Partnership Officer

World Vision International (WVI)—a leading international non-governmental organization—is looking for Partnership Officer, location Kyiv

World Vision’s focus is helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith. Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

World Vision is committed to safeguarding children and adult beneficiaries believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation and expects all employees, interns, volunteers and all WV affiliates share the same commitment. WV takes diligent measures to screen out all people who might seek to use WV to harm children or adult beneficiaries, or whose past actions indicate an unacceptable risk of such harm. Therefore, our recruitment policy and procedures include extensive identification checks prior to employment or engagement with WV in order to ensure safeguarding to the fullest extent.

Join a highly motivated team of world-class international and local humanitarian professionals to establish, build, and grow World Vision’s presence in Ukraine. You will work alongside global professionals, improving your knowledge, skills, and abilities in a multinational organization that will prepare you for work in the world’s best-in-class companies in the future.

Requirements

• Educational level required:  Degree in relevant field (Development, Social Sciences, International development/ International relations) 
• Experience:  2 years of experience in the field of development issues, compliance management or auditing, partnering, and humanitarian emergency affairs in conflict and post-conflict settings.
• Demonstrates well-developed interpersonal skills, excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, as well as negotiation skills
• Resilient and able to work in a high-pressure environment with minimal supervision
• Able to multi-task and deal with complex issue
• English language fluency
• Ability to travel within Ukraine

Responsibilities

Internal and External Focal Point for Partners:

• Ensure a pool of vetted partners in UCR strategic sectors.
• Identify and select suitable partners for WVUCR
• Serve as a focal point for partner issues and provide updates to stakeholders
• Develop and maintain relationships with partner organizations, government officials, and others
• Foster relations with project managers and other WVUCR functions
• Promote localization agenda via key meetings and partner collaborations
• Contribute to marketing and lessons learned materials to highlight partner capacity-building efforts
• Participate in grant start-up workshops and partner review meetings
• Support the development/revision of WVUCR partnership policy
• Contribute to case studies on partnering efforts
• Share necessary Assessment Tools with partners
• Maintain communication between the partnership team and the GAM team
• Recommend vetted partners for proposals and strategic UCR response
• Ensure legal and compliance processes are followed with partners
• Monitor and track partnership agreements and partnering issues

Compliance & Improvement:

•  Update partner database with assessments, reports, training, and risk appraisals.
•  Strengthen governance, systems, and processes related to partnering in UCR.
•  Track WVUCR partnership processes across countries and provide consolidated information for leadership.
•  Ensure compliance with localization agenda and vetting of all partners.
•  Perform regular blocked party screenings for partners.
•  Document, action, and resolve compliance violations
• Sub-grant agreements, MoU and other partnering agreements are in place. 

Quality Improvement in Partnering:

• Document evidence-based approaches for partnerships with N/INGOs, government, and humanitarian agencies.
• Provide support for partner-led programs.
• Strengthen WVUCR partnership processes.

Capacity Sharing with Partners:

• Conduct capacity assessments using partner capacity scorecards.
• Co-create and monitor capacity-sharing plans with UCR staff and partners.
• Refine capacity-sharing approaches to meet partner needs.
• Track partner training efforts in a database.
• Support the development of WVUCR localization and capacity-sharing strategies.
•  Mobilize resources to strengthen national partner capacity, particularly around finance, HR, and procurement.

Additional Information

• Full-time in office presence
• Official employment according to Ukrainian labour law
• Medical insurance
• WVI Institutional trainings
• Travel up to 20% is likely
• Only candidates with Ukrainian citizenship or authorization to work in Ukraine will be considered
• Submit resume and cover letter IN ENGLISH
• Resumes will be reviewed on a rolling basis and this position may close sooner than anticipated