Partnerships Manager – Programme Partnerships and Coordination (P-4), FT, Programme Group Leadership Team (PGLT), New York HQ # 00117476

UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived youngsters. To save lots of their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

Throughout 190 international locations and territories, we work for each baby, in every single place, daily, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means quit.

The Programme Group (PG) offers world programme management to realize outcomes for essentially the most deprived and excluded youngsters in every single place throughout the total framework of the UNICEF Strategic Plan 2022–2025 and in response to the common scope of the Sustainable Improvement Targets (SDGs). PG leads UNICEF’s world programmatic imaginative and prescient to offer international locations with technical help to spice up programme excellence, in addition to assist to leverage proof, partnerships, and improvements that may be tailored and brought to scale in several nation contexts – together with humanitarian settings and low-, middle-, and high-income international locations. Inside the PG, the Programme Group Management Group (PGLT) facilitates cross-programme groups round UNICEF’s normative mandates (gender, human rights, disabilities) and life course, and fosters and champions particular programming areas, resembling humanitarian motion and programming in high-income international locations; and alter methods resembling techniques strengthening, enterprise engagement for baby rights and social and habits change.

For each baby, a change……

The Partnerships Supervisor will work intently with the Director, Deputy Director and different senior administration of PG to advance programming approaches and implementation; strengthen strategic partnerships; and coordinate precedence points throughout the Division in assist of management.

The incumbent will assist efficient inter-sectoral collaboration and coordination with different HQ Divisions, Regional and Nation Places of work in matter pertaining to the accountability of the Director, taking ahead initiatives to strengthen programme partnerships, thought management and technical help to regional and nation workplace. She/he’ll report back to the Deputy Director of the Programme Group.

The Programme Supervisor will often work together with all PG groups together with the PGLT anchored groups and the Programme Groups to assist the horizonal integration of key programmatic points and methods. 

How will you make a distinction?

 Assist to management and coordination of programme and administration priorities

• Assist to PG management in setting and skimming key strategic programme and administration aims; and monitor work progress and associated outcomes.
• Particularly, assist the Director in his/her convening of senior administration inside PG to advertise coherence and essentially the most acceptable use of restricted assets, in addition to efficient coordination of key cross slicing divisional precedence initiatives.
• Assist the communication of strategic priorities internally and externally, by way of preparation and/or evaluate and coordination of key paperwork, speaking factors and shows; drafting of correspondence for or on behalf of PG Director on delicate or substantive issues.
• Analytically evaluate info obtained by the supervisor and administration and determine precedence issues that have to be urgently addressed, advising on motion as acceptable.
• Facilitate collaboration throughout the division on strategic issues as required.

Strengthen strategic programme partnerships together with public personal partnerships 

• Assist PG to take ahead world stage collaboration with personal sector ion assist of public personal partnerships as a programme strategy to assist nation stage outcomes, by offering strategic and programmatic assist to PG Director and senior administration in company engagement and interplay. Assist the setting of associated priorities, monitoring work progress and outcomes.
• Lead and/or contribute to improvement of engagement methods with strategic companions together with personal sector.  Strengthen world stage programme partnerships by way of related inner networks with a concentrate on intersectoral approaches and horizontal integration throughout all programmes.
• Contribute to the event of practices and approaches for fostering new and current programme partnerships based mostly on on-going monitoring and analyzing present developments of present or potential companions. 

Strengthen strategic programme partnerships and conduct gentle contact coordination of civil society group partnerships

• Assist PG to take ahead world stage collaboration with CSOs by offering strategic and programmatic assist to PG Director and senior administration in company engagement and interplay. Assist the setting of associated priorities, monitoring work progress and outcomes.
• Act because the convenor for gentle contact group vast coordination of engagement with CSOs.
• Lead and/or contribute to improvement of engagement methods with key CSO companions and the enlargement of partnership the place required to assist acceleration of programme outcomes, thought management and advocacy.

Advance programming approaches and implementation

• Assist PG in its function to take ahead confirmed programme approaches and implementation at scale. Assist the setting of associated priorities, monitoring work progress and outcomes.
• Lead and/or coordinate the event of particular programme approaches convening related inner networks with a concentrate on intersectoral approaches and horizontal integration throughout all programmes, and alignment and engagement throughout the group, UN and different companions.
• Determine and doc programming approaches throughout the group and develop coverage approaches, technical steerage, and different contributions to PG’s thought management.

To qualify as an advocate for each baby you’ll have…

• Superior College diploma within the space of Worldwide Relations, Political Science, Programme and Coverage, Partnerships, Public Administration, or one other related technical discipline is required.
• A minimal of 8 (eight) years {of professional} work expertise on the nationwide and/or worldwide ranges in in worldwide improvement cooperation, programme, partnerships, coordination and implementation is required.
• Expertise in headquarters and creating nation and/or discipline work expertise, and dealing with a number of priorities in high-pressure environments is taken into account an asset.
• Expertise in multi-sectoral, cross-cutting programming an asset
• Expertise working for worldwide organizations such because the United Nations is fascinating.

For each Baby, you display…

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability (CRITA), and sustainability

Please click on Here to view UNICEF’s core values and Here to view our competency framework.

UNICEF competencies required for this submit are.

• Nurtures, Leads and Manages Individuals (3)
• Demonstrates Self Consciousness and Moral Consciousness (2)
• Works Collaboratively with others (2)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (2)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (2)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (2)
• Drive to realize impactful outcomes (2)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our world workforce should replicate the variety of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to including everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or some other private attribute.

We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, a variety of advantages to our employees, together with paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and discrimination.

UNICEF is dedicated to selling the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and might be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas.

Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to offer extra info to conduct a background verify.

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance. 

Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the obligation station, which might be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments can also be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid).

Authorities workers which might be thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking on an task with UNICEF.

UNICEF reserves the suitable to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance isn’t obtained, or essential inoculation necessities usually are not met, inside an affordable interval for any purpose.

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• Solely shortlisted candidates might be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.
• Mobility is a situation of worldwide skilled employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the worldwide civil service.