Institutional Partnership Development Specialist

Syria

Administrative - Humanitarian/Disasters

Finished or Exempted (For male)

1.Fundraising and Donor Liaison

- Build up and nurture a network with co-workers, organizations and institutions towards establishing long term partnerships for public funding projects
- Identify institutional partnership opportunities at the national local level (from bilateral, multilateral, international organizations and embassies and foundations)
- Coordinate with the program team to conduct assessments and feasibility studies that inform program design. Conduct background research relevant for designing projects
- Coordinate the writing of program proposals and be the link between program, finance and submit this to potential institutional donors.
- Develop and maintain good relationships with donors by ensuring regular communication, knowledge exchange and effective reporting.
- Work with the Head of FDC, be the link between SOS Children’s Villages and donors especially in management of institutional funding contracts. Ensure regular communication with the SOS international and regional offices
- Coordinate, monitor and assess the quality of donor reporting making sure that donor requirements are met during the project implementation phase.
- Prepare and submit IPD monthly updates to management and quarterly reports to the regional office.
- Set up an IPD team to develop institutional partnership applications
- Involve in all stages of public funding project management (preparation, monitoring and evaluation) including the application process.
- Follow up current grant-implementations in terms of monitoring and evaluation
- Set up a national public funding database
- Work closely with the National Director, National programme development director and program managers in the preparation and monitoring of the projects.
- Foster and insure ensure capacity building measures for national key-co-workers in the field of Project-Cycle-management and Public Funding in general


2.Donor Contract Management:
- Responsible for Donor Contract Management (DCM) of all institutional (restricted) grants (National or International), including contract preparation, development of consortium agreements, compliance with donor requirements, submission of reports.
- Develop and maintain a mechanism for management of institutional contracts.
- Ensure all funding files, (electronic, system and paper) are complete and kept up to date.
- Undertake routine donor contract administration for country programmes including maintenance of records on donor contracts in the NA
- Establish a close working relationship with the Finance Department and provide advice to ensure synergy in donor budgeting, contract management and reporting

3.Strategy, Capacity Building

- Develop and implement an institutional fundraising and partnership strategy in line with the needs of the NA and ensure this is infused within the national plans
- Review and implement the recommendations of the donor market survey
- Train and support relevant staff in Project Cycle Management and Logical Framework Approach
- Build fundraising capacity within the programme team, by training staff on funding policies donor relations, reporting, contract management, etc.

4.Partnership Development and Networking
- Participate in all important events and activities in the country that are of great importance for creating networks in the public funding sphere
- Establish and maintain regular contact with donors by organizing donor roundtables, face to face meetings, attending donor forums etc.
- Negotiate collaboration with partner institutions and government departments in support of NA subject to approval from the National director
- Assess and where possible develop partnerships and consortiums with other like-minded organizations for purposes of bidding for large donor projects.
- Supervise the representation of the NA in sector level meetings (development and humanitarian/emergency) and other networking forums and use this to aggressively develop funding partnerships
- Participate in regional IPD networking and training forums and contribute to development of new IPD strategies to improve practice

5.Child Safeguarding :
- Child protection is everyone's responsibility
- Protect the child and the young from all forms of abuse, neglect, abandonment, violence, discrimination and maltreatment.
- Report any CS suspicion , concern or abuse or incident immediately to one of the local and / or national child protection committees or to his direct supervisor following Child Safeguarding reporting procedures

Female Candidates are strongly encouraged to apply
closing Date: 22/11/2021

SOS Children's Villages in Syria was founded in 1975 and registered in the Syrian Ministry of Social Affairs under No. 1002. The Association is a nonprofit and nongovernmental, independent social development association. SOS is committed to helping orphans and children without parental care who had lost their homes, security, and families. We work in communities where our mission can contribute to their development and work as well in the spirit of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, advocating and promoting such rights in the Syrian Arab Republic.
SOS has adopted the slogan 'a loving home for every child' to continue to be pioneers in child care in Syria and the world. Whereas SOS Children's Villages in Syria is a branch of the International Federation of Children's Villages, based in Austria, and spread out in 136 countries around the world.

Nov 02, 2021

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