The Senior Partnership Officer will coordinate the collaborative and mutually supportive working relations with national NGOs, and CBOs for a maximum reach of the target communities and increased impact. He/she will identify and nurture such relations focusing primarily on needs analysis, program development, launching workshops, implementation, communications, and meetings. The SPO will work closely with the Program quality team, program and grant management staff to ensure the smooth functioning of the CARE Partnership procedures.

 Key responsibility area 1 – Leading the identification, engagement, and implementation of the CO partners 

1. Contribute to the development/ implementation of CARE’s partnership strategy. 
2. Ensure partner selection and screening every two years and as requested by the management (Due Diligence Assessment)
3. Keep up-to-date partners' strategic agreements (MoU) and work plans, mainly program related.
4. Ensure appropriate documents are produced and filed timely for each partner (DDA, OCAT, and other program-related activities 
5. Prepare Partnership relevant documents required for internal and external audits.
6. Support the organization of partnership reflection days (quarterly and annually)
7. Produce monthly and quarterly partnership dashboards in collaboration with the finance team.
8. Update partner's profiles and share every two months to all concerned. 
9. Support CBOs such as women and youth associations, VDCs, and women-led NGOs to grow and assume responsibilities in project implementation. 

Key responsibility area 2 – Partners Capacity Strengthening 

1. Support the Partnership & Capacity Building manager in assessment of partners’ capacity gaps by involving CARE’s program and finance staff, and the NNGO.
2. Support the development, resourcing, and planning of realistic capacity-strengthening plans with Program and operations team. 
3. Lead partners’ capacity development (working with relevant staff to develop capacity building plans based on identified needs, follow up capacity development plans are executed or report any deviations timely) 
4. Monitor the implementation of the capacity development plans and produce reports to be shared with Program Quality Coordinator and SMT on a quarterly basis.
5. Familiarize or create forums for partners’ orientation on Gender, PSEAH, resilience building, and other technical issues.
6. Promote CARE’s partnership concept and learning to internal and external stakeholders.
7. Draw on CARE resources globally, and others, to design and develop locally appropriate capacity-strengthening tools and modules.
8. Ensure continuous interaction of each partner with program sectors and support units
9. Review sub grant agreements with partners to ensure that all donors’ rules and regulations are properly passed on to the partners 
10. Ensure that each sub grantee has full understanding of donor rules and regulations, budgeting and reporting requirements 
11. Maintain sub grants agreements and prepare any required sub grant amendments 
12. Review sub grants financial reports, burn rate, and initiate advances and liquidations requests 
13. Provide technical support to all partners in the area of financial management 

Key responsibility area 3-   Monitoring, Documentation, and Support sub grant Management

1. Support sub grant management (follow up sub grants are prepared and signed timely, follow up with partners and appropriate CARE staff to ensure funds are transferred, liquidated, and reported timely; identify concerns and issues, if any, and report them to the management timely) 
2. Work with Program Quality team to support partners with developing their own Monitoring templates
3. Work with Program Quality to support partners to meet good narrative reporting standards
4. Coordinate the submission of quality and timely progress and liquidation reports from Partners 
5. Support monitoring of sub-recipient performance in coordination with program and compliance staff including site visits and documenting the site/monitoring visits and sharing reports for further follow up. 
6. Support in the roll-out of developed tools, training interventions and learning materials which will improve CARE and partner staff capacity & compliance 
7. Support other CARE staff (Support staff, Project staff, partners and other stakeholders) in understanding of relevant donor rules & regulations 
8. Maintain excellent electronic and paper files on all Partnership documents, ensuring full compliance with legal responsibilities and operational needs
9. Conduct visit to partners offices and report on progresses or challenges as and when possible

Key responsibility area 4-   Uphold CARE Values and contribute to CARE shared priorities 

1. Be aware of the CARE Safety and Security Management Plan (SSMP) and comply with it at all times
2. Promote CARE’s core values at all times
3. Other priority tasks as required by management, for overall benefit of CARE
4. Be aware of CARE’s commitments to Gender and Diversity, and strive to uphold them
5. Work with PQ team to support partners to develop security plans, core values, policies such as on gender, PSEAH, fraud and other strategic issues

• Bachelor's degree in social science, business management, economics
• Four-year experience in managing partners in program in INGO’s
• Experience in Sub award management and financial understanding 
• Ability to organize and support work from multiple partners to deliver agreed goals 
• Capacity strengthening facilitation skills (needs assessment, training, coaching etc)
• Strong knowledge and experience of gender and diversity standards
• [Action Oriented, Creativity, Customer Focus, Managing diversity, Peer Relations] 
• [English and Arabic fluency] 
• Ability and willingness to travel to project operational locations outside Port Sudan to support partners’ operations.