PARTNERSHIPS OFFICER

Terre des hommes - Lausanne is seeking a qualified Partnerships Officer Based in Beirut.

Job Purpose / Main Functions:

Under the technical supervision of the Partnership and Localisation Advisor, and in close collaboration with the country’s program and grants team, The Partnerships Officer serves as the primary country level focal point for strengthening the institutional capacity, autonomy, and long term sustainability of Tdh’s local and national NGO partners.

In alignment with Tdh’s Partnership and Localisation Policy, the Partnerhsips Officer leads participatory organisational assessments, coordinates tailored mentoring and capacity strengthening plans, and accompanies National NGO partners in improving governance, financial systems, compliance, safeguarding, and strategic management. The role ensures that organizational development support is coherent, partner driven, and aligned with Tdh’s localisation and handover pathways—while contributing systematically to monitoring, documentation, and learning that feed into Tdh’s global localisation and nationalisation models.

The Partnerships Officer will act as a focal for Terre des hommes in the scope of the Somaha-funded project in Lebanon. He/She will support the implementation of Organisational Development activities with local partners in the country, and act as a Partnership and Localisation focal point at field level.

Job Duties & Responsibilities:

Organisational Development Support & Mentoring of Local/National Partners • Lead the participatory capacity assessment process with selected LNA partners, using Tdh’s OD tools (roadmaps, self assessments, governance and financial standards).

• Provide structured, ongoing mentoring to partners in key OD areas: governance, leadership, financial management, internal controls, HR systems, safeguarding, project cycle management, compliance, resource mobilisation, and strategic planning.

• Co-create and regularly update OD accompaniment plans with partners, ensuring alignment with Somaha Phase 2 objectives and country context.

• Monitor progress against OD milestones and provide hands on support to address identified gaps.

• Facilitate linkages with Locallink Hub learning content (e learning, micro-learning, tools, templates). Support translations upon need.

Coordination of OD Grants & Financial Accountability

• Support the transparent selection process for LNA partners to receive unconditional/semi-conditional OD grants

• Review partners’ OD grant priorities to ensure alignment with the jointly defined OD roadmap, without dictating internal allocations.

• Follow up on grant utilization through light-touch, capacity strengthening oriented monitoring, focusing on accountability, compliance, and partner learning—not administrative burden.

• Flag potential financial or governance risks to the Country Delegation and Regional Office.

Support to Localisation, Nationalisation & Handover Pathways

• Contribute to country-level localisation strategies

• Document partner progress, good practices, and lessons learned to feed into the modelisation reports required by Tdh global and Somaha.

• Participate in strengthening equitable partnership practices, ensuring partners have increased responsibility and decision making power.

• Support the grants team in drafting sub-award and Partnership agreements

• Identify to each sub-grant and that appropriate special conditions are incoproporated in each Grant and Memorandum.

• Support cross-country learning and South–South exchanges (MENA, Africa, Europe/Asia) as relevant.

• Programs and provide necessary technical support on partnerships, where required.

Monitoring, Reporting & Knowledge Capitalisation

• Maintain accurate, updated documentation of OD processes in Tdh’s systems (e.g. OD tracking sheets, partner files, Engage360 where relevant).

• Contribute to the production of learning briefs, case studies, and OD progress summaries for LocalLink Hub.

• Provide regular updates to the Country Office and Regional Office, and participate actively in the Global Partnership & Localisation Community of Practice (bi monthly).

• Ensure evidence and learning contribute to Tdh’s handover, nationalisation, and localisation model documentation.

Capacity Assessment

• Lead the mapping process for selecting new partners, work closely with the programs to identify the selection. Make sure that the selection process is transparentt and compliant with Tdh Procedures (Due diligence and OCAT tool).

• Manage coordination with Partners for the Due diligence and OCAT which includes, Finance, Management, HR, Procurement, M&E, and programs.

• Contribute in developing Due Diligence questionnaires, in coordination with all departments.

• Assess the needs and gaps at partner’s level in order to develop their capacity building based on assessment results.

Organisational Policies:

• Commits to complying with the General Code of Conduct and systematically reports any breach of the Code through the Tdh warning procedure: raises the awareness within the Foundation on violence and abuse and the rights that derive from them regarding children, community members and our own employees.

• Commits to complying with the Risk Management Policies, including: Safeguard policies (the policy of Safeguarding Children, the Policy of Protecting against Exploitation and Sexual Abuse, the Guideline on Abusive Behavior at Work), the Safety/Security Policy and Anti-Fraud/Corruption Policies and the Prevention of Funding Criminal Acivities.

• Commits to reducing the risk of abuse by developing an open and informed culture of management within the organization and in our work with children and the communities where we work.

Job Requirements:

This function requires possession of fundamental personal, social and leadership skills (CPSLs), technical and methodological skills (CTMs) and Managerial and strategic skills (CMSs)

In particular:

• University Degree/Masters in international studies, social, economic or other relevant field is desired.

• At least 3-4 years of experience in relevant or similar roles, and 3-5 years of progressive humanitarian and/or development program management experience, including close collaboration with program, finance, sub-awards, and operations teams.

• Strong understanding of Organisational Development concepts: governance, HR, finance, leadership, strategic planning, compliance, programme cycle management.

• Solid knowledge of localisation principles, equitable partnerships, and intermediary roles of INGOs.

• Strong knowledge of, and experience with organizational development of CSOs in challenging environments, and ability to inform the content and method of organizational development training.

• Experience in capacity strengthening of NGOs through mentoring, coaching, and participatory ap-proaches (not audit style).

• Familiarity with safeguarding standards, financial accountability, and risk management in humanitar-ian/development contexts.

• Ability to use or quickly learn LocalLink Hub resources and digital learning tool

• Experience with staff training and mentoring is preferred.

Organizational Competencies:

Personal, Social and Leadership Competencies (PSLC):

• Self-management: Manages oneself, time and priority, shows flexibility, availability and adaptability. Self-developing, Identifies and expresses development needs.

• Communication and interaction: Communicates in a clear, concise, responsible way and constructive way. Listens Actively. Shows Negotiation Skills. Manages conflict constructively.

• Teamwork: Shows solidarity. Cooperates to achieving goals. Supports and advises colleagues. Uses a collaborative attitude within and outside the department. Creates Trust.

• Mission orientation: Respects the values defined, Courage, Ambition, Respect and Commitment. Represents the Mission of Tdh and contributes to it. Acts in the interest of Tdh.

Technical and methodological competencies (TMC) :

• Respect for the institutional framework: Knows and respect Tdh working framework. Knows and applies the business management policies. Reports any incidents or violations. Applies security guidelines.

• Innovation & Development: Stays informed on any innovation in the field of work, contributes to their development, shares into good practices. Shares Knowledge and helps to develop colleagues.

• Quality, Monitoring & Reporting: Selects, analyses and manages information, produces high quality reports, respects reporting guidelines. Collects necessary information for professional activities and monitors self-tasks and goals.

• Language & Computer skills: Masters language that are useful for the job. Masters tools and application that are activity specific: Computer Literacy

• Ability to analyse organisational capacity strengths and weaknesses and translate these into practical OD plans.

• Strong documentation, reporting, and learning capitalisation capabilities.

• Proactive problem-solving and ability to manage complexity across several partner organisations.

Tdh’s organizational values

Our organizational values guide us in our operational and strategic choices and are the foundation of all decisions made by us. Those five values are incorporated into each process connected to the staff. All collaborators are assessed according to the organization’s values.

PARTICIPATION AND EMPOWERMENT

We promote and enhance participation and empowerment.

We create the space for active participation and embrace inputs from others.

We are sensitive about others’ needs to influence.

We share and delegate power and responsibilities.

PARTNERSHIP AND COLLABORATION

We trust the capacities of our key actors as primary responders and agents of change. We build on their strengths and on their needs.

We champion co-creation and value complementarity.

We appreciate other points of view and seek collectively for pragmatic and innovative solutions.

We manifest humility, respect, fairness and see others as equal partners.

INNOVATION AND LEARNING

We promote a culture of innovation.

We value curiosity, welcome new initiatives, and foster creativity.

We embrace voluntary learning and are ready for trial and error.

We foster knowledge sharing, learning and strive for sustainability.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

We celebrate Diversity and Inclusion of people.

We genuinely commit to diversity and inclusion and see it as a wealth in all our activities.

We understand the cultural contexts and value differences.

We are truly committed to an equal treatment.

LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE

We thrive to offer our best, we think ahead, and are ready and willing to go the extra mile for the well-being of children.

We provide quality programming and support. We are accountable and transparent. We use power responsibly.

We position ourselves through our expertise and savoir-faire.

We advocate for the rights of children whenever possible and seek actively opportunities to do so.