Partnerships Coordinator - ECB Project

About the role

World Vision is recruiting a Partnerships Coordinator for its Every Child Belongs (ECB) Project, a fixed-term local position. The role leads the development and strengthening of strategic partnerships that advance the project's objectives and improve outcomes for children with disabilities and their families. It acts as the project's focal point for external engagement, ensuring partnerships align with World Vision's values, safeguarding standards and programme objectives.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain strategic partnerships and lead stakeholder mapping, analysis and engagement planning at national and district levels
• Coordinate partnership agreements and monitor performance, commitments and deliverables
• Represent the project in coordination forums, technical working groups and stakeholder platforms, and identify advocacy opportunities
• Strengthen collaboration among project teams, government institutions, service providers, community structures and partner organisations
• Support identification of partnership and funding opportunities and contribute to proposals and donor engagement
• Document partnership achievements and contribute to project reports and communications
• Maintain workplans, track partnership commitments, report on risks and escalate issues to the Program Manager

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Development Studies, International Relations, Public Administration, Social Sciences, Communications or a related field; Master's degree is an added advantage
• At least five years of experience in partnership management, stakeholder engagement, advocacy, external relations or programme coordination in the development sector
• Experience building partnerships with government, NGOs, donors, civil society and private sector actors, and with multi-stakeholder initiatives
• Experience in disability-inclusive development programmes and familiarity with World Vision partnership approaches and safeguarding standards
• Willingness to travel up to 30% of the time to project locations and partner sites
• Knowledge of Malawi's disability, social welfare, health, education and local government systems

Required skills

• Strong communication, negotiation, facilitation, networking and relationship-management skills
• Planning, organisational and problem-solving skills, able to manage multiple priorities
• Experience in advocacy, policy dialogue, technical working groups, proposal development and resource mobilization