Senior Partnership Advisor

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• Support the DRC representative in creating strong and strategic partnerships between DRC and German donors at capital level, with an initial focus on GFFO.
• Engage proactively with the ID to address challenges and opportunities related to DRC’s partnership with the ID at global level, and inform and advise Regional Offices (ROs)/Country Offices (COs) accordingly.
• Develop clear protocols for sharing information, communicating, and engaging with the ID in strategic policy issues across the organization.
• Prepare, document and overview high-level engagement between DRC and ID, in particular senior management meetings or ID-specific events.
• Provide support and expertise to DRC country and regional operations on ID partnership.
• Represent DRC in dialogues with core donors on regulatory frameworks.
• Actively participate in coordination mechanisms with peer organisations or other networks and platforms and build good collaboration with these actors.

• Monitor and analyze relevant ID trends and donor intelligence and provide strategic advice on possible impact and ways to adapt across all levels of the organization.
• Provide information and advice on donor priorities and interests to inform leadership and colleagues on strategic and programmatic opportunities for resource mobilization.
• Develop qualitative and quantitative surveys and analyses to feed into donor trends and global donor analyses, lessons learned and other dissemination documents.
• Coordinate and compile information requested by donors from DRC’s global operations.
• Maintain relevant donor portfolio overview.

• Proactively monitor and notify management on global-level concerns and risks related to donor compliance and support decision making process.
• Disseminate internally key strategic compliance topics as necessary.
• Develop tools, platforms, and internal workflows for efficient strategic donor compliance (this includes the gradual development and the maintaining of DRC Insite (DRC’s intranet) donor pages covering German institutional donors, updating and publishing internal guidance tools such as Donorpedias, fact sheets etc.).
• Provide strategic donor compliance training of country offices and regional staff – live trainings and e-learning through donor compliance webinars.
• Work closely together and strengthen capacities of Grants Management Unit staff on donor policies and guidelines.
• Lead and coordinate donor organizational capacity assessments and due diligence processes

• Support design and advancement of the global donor engagement strategy based on the ID donor trends and priorities.
• Lead the development of donor-specific engagement action plans for the ID and steer implementation.
• Contribute to income growth by supporting COs/ROs in meeting and exceeding institutional donor funding targets.
• Lead and/or coordinate the DRC steering group for the ID.

• Coordinate and guide processes for global calls and from donors as relevant.
• Support DRC delegations coming to Berlin/Germany – coordinating with visitors/Advocacy, scheduling the meetings, briefing notes, prep meetings with the teams, joining the meetings.

• The Senior Partnership Advisors are essential to DRC’s efforts in managing partnerships with existing institutional donors, as well as ensuring that DRC stays ahead of strategic compliance topics.
• To excel in this role, you will have natural communication and social skills, including networking and the ability to influence. You are comfortable navigating internal stakeholders horizontally and vertically, and representing DRC externally with donors, peer organisations and in other forums. As the Berlin team is under development, we are looking for someone that can contribute to this development and is strong in building up relationships with the ID and the German network.
• The role will further require substantial knowledge of the ID structure and funding priorities, including regulatory frameworks and contracting. This role calls for someone who is both a “thinker” and a “doer”: an ability to work on strategic-level analyses while being detailed, as well as result and service-oriented.

• Documented extensive experience with German institutional donors and donor engagement, especially with the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Minimum 5 years working experience in an international, multicultural work environment, experience at country or regional level will be considered an asset.
• Understanding of the links between compliance and building the image of a go-to organization for donors
• Good relationship building skills and proactive approach to partnership building and nurturing.
• Experience with networking and representation at all levels
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with an ability to identify, address and communicate the core of an issue even if very complex.
• Master’s degree in relevant field of study or equivalent in experience
• Proficiency in German and English, and ability to live and work in Berlin, Germany
• Professional proficiency in French, Spanish, or Arabic would be an asset.

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