Save the Children invites applications for the above-mentioned position. We are committed to equal employment opportunities, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, disability, age, or beliefs and religion. We are committed to diversifying our staff to better represent the communities we serve and actively welcome underrepresented groups to apply.
The Opportunity
The Technical Specialist-Partnerships has an important role to support the Partnership function within the Rohingya Response team in Cox’s Bazar and in the Country Office. This follows the development of a response-specific Partnership Strategy, a Humanitarian Partner Manual and a Humanitarian Partner Capacity-Strengthening Framework, localization strategy – with a vision to grow our partnership portfolio and develop a strong operational platform to help deliver our ambitions for affected children.
The role holder will be supporting the Partnership function immensely in driving the learning agenda, localization strategy in updating the knowledge of local actors, creating ownership amongst the partners in terms of learning and development, administering the partnership's yearly work plan and partners’ capacity strengthening plan, along with monitoring and revising partners’ capacity strengthening plan. Besides, organizing feedback exchange meetings, orientations, and assessments, on job trainings with the partner to build a wider relationship and quality program implementation.
Technical Specialist-Partnerships will be playing an important role in leading the expanding portfolio of Rohingya response partnership function jointly with the Partnerships Manager. Currently, 12 projects have been implemented with the partnership of 10 local partners and 1 international partner. Besides, there are a couple of funding scopes upcoming with the possibilities to implement through partners. In AHP 4, there is a dedicated localization outcome and strategy under which 7 partners will be supported through Organizational Capacity Assessment (OCA) and a series of organizational capacity strengthening activities based on the OCD plan. Besides, in ECHO, ECW, DANIDA SPA, and BMZ, a range of organizational capacity strengthening activities is planned for which the technical expertise of Technical Specialist-Partnerships is required to support Partnership Manager and Program Managers in executing the activities in a timely and quality. Furthermore, most of the donors, including USAID and ECHO, have developed their localization policy and are planning to extend the direct funding to local partners and focus on organizational capacity strengthening along with other localization dimensions. In addition to that, Save the Children Bangladesh Country office is also developing a localization strategy; therefore, the Technical Specialist-Partnerships can play a pivotal role in administering already planned capacity strengthening activities and promoting the localization agenda, fulfilling the upcoming organizational priorities and needs moving forward. The position holder has considerable scope and contribution in developing a strong operational platform for SCI in delivering its ambitions for Children.
Qualifications and Experience
The Organisation
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realize the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:
• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated.
We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
Application Information
Please apply using a cover letter and an up-to-date CV as a single document. Please also include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations
Only short-listed candidates will be invited for an interview
‘Save the Children promotes diversity in its workforce.’
We need to keep children safe, so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our global anti-harassment policy.
Save the Children
Save the Children is the world's leading independent organisation for children. We work in around 120 countries. Our vision is to live in a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation.
Last year Save the Children's programmes and campaigns reached more than 55 million children directly around the world, through our and our partners' work.
We work to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. Across all of our work, we pursue several core values: accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity and integrity.
