• The Senior Partnerships Specialist (SRPS) will support Country Program (CP) Senior Management Teams (SMTs) to define and deliver their Strategy Action Plan partnership to ‘ first and as equals,’ consistent with the Strategy100 partnership ambition and regional strategic priorities. The primary focus of SRPS role to provide critical change management to country SMTs to deliver on their ambitions. This will include support to SMTs to establish the core building blocks for partnership success, and evolve management personnel structures and competencies, roles and across all, systems and processes, and culture.

The SRPS will also: provide partnership support technical coordinators and advisors in use of PEERS to apply a ‘partner first’ approach to strategy program and project design, and to establish and develop strategic partnerships local actors; support regional functions to learn and apply their roles in partnership; contribute to the global partnership roadmap to address constraints faced by country teams and enable the global organizational required to deliver the Strategy100 partnership ambition, ensuring that work is driven by CP and priorities.

Specific Responsibilities

The SRPS has four core areas of responsibility; the primary focus is the first area of responsibility, to support country SMTs to their critical role leading the evolution to ‘partner first’ approach.

Critical change support to CP SMTs to evolve strategy, management and personnel structures, roles and competencies across all program and operations departments, systems and business processes, and culture, in accordance with action plans developed together with each CP SMT. This includes remote and in-person support to DDPs,DOs, DDFs, and the broader SMT toPartner: define our role in strategy, program and project design, based on our added value to actors.