<p><strong>General Description of the Programme:</strong></p> <p>Established in 1977, GOAL is an international humanitarian and development agency, committed to working with communities to achieve sustainable and innovative early response in crises, and lasting solutions to poverty and vulnerability. GOAL has worked in over 60 countries and has responded to almost every major humanitarian disaster. We are currently operational in 18 countries.<br><br>GOAL began operations in Syria in 2013 responding to the acute needs of conflict-affected communities. GOAL's areas of operations include but not limited to Aleppo, Idleb and Damascus Programmes focus on Food and Nutrition Security, WASH, Shelter, Livelihoods/ERMS and Emergency Response with an emphasis on cash and voucher modalities. GOAL Syria implements its programmes directly, with staff based in Syria, and through Syrian NGO partners. GOAL's programme works at the household and community levels to improve community resilience and household coping strategies.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong>Job purpose:</strong></p> <p>The Partnership Officer plays a pivotal role in supporting GOAL’s partner portfolio. With the overarching goal of fostering high-quality, equitable, and compliant partnerships, the incumbent manages sub-grants, drives partner due diligence, and systematically monitors and evaluates partner performance. This role serves as the contractual and programmatic link between GOAL and local Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), NGOs, and the private sector. The position ensures local partner reporting aligns with institutional donor regulations while maintaining respectful, localized, and long-term working relationships.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Duties, objectives and competencies</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Maintain and update</strong> Local partner & NGO mapping databases to maintain a constant overview of local capacities and ensure it is updated monthly basis, or more when needed.</li> <li><strong>Manage and maintain the SharePoint archive</strong>, and ensure all partners’ documents, reports, and other relevant documents are well organised and in place.</li> <li><strong>Facilitate transparent partner selection mechanisms</strong>, ensuring all vetting and expression of interest (EoI) processes are compliant, fully documented, and aligned with GOAL’s Global Partnership Manual and SoPs.</li> <li><strong>Coordinate with Grants Management and Program teams</strong> to secure partner inputs during the design phase of new proposals, concept notes, and donor-driven project modifications.</li> <li><strong>Draft Partner Agreements</strong> and sub-grant documentation, routing them through internal legal and administrative review channels for approval, and accurately and meticulously ensure that all relevant annexes are compiles, up-to-date, and documented.</li> <li><strong>Ensure effective coordination and collaboration with partners</strong> to finalize new proposals, concept notes, donor grant modification requests, , budgets, work plans and monitoring and evaluation plans.</li> <li><strong>Organize, and coordinate Due Diligence operational and financial capacity assessments</strong> for new and potential partners with partners and relevant GOAL departments as per Due Diligence SoPs and timelines.</li> <li><strong>Liaise across cross-functional internal units</strong> (Finance, GESI, Safeguarding, MEAL, and Systems) to diagnose partner capacity gaps and design customized, joint capacity-building action plans.</li> <li><strong>Organize trainings and continuous mentorship</strong> to local actors, building up their understanding of GOAL required compliance standards, ethical behaviors, and procedural workflows (such as procurement, financial tracking, accountability, and safeguarding).</li> <li><strong>Deploy mutual, two-way evaluation frameworks</strong> designed to assess performance indicators, protection considerations, data protection standards, and accountability loops.</li> <li><strong>Schedule and moderate recurring project performance reviews</strong>, translating findings into cooperative joint action plans to proactively address obstacles.</li> <li><strong>Formulate regular reports for Program Quality management</strong>, flagging critical bottlenecks, non-compliance concerns, or operating risks immediately.</li> <li><strong>Organize and facilitate project kick-off/close meetings</strong> (partner grant opening sessions) with support functions and field teams to establish transparent baseline performance expectations.</li> <li><strong>With the Partnership Coordinator,</strong><strong> serve</strong><strong> </strong><strong>as the primary communications node</strong> between local partners and GOAL internal divisions, streamlining messages concerning implementation targets and indicator progress.</li> <li><strong>Maintain structured communication matrices</strong> to clarify operational points-of-contact, technical channels, and escalations.</li> <li><strong>Record, track, and disseminate formal meeting minutes</strong> and action registers for the Partner Management Team.</li> <li><strong>Consolidate and review partner narratives and reports</strong>, synthesizing inputs with feedback from internal MEAL and technical lines before final package submission to international donors.</li> <li><strong>Ensure that