UNICEF works in over 190 international locations and territories to avoid wasting kids’s lives, defend their rights, and assist them fulfill their potential, from early childhood by adolescence.
At UNICEF, we’re dedicated, passionate, and pleased with what we do. Promoting the rights of each child isn’t just a job – it’s a calling.
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For each child, a champion
The elementary mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each child, all over the place, in all the things the group does — in applications, in advocacy and in operations. The fairness technique, emphasizing essentially the most deprived and excluded kids and households, interprets this dedication to kids’s rights into motion. For UNICEF, fairness implies that all kids have a possibility to outlive, develop and attain their full potential, with out discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the diploma that any child has an unequal likelihood in life — in its social, political, financial, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There is 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 kids the chance to meet their potential but additionally will result in sustained progress and stability of nations. This is why the give attention to fairness is so very important. It accelerates progress in direction of realizing the human rights of all kids, which is the common mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, whereas additionally supporting the equitable improvement of countries.
How are you able to make a difference?
The Partnerships Manager will serve within the Public Private Partnerships crew, throughout the Public Partnerships Division of UNICEF. The PPPs crew has two inter-related main roles. First, it really works to catalyze, allow and scale public personal partnerships throughout the UNICEF community, working with inner companions notably the PPD Climate crew, PFP, regional places of work and nation places of work, pushing ahead the work of UNICEF Sustainability and Climate Change Action Plan (2023-2030). Second, the crew collaborates with Programme Group within the strategic administration of relationships with Global Programme Partnerships (GPPs), giant financing mechanisms which regularly outline themselves as PPPs additionally. GPP earnings to UNICEF has grown dramatically in recent times amounting to greater than $ 600 million yearly. The Partnerships Manager will contribute to each roles of the crew. However, a key focus of the place (70% of total time) will likely be making certain efficient oversight and administration of GPP partnerships.
The Partnership Manager place’s objective is to deepen collaboration with key stakeholders and supply an interface for environmental scanning, data change, useful resource mobilization, and coverage affect throughout the scope of project. S/He can also function focus and useful resource for colleagues on particular thematic areas of strategic relevance for partnership improvement. The key result’s to make sure larger visibility for UNICEF and affect in help of its mission.
Partnership Managers on the P4/NOD degree are authoritative specialists within the area partnership improvement. These positions are usually not solely accountable for the execution of assigned work-plans however are additionally accountable for commonly supporting senior administration in coverage path and design. Subsequently, it’s anticipated that they’re able to – regularly – develop unique and progressive means to assist advance the career and in addition deal with extremely complicated issues that don’t comply with established patterns.
Furthermore, Partnership Managers are additionally often accountable for planning, organizing and supervising a crew of workers in addition to for managing broad and complicated initiatives.
Key capabilities, accountabilities, and associated duties/duties:
1. Support senior advisers and senior administration in establishing the annual work plan, setting priorities/targets and efficiency measurements.
2. Monitor work progress for unit managed and guarantee outcomes are achieved in response to schedule and efficiency requirements.
3. Establish clear particular person efficiency targets, objectives and timelines for crew members; and supply well timed steerage to allow the crew to carry out their duties responsibly and effectively.
4. Lead the work plan for assigned space, in an effort to guarantee well timed and cost-effective supply of outcomes, in accordance with UNICEF’s partnership technique
5. Seeks and promotes new partnerships and useful resource mobilization, working with UNICEF colleagues to establish partnership and useful resource mobilization wants and dealer useful resource mobilization agreements to fulfill these wants.
6. Receives and screens inquiries from potential collaborators and facilitates communication with applicable UNICEF workers. Scans and scouts exterior surroundings inside designated partnership space for alternatives and dangers and shares info in a well timed trend with related UNICEF workers.
7. Provides strategic, logistical and programmatic help to senior administration and different UNICEF workers in company engagement and interplay with assigned companions.
8. Develops and maintains deep data and familiarity with present and potential companions and related stakeholders, contributing to a database of key contacts and to UNICEF’s base of information on partnership and useful resource mobilization.
9. Expands UNICEF’s community of key interlocutors to construct stronger relationships between UNICEF and governments, different key-decision makers, regional improvement establishments, foundations, civil society organizations, worldwide monetary establishments and/or different related constituencies.
10. Develops and implements annual partnership engagement and useful resource mobilization plans.
11. Supports threat administration and collaborates with inner companions to make sure accountability for key deliverables with GPP companions.
12. Acts as a focus for identification and pursuit of alternatives for outreach, engagement, coverage affect and collaboration, together with on tips on how to anticipate and reply to companions’ considerations and priorities, be sure that UNICEF’s pursuits, views, and data are taken under consideration in related coverage and institutional processes, and be sure that they’re totally conscious of UNICEF’s views, insurance policies, priorities and capabilities. Contribute to the event and administration of initiatives for high-level outreach with GPP companions, together with for UNICEF’s Senior Management.
13. Contributes to the event of latest partnership and useful resource mobilization practices and approaches by formulating suggestions for motion primarily based on on-going monitoring, analyzing present tendencies inside designated companions and formulating suggestions for technique approaches and message improvement.
14. Contributes to methods for engagement and the event of communications and advocacy merchandise to boost UNICEF’s visibility and affect with current and potential companions and key stakeholders by offering evaluation of the present surroundings and tendencies and formulating suggestions for technique approaches and message improvement. Works intently with UNICEF’s colleagues to make sure that coverage advocacy and outreach is strongly grounded within the expertise and insights of the programmes that UNICEF’s helps. Contributes written inputs for communications devices that finest inform and affect resolution makers.
15. Performs different associated duties as assigned by the supervisor to make sure the success of the crew, together with guiding, coaching, and training short-term workers, together with interns and consultants, as wanted.
Impact of Results
The Partnerships Manager is an authoritative knowledgeable within the area of exterior relations, particularly partnership improvement and useful resource mobilization. The high quality of labor and exterior communications carried out by the Manager instantly impacts on the general status of UNICEF and makes a big contribution to annual earnings of $600 million yearly with key companions together with Global Fund, GPE, GAVI and Green Climate Fund.
The Partnerships Manager is accountable for (a) convincing administration of the utility of improved approaches (b) contributing to technique planning (c) figuring out and constructing efficient partnerships with Global Programme Partnerships and different institutional PPP funders (d) managing key stakeholder engagement with inner and exterior companions within the administration of GPP funders.(e.) working with inner companions and stakeholders to make sure efficient threat administration and accountability for key deliverables with GPP companions.
To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have…
Minimum necessities:
- Education: An superior college diploma is required in one of many following fields: worldwide relations, political science, communications, worldwide improvement, or one other related technical area.
- Work Experience: A minimal of eight years {of professional} expertise in a number of of the next areas is required: public affairs, programme administration, useful resource mobilization, exterior relations, or different related space. Preference will likely be given to candidates with greater than 3 years senior expertise in creating and managing partnerships with institutional funders together with PPPs, IFIs and philanthropic entities producing in extra of US$ 50 million yearly, whether or not as donor or recipient. Particularly fascinating will likely be candidates with mixture of senior degree relationship administration of each private and non-private companions.
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Skills:
– The skill to allocate applicable time and sources for profitable achievement of objectives and foresee dangers and permit for contingencies when planning.
– Ability to implement clear objectives which might be in step with agreed methods, establish precedence actions and assignments, alter priorities as required.
– Diplomatic communication and negotiation abilities to determine and keep trusted partnerships for achievement of targets and to develop shut and efficient working relationships with numerous stakeholders.
– Authoritative data of improvement points, methods, in addition to programming insurance policies and procedures in worldwide improvement cooperation.
– Authoritative data of practices in partnership improvement and useful resource mobilization.
– Demonstrated skill to formulate new approaches in respect of sources administration and outreach- associated actions.
– Skill within the identification of latest alternatives or necessities to fulfill challenges within the area and suggest modifications.
– Excellent communications abilities, verbal and written.
– In-depth familiarity with political and governmental processes
– Ability to conduct sound coverage evaluation. - Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or an area language is an asset.
For each Child, you reveal…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin all the things we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
The UNICEF competencies required for this submit are…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships
(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness
(3) Drive to attain outcomes for influence
(4) Innovates and embraces change
(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity
(6) Thinks and acts strategically
(7) Works collaboratively with others
Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its completely different ranges.
UNICEF is dedicated to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, no matter gender, nationality, spiritual or ethnic background, and individuals with disabilities, to apply to turn into a part of the group. To create a extra inclusive office, UNICEF provides paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks, and affordable lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations. Click here to be taught extra about versatile work preparations, well-being, and advantages.
According to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), individuals with disabilities embrace those that have long-term bodily, psychological, mental, or sensory impairments which, in interplay with varied obstacles, might hinder their full and efficient participation in society on an equal foundation with others. In its Disability Inclusion Policy and Strategy 2022-2030, UNICEF has dedicated to extend the variety of staff with disabilities by 2030. At UNICEF, we offer reasonable accommodation for work-related help necessities of candidates and staff with disabilities. Also, UNICEF has launched a Global Accessibility Helpdesk to strengthen bodily and digital accessibility. If you might be an applicant with a incapacity who wants digital accessibility help in finishing the net application, please submit your request by the accessibility electronic mail button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF.
UNICEF doesn’t rent candidates who’re married to kids (individuals underneath 18). 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 primarily based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, spiritual or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all kids. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to offer extra info to conduct a background check, and chosen candidates with disabilities could also be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their incapacity confidentially.
UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the obligation station is required for IP positions and will likely be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments can also be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Should you 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. Otherwise, the choice will likely be canceled.
Remarks:
As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration within the employment of the workers is the need of securing the best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.
UNICEF’s lively dedication to variety and inclusion is essential to ship the perfect outcomes for kids. For this place, eligible and appropriate male candidates from programme international locations are inspired to apply.
Government staff who’re thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities positions earlier than taking over an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the suitable to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance will not be obtained, or essential inoculation necessities are usually not met, inside an affordable interval for any purpose.
UNICEF doesn’t cost a processing price at any stage of its recruitment, choice, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and coaching). UNICEF won’t ask for candidates’ checking account info.
Mobility is a situation of worldwide skilled employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the worldwide civil service.
All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. An inner candidate performing on the degree of the submit within the related useful space, or an inner/exterior candidate within the corresponding Talent Group, could also be chosen, if appropriate for the submit, with out evaluation of different candidates.
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Public Partnerships Manager, P-4, PPD, Brussels, Belgium, #13851
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