Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership, Coordination and Liaison

• Lead in facilitating the development, implementation and continuous assessment of DRC Syria's

localisation strategy and roadmap in line with DRC’s global strategy for 2030.

• Promote DRC Syria’s localization vision with DRC staff and partners and support staff with its

implementation.

• Participate in relevant country-level and regionally relevant partnerships and localisation working groups

and advocate for the inclusion and support of national organisations in these forums.

• Stay up to date on current trends in partnerships and localisation national and regional practices and

share learning with the Country SMT and relevant programmes teams, as well as the DRC HQ Global

Localisation Unit.

• Coordinate with external agencies working with the same partners or partners in the same sectors or

locations, ensuring a partner-centred approach.

• Lead the DRC Syria Country Office in developing systematic approaches to identify and pursue strategic

partnerships, including in coordination with other departments and Technical Coordinators.

• Work across departments to develop systems and policies that are supportive of the Localisation

Strategy, ensuring periodic review and updating.• Define a standard framework of roles and responsibilities across all DRC Syria’s departments, Country

Office and Area Offices for partnership engagement, management and coordination.

• Input into strategy development of various sectors to include plans and targets on programme models

that include local partners.

• Support Technical Coordinators to work with duty bearers and newly established coordination and

government ministries in different governorates in Syria, to understand the role of local/national NGOs in

humanitarian programming, and to strengthen their capacity to engage with L/NNGOs in programme

design and implementation.

• Prepare high-quality portfolio reports and capacity statements that demonstrate the impact of local

leadership to DRC stakeholders and donors.

• Act as the main liaison for partners on administrative and strategic issues, ensuring that all

communication is equitable, respectful, and transparent.

• Establish and maintain a partnership database of the local actor landscape and potential partners, as well

as of actual partner portfolio including partners’ capacity, influence, and strategic alignment with DRC

programming.

Strategic Partnership Management and Portfolio Quality

• Facilitate the signing of Sub-Grant Agreements (SGAs) that incorporate equitable risk-sharing and use

management "Tiers" to ensure compliance requirements are proportional to partner size and capacity.

• Assures that all partnership processes, from vetting to closure, are handled with professional excellence

and in line with DRC’s core values and Code of Conduct.

• Establish and facilitate regular partnership review and feedback sessions, ensuring that local partners

have a safe, formal mechanism to evaluate DRC’s performance as a partner and provide feedback on

transparency and equity.

• Coordinate monitoring activities related to partners’ project implementation internally in DRC.

• Coordinate and maintain the partnership portfolio: including partnership tracker, coordination with other

funding partners and donors, follow-up on findings and recommendations from reviews and audits,

partnership review and responsible transition plans.

• Maintain high-quality data in DRC’s Dynamics and SharePoint systems, ensuring that partner vetting and

assessments are completed promptly to avoid delays in local implementation.

• Ensure that DRC Dynamics is continually updated (reporting, instalments, start date, end date, total

budget, and uploading of documents).

• Roll out and/or adapt global DRC partnership tools that support partnership management.

• Lead initiatives to improve partnership practices by periodically assessing DRC Syria's partnership

management approach taking into account both DRC and partners’ perspectives, capture lessons learned

and best practices, and make recommendations for improvement

Strength-Based Capacity Development

• Coordinate across teams to carry out partner organizational capacity assessments and analyse

assessments jointly with partners to identify priority organizational development needs.• Develop capacity development plans to support partners to address priority gaps identified – including

through financial support, ensuring that DRC Syria’s support is focused on the partner’s long-term

sustainability rather than just project-specific needs.

• Coordinate cross-departmental support (Finance, HR, Supply Chain) to provide mentoring, peer-to-peer

exchange, and technical coaching that builds the long-term institutional resilience of local organizations.

• Review existing partnerships resources and identify additional needs to support capacity assessment,

monitoring, compliance, project cycle management, etc. Roll out and/or adapt global DRC partnership tools

that support partnership management.

• Track the progress of institutional strengthening initiatives to ensure they lead to increased

independence and the ability of partners to access direct funding from donors.

• Promote relationships of mutual respect and mutual learning with partners, and provide guidance to

relevant staff in supporting them.

• Support DRC Syria staff to establish and maintain a partnership database that maps out partner capacity,

influence, and strategic alignment with DRC programming

Collaborative Program Design

• Liaise with Grants Management, Technical Coordinators and Support teams to support the design of

partners’ programming in DRC Core sectors including Protection, Shelter, WASH, HMA, and Economic

Recovery.

• Ensure partners involvement in strategic planning, programme design, and proposal/concept note

development.

• Ensure that local partners are meaningfully included in the very first stages of the project cycle, including

joint needs assessments and the definition of strategic priorities based on community priorities.

• Coordinate and facilitate participatory project design workshops, ensuring that partners have the space

to lead on activity definition, logical frameworks, and outcome setting based on their contextual expertise.

Grants, Accountability, and Reporting

• Guided by the DRC PCM Handbook, continuously monitor and develop relevant accountability initiatives

as well as strengthening the effort to document the impact and lessons learned of activities and project

delivered in partnership with local actors.

• Ensure compliance with internal and external reporting requirements including procurement.

• Lead on proposal development for funding opportunities directly related to partnerships and localisation

and actively support identification of and liaison with new and existing donors.

• Work with the Grants team to ensure that partnership tools and financial standards meet donor

requirements and allow for adaptation and flexibility and advocate for these changes at country and donor

level.

• Provide input for monthly, quarterly and annual donor reports as needed. Contribute to DRC proposals

and reports, especially in relations to partnerships and localization.

• When requested, take responsibility for donor reporting deadlines (setting internal deadlines, providing

clear guidance to relevant colleagues, and following-up on inputs), especially in relation to local and

national partners.• Support the coordination, compilation, and review of donor narrative reports, including submission via

online portals, especially in relation to local and national partners.

• Coordinate with MEAL team reporting of indicator tracking table and MEAL related donor outputs,

especially in relations to local and national partners.

• Facilitate the administration of grants management processes (reminders of deadlines; coordination of

reports; submission of proposals and reports via online portals; coordination of comments/revisions),

especially in relation to local and national partners.

• Promote quality information management by maintaining an up-to-date filing system on SharePoint,

including careful version control of proposals, grant amendments, top-ups, donor reports, etc.

Other

• Accountable for achieving DRC’s strategic goals and objectives within the area of responsibility.

• Accountable for making significant decisions on what the unit does: its purpose, functions and role, and

for making commitments and decisions that require the expenditure of significant unit resources.

• Perform other duties as directed by the HoP.