The Partnership Coordinator will work closely with the Grants Manager to develop NRC Venezuela’s localization strategy. In recent years, the operation in Venezuela has prioritized working with local organizations. The role of the Partnership Coordinator is to manage relationships with partners and strengthen the organization’s work with them.

The role of the Partnership Coordinator is to manage partnerships with local partners. This includes supporting partners in preparing donor documents, developing tasks related to project cycle management (PCM), organizing meetings, and preparing and updating key tools for partners. The role is also responsible for supporting local partners’ efforts to effectively manage risks; promoting a risk and controls management culture within organizations; supporting management to strengthen partner capacities within high-risk areas and with non-function-specific regulations, i.e. process for securing supporting documentation (SSD), COTER, sanctions, corruption, audits; as well as responding to any issues or questions that arise in relation to Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PEAS), Data Protection, legal and Code of Conduct.

Duties and responsibilities

Generic Responsibilities
1. Be responsible for supporting local partners and developing risk management training to ensure they meet donor standards.
2. Coordinate the development of donor applications and reports, as well as ensure compliance with donor requirements and quality control of projects implemented with local partners.
3. Contribute to the development and review of funding proposals, budgets and donor reports, as well as corresponding documentation from local partners and specific projects.
4. Stay up to date with donor and local partner priorities and trends.
5. Manage relationships with NRC’s various partners.
6. Respond to any issues or questions that arise in relation to the work of the Consortium on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PEAS), Anti-Corruption, Data Protection and Code of Conduct, with the support of its technical line.
7. Contribute to the development of the NRC risk management framework by documenting lessons learned and best practices regarding consortium processes.
8. Compliance and adherence to NRC policies, guidelines, and procedures.
9. Contribute to the implementation of minimum standards for safe and inclusive programming across all programs, with capacity building, guidance, and interdepartmental engagement.

Specific responsibilities:
• Lead, together with partners, the coordination, information gathering, drafting and delivery of quality reports to donors.
• Lead the Due Diligence and Partnership processes with local partners.
• Provide training on topics related to Compliance on high-risk cross-cutting issues (SSD, PSEA, AC, DP, etc.).
• Develop/adapt risk registration and monitoring tools for efficient use by local partners.
• Assist in drafting and monitoring the partner agreement with coordination, with all relevant internal units;
• Actively participate in and manage processes, follow-up to contractual commitments, lessons learned, and capacity sharing;
• Jointly identify with local partners, priority high-risk issues and their needs;
• Develop training and guidance material on high-risk issues prioritized by partners;
• Develop or adapt risk assessment, registration and monitoring tools for use by local partners;
• Coordinate and/or co-lead the organization of project start-up, follow-up, and closing meetings with partners, ensuring that minutes are kept and action items are followed up;
• Ensure that key grant management documents are correctly archived in Office 365 and Cycles and that these tools are regularly updated;
• Coordinate tasks with the various departments in order to organize activities or follow up on commitments with partners;
• Travel to the field to provide ad hoc support to partners (spot-checks, management of high-risk incidents, etc.).
• Regularly advise and accompany local partners, especially on high-risk cross-cutting issues, including compliance with legal obligations concerning NGOs based on the new Venezuelan legislation.
• Any other task delegated by your line manager according to your responsibilities and capabilities.

Qualifications

Generic professional skills
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience working in compliance, auditing and/or risk management.
• Minimum of 1 year’s experience working with local organisations in Venezuela.
• Knowledge of national and international regulations applied to international and national NGOs.
• Well-versed in the programming of international and local NGOs in the humanitarian field (specifically Code of Conduct, Sanctions, Prevention of Terrorist Financing, PEAS, Child Safeguarding, Data Protection, etc.).
• Upper-intermediate command (B2) of English, both oral and written, is mandatory.
• Direct experience in the humanitarian field will be valued positively.
• Documented results of the responsibilities of the position.

Skills, knowledge and experience relevant to the context
• University degree in social sciences, law, liberal studies, development, international relations or similar;
• Experience working on issues related to partnership management, ideally in a humanitarian context, will be valued;
• Writing skills and experience in preparing reports, proposals and/or other documents for donors;
• Other studies in the area of ​​Compliance and Risk Management, Code of Conduct, PSEA, Data Protection, etc.
• Documented results in establishing and/or consolidating effective compliance systems.
• Experience in organizing/coordinating processes and working in a team;
• Analytical capacity and communication skills;
• High level of use of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Personal qualities

• Build meaningful relationships.
• Act with integrity.
• Empower people.
• Deliver results.

We can offer

Fixed-term employment contract, salary according to the NRC Venezuela scale.