Consultant - Partnerships Associate, Education Outcomes Fund (EOF), Remote (11.5 months), REQ

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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, education...

There are few greater challenges faced by the global community than the twin crises of learning poverty and youth unemployment. In response, the Education Commission (chaired by Gordon Brown, former UK Prime Minister and UN Special Envoy for Global Education) and the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (chaired by Sir Ronald Cohen) came together to create EOF. We aim to improve the education and employment outcomes of 10 million children and youth by supporting governments to utilize a range of innovative finance instruments at scale, including outcomes funds and other results-based financing (RBF) instruments.

EOF supports improvements in the quality of education and skills programs, with a special focus on underserved populations, including the hardest to reach, rural populations, girls, children with disabilities, and refugees. It measures (and pays for) what matters – both core skills like literacy and numeracy, but also critical 21st Century skills such as socio-emotional skills, ICT skills, and other broader fundamentals of a quality education. It helps close the persistent gap between the skills needed by employers and those attained by today’s youth by paying for employment and retention outcomes.

For all the above, EOF pays primarily on the basis of the results achieved, ensuring that taxpayer-funded domestic resources, aid, and philanthropic funds are only used to pay for what works. This is a game-changing way to finance results in education. It is more than just a fund – it is a powerful new set of partnerships and way of working.

Together with our supporters, we believe this is the early stages of a much larger movement. Our approach is at the cutting edge of development finance, shifting risk to the private sector, crowding in private capital, and harnessing the capacity and capability of non-state actors, with huge potential to achieve better outcomes for children and youth around the world.

Rationale for the consultancy

At this exciting growth stage in EOF's development, as we're scaling our approach in countries worldwide, we seek to grow our Partnerships team by recruiting a Partnerships Associate.

How can you make a difference?

The Partnerships Associate will be responsible for co-ordinating our relationship management and partnership development process by managing our CRM and key relationships in close collaboration with colleagues on the Partnerships team. They will also play a crucial role in managing our engagement with our board and funding sub-committee.

This exciting role will require a proactive relationship builder who will bring creativity, problem-solving skills and a drive to deliver. Success in this role will be crucial to enabling EOF's mission, supporting the education and skills development of 10M children and young people.

DESCRIPTION OF ASSIGNMENT (TASKS, SMART DELIVERABLES, DEADLINES):

The primary responsibilities of the Partnerships Associate are:

Relationship Management and external communication:

• Manage relationships with key stakeholders, including new prospects and existing partners. This includes extensive engagement with senior stakeholders at events, meetings, calls, and emails alone and with colleagues from the team and governing boards.
• Regularly refine supporting material that communicates the EOF narrative to prospective partners, this includes pitch pitch presentations and concept notes.
• Prepare and complete monthly donor reports and update donors verbally and in writing.
• Lead primary and secondary research on potential private and public funders.

Partnership Pipeline Management:

• Collaborate with Partnership team leadership to co-manage EOF's fundraising pipeline for operational and Outcomes funding.
• Respond to requests for proposals from a range of major international organisations.
• Lead team optimization of our CRM system in support of our relationship management, donor reporting and partnership development.
• Guide colleagues across all teams on their contibutions to data integrity and internal transaprency within our CRM.

Internal co-ordination:

• Lead internal coordination efforts that support partnership team engagement with EOF's fundraising committee and board meetings.
• Co-ordinate colleagues across our programs and operations teams in support of our engagement with partners across government, private sector and HNWIs

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

• Completion of secondary education is required, preferably supplemented by technical or university courses related to fundraising, marketing, education, or international development.
• A minimum of 3 years of professional experience in business development, program design or fundraising/partnerships.
• Experience in working with corporate donors/sponsors, foundations, and philanthropists.
• Strong relationship-building skills and the ability to cultivate long-term donors, prospects and champions of our work.
• Ability to thrive in a high-energy, fast-paced and entrepreneurial organization as part of a collaborative and committed team.
• Ability to manage a high-volume workload at a fast pace with strong attention to detail and a high bar for quality; manage concurrent timelines, independently prioritize tasks and work.
• Experience or interest in international development, the global education sector, and international aid
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

Duty Station

London, UK or Remote (Home-based). Candidates are expected to be available during working hours in the Europe / Africa / Middle East time zones.

Duration 11.5 months

Proposed Payment Schedule

Payments will be made monthly. The proposed rate should inclusive of all professional fees, daily allowances, living allowances, and other administrative costs and should assume a full-time commitment.

Insurance: Consultants and individual contractors are fully responsible for arranging, at their own expense, all insurance, such as life, health and other forms of insurance, covering the period of their services as they consider appropriate. They are required to certify that they are covered by medical/health insurance.

How to Apply:

Qualified candidates are requested to upload a cover letter, resume/cv, and their proposed fees (monthly rate in British Sterling) by 4th September 2022. Please also indicate your availability in your cover letter.

Applications submitted without a financial proposal will not be accepted.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

Key competencies are:

• Drive to achieve results
• Care for details
• Clear and confident communication skills
• Entrepreneurial mindset
• Work collaboratively with others
• Embrace change and uncertainty
• Demonstrate self-awareness and ethical awareness

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

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.