🇸🇱 Job Vacancy @ Concern Worldwide – Partnership Manager
Concern Worldwide is a nongovernmental, international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries. Concern Worldwide’s integrated programming approach aims to tackle all dimensions of poverty, focusing on the overlapping areas of health, education and livelihoods while maintaining our response to emergencies. Concern fully integrates equality in all its work, with emphasis on a gender transformative approach. Concern Worldwide has been operational in Sierra Leone since 1996. Programme implementation is primarily in four districts, namely Tonkolili, Port Loko, Western Area Urban and Western Area Rural – with a presence in Kambia, Koinadugu, Falaba, Bombali and Karene.
Concern would like to invite well experienced and professional applicants for the under mentioned role:
Job Title: | Partnership Manager |
Project: | Supports all projects |
Reports to: | Country Director (could change in future) |
Direct reports: | None presently (but could change in future) |
Liaises with: | Internally with Concern Management Team (CMT), Programme coordinators/advisors and other Coordinators/leads for systems and HR, Partnership Accountant, Grants & Information Manager, head office Partnership Advisor, Desk Officer for Sierra Leone Externally with Concern’s partners (national and/or international). |
Job Location: | Freetown, with up to 50% travel to other programme locations in Sierra Leone |
Contract Details: | One-year renewable contract. |
Job Purpose: | Within the wider Concern Sierra Leone team, take a leadership role in the mapping, relationship building and engagement with national NGO partners in order to develop trusted, effective and equitable partnerships supporting the mission of Concern to eliminate extreme poverty (and where needed with other partners: private sector, research organisations, etc,). S/he will coordinate partner assessments and mutual capacity development towards long-term organizational development objectives. S/he will be responsible for supporting project/ programme leads in managing Concern’s relationships with partners, in coordination with relevant finance, support systems and programme staff of Concern. With CMT, s/he will lead the development and implementation of Concern in Sierra Leone’s Partnership strategy and play a key role in the internal change process and capacity building as Concern in Sierra Leone moves to increased implementation though national partners. S/he will liaise with key stakeholders at the national and regional levels and participate actively in fora related to partnership and localization in Sierra Leone. |
Main duties & Responsibilities: | Partner Relationships and Engagement:
Partner Mapping, Selection and Assessments:
Partnership Mutual Capacity Development:
Programme Development:
Organizational Learning and Representation:
HR and Capacity Building:
Other:
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Person specification: | Essential Qualifications & Experience
Desirable Qualifications & Experience
Essential – Special Skills, Aptitude or Personality Requirements:
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Emergency response | Concern is committed to responding to emergencies efficiently and effectively in order to help affected people meet their basic needs, alleviate suffering and maintain their dignity. To this end, when emergencies strike and Sierra Leone Programme is to respond, all staff are expected to be willing to actively participate in emergency responses, regardless of location and contribute to the efforts aimed at achieving the humanitarian objective of the organization. |
HIV & AIDS | Concern Sierra Leone is committed to respond to HIV & AIDS and to a supportive working environment for those infected or affected. Each staff member is required to contribute to achieving this commitment by:
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Gender Equality | Concern Worldwide in Sierra Leone recognizes that the establishment of equality of opportunity between men and women is fundamental to both the achievement of fairness and to poverty elimination. Therefore, each staff member of Concern is expected to be sensitive to equality issues in their relationships with colleagues and in their work and to participate in implementation of gender mainstreaming plans, both at the workplace and in programmes. |
Safeguarding at Concern: Code of Conduct and its Associated Policies Concern has an organisational Code of Conduct (CCoC) with three Associated Policies; the Programme Participant Protection Policy (P4), the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy. These 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 Concern Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the content of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Associated Policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these policies. Additionally, Concern is committed to the safeguarding and protection of vulnerable adults and children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work or volunteer with vulnerable adults and children are recruited by us for such roles. Subsequently, working or volunteering with Concern is subject to a range of vetting checks, including criminal background checking. |
HOW TO APPLY
Interested candidates should apply with:
- An application letter clearly justifying how you meet the selection criteria
- Recent Curriculum Vitae including names and full contact addresses of three (3) referees, one of whom must be their current or most recent employer.
- Candidates must state the position of each referee and his/her relationship to the candidate.
- A copy of a valid labour card must be attached to ALL applications (written or electronic)
- Police Clearance will be required from the successful candidate
Applications should be sent either through email or by hard copy to the following addresses.
You can send through email to [email protected] OR deliver in Hard copy to the below locations
HR Department, Concern Worldwide, 20 Old Railway Line – Signal Hill, Freetown
HR Department, Concern Worldwide, 2B Shamel Street, Magburaka, Tonkolili.
HR Department, 25 Upper Kamara Lane, Back of EDSA substation, Port Loko
Please mark your application as per the references stated in position above
(by email please put the reference in the SUBJECT heading).
Closing date for receipt of applications for the above vacancy is 17.00 on Wednesday May 24 2023
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
PLEASE NOTE THAT A COPY OF THE APPLICATION LETTER (written or typed) MUST BE SENT TO THE NGO DESK OFFICER, MINISTRY OF LABOUR & SOCIAL WELFARE, NEW ENGLAND OR EMAILED TO Email: [email protected]
“FEMALE CANDIDATES ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY”