Partnership Operations Field Officer in Terre des hommes Ukraine

Terre des hommes organization is looking for a proactive, energetic and organized A specialist in working with partners who will join our team in Dnipro to support the implementation of our projects. If you are looking for meaningful work that will have a lasting impact on children's lives, we want to meet with you.  bold">Contract: 6 months (with the possibility of extension) 

Trial period: 3 months 

Salary: competitive salary, private health insurance and accident life insurance

Location: m. Dnipro, Ukraine (with the possibility of moving between local offices)

Application deadline: Recruitment will continue until the vacancy is filled

POSITION DESCRIPTION

Partnership Operations Field Officer reports to the Partnership Manager. 
 He/she supports the implementation and monitoring of activities carried out by local community organizations (CBOs) and program partners, ensuring effective communication, quality control of implementation and compliance with donor requirements. 

The position involves conducting partner assessments, due diligence processes, as well as activities to strengthen the capacity of local CBOs and sub-IPs. 
The specialist reports field visit results, risks and lessons learned to the Partnerships Manager for continuous improvement of subgrant management and partner support processes. 
He/she also supports field activity monitoring, data collection and verification, and partner report verification. 

Primary Responsibilities

1. Supporting partner processes

• Evaluation of potential partners, due diligence and preparation of necessary documentation.

• Develop a mechanism for subgranting local partners and corresponding templates.

• Maintain communication with partners regarding reporting, donor compliance and Tdh organizational policies.

• Perform monitoring visits to partners, check the quality of implementation of activities, use of funds, as well as compliance with Tdh policies and procedures.

• Identify risks, challenges and best practices of partners, prepare recommendations for the Partnerships Manager.

• Ensure timely receipt and verification of descriptive and financial reports from partners. 

• Preparation for signing grant agreements with partners and other accompanying documents.

2. Development of partners' potential

• Contribute to the organization and conduct of trainings, workshops and mentoring sessions for partners. 

• Support capacity-building initiatives of CBOs aimed at increasing their capacity in program and financial management.

             3. Monitoring, reporting and analytics 

• Conduct trips to the fields to check the progress of activities.

• Collect, summarize and transmit data necessary for reporting to donors. 

• Prepare brief reports on key findings, risks and recommendations for improvement. 

 4. Coordination 

• Maintain effective communication between Tdh, partners and local stakeholders. 

• Facilitate coordination between program, monitoring and logistics teams to ensure proper implementation of partnership activities.

• Communicate with various Tdh departments (such as Logistics, Finance, MEAL) to resolveprocessing requests from partners. 

• Provide translation for local partners when interacting with foreign Tdh employees. 

      5 programs as well as provide necessary technical support to partnerships where needed. 

6. Coordination and representation coordination forums. 

• Experience in using such computersprograms such as Microsoft Office, knowledge of the MS Excel database package. 

Child Protection Policy:

The candidate undertakes to comply with the risk management policies of Terre des hommes (Tdh), in particular the Child Protection Policy, the Safety and Security Policy, the Anti-Corruption and Anti-Fraud Policy, as well as the Whistle Blowing Policy.  normal">By submitting your application, you agree that your personal data may be used in the candidate selection process. All documents that may be requested at different stages of the recruitment process will be used exclusively for this purpose. 

All employees involved in the selection process are informed about the rules of personal data protection and guarantee confidential treatment of personal information. According to our policy, the documents submitted with the application will only be kept during the selection period. 

Due to the expected large number of applications, Tdh is unable to respond to each candidate individually. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be invited for the first round of interviews.