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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare. MSF offers assistance to people based on need, irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation...
Job Description
The Partnership Coordinator will be responsible for developing and managing the partnership between OCP and Local Partner in Borno.
Establish the basis of the partnership in view to formalize a MOU
Upon delegation and with support from Head of Mission, the Partnership Coordinator takes the lead role for MSF engagement with the local partner in Borno
Identifies and ensures that all the main prerequisites for the development of this partnership are in place
Organizes the partner assessment (operational; administrative; legal financial; organizational; managerial), in close collaboration with the Mission and the HQ relevant departments
Builds a relationship of trust between the two partners, ensuring that both are respected, listened to, supported and learning from each other, while having open channel to discuss challenges and constraints as they arise
Prepares the MoU that will be signed between MSF and Local Partner, with support from HQ relevant Advisers
Build the capacity building plan with the partner as per their need and with close collaboration and involvement of coordination
Responsible for assessing staff and partners’ capacities are relevant to ensure the quality of operational activities
Identifies partners’ capacity strengthening needs and necessary operational systems adaptations, and develops relevant training and development strategy
Initiates the development and implementation of appropriate partnership and capacity buildings modules, tools and plans with support from the Mission, HQ relevant Technical Advisers, or external providers
Establish the tools necessary for implementation, monitoring and reporting of the activity
Develops the compliance, reporting and monitoring responsibilities and the associated tools and templates for partner’s oversight and monitoring of the activity
Together with the HoM ensures the communication of partnership to key stakeholders for awareness, transparency and acceptance purposes
Identify and assess the main risks that can emanate from this partnership both for MSF and local parner (including risks to staff, assets, legal, reputational), proposes and coordinates relevant mitigation measures
Being accountable for the proper planning, sizing, and coordination of all financial and material resources needed in the partnership
Evaluates project performance and provides all the required reports to HOM on project planning, project monitoring and project evaluation in line with Mission reporting cycle
Being accountable and supervising the implementation of the project by the partner, ensuring that the pre-agreed technical and ethical standards are followed and objectives are achieved.
Evaluates and advise on the feasibility of this partnership taking into account the outcomes and findings from the above activities
The Partnership Coordinator will work closely with the HoM who is the overall responsible for all aspects of partnership implementation, in addition to the Borno Project Coordinator who oversees the regular project activities in Maiduguri, iii) the HQ partnership referent who will provide support for the development of the partnership.
Formation
Mandatory: previous working experience in relevant similar positions (including experience of successfully managing projects with local partner) in other organizations
Desirable: MSF Experience in Operations (PC or HoM profile)
Strong interest in working with partners
Education: University education in international studies, public policy, law, project-, HR-, operations-management, project management or similar fields.
Salaire
Contract duration: 6 months with possibility to extend
Level 13: Project coordinator
Location: Maiduguri, Borno( with travels to Abuja)
Languages: Excellent English
Contract type : Fixed-term contract
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