents.
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How to apply:
CVs should be submitted through our website at https://jobs.concern.net