Since 2015, NRC Nigeria has been working to help displacement affected communities meet their basic needs, improve their livelihoods, access essential services, and enhance their resilience to future shocks through our six core competencies: water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), Shelter, Education, Information, Counselling and Legal Assistance (ICLA), Livelihoods and Food Security (LFS), Camp Management, and Protection. NRC provides immediate assistance during the onset of emergencies through the rapid response mechanism (RRM). In 2021, NRC reached over 269,000 people with assistance.
The crisis in Nigeria is marked by brutal violence against civilians causing acute humanitarian needs and displacement. In the north-east, the 13-year conflict has shattered lives, infrastructure, basic services, and social fabric.
Two million people are internally displaced across Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states. Approximately half of these are living within local communities, putting increasing pressure on scarce resources. Access to food is limited, particularly in Borno state where most families are already facing crisis levels of food insecurity. Civilians, including aid workers, continue to be the target of deadly attacks by non-state armed groups and transport corridors are persistently insecure. In the north-west and north-central regions, violence and displacement are rooted in disputes over land and resources, which has been worsened by climate change. Criminality is on the rise. Livelihood opportunities are scarce, and children face an uncertain future, unable to access quality education. Many families have either lost identity papers while fleeing or never obtained them, hindering their ability to access essential services.
NRC is expanding partnership portfolio of local partners in Nigeria - including national and local government authorities, civil society organizations, and private sector actors, to scale up services delivery and enhance localization commitments.
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These strategic locations have allowed NRC greater reach from the north and south parts of the North-East and North Central region and allowed NRC to contribute to bridging the gap between humanitarian aid and development cooperation, including by focusing on equitable access to basic services and strengthening the rights of displaced people and returnees. In addition to the Country Office and the above-mentioned Area Offices, NRC has sub-office structures in Monguno, Mubi, Pulka and Gwoza.
We are looking for people who are passionate about helping refugees and people forced to flee.
If you are those people, the Norwegian Refugee Council in Nigeria is looking for an enthusiastic and passionate Partnership Coordinator to join our team in Maiduguri, Borno State. The Partnership Coordinator will contribute to achieving quality programming by closely supporting Partnership Manager in ensuring that NRC Nigeria partners consistently comply with all legal regulations, financial requirements and humanitarian standards set by NRC and its donor partners.
Partnership Coordinator is to implement delegated areas of logistics responsibility and deliver a variety of related activities, including compliance; capacity building of staff; procurement planning; market assessment/survey; high-value procurement; management of warehouse, and fleet; assets; securing supporting documentation/archiving; reporting and coordination for the NRC Jos and office. Partnership Coordinator is responsible for partnership management in close cooperation with Programme Coordinators and Finance Team. Partnership Coordinator will contribute to the partnership mandate and deliverables, building on NRC’s existing partnership processes and toolkit in line with NRC’s internal policies and procedures and sector standards.
Generic responsibilities
Contribute to a harmonised approach to partnership between NRC programme response and NRC partners, in line with NRC policy, guidance notes and toolkits.
Ensure that partners adhere to key compliance standards including those set out in NRC Project Implementation Agreements, NRC Financial Handbook, other relevant NRC policies, handbooks, guidelines and procedures as well as donor and auditor standards.
Lead the management of the Project Implementation Agreements (PIA) with local partners and NRC staff, including due diligence and organisational capacity assessments. Coordinate development of new partnership agreements (PIA) and support with management of existing partnerships. Track and maintain overall budget control and monitor cash flows for partners.
Lead on training and coaching partners on compliance requirements.
Lead on the PCM activities and use of NRC PCM framework of working with partners.
Represent NRC as the main focal point with partners on partnerships related and general issues and ensure timely and consistent communication flow between partners and NRC.
Work with programme team to support mainstreaming safe and inclusive programming and do- no-harm into partners’ projects and activities.
Support learning and development of NRC staff on issues of partnership.
Specific responsibilities
Partnership mapping and management:
Contribute to the exercise of mapping of local potential partners and maintaining relations with existing partners.
Act as focal point for contracting and sub-granting issues to NRC’s partners.
Coordinate organizational assessment and vetting of potential partners as per NRC Partnership Toolkit.
Coordinate development of Project Implementation Agreements between partners and NRC.
Conduct meetings with the Partners at relevant stages of contract negotiations, prepare presentations and information sharing methods to support effective relationships. Support and facilitate communication and coordination between NRC and partners.
Draft partnership agreements and/or contractual documents required for the signature and implementation of new projects.
Support in modification requests on existing PIAs with programme and finance staff members
Ensure that NRC’s partners adhere to NRC requirements and ensure smooth project implementation by providing the necessary support from NRC to the partners.
Participate in ensuring a structured and consistent approach to partnerships in line with the Country Strategy and Partnership Strategy.
Coordinate with Media and Communication Team for visibility of partnership in Nigeria, and update on the profile of the programme by reflecting stories and lessons learnt.
Keep track of and lead on PCM meetings for projects implemented with partners (Project Opening Meetings, Project Review Meetings, Project Closure Meetings) are arranged and take place within expected timeframes, all mandatory internal documents are in place and actively follow up on outstanding related partnership issues.
Perform monitoring visits to partners.
Provide inputs to the development and implementation of NRC Nigeria partnership strategy and operational methodology for engagement with public, private, and civil society stakeholders.
Partnership tracking & filing:
Ensure correct and up-to-date maintenance of Partnership Trackers.
Maintain filing and documentation of all partner projects and partnership documents as per the NRC Nigeria’s Country Office filing and information management systems.
Ensure implementing the routine for securing supporting documentation in a digital format.
Ensure all key project and partnership documents are filed, updated, and maintained as per the NRC Nigeria’s