Apply for Fundraising specialist (Legacies), P-3, TA (364 days), Post # 131499, Individual Giving (IG), PFP, Geneva, Switzerland Unicef Job Vacancy | Unicef Careers

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For each child, a Champion 

The UNICEF Private Sector Fundraising and Partnerships (PSFP) part inside Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division (PFP) works with our community of National Committees and Country Offices worldwide to mobilize sources, affect, and construct world model recognition for UNICEF’s mission. 

The legacies perform inside PFP leads the worldwide efforts to construct and implement advertising methods that place UNICEF successfully for delivering unrestricted funds via legacy fundraising and engagement with the personal sector, taking an audience-centric method.  

The Fundraising Specialist (legacies) performs an important function within the Individual Giving (IG) group, specializing in supporting UNICEF fundraising groups in National Committees and Country Offices with energetic and rising legacy fundraising programmes. 

How are you able to make a difference? 

Summary of key capabilities/accountabilities: 

This function will likely be supporting UNICEF fundraising groups to succeed in their legacy fundraising targets and assist them successfully enhance the acquisition and nurture of high-quality legacy giving to supporters. Working with UNICEF fundraising groups throughout the Asia Pacific area, the function holder is pivotal in forming robust relationships with our colleagues in markets and growing the affect the area is making via legacy fundraising to construct a long-term earnings pipeline. Aligning with the UNICEF world legacy technique you may be securing long-term earnings and growing unrestricted sources, very important for our work for youngsters. 

Being a legacy giving point of interest for your portfolio of UNICEF fundraising workplaces, you’ll present proportional and tailor-made assist in probably the most impactful and prioritized means. This place will help markets to additional set up efficient legacy fundraising applications and undertake a market-driven and audience-centered method. Collaborating with the markets and regional assist middle and headquarters capabilities, the function includes providing strategic and technical steering, legacy programme growth assist, and contributing to the devoted IG group of specialists targeted on these markets, all in alignment with the overarching imaginative and prescient and strategic route. 

This function entails collaborative work inside an agile IG cross practical group targeted on the area. Our IG regional targeted groups embrace different IG fundraising specialists with a variety of technical experience in advertising, merchandise, and channels (with a specific deal with digital). There will even be scope to work with colleagues from different areas of fundraising and enabling groups within the PFP ecosystem.  

Deliverables: 

1. Strategic and Technical Support 

• Collaborate with PFP colleagues and markets to determine or strengthen legacy fundraising applications by providing tailor-made assist and steering that displays the particular alternatives and challenges within the Asia-Pacific area.
• Support markets throughout the annual planning interval to develop legacy fundraising targets and plans aligned with the worldwide legacy technique. 

• Influence and assist the combination of legacy giving into supporter journeys, to make sure seamless engagement throughout channels for our donors, and to maximise lifetime worth and decrease missed alternatives. 
• Ensure markets leverage insights to check, optimize, and refine donor journeys for efficient legacy fundraising outcomes. 

3. Performance Metrics and Evaluation 

• Guide markets in adopting constant reporting metrics aligned with world requirements, making certain that efficiency is measured precisely and transparently. 
• Support markets and PFP colleagues in conducting retrospectives and post-implementation evaluations to guage the affect of legacy fundraising actions. 

4. Capacity Building and Knowledge Sharing 

• Provide tailor-made coaching, onboarding, and workshops to strengthen legacy fundraising experience inside markets at numerous ranges of maturity. 
• Foster a tradition of studying by creating networking alternatives for markets to interact with different legacy focal factors and specialists, sharing insights and finest practices. 

5. Legal and Operational Support 

• Assist markets in addressing authorized and operational features of managing legacy circumstances, making certain compliance with regional and native laws. 
• Provide steering on navigating region-specific challenges reminiscent of cultural nuances, regulatory environments, and donor sensitivities. 

6. Regional Collaboration 

• Actively collaborate with colleagues in regional workplaces, leveraging their insights and sources to handle market-specific wants.
• Work throughout the IG and wider regional fundraising group to align efforts with different fundraising specialists, significantly in digital and different channels, advertising, and merchandise. 

7. Global Legacy Community 

• Contribute to UNICEF’s world legacy group by offering strategic suggestions, main and/or taking part in knowledge-sharing classes, and strengthening connections throughout markets. 

Estimated length of the contract: 

• 364 Days 

Reporting to: 

• The Fundraising Manager (Legacies). 

Working Place: 

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

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

Education :  

• An superior college diploma in one of many following fields is required: Marketing or Communications, or a associated subject. 
• Alternatively, a first-level University Degree in a related subject mixed with (2) extra years of qualifying skilled expertise could also be accepted in lieu of the superior college diploma. 

Experience:  

• A minimal of 5 (5) years of related skilled work expertise in fundraising is required. 
• Experience working in both IG mass market fundraising or high-value donor fundraising is required. 
• Experience in worldwide legacy fundraising is an asset.   
• Experience within the Asia Pacific area is an asset. 
• Knowledge of legacy case administration is an asset.  
• Expertise in stakeholder engagement and collaboration throughout multi-disciplinary groups and with our intensive community of native market-based colleagues is an asset. 
• Strong analytical abilities for data-informed decision-making and strategic planning are an asset.  
• Proven venture administration expertise, making certain well timed supply and assembly targets is an asset. 
• Experience in agile methodologies and use of digital planning instruments is most well-liked is an asset. 
• Strong networking and influencing abilities to drive outcomes is an asset. Excellent written and verbal communication abilities, conveying advanced concepts concisely is an asset. 
• UN/UNICEF expertise is an asset. 
• Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency is an asset. 

 Language Requirements:  

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

For each Child, you reveal… 

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every thing we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values 

The UNICEF competencies required for this submit are… 

• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1) 
• Works Collaboratively with others (1)  
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)  
• Innovates and Embraces Change (1) 
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (1) 
• Drives to attain impactful outcomes (1) 
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1) 

Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its totally different ranges. 

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