Senior Adviser, P-5, TA (364 days), # 126457, Outreach and Engagement, PFP, Geneva, Switzerland

UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived kids. 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 youngster, all over the place, each day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means surrender.

Prior to now decade, UNICEF has constructed and continues to develop its non-public 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 non-public sector (particularly a booming center class) and supply a chance for producing new funding streams to help UNICEF’s work with kids. Consequently, a number of UNICEF nation places of work are actually 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 world assets, and it allows the group to use versatile assets the place the wants of kids are the best.

 For each youngster, a Champion

Inside the context of UNICEF’s broader engagement with the non-public sector to leverage assets and help for youngsters, the chance exists to discover non-public sector fundraising in over 100 programme international locations globally and broaden operations within the current UNICEF PSFR international locations. The position of the Senior Advisor could be to offer experience to contribute to the readiness of UNICEF to capitalize on alternatives in these markets in addition to supporting on world processes round planning and useful resource allocation.

How will you make a distinction?

Below the supervision of the Chief of the Nation workplace Growth and Assist Unit (CODAS), Outreach and Engagement, this submit will probably be liable for:

• Proposing methods to ship on UNICEF’s imaginative and prescient to broaden PSFR in Nation Workplaces and untapped markets.
• Translating the aligned methods into pragmatic motion plans, campaigns, operational and useful infrastructure, capability constructing, coaching, information switch and on-going help.
• Mobilizing organization-wide help and positioning PSFR and its significance to senior leaders throughout the group particularly nation and regional places of work.
• To advise, conceptualize, implement, and maximize non-public sector fundraising in Clusters and Nation Workplaces, with a give attention to new markets.
• Assist in managing the Personal Sector Planning course of, together with allocation of Dynamo Fund.
• Handle assigned tasks at world stage to create an enabling setting for Nation Workplace Fundraising (COFR).
• Act as Assist heart focus for assigned Regional Workplaces.
• Present surge help, probably in particular person, on Useful resource Mobilization in Regional and Nation Workplaces as wanted.

These duties are undertaken in shut cooperation with the operational and technical groups in PFP, Regional and Nation Workplaces.

DELIVERABLES:

• Guarantee coverage steerage, close to non-public fundraising and partnership actions within the assigned areas.
• Assist a mapping of present and potential non-public sector engagement alternatives throughout the areas for subsequent RO and CO strategic engagement, leveraging and fundraising.
• Present strategic course, capability constructing and high quality technical help of personal fundraising and partnerships actions to nation places of work to maximise outcomes for youngsters.
• Associate with Regional Workplaces and when related nation places of work for the event and implementation of the non-public sector parts of their useful resource mobilization and partnership methods, together with within the growth, implementation and monitoring of labor plans, and the formulation of longer-term market growth and personal sector engagement and useful resource mobilization alternatives. Guarantee efficient information administration, together with sharing of classes discovered and taking greatest practices to scale.
• Repeatedly roll out capability constructing for RO and COs for correct employees capability and abilities growth throughout the area in non-public sector fundraising and partnerships.
• Present recommendation to Regional Workplaces and Nation places of work on identification and sourcing of technical help to develop and broaden non-public sector fundraising and partnerships.
• Develop and nurture an in depth collaboration and dialogue with PFP to align regional and world efforts with respect to personal sector engagement.

Estimated Length of the contract

• 364 days

Reporting To:

• Chief of the Nation Workplace Growth and Assist Unit (CODAS), Outreach and Engagement.

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’ll have…

Schooling:

• A sophisticated college diploma in one of many following fields is required: social sciences, enterprise administration, administration, advertising and marketing, or fundraising.
• Alternatively, a first-level college diploma in a related area together with further two years of qualifying skilled expertise could also be accepted in lieu of a sophisticated college diploma.

Expertise:

• A minimal of ten years of related and progressively accountable skilled work expertise at Senior Administration Stage in private-sector fundraising is required.
• A extremely expertise in fundraising with confirmed success within the a number of deliverables of establishing a fundraising operation and infrastructure, increase and main a big crew to profitable outcomes.
• Expertise in main and labored in a posh or delicate conditions.
• Confirmed expertise in main and managing change processes in giant organizations or firms.
• Demonstrated expertise understanding and translating summary concepts or ideas into actionable steps.
• Confirmed expertise working in a multi-cultural setting and with cross-functional groups to ship on widespread objectives.
• In depth information of personal sector fundraising, communication and administration is required.
• A powerful understanding of UNICEF methods, processes, and operations of UNICEF regional and nation places of work is an asset.
• Expertise and understanding working in creating markets or for a UNICEF regional or nation workplace is an asset.
• UN/UNICEF expertise is an asset.

Language necessities:

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

For each Youngster, you show…

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

The UNICEF competencies required for this submit 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.

Through 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, regardless of gender, nationality, non secular and ethnic backgrounds, together with individuals dwelling with disabilities, to use to grow to be part of the group.

We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental go away, 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 aims of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict youngster safeguarding ideas. All chosen candidates will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas and can due to this fact endure rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to offer further info to conduct a background test.

Remarks:

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the responsibility station, which will probably be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments may additionally be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Authorities staff which might be thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking over an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the suitable to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance shouldn’t be obtained, or vital inoculation necessities aren’t met, inside an inexpensive interval for any motive.

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