Partnership Management Consultant
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CIMMYTAgricultural research
Engagements are typically home-based and part-time (approximately half-time), with short missions to CIMMYT headquarters in Texcoco, Mexico.ContractSenior
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Languages
- Excellent written English
- Experience
- Minimum 10 years of experience in partnership, grants or program management within international organizations, research institutions or NGOs, including donor-funded, multi-program environments.
- Required Skills
- Microsoft Dynamics
Requirements
- Minimum 10 years of experience in partnership, grants, or program management within international organizations, research institutions, or NGOs, including donor-funded, multi-program environments.
- Experience designing or strengthening financial controls, due diligence frameworks, or partnership/grant management systems, including in response to audit findings or risk assessments.
- Track record of independently producing institutional-quality policies, frameworks, and procedures under tight timelines.
- Strong financial acumen, including the ability to interpret partner budgets, financial reports, and funding structures and translate them into practical controls and monitoring tools.
- Working knowledge of grant and contract management systems, such as ERP platforms including Microsoft Dynamics 365 and contract management platforms such as Icertis.
- Working knowledge of dashboard tools for portfolio oversight.
- Experience conducting organizational diagnostics, including stakeholder interviews and process mapping across dispersed, multi-country teams.
- Excellent written English and document design skills, with the ability to produce board- and donor-ready material.
- Experience with CGIAR, agricultural research, or Global South–focused development organizations is an advantage.
Responsibilities
- Conduct diagnostics of partnership management systems, processes, and practices, including stakeholder interviews, process mapping, and systems landscape reviews.
- Translate diagnostic findings and risk assessments into prioritized design requirements and recommendations.
- Develop institutional partnership management frameworks covering value proposition, strategic priorities, partner segmentation, governance, decision rights, and roles and responsibilities.
- Draft procedures for partner selection, risk-based due diligence, contract management, financial and performance monitoring, technical quality assurance, relationship management, and close-out.
- Design staff tools, including financial monitoring templates, due diligence risk-tiering and organizational capacity assessment tools, partner risk registers, tracking tools, and close-out checklists.
- Define functional and data requirements for ERP and contract management systems and portfolio oversight dashboards.
- Prepare implementation and change management roadmaps, including phased rollout, piloting, training needs, and interim workarounds.
- Coordinate with Finance, Grants, Legal, Donor Relations, program leadership, and IT/ERP teams, and provide written progress updates to senior management.
- Prepare handover packages and support knowledge transfer to CIMMYT staff responsible for implementation.
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