Programme Officer – Partnership Assessment [Short-Term 03 months] (INT10156)

Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.

 

Do you have experience in partnership assessment?

 

Do you have experience in providing a justified ground for selecting capable partners?

 

Do you have experience in partner organization management, review and project cycle management in any reputed national or international organizations?

 

If the answer is yes, then we would like to hear from you.

 

The Role:

 

To be responsible and accountable for conducting partner organization assessments, preparing reports, and submitting them to the assessment team for review, assist proposal development process and making grant agreement to ensure delivery of EWCSA project impactfully.

 

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

 

• Planning the process, coordinating the local NGOs and conducting the partners assessment process
• Apply partnership assessment tools for the partner’s assessment and selection consistently and thoroughly during all sub-grant selection processes.
• Customize partnership assessment tools as per partnership assessment needs and facilitate partnership assessment considering feminist partnership and gender inclusion.
• Organize, manage, and take responsibility for a transparent partner selection process to deliver an impactful project/programme
• Prepare corrective action plan so that risks are appropriately identified, discussed, and planned to review progress.
• Field and partner office visits and proactively working with the partner selection team to accurately assess the capability of the partner organisation using the relevant assessment tools.
• Ensuring partner selection reports are finalised on time and include comprehensive information and documentation of the assessment process.
• Proactively identifying improvements to the partner selection procedure and working with colleagues from other functions to design and implement changes to selection and assessment tools, procedures, or documentation.
• Support selected partners to carry out a self-capacity assessment, highlighting areas in need of support and agreeing on a capacity development plan.
• Assist developing project proposal, budget of selected organizations
• Assist preparing grant agreement with finally selected NGOs
• Need-based support for facilitating partnership dialogues, reviews and health-checks for selected projects/programmes.

Any other works, assigned by the organization.

 

What we are looking for:

 

We’re looking for a candidate who cares about Oxfam’s mission to end poverty and is personally aligned to our feminist principles and values of empowerment, accountability and inclusion in all you do.

 

An ideal candidate for the role will also be / have:

 

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in delivering program through partner organizations. Experienced in partner organization management, review and project cycle management in any reputed national or international organizations.
• Minimum Graduation on Anthropology, Sociology, Development Studies, Social Studies or other relevant discipline Graduate or postgraduate degree in any discipline, preferably in the social sciences with at least 2 years’ experience of similar work.
• Proven knowledge of partnership management and review procedure.
• Self-management including ability to prioritise own workload and work independently and commitment to meet deadlines.

 

We offer:

 

We offer a competitive salary and a range of additional benefits to staff including flexible working options, generous pension scheme, annual leave, additional leave allowances, company sick pay, life assurance and a range of other benefits. 

 

From the day you join Oxfam we invite you to stretch and learn in your role. Our wide range of Learning & Development opportunities includes in-house courses, e-learning modules, on-the job learning opportunities, coaching and mentoring, and much more. 

 

You can read more about all Oxfam has to offer here.

 

How to apply:

 

As part of your online application, please upload your up to date CV and Cover Letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile.  

 

[Only Bangladeshi Nationals are eligible to apply]