PROGRAMMES & PARTNERSHIPS MANAGER

In 2024, Embrace the Middle East celebrates 170 years of close partnership and relationship with local Christians who, through their churches and local civil society organisations, are serving some of the most marginalised and excluded communities in the Middle East. Ours is a vision of faith, hope and love in action: where there is a need for refuge, a home however temporary, for education, for safeguarding, for economic empowerment, for justice and human rights - we, with our partners, want to respond. We do this by building strong and lasting partnerships, nurtured by mutual respect and a shared commitment to excellence., Walking and working alongside our partners, you will strengthen, develop, and manage relationships with a varied portfolio of local partner organisations, churches, and local stakeholders to deliver high-impact programmes to benefit communities in need of assistance - helping them to realise their God-given potential. Sharing their compassion for Christ, you will work strategically with Partners to support their proposal development and delivery of high-impact, locally-owned projects. You will be responsible for grant management, ensuring organisational governance and controls provide accountability both locally and internationally, including safeguarding practise.

We are looking for someone to join us in strengthening relationships with our broad base of local Christian partner organisations carrying out Gospel inspired work in the region. Who can bring experience of managing, monitoring and evaluation of locally-owned programmes, to support the development of high-impact projects. Has an understanding and awareness of the context, dynamics, and challenges of working in the Middle East. Alongside the skills and ability to identify compelling messages from partnership communications to gain support, through prayer, donations and support for our advocacy work.

Suitable candidates will be:

• Educated to degree level equivalent.


• Highly collaborative, team player prepared to contribute to the overall success of the organisation.


• Inspired by the witness of Christians in the Middle East and passionate about changing the lives of people living in grinding poverty, injustice, disability, trauma and displacement caused by conflict, and other challenges.


• Willing to carry out overseas travel to the region 3-4 times a year.


• Have a sympathy with Embrace's Christian inspired values, vision and ready with compassion and commitment to serve and work to support Embrace's Christian mission.


• Advanced or intermediate Arabic would be advantageous.


• Because of the essential Christian context of the role, it is subject to an occupational requirement under the Equality Act that the post-holder be a practising Christian.
  
  To support every member of staff to work as effectively as possible, Embrace offers remote and flexible working arrangements. This includes flexi-time and home-working arrangements.


• Flexi-time - start work between 7:30am - 10:00am and finish between 3:00pm - 6:00pm. Our core collaborative working hours are between 10:00am to 3:00pm.


• Pension - option to join from day 1. Maximum employer contribution of 10%


• Holiday - 30 days, including 8 bank holidays - rising to 31 days after 5 years' service and 32 days after 10 years' service, plus 3 days leave between Christmas and the New Year


• Life Assurance - 3x salary.


• Access to retail discount portal.


• Employee Assistance Programme (confidential counselling, legal and financial advice) - available 24 /7, 365 days a year


• Training and development programme for all employees.


• Commitment to staff health & wellbeing.