Key responsibilities

• Lead on designing and coordinating BORESHA partner capacity development initiatives, ensuring robust coordination between support services and programmes as well as across DRC country operations to ensure transfer of knowledge and skills under the principle of equitable partnerships.
• Lead on partner engagement during proposal design, project award, project start-up and closeout processes, in line with relevant BORESHA stakeholders.
• Lead on developing guidance, standard templates, and toolkits to ensure timely submission of partner narrative and financial reports.
• Lead in cascading knowledge to other DRC entities on BORESHA partnership administrative processes.
• Be responsible for the information and sub-award grant management for all partners under BORESHA-NABAD, ensuring compliance with EU and DRC requirements.
• Be responsible for the day-to-day budget management of subawards, including financial reporting, documentation, disbursement management and providing technical support and guidance.
• At the direction of the of Chief of Party, take the lead on partnerships and sub-award risk and issues management, ensuring timely identification and the development of robust response actions in line with DRC’s operational risk management instructions.

The responsibilities listed in the JD are not exhaustive and may be readjusted according to operational needs but will remain in line with the overall purpose of the role.

About you

In this position, you are expected to demonstrate DRC’s five core competencies:

• Striving for excellence: You focus on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process.
• Collaborating: You involve relevant parties and encourage feedback.
• Taking the lead: You take ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation.
• Communicating: You listen and speak effectively and honestly.
• Demonstrating integrity: You act in line with our vision and values.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in political science, international development, economics, or other relevant fields.
• Practical training or courses in partnerships principles and capacity-strengthening
• Minimum 5 years’ experience working on implementation of complex projects, including grant management, project management and/or capacity development.
• Experience delivering targeted and high-quality technical training and capacity building, including in settings with remote technical management.
• Excellent organisational and planning skills, including capacity to prepare logical, coherent and consistent content (proposals, budgets, log-frames, reports).
• Proven ability to work independently, with a clear understanding of risk escalation requirements.
• Proven ability to propose creative solutions to challenges, and proven ability deliver results within a flexible and adaptive framework.
• Successful experience working within culturally and politically diverse teams and institutions, in a fluid and dynamic environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including ability to engage diplomatically.
• Fluency in written and spoken English essential, fluency in Somali an advantage