Partnerships Officer in Truro

Grade: 5

Salary: £33,933

Hours: 37.5 hours per week with occasional evening/weekend working - flexible hours considered (outside of deployments)

Position type: Fixed-term 2-year contract

Responsible to: Partnerships and Localisation Manager

Direct reports: None

Location: Truro, Cornwall or UK remote working (with regular travel to Truro at least 2x per year)

Travel: Work away from home, this may be UK or overseas training or an in-country deployment. You may be required to deploy for up to 20% of your time in any calendar year.

ROLE PURPOSE:

ShelterBox is seeking an experienced humanitarian professional with strong partnership expertise to join our dynamic International Programmes Department (IPD). In this role, you will work closely with the Partnership team, comprising the Partnership & Localisation Manager and Rotary Partnership Manager, to advance two key strategic priorities: strengthening ShelterBox's partnership approach and driving localisation. The Partnership team leads on developing and implementing strategies that enhance collaboration, including our global partnership with Rotary International. Working across IPD and the wider organisation, the team is central to shaping systems, processes, and initiatives that ensure effective partnership management and deliver on our strategic goals. As part of this team, you will support programme delivery through a partnership lens.

Responsibilities include:

• Coordinating due diligence processes, managing partnership agreements, and mapping partnership approaches across our project portfolio.
• Supporting and coordinating ShelterBox's engagement with Rotary International, collaborating with multiple departments, Programme Delivery, Programme Funding, Programme Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, and Learning & Development.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

ShelterBox is seeking a delivery-focused, pragmatic, and proactive individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment and wants to contribute to a growing area of the organisation. They will conduct their role with integrity, flexibility, and a collaborative approach. The right person will have experience of working successfully in close-knit and multidisciplinary teams, partnership development. They will bring humanitarian or development sector experience, a strong interest in equitable partnerships, and exceptional coordination and administrative skills.

DUTIES WILL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:

• Support the Partnership and Localisation Manager and Rotary Partnership Manager to deliver key workstreams across the organisation.
• Provide administrative support, such as note-taking, facilitating workshops and supporting travel arrangements.
• Work closely with Programme Managers and Emergency Coordinators to coordinate and communicate our work with Rotary within our preparedness and response portfolio.
• Report to internal and external audiences on partnerships by providing updates via briefings, presentations, and written reports, including supporters and donors.
• Support best practice in Partnership Management, such as taking a role in collating lessons learnt across the region in current and past programmes and supporting delivery of training to Partners.
• Support the Partnership and Localisation Manager, in the development of the partnership framework, in line with strategic priorities. This will be inclusive of incorporating the Rotary partnership within the framework.
• Coordinate the ShelterBox Localisation task force, inclusive of circulating agenda, noting and following up with key members on actions.
• Support the timely coordination of Due Diligence and partner organisational capacity assessment (OCA) process for partners, inclusive of conducting sanctions checks.
• Collaborate with the Programme Quality team to design appropriate partnership outcomes and outputs with indicators to be measured at programme and project levels, and ensure that learning on partnership is systematically captured and applied.
• Support Programme Managers, Emergency Coordinators and the Grants Manager to ensure that the sub-grant agreements and terms of partnerships, as well as institutional policies and procedures are complied with by the partner organisations, including policies on safeguarding.
• Support the planning and facilitation of periodic two-way partnership review processes, ensuring that discussions are as constructive, relevant, and mutually beneficial as possible; Follow up to ensure that mutually-agreed-upon actions are met.
• Maintain awareness of external/sector best practice on partnerships, including Safeguarding, Protection, risk management and EDI.
• Represent ShelterBox in any capacity as required.
• Any other duties as required which are deemed appropriate to the level and grade of the post.