Consultant

**JOB DETAILS**:
**CONSULTANT - (3094)**:

- Job Title- Consultant- Location- Global - GO (Primary)
United States -, US
- Category- Consultant- Date Needed By- 1/2/2025- Scope of Work (SOW)- Serve as a resource for technical leads to proactively identify potential partnerships with representatives from civil society (e.g., L/INGOs, host authorities - e.g., Ministry of Public Health offices at the national, regional and local level), private sector, and other groups as identified by country and home office SMEs.
- Support and facilitate systematic partner feedback on IMC’s management of the partnership relationship, including the documentation of, and response to partner feedback.
- Support in-country partnership management processes to ensure for a well-planned, timely, coordinated, and coherent partnership management cycle.
- Assist with program design; contribute to the relevant proposal content to ensure appropriate budget resourcing for partner’s projects. When necessary, co-facilitate and guide competitive and non-competitive partner selection process to identify partners (new or existing).
- When necessary, support Partner Due Diligence Review (Vetting) processes, including completion of the risk assessment report for approval. Risk assessment should be in collaboration with relevant SMEs for that specific intervention.
- Serve as resource in determining appropriate partnership instrument, drafting agreements, assessing the due diligence/risk assessment, specific project and donor requirements (i.e., obtaining donor approvals as necessary) in coordination with HQ for review and approval.
- Support and co-lead Partnership Project Opening, Review and Closing Meetings, together with the lead technical PoC responsible for that specific partnership.
- Support coordination of timely and effective partner program, finance, and compliance review and reflection (monitoring), and work with the country team to address any project performance issues. As needed, coordinate narrative and financial reporting processes, including review and feedback.
- Liaise with finance and technical teams to ensure timely funds transfers, proper financial follow up and support for partners; work with finance to address any challenges in payments and raise proposed disallowed costs to SMT.
- Work collaboratively with partners and IMC staff to constructively resolve any issues that may arise. Where partner performance issues are identified, facilitate timely action to address any areas of non-performance as they may arise.
- Co-lead the review of partner’s performance (including basis of partner feedback), and of the partnership, including successes, challenges and lessons learned, fostering ongoing partnerships beyond the sub-award project cycle.
- Ensure IMC understands partner capacity strengthening priorities and identifies opportunities and plans for IMC to support partner capacity strengthening efforts.
- Collaborate with technical coordinators to integrate technical capacity sharing approaches, including how IMC can learn from local partners.
- Promote and identify ways for continual learning between IMC staff and partners.
- With the support of the Senior Director, Grants and Contracts, the Consultant will also be a leader in building and promoting a culture, attitudes, and values conducive to collaborative partnerships among the team, based on a clear and shared understanding of IMC's role, approach, and core partnership principles.
- Job DescriptionNot Applicable
- Job RequirementsPlease refer to the Scope of Work above to view this Individual Consultancy details and requirements.

**CODE OF CONDUCT**:

- As applicable to this position, an individual must promote and encourage a culture of compliance and ethics throughout the organization and maintain a clear understanding of International Medical Corps’ and donor compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards. Staff are also responsible for preventing violations to our Code of Conduct and Ethics, which may involve Conflicts of Interest, Fraud, Corruption or Harassment. If you see, hear or are made aware of any violations to the Code of Conduct and Ethics or Safeguarding Policy, you have an obligation to report. If this is a supervisory position, one must set an example of ethical behavior through one’s own conduct and oversight of the work of others; ensure that those who report to you have sufficient knowledge and resources to follow the standards outlined in the Code of Conduct & Ethics; monitor compliance of the people you supervise; enforce the Code of Conduct & Ethics and International Medical Corps’ policies, including the Safeguarding Policy and the Protection from Harassment, Bullying and Sexual Misconduct in the Workplace Policy, consistently and fairly; support employees who in good faith raise questions or concerns.**SAFEGUARDING**:

- It is all staff shared responsibility and obligation to safeguard and protect populations with whom