Donor Reporting Officer, P2, Fixed Term, Dhaka, Bangladesh #546964 (Not for Bangladeshi nationals)

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 86,953 USD and 118,104 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, an advocate.

How can you make a difference?

Under the general guidance and supervision of Donor Relations Specialist (P3), the Donor Reports officer (P2) is responsible for support to overall resource mobilization activities and leading on ensuring quality donor contract management and reporting, in close coordination with the programme teams. This includes: coordination of fundraising efforts; lead in coordinating and ensuring quality and timely submission of donor reports for the Country Programme, and provide support in reviewing and editing donor proposals and reports; development and maintenance of information systems, including tracking of the funding pipeline, trends and gaps. This role also ensures the timely preparation and dissemination of briefing documents and reports in support of the UNICEF mission in the country.

Major duties and tasks:

1. Update and maintain information on all donor and programme reporting requirements and templates. Provide section chiefs and field offices with regular updates on these requirements and follow-up as required to ensure the timely inputs, clearance and submissions of proposals and reports to donors. Upload final versions of donor reports to the grants Sharepoint.
2. Work with relevant sections and field offices in the preparation of high quality concept notes, funding proposals and donor reports by standardizing formats, contents and ensuring adherence to donor requirements. Provide quality assurance of proposals and reports. This includes gathering of information, consolidation, editing, layout and branding of all required proposals and reports which include ad hoc proposals, donor interim and final reports and specific thematic reports. Ensure donor reporting and proposal SOP are followed. Ensure the templates, donor conditions and final version of concept notes and reports are properly saved in the donor sharepoint folder and easily accessible to programme colleagues.
3. In close collaboration with the External Communications section, ensure that the necessary visibility requirements are communicated to the sections and collected timely for reporting and other such purposes. Ensure inclusion of human interest material in donor proposals and reports.
4. Support sections on the submission of grant extensions and programme changes requests to donors. Ensure the revised plans, PBA and related information is saved on the grant Sharepoint folder.
5. In close collaboration with the Budget Unit, monitor funds utilization, grant expiry, etc, and ensure programmes are implementing in alignment with donor conditions.
6. Maintaining up to date the donor pipeline tracking sheet (funding pipeline, trends and gaps) and donor report tracking sheet, in collaboration with the Senior Programme Associate.
7. Conduct research and maintain up-to-date information on donors for UNICEF BCO’s advocacy and resource mobilization information and use. Update and prepare briefing notes and presentations for the donor meetings and field visits as required.
8. Coordinate donor engagements - meetings and technical calls - under the direction of the Partnerships Unit
9. Provide training and technical assistance, as required, to staff and partners to improve the overall quality and consistency concept notes, proposals and reports.
10. Perform other related duties as assigned by the supervisor to ensure the success of the team, including support with other types of reports.

For detailed job responsibilities, please access job description below:

JD -Donor Reporting Officer_P2_DHK.pdf

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

• University Degree in Social Science, Public Relations, International Affairs or any other related field
• At least 2 years relevant work experience with the above field.
• Work experience in reporting and/or writing/editing, preferably related to resource mobilization.
• Demonstrated experience in coordination and strong writing skills.
• Proficient in use of MS Word, Publisher, Excel and other related software packages.
• Exposure to emergency programming preferred.
• Fluency in written and verbal English is required. Knowledge of the local working language of the duty station is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

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

The UNICEF core 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)

Click here to learn more about UNICEF’s values and competencies.

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:

UNICEF does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.

Internal candidates may be given preference over external candidates. The term "Internal" refers to all staff members with fixed term, continuing or permanent appointments.

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

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