Partnerships Manager

Purpose of the Role

The Partnerships Manager is a key position supporting the Bangladesh Country Program. With the overall objective of achieving high quality and compliant programming, the main goal of this position is to manage a partnership portfolio and support the Partnership Working Group to ensure effective sub-grants management and build strong, sustainable partners. The post holder will coordinate the daily management of the sub-award lifecycle and invest in their sustainable growth and capacity for the Bangladesh portfolio.

The post is required to coordinate with the following parties:

Internal: Technical Coordinators, Partnerships Department Staff, Finance team, Supply Chain team.

External: Partner staff

Highlights of Key Responsibilities

Promote Effective Partnerships:

· Promote and apply the IRC’s Partnership Excellence for Equality and Results system (PEERS); contribute to building a strong understanding of PEERS throughout the Bangladesh Country Program, and to ensuring that IRC’s partnership principles, skills and approaches are applied by staff across programs and projects with partners

· Facilitate systematic partner feedback on IRC’s management of the partnership relationship, including the documentation of, and response to partner feedback

Partnership Management:

· Support the Partnership Working Group with facilitation and coordination of all partnership management processes to ensure well planned, timely, coordinated and coherent partnership management

· Lead in the overall management of all partnerships in your portfolio and all PEERS processes / documentation

· Support the program team in facilitation of Partnership Project Opening, review and Closing Meetings

· Coordinate narrative and finance reporting processes, including reviews and feedback

· Support the Partnership Working Group members to ensure timely and effective partner program, finance, and compliance review and reflection (monitoring)

· Support the Partnership Working Group members to ensure project support plans are implemented in line with agreements

· Maintain complete and organized partnership files for each partner

· Maintain up to date Partnership Project Tracker/ Monitoring Schedule

· Process sub-awards modifications in a timely manner ensuring that the relevant IRC units (in-country and at the HQ) provide their inputs and approve the modification

· Support the Partnership Working Group to ensure the smooth close out of partner projects, as applicable

· Responsible for managing the relevant partnership email inbox