Corporate Partnerships Specialist, P-4, TA (364 days), Corporate Partnerships, PFP, Geneva, Switzerland

Contract

This is a P-4 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 7 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 171,387 USD and 220,969 USD.

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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.

The Private Sector Fundraising and Partnerships (PSFP) section within PFP works with National Committees and UNICEF country offices to maximize financial and non-financial support for children. Within this section, the purpose of the Corporate Partnerships Team is to drive impact, defined as financial resources in addition to other valuable assets and opportunities, in order to optimize the value of multi-dimensional partnerships with companies to achieve UNICEF’s strategic goals. The team supports key UNICEF Divisions with partnership strategies as well as National Committees and Country Offices with their strategies for growth. The team also champions and drives global best practice, partnership strategy and issues guidance and policies globally. Team members also play a role in the relationship management of key partners.

For every child, a Champion

Under the general guidance of the Corporate Alliances Manager, this post will optimize the financial and non-financial growth opportunities of a portfolio of high-impact partnerships with Corporates headquartered around the world. The incumbent will play a critical role in working with and advising UNICEF’s National Committees, who may co-manage these high-value partnerships, expanding them by geography or channel in order to leverage the greatest impact from the partnership for UNICEF. The incumbent will work closely with National Committees and lead dissemination of knowledge and best-practices in partnership management, across UNICEF.

How can you make a difference?

1. Maximizes a small portfolio of high value corporate partnerships that have the potential to grow exponentially in financial value over the next three years. This should be achieved in collaboration with the relevant National Committees, Country Offices, and with relevant UNICEF Divisions.

• Research new potential avenues of significant growth (e.g., grants, markets, brands etc.).
• Develop dedicated growth plans for key high value growth opportunity partners including high level influencing strategy.
• Develop relevant high value propositions in line with identified growth opportunities.
• Pitch new growth opportunities in line with the above strategy and in alignment with the relevant UNICEF offices / division.

2. Identifies, and coordinates with National Committees the partnerships for renewal, advises on renewal strategies and best practices, and expands large national partnerships into international ones.

• Reaches the set renewal % rate and income targets.
• Delivers upon the expansion income- and impact targets.
• Coordinates, manages and disseminates regularly a global renewal & growth pipeline and planner.

3. Manages successfully internal and external stakeholders with focus on excellence in:

• Relationship management of the corporate partners,
• Engagement with National Committees and Country Offices,
• Intra-UNICEF stakeholder coordination – with Program Division, Communication, Contracting and other engagement channels such as CSR, Innovations and Advocacy.

4. Contributes to and coordinates elements necessary for the development and implementation of the UNICEF strategy, and the corporate fundraising plan and targets as necessary.

• Acts as a global center of excellence in partnership management including effective knowledge management and dissemination across the UNICEF family of partnership management best practices, examples and guidelines.
• Enables participation of corporate partners in UNICEF-, UN and other platform meetings.

DELIVERABLES:

• Efficient and effective delivery against the above accountabilities will result in strong, strategic, and integrated management of a number of large international partnerships with corporates and critically a significant increase in financial support from the key partners identified for growth. This will secure a significant income for UNICEF’s programmes annually.
• Efficiency from the incumbent in the execution of the above functions will furthermore result in best-in-class relationship management of these corporate partners, in an effective and satisfying work-relationship with the National Committees and Country Offices taking part in these partnerships, and inefficient intra UNICEF stakeholder management.

Estimated Duration of the contract

• 364 days.

Reporting To:

• Corporate Alliances Manager.

Working Place:

• Geneva, Switzerland is the official duty station. (Flexible work arrangements may be applied if there is a need)

To qualify as a champion for every child you will have…

Education:

• An advanced university degree in Business Management, International Relations, Marketing, Social Sciences, Fundraising, or a related field is required.
• Alternatively, a first-level University Degree in a relevant field combined with (2) additional years of qualifying professional experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Experience:

• A minimum of eight years of relevant and demonstrated professional experience in corporate partnership development, business development sales, and agency account management or ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) is required.
• Experience managing global high-value partnerships required.
• Fundraising experience with a large organization and securing multi-million partnerships with the corporate sector are an asset.
• UN/UNICEF experience is an asset.

Language requirements:

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

For every Child, you demonstrate...

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

The UNICEF competencies required for this post 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 achieve impactful results (1)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1) are required.

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework 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.

We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.

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:

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

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