New 
Emergency Partnerships Coordinator
 International Rescue Committee | |
 United States, New York, New York | |
| 122 East 42nd Street (Show on map) | |
 Jun 10, 2025 | |
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The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world's largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. A force for humanity, IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you're a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future.
This role is open to current or recent IRC employees only.
The Emergency Partnerships Coordinator will support the strategic management and oversight high-quality partnerships with local actors. This role will ensure compliance with IRC and donor requirements, quality services and outcomes for the communities we serve, and consistency with the IRC's Partnership Excellence for Equality and Results System (PEERS). Working in close collaboration with the programs, grants, and operations departments, the Partnership Coordinator will oversee all steps in the partnership management lifecycle and will ensure that partnerships are appropriately integrated into overall project cycle management.
The Partnerships Coordinator reports to the Deputy Director for Programs (DDP). The position will work closely with the MEAL Coordinator, Grants Coordinator, finance department, and program sector leads.
Regular travel (50%+) is required, including to remote, low-resource, and insecure locations.
Responsibilities
Partnership Management
* Facilitate partnership management processes to ensure well planned, timely, coordinated, and coherent partnerships across technical sectors. Manage the Partnership Working Group, including referral of issues to senior management as appropriate.
* Co-facilitate and guide competitive and non-competitive partner selection processes to identify new partners and follow-on applications from existing partners.
* Coordinate and co-lead vetting processes, including completion of reports for approval.
* Coordinate and co-lead partner capacity analysis processes, including contributing to and facilitating collaborative risk analysis and management.
* Determine appropriate partnership agreement type and draft agreements, considering the due diligence outcomes and specific project and donor requirements. Obtain approvals as required.
* Co-lead Partnership Project Opening, Review, and Closing Meetings together with the relevant technical coordinator.
* Liaise with finance and technical teams to achieve timely funds transfers and proper financial support for partners. Work with finance to address any challenges in payments.
* Coordinate and participate in timely and effective partner review and reflection (monitoring) activities across programs, finance, and compliance. Lead the Partnership Working Group to address any project performance issues.
* Coordinate partner narrative and financial reporting processes, including review and provision of feedback.
* Work collaboratively with partners and IRC staff to constructively resolve any issues that may arise.
* Where partner performance issues are identified, facilitate timely action by the IRC to address any areas of non-performance.
* Co-lead the performance review of the partner, of the IRC (including on the basis of partner feedback), and of the partnership itself, including documentation of successes, challenges, and lessons learned.
Partnership Strategy and Program Approach
* Collaborate with technical coordinators to proactively identify potential strategic partnerships with NGOs, government bodies, and the private sector, including deliberate pursuit of partner entities that are led by women and serve women and girls.
* Assist in ensuring that strategic partnership considerations are incorporated in program design. Contribute relevant proposal content and ensure appropriate budget resourcing for partner projects and support.
* Proactively engage partners in program development efforts.
Promotion of Effective and Respectful Partnerships
* Serve as a leader in building a culture of effective and respectful partnerships. Promote attitudes and values conducive to collaborative partnerships across the country program.
* Promote and apply the IRC's PEERS approach. Contribute to building a strong understanding of PEERS throughout the team.
* Ensure that IRC's partnership principles, skills, and approaches are applied across programs and projects.
* Facilitate systematic partner feedback on IRC's management of the partnership relationship, including documentation of and response to partner feedback.
Partner Support and Capacity Sharing
* Facilitate the collaborative development and delivery of the partner project support plan, ensuring that it appropriately addresses issues identified in the due diligence process, and coordinate with relevant departments for the effective implementation of the plan.
* Ensure the team understands partner capacity strengthening priorities and identifies opportunities to support partner capacity strengthening efforts.
* Support the resourcing and implementation of organizational development support as required.
* Collaborate with technical coordinators to integrate technical capacity sharing approaches, including how IRC can learn from local partners.
* Promote and identify ways for continual learning between IRC staff and partners.
Other
* Other relevant duties as assigned by supervisor to further IRC partnerships.
Qualifications
* Minimum of six years of experience managing humanitarian programs, including substantial experience managing partnerships with local NGOs and government entities.
* Technical understanding of and experience working with IRC's PEERS approach
* Previous experience in acute emergencies and/or new startups strongly preferred.
* Demonstrated understanding of project planning and management cycles, including strong program design skills.
* Knowledge of grants processes and key donor compliance regulations.
* Demonstrated experience in an inter-departmental coordination role and the ability to communicate with and balance the priorities of a range of stakeholders.
* Experience training, facilitating dialogue, and promoting action across both internal colleagues and external partners.
* Demonstrated advance planning skills. Able to effectively prioritize and follow multiple activities and deadlines simultaneously. Highly organized with close attention to detail.
* Excellent English writing and editing skills and strong computer skills required. Arabic is a significant advantage.
* Willingness to travel at least 50% of the time, including to remote, low-resource, and insecure environments
Standard of Professional Conduct:The IRC and the IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way - our Code of Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Accountability, and Equality.
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