Partnerships Specialist (Learning and Development), P-3, TA (364 days), post # 128076, CODS, PFP, Geneva, Switzerland

UNICEF works in among the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived kids. 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 youngster, in all places, each day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means surrender.

UNICEF’s Personal Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) Division works to ship earnings, affect, and model recognition for UNICEF globally. Prior to now decade, UNICEF has constructed and continues to develop its personal sector fundraising (PSFR) capability in round 20 middle-income and rising high-income international locations the place it maintains programmes (programme international locations). These international locations have a fast-growing personal sector (particularly a booming center class) and supply a chance for producing new funding streams to help UNICEF’s work with kids. Because of this, a number of UNICEF nation places of work at the moment are considerably or wholly funded by income generated from companies, trusts/foundations, and particular person donors inside their very own international locations. This method reduces dependency on UNICEF’s international assets, and it permits the group to use versatile assets the place the wants of youngsters are the best.

This place can be primarily based throughout the Nation Workplace Growth and Assist (CODAS) unit of PFP. The candidate will report back to the Coverage Specialist, who will present general path and steering. The incumbent can even have to collaborate with different members of the CODAS unit and work carefully with different PFP groups, in addition to groups in Programme Group, regional and nation places of work.

For each youngster, a Champion

UNICEF PFP is taking robust dedication to variety, fairness inclusion, and expertise administration with the intention to make sure its workforce is agile and match for goal because the organisation strives to realize its formidable fundraising and partnerships’ objectives in help of SDGs and past. This contains reflecting the range of UNICEF’s fundraising markets, fostering inclusion associated to age, gender, nationality, and incapacity and driving organisational studying and cross-fertilization between nation places of work and Nationwide Committees. The aim of the place is subsequently to supply technical experience required for the profitable design, improvement, and implementation of focused sustainable PFP expertise programmes (the Fundraising Excellence Programme and the Studying Journey for PSFR Chiefs) in addition to introduction of further upskilling and capability improvement initiatives focusing on UNICEF workers in nation places of work.

How will you make a distinction?

• Supporting the profitable implementation and additional improvement of the Fundraising Excellence (FX) programme, which incorporates the continuum and adaptation (as wanted) of the continued programme for present nationwide workers primarily based on pre-agreed curriculum.
• Constructing the bottom for the launch of the second part of the FX programme, which is able to contain the recruitment of recent expertise by way of the UNV modality in UNICEF nation places of work the place PSFR is to be launched.
• Supporting the profitable implementation and evaluation of the PSFR Chief Management Journey, which goals to develop present PSFR Chiefs’ abilities to be the following technology of leaders within the PFP ecosystem.
• Supporting PFP Regional Assist Facilities (RSCs) with upskilling plans for nationwide and worldwide workers in addition to group {and professional} improvement for younger expertise, specializing in selling variety, fairness, and inclusion throughout the PFP ecosystem.
• Assist to and collaboration on different studying and improvement initiatives, as essential.

DELIVERABLES:

• FX programme periods and initiatives applied as per pre-agreed curriculum, together with coordination with audio system and related stakeholders in PFP, monitoring of participation, partaking with individuals, and conducting programme wrap up and evaluations.
• Idea word for FX programme for New Expertise developed and programme launched in coordination with related stakeholders in PFP, Regional Places of work and DHR on the recruitment of UNVs as a part of the FX New Expertise programme.
• PSFR Chief Studying Journey periods applied as per pre-agreed curriculum, together with coordination with audio system and related stakeholders in PFP, monitoring of participation, partaking with individuals, and conducting programme wrap up and evaluations.
• Regional upskilling {and professional} improvement plans produced and applied in coordination with PFP RSCs for nationwide and worldwide workers and younger expertise within the context of PSFR Clusters.

Estimated Length of the contract

• 364 days

Reporting To:

• Coverage Specialist, CODAS

Working Place:

• Geneva, Switzerland is the official responsibility station.  (Versatile work preparations could also be utilized if there’s a want.)

To qualify as a champion for each youngster you should have…

Training:

• A sophisticated college diploma in Psychology, Occupational Psychology, HR Administration, and/or a immediately associated technical subject(s) is required.
• Alternatively, a first-level college diploma in a related subject mixed with two further years of qualifying expertise could also be accepted in lieu of the superior college diploma.
• An expert certification in coaching, teaching, studying and improvement, and/or psychological security is an asset.

Expertise:

• A minimal of 5 years of related skilled expertise in studying and improvement, teaching, change administration, challenge administration, management improvement, and/or organizational improvement is required.
• Technical experience in coaching and facilitation, teaching, studying and improvement, variety, fairness, and inclusion (DEI), and/or psychological security is an asset.
• Designing and managing expertise programmes and/or supporting the event of management programmes for a big group is an asset.
• Demonstrated good understanding of various studying methods/approaches together with fact-to-face and on-line studying, mentoring and reverse mentoring, on-the-job studying, and motion studying.
• World expertise in studying and improvement (L&D) curriculum design and studying methods catering to a various coaching viewers.
• Publicity and understanding of personal sector fundraising an asset.
• Expertise UN/UNICEF expertise is an asset.

Language necessities:

• 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.

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

The UNICEF competencies required for this put up are…

• Demonstrates Self Consciousness and Moral Consciousness (1)
• Works Collaboratively with others (1)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
• Drives to realize impactful outcomes (1)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1) are required.

Throughout 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 kids and our international workforce should mirror the range of these kids. 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 every other 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 using versatile working preparations.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and targets 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 kids. 

Remarks:

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

UNICEF additionally adheres to strict youngster safeguarding rules. All chosen candidates will bear rigorous reference and background checks and can 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 supply further info to conduct a background test.

Authorities staff which can be thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking on an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the precise to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance shouldn’t be obtained, or essential inoculation necessities are usually not met, inside an inexpensive interval for any purpose.

Solely shortlisted candidates can be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.