Programme Officer; Partnership Türkiye

Programme Officer (Partnership), NO-1, Temporary Position, Republic of Türkiye, 364 days, Ankara, Republic of Türkiye, #

Position type: Temporary Appointment

Location: Türkiye

Division/Equivalent: CEE/CIS

School/Unit: Republic of Türkiye

Department/Office: Ankara, Republic of Türkiye

Categories: Programme Management

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For every child, the right to a Champion

Under the supervisor''s guidance, provide technical support for monitoring and managing public‑sector donor partnerships, ensuring that financial monitoring, progress reporting and contractual amendments are fully align with donor requirements.

• Support the management of public sector partnerships, by maintaining regular communication with partners to follow up on commitments, reporting schedules, visibility requirements, and engagement opportunities.
• Track partnership milestones and deliverables to ensure compliance with agreements.
• Assist in organizing partner field missions, donor meetings and joint monitoring visits.

• Maintain partnership files, agreements, reporting trackers, and knowledge repositories.
• Contribute to internal briefings, dashboards, and partnership performance updates.

• Assist in identifying funding opportunities and donor priorities relevant to UNICEF''s programmes.
• Support the drafting of high quality concept notes, proposals, and donor briefs.
• Contribute to landscape analyses and donor intelligence to inform engagement strategies.

• Prepare or coordinate inputs for high quality donor reports, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with donor requirements.
• Support financial monitoring, tracking budget utilization, and ensuring expenditures align with donor conditions and UNICEF regulations.

• Monitor implementation of donor funded activities in collaboration with programme and operations teams.
• Support the collection and consolidation of programmatic and financial data for reporting.
• Flag risks or delays related to implementation, finances, or reporting.

• Effective and regular monitoring system administered against donor funded projects and programmes, with timely status reports prepared, and challenges and corrective actions identified.
• Strengthened UNICEF''s resource mobilization and reporting efforts by helping to gather and synthesize programmatic and financial data for proposals, reports, donor briefs, and concept notes - using results-based management.
• Strengthened partner collaboration by ensuring timely follow‑up on commitments, reporting timelines, and emerging engagement opportunities.
• Enhanced partnership collaboration by helping to deliver well‑organized field missions, visibility events, and joint monitoring visits.
• Strengthened and timely fulfillment of partnership commitments through effective cross‑team coordination with programme and operations.
• Enhanced internal capacities and understanding of colleagues on donor requirements, reporting standards, contractual requirements.
• Ensured effective partnership management by maintaining accurate documentation systems, and providing timely inputs to internal briefings, dashboards, and performance updates.

Minimum requirements

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