Concern Worldwide
Job title:
Senior Localisation and Partnerships Adviser
Company
Concern Worldwide
Job description
C3 2021
Our vision, our mission and our work are all defined by one goal – ending extreme poverty, whatever it takes. We believe that no-one should have to live in fear that they won’t have a home to sleep in or enough food to feed their children. For over 50 years we have been working with the world’s poorest people towards this goal.
Today we are a team of over 4,400 highly skilled and dedicated professionals from 50 countries who share an exceptional depth and diversity of experience. We want committed, values driven staff to join our Dublin team and are currently looking for a Senior Localisation and Partnerships Adviser to be part of our Strategy, Advocacy, and Learning department.
We are committed to providing our staff with the skills needed to excel in their jobs. Concern offers in-house management and leadership courses and tailored organisation-wide learning opportunities both in-person and online. All employees are required to undertake training in equality, diversity and inclusion; the Code of Conduct; and safeguarding, along with any other training required for the role.
Our culture is values driven and friendly. A global engagement survey conducted in 2022, responded to by 3,577 of our staff, showed that 89% of our staff would happily recommend Concern as a great place to work and 94% are proud to tell people that they work for Concern.
Our office is located in Dublin 2 and we are currently working a hybrid model (50% remote working) and offer flexi time.
The job: To lead and coordinate cross-departmental working on localisation issues and to provide guidance to country offices on localisation and partnerships, in line with Concern’s mission, focus, key policies and best practice in the area.
If you join us, this is what you will be doing:
- Lead guidance on localisation and partnership in Concern and support change processes to implement these approaches in line with Concern’s mission and key policies, especially How Concern Understands Extreme Poverty and Concern’s Approach to Emergencies.
- Lead and manage a small team of Partnership Advisers to provide high quality guidance and support to country offices in moving to equitable partnerships with local CSOs.
- Support the guidance and coordination of localisation issues, from identification, through analysis and resolution of key issues.
- Chair and manage a Localisation Working Group, as directed by the Localisation Steering Committee chaired by the CEO. Bring any opportunities, obstacles or key issues of importance to the SAL Director and CEO for resolution, as appropriate.
- Coordinate and support any other Localisation working groups set up separately for various reasons, e.g., the Senior Advisers on Systems Strengthening; Advocacy, Communications and IPD Departments on Voice, Influence and Visibility; any group on Community Agency.
- Remain abreast of good practice and the latest thinking in the sector on localisation and partnership and to use this as the foundation for guidance.
- Directly support a number of countries in improving their work in partnership with Local NGOs, keeping a balance of staying grounded and ‘in touch’ and managing Partnership Adviser positions.
- Work collaboratively and constructively with all departments and key internal stakeholders to communicate the intent and potential implications of localisation, supporting them to identify and realise what changes are needed in their functions if localisation is to be achieved.
- Support other advisers in SAL, Emergencies and other support functions to ensure that localisation and working through partners is a fluent component of their guidance and support.
- Represent Concern externally on localisation and partnership, as required and appropriate and support those in Concern engaging in advocacy with the right knowledge of best practice and Concern current practice to ensure a level of consistency of external messaging.
- Help to steer or guide any potential future research on localisation and/or local partnership.
- Ensure that management functions within this role uphold Concern’s aims and high standards with respect to accountability, Safeguarding and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
Skills you will bring:
- Post graduate qualification in Development Studies or in a related discipline, or at least five years of professional experience; preferably both.
- Significant proven and demonstrable experience of working with local partners in an overseas context.
- Demonstrable leadership ability, preferably with experience of working at country management level and some in emergency responses.
- Experience in technical assistance on localisation and/or partnership in dual mandate NGOs, preferably in organisations focused on fragile and conflict-affected contexts.
- Experience of programme development, programme management and participatory planning methodologies, including emergency preparedness and disaster risk reduction interventions.
- Experience of leading proposal development processes.
- Experience of managing key external relationships, especially with donors.
You will report to the Director of SAL (until further notice) and work closely with SAL, International Programmes and Emergency Directorates’ colleagues as well as across all functions of the organization.
The salary is from €66,156 to €75,607 (band 6) and this is a permanent contract.
We encourage all eligible candidates, irrespective of gender, ethnicity and origin, disability, political beliefs, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or socio-economic status to apply to become a part of the organisation. Concern is against all forms of discrimination and unequal power relations, and is committed to promoting equality.
If this role sounds right for you, please apply with your CV and cover letter. We will respond to every applicant. Please be aware we may offer positions before the closing date.
If you have any concerns about our recruitment process and need particular assistance – for example if you have a visual impairment or are neuro-divergent – please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate you.
Concern has an organisational Code of Conduct (CCoC) with three Associated Policies; the Programme Participant Protection Policy (P4), the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy accessible . These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organisation, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context, staff have a responsibility to the organisation to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the content of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Associated Policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these policies. Additionally, Concern is committed to the safeguarding and protection of vulnerable adults and children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work or volunteer with vulnerable adults and children are recruited by us for such roles. Subsequently, working or volunteering with Concern is subject to a range of vetting checks, including criminal background checking.
Your Personal Data
During this job application, you will provide Concern with your personal data. Concern takes its responsibilities towards this personal data very seriously and is committed to complying with all relevant data protection legislation.
Concern receives a substantial amount of funding from external donors each year. Increasingly donors are introducing requirements whereby future funding is conditional on ensuring that the name of any employee or volunteer (existing or new), does not appear on terrorism lists generated by the European Union (List of person, groups and entities to which Regulation (EC No. 2580/2001 applies), the US Government (Office of Foreign Assets Control list of specially designated Nationals and Blocked Persons) and the United Nations (Consolidated List).
Any offer of employment (either paid or voluntary) with Concern Worldwide will only be made following a successful clearance check being conducted on the applicant and such checks may be updated periodically during the course of the period of employment.
By submitting a formal application for paid or voluntary employment to Concern, you agree to Concern carrying out a clearance check as outlined above and that Concern will not proceed to recruit you should your name appear on any of the aforementioned lists
In certain circumstances, donors may request that personal data relating to employees to work on the activities that they fund be provided directly to them – so that they can perform their own counter terrorism checks. This may involve transferring some basic personal data outside the EEA. It will be a condition of your employment contract that Concern be allowed to share this information with institutional donors for these purposes.
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Please only apply for this position if you are satisfied with the proposed processing of your personal data as outlined above.
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Expected salary
€66156 – 75607 per year
Location
Dublin
Job date
Fri, 19 Jan 2024 03:04:53 GMT
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