Resource Mobilization Analyst

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Mission and objectives

UNFPA works to improve the lives of people in more than 150 countries around the world, which are home to 80 percent of the world’s population. In Latin America and the Caribbean region and sub-region, UNFPA has offices in 30 countries.
UNFPAs Regional Office in Panama City, Panama provides strategic support and technical advice to the Country Offices: technical cooperation, training and support to empower our partners and colleagues on the ground to ensure that the reproductive health and rights of women and young people are placed at the very centre of development.

Context

UNFPA is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. Our mission is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled. UNFPA Supports:
● Reproductive health care for women and youth in more than 150 countries – which are home to more than 80 percent of the world’s population
● The health of pregnant women, especially the 1 million who face life-threatening complications each month
● Reliable access to modern contraceptives sufficient to benefit 20 million women a year
● Training of thousands of health workers to help ensure at least 90 per cent of all child births are supervised by skilled attendants
● Prevention of gender- based violence, which affects 1 in 3 women
● Abandonment of female genital mutilation, which harms 3 million girls annually
● Prevention of teen pregnancies, complications of which are the leading cause of death for girls 15-19 years old
● Efforts to end child marriage, which could affect an estimated 70 million girls over the next 5 years
● Delivery of safe birth supplies, dignity kits and other life-saving materials to survivors of conflict and natural disaster
● Censuses, data collection and analyses, which are essential for development planning UNFPA is formally named the United Nations Population Fund.
The organization was created in 1969, the same year the United Nations General Assembly declared “parents have the exclusive right to determine freely and responsibly the number and spacing of their children.” UNFPA calls for the realization of reproductive rights for all and supports access to a wide range of sexual and reproductive health services – including voluntary family planning, maternal health care and comprehensive sexuality education. Since UNFPA started its work, the world has seen progress: The number and rate of women dying from complications of pregnancy or childbirth has been halved. Families are healthier. Young people are more connected and empowered than ever. But too many are still left. Over 760 million people are mired in extreme poverty. Sexual and reproductive health problems are a leading cause of death and disability for women in the developing world. Young people bear the highest risks of HIV infection and unintended pregnancy. Many millions of girls face the prospect of child marriage and other harmful practices, like female genital mutilation (FGM). Much more
needs to be done to ensure a world in which all individuals can exercise their basic human rights, including those that relate to the most intimate and fundamental aspects of life. In 2018, UNFPA launched efforts to achieve three transformative results, ambitions that promise to change the world for every man, woman and young person: Ending unmet need for family planning, ending preventable maternal death, ending gender-based violence and harmful practices.
Under the direct supervision of the Regional External Engagement Specialist, the individual – located in UNFPA’s Latin America and the Caribbean regional office – will support the implementation of the Regional Resource Mobilization and Partnerships Strategy, and contribute to resource mobilization and partnership opportunities across the region by providing technical, administrative and programme support to UNFPA Regional and Country Offices.

Task description

The National UN Volunteer Expert (External Engagement Analyst) will:
-Support the mapping of Resource Mobilization partners of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Latin America and the Caribbean, to create a Competitive Landscape Analysis, including the management and alignment of UNFPA platforms.
-Conduct donor research and market analysis to support resource mobilization strategy implementation at RO, SRO and CO level.
-Create a database of potential Resource Mobilization partners in Latin America and the Caribbean, including that of private sector, multilateral banks, humanitarian organizations, among others
-Collect information and support the analysis and identification of trends of the funding and financing environment in Latin America and the Caribbean to identify new resource mobilization opportunities.
-Support the Regional Office and Country Offices in developing donor pipelines and submitting proposals to existing opportunities following a data-driven approach.
-Conduct donor intelligence and analysis to build, maintain and expand partnerships.
-Track and consolidate information on project/programme pipelines and corresponding funding needs and gaps through close collaboration with programme teams
-Analyzes resource mobilization data at RO, SRO and CO level, as well as, external market data and produce reports, analysis and presentations to support decision making with a data-driven approach
-Facilitate knowledge build and knowledge sharing by collecting and organizing best practices within and outside UNFPA.
-Support and enhance relationships with partners and organizations, and other key influencers, to advance the external engagement with the UNFPA’s mission.