Partnerships Manager (Sustainability and Climate Partnerships and Financing Hub), P4, PPD, TA (364 days) Location TBC Req #570070

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

Throughout 190 international locations and territories, we work for each baby, in all places, each day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means hand over.

For each baby, sustainability and local weather partnerships

The elemental mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each baby, in all places, in every thing the group does — in applications, in advocacy and in operations. The fairness technique, emphasizing probably the most deprived and excluded youngsters and households, interprets this dedication to youngsters’s rights into motion. For UNICEF, fairness implies that all youngsters have a possibility to outlive, develop and attain their full potential, with out discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the diploma that any baby has an unequal likelihood in life — in its social, political, financial, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There may be rising proof that investing within the well being, training and safety of a society’s most deprived residents — addressing inequity — not solely will give all youngsters the chance to satisfy their potential but in addition will result in sustained development and stability of nations. That is why the deal with fairness is so very important. It accelerates progress in direction of realizing the human rights of all youngsters, which is the common mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Conference on the Rights of the Baby, whereas additionally supporting the equitable growth of countries.

Environmental degradation and local weather change current important and escalating threats to the well-being of kids globally, jeopardizing the progress achieved in baby survival and growth. In response, UNICEF has launched its Sustainability and Local weather Motion Plan (SCAP) 2023 – 2030.  The SCAP prioritizes pressing motion on local weather change, environmental degradation and biodiversity loss by way of systematic change in partnership with private and non-private sectors. The SCAP will prioritize the wants of kids and younger individuals and construct their resilience to the local weather threats at hand.  The SCAP strives to mainstream sustainability and local weather motion each internally and externally, by way of defending the lives, well being and well-being of kids and their communities; empowering youngsters with developmental alternatives and abilities; and decreasing emissions and the environmental footprint inside UNICEF.

To drive obtain of SCAP targets, the Public Partnerships Division (PPD) has established a joint Sustainability and Local weather Partnerships and Financing Hub with the Personal Fundraising and Partnerships Division (PFP).  The Hub operates just about throughout UNICEF areas together with New York and Brussels.

How will you make a distinction?

The postholder will play a key position in driving the work of the Sustainability and Local weather Partnerships and Financing Hub.  The place experiences to the P5 Senior Advisor, Public-Personal Partnerships with a dotted line to P5 Senior Advisor, Local weather Change, PPD. Moreover the postholder will work in shut coordination with Sustainability and Local weather Focal Level(s) in PFP.  The postholder can even collaborate carefully with Personal Fundraising Partnership (PFP) counterparts, and the Local weather, Surroundings, Vitality and Catastrophe Danger Discount (CEED) staff inside Programme Group. S/he’ll contribute to growing, enabling and implementing sustainability and local weather partnerships. 

The postholder will coordinate groups throughout UNICEF partaking in sustainability and local weather partnerships and supply technical help for growth of partnership preparations and making certain compliance with key authorized and oversight necessities for funding streams associated to sustainability and local weather.

Key features, accountabilities, and associated duties/duties

The important thing accountability for the postholder shall be to play a pivotal position in accelerating sustainability and local weather useful resource mobilization for UNICEF, to ship and obtain the brand new Sustainability and Local weather Motion plan (SCAP) targets. The position will embody growth and implementation of the UNICEF sustainability and local weather useful resource mobilization initiatives underpinning the SCAP in cooperation with PPD, PFP and GCA, in partnership with different divisions and the regional and nation places of work. Extra particularly, the postholder will:

Strategic planning:

Analyze world sustainability and local weather financing tendencies and assess how they align with UNICEF’s mission and targets.

Portfolio Improvement and coordination:

1. Play a key coordination position in preparation, execution of the Sustainability and Local weather Partnerships and Financing Hub established to drive inter-divisional collaboration and unified strategy.
2. Help the event of proposals and pitches tailor-made to particular donors and companions, highlighting UNICEF’s distinctive position in sustainability for youngsters, with a spotlight upon multi-country/area initiatives.
3. Increase engagement with the present Inexperienced Local weather Fund, but in addition discover potential entry factors with present and rising Multilateral Local weather Funds (MCFs) together with the Adaptation Fund and Loss and Harm Fund, working with key inside UNICEF stakeholders.
4. Help expanded sustainability and local weather associated work with the multilateral growth banks and different monetary establishments in coordination with the UNICEF Worldwide Finance Establishments (IFIs) staff based mostly in Washington, DC.
5. Leverage the experience and framework of UNICEF’s IF4C Progressive Finance (IF) mechanism to help the adoption and scale up of IF mechanisms delivering on SCAP targets.
6. Advise and help Regional and Nation Workplaces on sustainability of the useful resource mobilization of the SCAP.  
7. Promote Public Personal Partnerships (PPPs) addressing local weather change together with PFP and personal counterparts together with UNICEF Nationwide Committees, serving as case examine of “motion studying” in growth of broader UNICEF PPP technique.  
8. Another job as could also be required (5-10% of time allocation.

Reporting and Compliance:

9. Advise on and oversee the adherence to monetary and operational compliance necessities set by donors in partnership with the PPD portfolios.
10. Develop a physique of data, instruments and finest practices for local weather finance partnerships, supporting UNICEF nation and regional places of work within the supply of leads to accordance with the SCAP, with a deal with MCFs and Public Personal Partnership (PPP) mechanisms.
11. Develop and preserve a holistic view of UNICEF’s useful resource mobilization pipeline on sustainability and local weather, with a deal with multi-country/area initiatives.  Often evaluate and report to make sure they handle the various wants of kids and communities impacted by local weather change.
12. Leverage UNICEF’s UNISON CRM system, to allow identification, monitoring and forecasting on local weather partnership alternatives and commitments. 

To qualify as an advocate for each baby you should have…

• A complicated college diploma in local weather change, environmental science, engineering, catastrophe administration, Worldwide Improvement, Worldwide Relations, Authorities, Public Administration, Enterprise Administration, Finance, Public Coverage, Social Coverage or different related disciplines is required
• A minimal of 8 years of related partnership growth and administration expertise in areas associated to local weather change, atmosphere, sustainability, worldwide growth, catastrophe administration, public coverage, social coverage, and kids’s well being and wellbeing.
• Particular expertise in sustainability and local weather associated partnerships with MCFs, IFIs, MDBs, coverage / advocacy / programming, implementation, monitoring, evaluate and analysis, atmosphere or catastrophe threat discount is fascinating, ideally in a growing nation context. Expertise with important funding partnerships with MCFs is especially fascinating.
• Particular expertise referring to public-private partnerships, affect investing modern finance mechanisms is fascinating.
• Familiarity with youngsters’s rights within the context of local weather change, environmental degradation and catastrophe threat discount required
• Expertise in managing advanced multi-stakeholder negotiation processes is very fascinating, notably in a UN context.
• Experience in workers capability constructing, growing instruments, and offering coaching, notably as a part of a worldwide/regional position in help of different nation places of work shall be thought of an asset.
• Expertise engaged on sustainability and local weather associated points inside UNICEF or different worldwide growth businesses is taken into account an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Information of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or a neighborhood language is an asset.

The situation of this put up will seemingly be in Europe.

For each Baby, you display…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every thing we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Constitution: UNICEF Values

 

UNICEF competencies required for this put up are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness (3) Drive to attain outcomes for affect (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others.

Through the recruitment course of, we take a look at candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its completely different ranges: competency framework here.

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our world workforce should replicate the range of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or another private attribute.
We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, 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 advertise the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters. 

Remarks:

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the obligation station, which shall be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are additionally topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Must you be chosen for a place with UNICEF, you both should be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. In any other case, the choice shall be cancelled.

All chosen candidates will bear rigorous reference and background checks and shall be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to offer extra data to conduct a background test.

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Solely shortlisted candidates shall be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.