Partnership Manager Palestine

The Partnership Manager leads the country office’s partnership portfolio in Palestine, providing strategic leadership to localisation agenda, managing partnership cycles, and representing NRC in coordination forums. The role requires strong leadership, coordination, communication, and stakeholder management skills in a complex humanitarian context.

Responsibilities

• Implement localisation strategy.
• Provide strategic and technical leadership for partnership programming throughout the project cycle management process.
• Develop and maintain partnership systems, tools, guidelines, and procedures.
• Share partner organisation capacity responsibilities, including identifying priorities, developing joint capacity sharing plans, and monitoring progress.
• Build and develop relationships with local NGOs, civil society organisations, national and local actors, public institutions, academia, and the private sector.
• Manage partnerships in line with NRC policies, humanitarian principles, donor requirements, and partnership standards.
• Lead people management including performance management, workforce planning, recruitment, staff induction, staff development, and duty of care.
• Represent NRC in relevant partnership coordination platforms.
• Promote safeguarding and anti-corruption standards and principles actively.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• Relevant senior level experience within an NGO/international organisation.
• Grants’ management, partnership, and/or coordination expertise.
• Experience in complex humanitarian contexts.
• Background with national, international, and local civil society organisations.
• Experience and knowledge of Palestine and the Middle East context.
• Fluency in English and Arabic, both written and verbal.
• Legal eligibility to work in Palestine is mandatory.

Skills

• Grants Management
• Partnership Management
• Partnership Coordination
• Humanitarian Experience
• Civil Society Engagement
• Middle East Context Knowledge
• Localisation Strategy
• Stakeholder Management
• Strategic Leadership
• Coordination in Humanitarian Contexts
• English Language Proficiency
• Language Proficiency in Arabic

Languages

English, Arabic