Re-advertisement – Partnerships Manager, P-4, (FT), # 126219, Foundations, PFP, Geneva, Switzerland

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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 nations and territories, we work for each little one, in every single place, daily, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means hand over.

The International Foundations crew is situated inside UNICEF’s Non-public Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP) division. The crew is charged with maximizing foundations partnerships for UNICEF. UNICEF seeks to work in partnership with the world’s main and rising foundations on causes of mutual significance, to realize sustainable change at scale for each little one. The group’s imaginative and prescient is to harness the potential of the foundations group to extend monetary investments for kids, to trade data round joint areas of technical experience, to interact their voice in advocating for kids’s rights, and to leverage social sector financing for kids.

UNICEF has established numerous extremely worthwhile partnerships with main foundations, which have been a significant supply of earnings progress in recent times. The International Foundations crew has been mandated to speed up this progress, and determine non-financial engagement alternatives, by rolling out a brand new International Foundations Technique.

For each little one, a Champion

Underneath the steerage of the Chief, of Foundations Partnerships, the incumbent will probably be accountable for persevering with to drive the Basis’s technique 2022 – 2025 and supporting the expansion of high-level partnerships and bold new approaches and alternatives with foundations. The incumbent will work carefully with focal factors within the Programme Group and different key Divisions inside UNICEF; Nation Workplaces and Regional Workplaces, Nationwide Committees, and PFP colleagues to develop new areas of progress and partnership globally, creating alternatives and maximizing people who come up. The incumbent will give attention to a number of the largest Foundations companions comparable to BMGF and others which are extremely technical and programmatic; they’ll work to construct the capability throughout UNICEF for these partnerships. 

How will you make a distinction?

Improve visibility and consciousness of UNICEF’s partnerships

1. International foundations technique: Working with the Chief, Basis Partnerships, and wider crew, implement and evolve UNICEF’s new strategic framework for participating with foundations. This can embody making certain the applying of the Basis’s technique, mapping and making use of exterior tendencies to a UNICEF context, designing new fashions of engagement, and securing energetic assist from senior management and colleagues at HQ, Regional/Nation Workplaces, and Nationwide Committees for methods of working that may drive progress and are audience-led. Particular focus areas will embody capitalizing on new foundation-giving tendencies, constructing key capacities and approaches inside UNICEF and the UNICEF household together with Nationwide Committees for basis partnerships, public-private partnerships, and modern financing devices, in addition to nurturing rising foundations in collaboration with different excessive worth channels.
2. Rising present partnerships: Work carefully with a variety of groups on the Invoice and Melinda Gates Basis Partnership, amongst others, to make sure robust collaboration, participating UNICEF management, supporting strategic engagement with foundations, and maximizing alternatives throughout the spectrum of finance, affect, and experience.  Work in shut partnership with Programme Group and Nation and Regional Workplaces, in addition to Nationwide Committees and wider UNICEF groups to strengthen and deepen present basis partnerships as alternatives come up.  Make connections between Basis partnerships.  Interact straight with key foundations as acceptable; search methods to extend partnership by means of nearer collaboration with key UNICEF colleagues; enhance the quantity and high quality of basis partnerships globally.
3. Capability constructing and methods of working: Work with HQ and Regional/Nation Workplace colleagues to extend data and expertise round foundations engagement, in addition to creating and implementing instruments to assist expertise growth for participating with foundations. Present steerage in creating, participating with, and implementing partnerships with the inspiration group, together with Nationwide Committees, and broaden community of UNICEF participating with foundations. Work with PFP colleagues to seek out new, cross-cutting collaboration in assist of progress in outcomes and guarantee all stakeholders (UNICEF colleagues, Nationwide Committees, and others) are effectively coordinated to contribute to success.
4. Management engagement: Working with the Chief, be certain that the Workplace of the Government Director and UNICEF senior management are geared up with the intelligence and knowledge required to assist basis partnerships on the most senior ranges inside UNICEF. This consists of offering common updates on the International Foundations Technique and foundations portfolio to senior employees (notably PFP management and the Deputy Government Director, Partnerships).
5. Enterprise evaluation: Undertake and assist monetary and strategic analyses of foundations earnings, together with projections and actuals, inform market-specific analyses and alternatives, and supply inputs on pertinent tendencies and influences on the foundations sector. Stay knowledgeable of key institutional priorities with the intention to place the International Foundations crew to proactively interact with present and potential companions round such priorities.

To qualify as a champion for each little one you’ll have…

Training:

• A sophisticated college diploma in one of many following fields is required: worldwide growth, regulation, social sciences, enterprise or public administration, planning, or one other related technical subject associated to the work of UNICEF.
• Alternatively, a first-level college diploma in a related subject mixed with 2 extra years of qualifying skilled expertise could also be accepted in lieu of the superior college diploma.

Expertise:

• A minimal of eight years of progressively accountable skilled expertise in a mixture of the next is required: programme and mission administration and coordination and supply, strategic planning, and capability constructing, together with on the worldwide stage.
• Glorious written, presentation, and oral communication expertise are required.
• Discipline expertise in programme supply, human/little one rights advocacy and/or UNICEF or different programmatic expertise is required.
• Expertise with or data of foundations and basis partnerships or different personal sector partnerships is an asset.
• Expertise working with companions/stakeholders at a senior stage is an asset.

Language requirement:

• Fluency in English is required. Data of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian, or Spanish) is an asset.

For each Little one, you exhibit…

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

The UNICEF competencies required for this publish 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.

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

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, no matter gender, nationality, non secular and ethnic backgrounds, together with individuals dwelling with disabilities, to use to turn out to be part of the group.

We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks, and cheap lodging for individuals 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 goals 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’s Headquarter (HQ) workplace in Geneva is at present present process organizational adjustments which can result in altering places for a number of the HQ positions at present based mostly in Geneva. If a place that you’re provided is at present linked to an HQ workplace in Geneva, it might change to a unique location later throughout your appointment. If you’re chosen for a place based mostly in a Geneva HQ workplace, you might be allowed to begin duties remotely till the identification of the brand new location is finalized. If reassigned or relocated to the Geneva HQ workplace earlier than your workplace strikes to a brand new location, you might be anticipated to relocate to a brand new location once more.

Mobility is a situation of worldwide skilled employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the worldwide civil service.

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the obligation station, which will probably be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are additionally topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Do you have to 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 will probably be cancelled.

UNICEF additionally adheres to strict little one safeguarding ideas. All chosen candidates will endure rigorous reference and background checks and will probably 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 examine.

Authorities workers which are 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 suitable to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance isn’t obtained, or needed inoculation necessities will not be met, inside an affordable interval for any purpose.

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