Elaf for Relief and Development was founded on May of 2014. It came out of the need to help the people still living inside Syria, who were either displaced or living in their homes with no access to food, medicine, education, and other basic
necessities. Elaf started out with volunteers and with the help of personal donations began helping those surviving inside Syria, struggling to make it another day. We at Elaf, work in hard to reach communities and our strength lies in the fact that we elevate the lives of those we help by “teaching them to fish rather than giving them a fish”. Elaf also sponsors over 10,500 orphans by providing for their education, food, as well as non-food items.
Elaf supports 2 clinics, small to medium enterprises (SMEs) such as small farms, 2 bakeries, and 15 schools. Overall, we do projects that contribute to the development of those still living inside Syria, who have no one to turn to.
Elaf provides the direct aids such as food, shelter, clothing, fuel, gift-in-kind, vouchers, and even cash to those in besieged areas. Elaf achieves its goals through quality driven, purposeful and diverse projects that are implemented inside Syria. The implementation of these projects are guided and executed by our dedicated team of both paid staff and volunteers.
Elaf is Looking for Partnerships Coordinator According to the following job description:
Position Code: Partnership012023
Job Title: Partnerships Coordinator
Report to: CEO
Location: Turkey/Gaziantep
Department: Partnership
THE MISSION OF POSITION:
1. To ensure that ELAF RD develops and maintains positive and effective partnerships, purposeful relationships towards the implementation of Strategy.
2. Responsible for helping to identify and build new partnerships with donors.
3. Working in direct supervision of CEO and in close coordination with other Admin. Officers and the support departments in ELAF RD Turkey.
4. Promoting vision and objectives of ELAF RD strategic plan to external parities and stakeholders.
5. Maintains a database of information relating to Partners and, Donors, individual requirements and goals, and such other details as are relevant to the development and maintenance of those partnerships.
6. Will help weave collaborative relations that enable ELAF RD to effectively fulfill its mission and specific objectives. He will identify and nurture such relations focusing primarily on funding, program development and communications.
- MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Lead the partnerships identification.
Leading in the partnership’s identification
Leading in the mapping of potential donors.
Perform detailed desk research on potential donors.
Carrying out regular field visits to the potential donors to explain our expertise and our interest in cooperating with Program Manager.
Categories the donors based on their structure, expertise, geographical location, and interest.
Update donor’s mapping database by collecting the information of the potential partnerships.
2. Support the organizational capacity assessment of the potential partnerships:
Support the operational, and technical staff as needed in the organization and facilitation of capacity assessments for potential partnerships.
Participating in the sub-award proposal review and approval process as needed.
Ensures that all personnel understand the importance of the Partnership Strategy and how it relates to them and that they are fully involved in its implementation.
Ensures excellent relations with key government partners and put in place systems that maintain them.
3. Partnership management
Ensure a high level of coordination with donor’s partners and other stakeholders to ensure that the planning and implementation of the project according to approved proposals.
Supervising the coordination with donor’s partners to achieve the project deliverables.
Provide leadership, mentoring, and coaching to ELAF RD staff.
Meet donor partners regularly to monitor progress; share lessons learned, experiences, observations, obstacles and to review and update the projects plans of actions if needed.
Identify needs and provide opportunities for capacity building by donor partners to ensure proper technical and operational skill levels of ELAF RD staff.
Ensure compliance with donor policies, especially procurement, HR, finance, and fraud.
Ensures effective engagement of strategic donor partners, especially international groups, and leaderships.
4. General Administrative Support
Drafting agreements with donor partner and external consultants.
Develops strategic partnership-building approaches with local government, Donors, Civil Societies, Corporates, and stakeholders.
Working with the Fundraising officer, engage in fundraising activities for the ELAF RD programs and HQ Office.
5. Other duties
Attending and participating in capacity building training if any.
Perform other relevant tasks as assigned.
Any other duties relating to the nature of the job as directed by the CEO.
Supports, backstopping, guidance, and training of ELAF RD staff in partnership matters at all levels.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in related field required.
Strong public speaking and proven relationship building skills.
Demonstrated experience working with high-level constituent base preferred.
Excellent written communication skills with experience preparing written proposals preferred.
Strong working knowledge of budget and accounting practices
Proficient in Microsoft Office (database and spreadsheet experience preferred)
Ability to work evening and weekend hours during events.
Elaf provides equal opportunities and encourages women to advance.
Applications in languages other than English will not be reviewed.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Last date for Applications on 20/02/2023.
HOW TO APPLY:
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