CONSULTANCY: Sports Partnerships Consultant (6 months, remote) Strategic Partnerships - GCA, NYHQ

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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, a superstar.

This role is being established to help in developing a sports strategy and enable UNICEF to get more visibility in the world of sports especially in Football before the World Cup in 2026, starting with concrete support to the Mexico CO and linking their country-level work with global strategy and including co-host countries, USA and Canada. Four main areas have been identified: 1. Sports Strategy: Draw a plan and strategy for the partnerships and activations. 2. Sports mapping and partnership cultivation: Scan, Identify and establish contact with potential partners aligned with the strategy. 3. Industry trends and insights: Keep UNICEF up to date on the area of sports around the world.

4. Sports Conferences Participation: Ensure that UNICEF is participating in the major sports conferences & events globally as it relates to UNICEF’s guidance, leadership and involvement for children.

How can you make a difference?

Ultimately, the purpose of this consultant is to support the Mexico Country Office’s efforts to create a strategy that supports global level engagement given the large-scale impact and global platform of the 2026 FIFA World Cup games in three Mexican cities. The consultant’s purpose is to also ensure alignment between the three host countries – Mexico, USA, and Canada – while connecting these communications and advocacy plans with GCA Strategic Partnerships.

EXPECTED RESULTS: (MEASURABLE RESULTS) Working under the supervision of the Global Strategic Partnerships Manager, the Sports Partnership consultant will be responsible for:

1. Working with the Partnerships Manager on drawing a detailed strategy and a two-year plan for the FIFA World Cup 2026 in USA, Canada, and Mexico. 2. Supporting the Country Offices on finding the best partners in sports in alignment with the strategy and maximizing the current partners activations and donation by identifying the opportunities and the shared values. 3. Prepare sports industry trends and insights continuously and share it with the different UNICEF offices that engage with sports entities to support and help them staying up to date with the changes that happen. 4. Travel and visit the country office to participate in workshops or important meetings with prospect partners. 5. Attend the main sports global conferences and make sure that UNICEF is existing in such events to increase UNICEF’s visibility in the world of sports and to establish new connections with different sports entities. Potentially involve some speakers from UNICEF to participate in panels around the topic of child safeguarding and protection.

Developing a sports strategy and enable UNICEF to get more visibility in the world of sports especially in Football before the World Cup in 2026, starting with concrete support to the Mexico CO and linking their country-level work with global strategy and including co-host countries, USA and Canada. Time frame: June 10th - December 10th, 2024.

Timeframe

Start date: 30 June 2024

End date: 10 December 2024

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

  • Education: • First level university degree (Bachelor) in Communication, Marketing, Business administration, or another relevant field is required. • Advanced certificate in Sports Management. Experience: • Minimum of 3 years of relevant professional work experience in marketing, research, licensing, partnerships in sports, and events management. • Prior experience is sports marketing, sports management and events management is highly desirable. • Experience in the area of licensing, partnerships and sponsorship in sports is desirable. • Experience in Business development and managing relations with sports entities. • Some experience in desk research, mapping, profiling, and monitoring companies’ and best practices. • Strong knowledge of UNICEF and prior experience in one of the UN organizations is desirable. • Experience working in an international environment is a plus. • Intermediate knowledge of Spanish is highly desirable. Language: • Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of an additional UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish) is an asset.

APPLICATION GUIDANCE All applications must contain the following (incomplete applications will not be taken into consideration) 1. Fully completed TECHNICAL PROPOSAL Technical Proposal Form - Updated 10 April 2023.xlsx 2. Fully completed FINANCIAL PROPOSAL FORM Financial Proposal Form - Updated 10 April 2023.xlsx 3. Fully completed applicant online applicant profile 4. Cover letter 5. Resume

EVALUATION AND SELECTION PROCESS

Technical Assessment Criteria (applications will be evaluated based on the following technical criteria):

Each Proposal will be evaluated against a weight allocation of 75% for the technical proposals and 25% for the financial proposal. The total maximum obtainable is 100 points. The minimum acceptable technical score is 49.

Technical Proposal

Financial Proposal

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25 points

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.

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