Partnership Officer At GOAL

General Description of the Programme:

GOAL an International Humanitarian Organisation has had a presence in Turkey since 2013 and has been contributing to the migrant response since 2016 with a focus on responding to needs in protection and self-reliance of vulnerable and marginalised migrants and host community members in southern Turkey.

GOAL has been working in Syria since 2013, responding to the acute needs of conflict-affected communities. GOAL Syria implements multi-sector programmes in Northwest Syria (NWS) addressing the multiple vulnerabilities that households and communities are facing after a decade of conflict. At the household level, the program design creates links between its multi-donor funded emergency response program to its food security, winterization, and shelter programming, and complements food assistance programming with basic needs assistance via Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA). At the community level, GOAL supports bakeries facilitating the provision of affordable bread to large catchment areas in Idleb and North Aleppo. GOAL has a large-scale WASH infrastructure support programme that provides water throughout large areas of Idleb governorate.

GOAL has been working in North Aleppo Governate since 2019, through direct implementation and through partners, delivering food, non-food programming to highly vulnerable populations, as well as emergency support for recently displaced household.

GOAL has two projects (ECHO funded LINK and Irish Aid) in Türkiye, LINK program targets refugees from nomadic / semi-nomadic backgrounds and those engaged in seasonal agricultural labour. LINK has been designed to address and mitigate protection concerns of the vulnerable / marginalized refugees through provision of critical information and raising their awareness on their rights, obligations and services available in Türkiye, by sensitization/capacity building (targeting key stakeholders and service providers, etc.) activities, and Case Management (CM) and Individual Protection Assistance (IPA) services to enable highly vulnerable refugees to access to basic, social and protective services available under the provisions of Temporary and International Protection regulations in Türkiye. On the other hand, Irish Aid grant is targeting earthquake survivors and providing humanitarian assistance to affected families.

Job purpose:

Reporting to the Partnership Coordinator, the Partnership Officer is a key role supporting GOAL Syria’s partner portfolio. With the overall aim of achieving high quality and compliant partnerships, the Partnership Officer will ensure effective sub-grants management and due diligence with partners, assisting in monitoring and evaluating GOAL partners performance, contributing to strong respectful and long-term working relations with partners. As part of the Partnership Department the incumbent will oversee the contractual relationship between GOAL and its partners, ensuring timely reporting to GOAL and that reports are incorporated into GOAL’s reporting to donors. S/he will also play the role as primary contact point on contractual and grants issues with partners.

Duties, objectives and competencies

Job Responsibility#1: New Business Development Support

20% of Time:

• Maintain GOAL local NGO Mapping Database and ensure it is updated regularly.
• Ensure partner selection process is transparent, documented and aligned with GOAL Partnership process and procedures.
• Coordinate with Grants Management and Program teams to collect partner inputs for new proposals, concept notes and donor grant modification requests.
• Ensure effective coordination and collaboration with partners to finalize new proposals, concept notes and donor grant modification request project descriptions, budgets, work plans and monitoring and evaluation plans.
• Assist the Partnership Coordinator in drafting sub-award agreements and follow GOAL’s internal review process of all sub-award documentation and coordinate to get all necessary approvals.
• Keep track of all partners’ grant agreements and maintain the partners’ section of the Grant’s Tracker.

Job Responsibility#2: Partner Capacity Building

20% of Time:

• Coordinate with GOAL Grants Management, Program and System teams in order to collect inputs and relevant information on partners’ gaps in capacities and training needs, develop work plans and mechanism for follow up and progress reporting.
• Assist partners with understanding GOAL required policies and procedures as per the sub-grant agreement and best practices (procurement, financial reporting, child safeguarding, etc.)
• Liaise with GOAL departments including Grants, programmes, MEAL, GESI, Safeguarding, MIS and Systems to identify ongoing partner priority capacity gaps and facilitate capacity-building support for partners.
• Support the Partnership Coordinator in ensuring that the partners’ GESI, Safeguarding, and Accountability policies meet the quality benchmarks by liaising with GOAL related departments.
• Maintain tracker on current partner policy revision dates and coordinate policy reviewal processes with relevant GOAL staff departments and partner. Coordinate feedback to partners on the reviewal process and revisions.

Job Responsibility #3: Partnership Management and Performance Monitoring & Evaluation

30% of Time:

• Support GOAL Partnership Coordinator inimplementing a two-way partnership evaluation process and evaluation framework in collaboration with other GOAL cross-cutting technical areas (Gender Equality and Social Inclusion, Protection, Accountability and Data Protection).
• Organize regular meetings to review GOAL and partner performance within the framework; lead on formulation of joint action plans to address issues and follow up on action plan implementation with relevant partners and GOAL staff.
• Assist the Partnership Coordinator in reporting to the Programme Quality Management on partnership performance; ensure that any critical concerns are flagged in a timely manner.
• Collaborating with the Partnership Coordinator and MIS team on managing and updating the partner dashboards.

Job Responsibility #4: Partner Reporting, Coordination and Communications

30% of Time:

• Support and contribute when required to the agenda and materials for partner grant opening meetings, in coordination with support functions and program staff, to ensure projects start with clear expectations of both parties.
• Support the communication with GOAL partners, and with all GOAL relevant departments for partnership related issues pertaining to performance monitoring including but not limited to indicators performance, objectives and status of action plans.
• Mantain the communication plans for GOAL Syria partners updated to facilitate understanding of available focal points and communication channels, and how to access them.
• Participate and lead when required, Partner Management Team meetings with GOAL and Partner focal points. Ensure meeting minutes are recorded and disseminated with action points. Lead on action point follow-up with GOAL and partner focal points.
• Actively participate in Goal Syria Partner Task Force and Partner monthly meetings, support in taking and circulating minutes
• Ensure that partners’ contractual reports are reviewed and internal feedback from program and MEAL teams is compiled and sent to partners in a timely manner.

Other:

• Be an active participant in the Partnership Department, supporting the overall objectives and outputs of the Partnership Unit.
• Other duties as requested by the Partnership Coordinator.
• Provide cover for the Partnership Coordinator in his/her absence.

Requirements (essential)

• Turkish Citizenship.
• Bachelor’s degree in subject relevant to position (social science, business economics, information management, project management etc), or commensurate experience.
• 2-3 years working in the NGO sector in humanitarian programming with local partners.
• Fluency in English and Arabic, both written and oral.

Requirements (desired)

• Experience of donor compliance and managing institutional donor funding (e.g. BHA, and ECHO would be an advantage.)
• Demonstrated experience in safeguarding principles and practices (preferrable).
• Strong understanding of Accountability, and MEL principles and processes.
• Experience with report writing for donors and other external audiences.
• Proficient in MS Office applications (PowerBI Preferrable).

General terms and conditions

Safeguarding

Children and vulnerable adults a must be safeguarded to the maximum possible extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of abuse, sexual exploitation, injury and any other harm. One of the ways that GOAL shows this on-going commitment to safeguarding is to include rigorous background and reference checks in the selection process for all candidates.

Accountability within GOAL

Alongside our safeguarding policy, GOAL is an equal opportunities employer and has a set of integrity policies. Any candidate offered a job with GOAL will be expected to adhere to the following key areas of accountability:

• Comply with GOAL’s policies and procedures with respect to safeguarding, Code of Conduct, health and safety, data protection and confidentiality, do no harm principles and unacceptable behaviour protocols.
• Report any concerns about the welfare of a child or vulnerable adult or any wrongdoings within our programming area.
• Report any concerns about inappropriate behaviour of a GOAL staff or partner.

This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. GOAL reserves the right to change this document. Any published closing dates are estimated. Due to the nature of GOAL’s work we aim to fill vacancies as quickly as possible. This means that we will close adverts as soon as we have found the right candidate and this may be before the published closing date. We would therefore advise interested applicants to submit an application as early as possible.

Thank you.