Save the Children Head of Partnership and Localization Jobs 2024 – Ethiopia NGO Jobs

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Save the Children Head of Partnership and Localization Jobs 2024 – Ethiopia NGO Jobs.

Save the Children Ethiopia looking for “Head of Partnership and Localization”.

Applicants with a Bachelor’s Degree may apply on or before 27th April, 2024.

The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, is an international, non-government operated organization. It was founded in the UK in 1919, with the goal of helping improve the lives of children worldwide. The organization helps to raise money to improve children’s lives by creating better educational opportunities, better health care, and improved economic opportunities.

The Save the Children has published a job vacancy announcement on 22nd April, 2024 for qualified Ethiopia’s to fill in the vacant post of Head of Partnership and Localization to be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Save the Children Job Vacancy 2024

Key Areas of Accountability:

Assess the current partnership portfolio; conduct analysis to identify Strength, weakness and opportunities and threats and inform the decision making process
Develop and update the partnership strategies based on the direction set out by the country office Strategic plan/CSP and EPP plan and ensure it is rolled out to all relevant functions within the organization and scalability to all partners.
Facilitate regular dialogue, review meetings and information sharing with partners including government, non-government, research, academics and other types of partners
Facilitate partner involvement in SC proposals and budget preparation and input directly to ensure partner design and costs are appropriately represented and adequately resourced.
Strengthen, develop, and optimize both existing and new partnership opportunities, across the country, maximizing influence
Facilitate partners’ involvement in strategy and Proposal development, program planning, budget preparation and ensure all activities are adequately costed and resourced
Coordinate with thematic lead on a regular bases to track the progress of the main activities under the seven dimensions of Localization.
Participate in the national and in – house Localization working group to create awareness on Localization and advocate to advance the agenda.
Engage thematic lead, operation, and other relevant functions to design a project with a localization touch and contribute to the localization sections of the project proposal.
Asses, analyze and document the good practices of the localization models and draft a quarterly brief.
Identify models that support localization and try to adopt with the localization roadmap.
Provide support towards the development of the seven-dimension model.
Support the roll-out, review, webinar and capacity-strengthening of localization and partnership.
Gather and disseminate evidence of operationalizing localization approach documenting the effective model and pain points.
Engage in the mapping of localization champions such as UN, local and national government and private sectors, Child led initiatives and academia.
Support, guide, and oversee a full scale capacity assessment and facilitate support for partners.
Oversee the entire process of the partners’ capacity building process, ensure proper planning in placed and coordinate inputs for capacity building plans and follow up implementation
Effectively link partners to relevant departments in order to support partners’ effort in the areas of business development, fundraising, organizational capacities to improve their organizational and operational capacity proposal development from an organizational and operational standpoint.

Position in Organization:

Position Title: Head of Partnership and Localization
Job Identification: 7087
Job Category: Programme, Development and Quality
Posting Date: 18/04/2024, 10:26
Apply Before: 27/04/2024, 10:26
Job Schedule: Full time
Locations: CO – Addis Ababa

Minimum Requirement:

Education:

Bachelor degree in relevant field such as Economics, Social science, business administration and Sociology

Experience:

Minimum 10 years work experience in NGOs sector
Proven experience in Partnership and stakeholder engagement
Experience of working in child focused organizations with excellent understanding of the child rights and safeguarding issues

Language Skills: