Senior Partnerships Officer

Job Description

Title: Senior Partnerships Officer

Company Name: International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Vacancy: --

Age: Na

Job Location: Cox`s Bazar

Salary: --

Experience: --

Published: 2026-02-26

Application Deadline: 2026-03-04

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Program Brief

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 solution driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people worldwide for a better future.

Since 2017, IRC has supported Rohingya Refugees and Bangladeshi nationalities communities in Cox's Bazar, Khulna, Barisal, and Chittagong with integrated services. The organization also addresses climate change impacts by building resilience and promoting economic recovery, education, and protection.

Purpose of the Role

The Senior Partnerships Officer is a key position supporting the Bangladesh Country Program. With the overall objective of achieving high quality and compliant programming, the main goal of this position is to manage a partnership portfolio and support the Partnership Working Group to ensure effective sub-grants management and build strong, sustainable partners. The Partnership Senior Officer will coordinate the daily management of the sub-award lifecycle and invest in their sustainable growth and capacity for the Bangladesh portfolio.

The post is required to coordinate with the following parties:

Internal: Technical Coordinators, Partnerships Department Staff, Finance team, Supply Chain team

External: Partner staff

Reports to: Senior Partnership Manager

Workstation: Cox’s Bazar

Contract Length: One year (with High possibility of extension)

Highlights of Key Responsibilities

Promote Effective Partnerships:

• Assist partnerships team promoting and applying the IRC Partnership Excellence for Equality and Results System (PEERS), ensuring its understanding and the application of IRC partnership principles, skills, and approaches by IRC and partners’ staff.

• Assisting partnership team to facilitate and document the systematic partner feedback, challenges, recommendations and learnings on principled partnership management.

• Contribute to stakeholder analysis, partner scoping and partners onboarding completing vetting, ATC, community check, reference check and Partners Capacity Assessment.

• Coordinate and assist the pre-award due diligence process for all new sub-awards, including thorough vetting, Partnership Capacity Analysis (PCA), and collaborative risk analysis. Identify and implement appropriate risk management measures in coordination with technical and operational focal points to manage those risks.

Partnership Management:

• Consistently assist partnership team and contribute to promote and effective use of PEERS and ensure that partnership decision-making and action is driven by IRC’s partnership principles.

• Assist in resolving local partners’ issues at the field level, coordinating the communication between IRC and the partner(s), and addressing partners’ feedback and concerns in timely manner.

• Jointly with Senior Partnership Manager and Senior Partnership Finance Manager, plan, coordinate and organize joint compliance monitoring, partnership review workshops, financial review of partners to review successes, challenges, and lessons learned with the partners, and capture learning on effective principled practices for future partnerships.

• Support the Senior Partnerships Managers in the drafting, partnership agreements/amendments, Partner support plans, Partnership agreement memorandums, strategic partnership MoUs, cooperation agreements etc. including completing the OTIS flows.

• Liaise and follow up with finance team to achieve timely fund transfers to partners; work with finance to address any challenges in payments.

• Support the IRC and partner teams in local liaison and coordination with relevant external stakeholders.

• Support the technical team in organizing Partnership Project Opening, Review and Closing Meetings.

• Continuously update the partnership tracker coordinating with Senior Partnership Managers, finance, MEAL and Program team.

Partner Support and Capacity Sharing:

• Collaborate with other IRC departments (Supply Chain, Finance, HR, Grants, Communications and Programs) and find opportunities for IRC to support partner capacity strengthening efforts.

• Support the partners in the proposal development process.

• In coordination with relevant units and Senior Partnership Manager, support the partners in finding proper solutions and mitigation measures to challenges faced throughout the project period.

Organizational Development:

• Support and coordinate the resourcing of partners organizational development where appropriate.

• Facilitate and document the participatory organizational development processes with the organizations’ leadership, including preliminary discussions, self-assessment, action plan, and implementation.

Develop IRC Staff Capacity:

• Assisting Partnership team to promote a culture of mutual learning and good partnership principles among IRC staff.

• Adapt and improve the quality of the existing capacity sharing tools, to the context and IRC capacity.

Others:

• Promote and actively participate in initiatives and efforts to build team engagement, inclusion and cohesion in IRC [team/office]

• Foster ongoing learning, honest dialogue and reflection to strengthen safeguarding and to promote IRC values and adherence to IRC policies.

• Mobile bill,Gratuity,Insurance,Weekly 2 holidays

• Two Retention Benefits equivalent to Basic Salary