Donor Relations Officer, P-2, UNICEF Somalia Support Centre, Nairobi, Kenya, 364 days

Contract

This is a P-2 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 2 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 85,857 USD and 116,616 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.

For every child, results

www.unicef.org/somalia

How can you make a difference?

In collaboration with the Donor Relations Specialist, Chief of Communication and Chiefs of Programme, Support in:

• Proposal development (particularly on budget development) and contribution management (including no-cost extensions, reporting schedule amendments etc.) as necessary.
• Implementing the CO Resource Mobilization Strategy and Work Plan, specifically on donor meetings and support to research and analysis of donor funding trends, and other ad hoc requests as necessary.
• Support in coordinating donor meetings, RMTF meetings and provide inputs to CMTs, EMTs, and other ad hoc requests as necessary
• Supports in coordination of responses of donor-related queries (including with PPD) as necessary
• Supports on Donor Reporting, including the compilation and quality assurance, as necessary.
• Support Donor Relations team in knowledge management and dissemination as necessary.

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

• Bachelors Degree in International Development, International Relations, Human Rights, Communication, Social Sciences, or related field.
• Two years of relevant professional work experience. International and Developing country work experience (for IP) National or field work experience (for NO). Background/familiarity with Emergency a strong asset.
• At least two years’ experience in international development, including UNICEF experience in both humanitarian and development context and strong knowledge of UNICEF systems for donor relations and reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to design products in an easy to digest, visually appealing format.
• Robust understanding of how UNICEF works around the world.
• Proven record of excellent English writing, communication and design skills. Must be creative and self-motivated with strong problem-solving skills (thinks outside of the box), good networking and collaboration skills paired with the ability to inspire others and strong drive for results.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

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

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)
• Drive to achieve impactful results (1)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)

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 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:

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

UNICEF only considers Higher education qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed at http://www.whed.net

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