Fund Raising Manager (Humanitarian Fundraising), P-4, FT, PFP/PSFP/Emergency Fundraising, 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 168,113 USD and 216,746 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 Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP), based in Geneva, aims to achieve the maximum sustainable impact for children – income and influence at scale – by maximizing UNICEF's private fundraising, partnerships, and engagement activities, including work with National Committees, regional and country offices, for the realization of children's rights.

The Private Sector Fundraising & Partnerships (PSFP) Section provides global direction and support to markets to ensure that:

• sustainable private sector income growth is diversified and further accelerated to raise at least $9 billion from 2022 to 2025 for UNICEF’s contribution to the SDGs, and
• private sector engagement and investment enhance systems, services, and practices for children at scale.

The Private Sector Humanitarian Fundraising (PSHF) team sits within the PSFP section and is responsible for setting the strategy and supporting PFP specialists and markets to deliver $711m of income for humanitarian causes and to deliver humanitarian advocacy goals over the strategic period 2022-2025.

For every child, a champion

The position of Fundraising Manager (Humanitarian Fundraising, will act as the primary lead for strategic advice and support to markets, capacity building, and management of staff/consultants to grow private sector revenue through emergencies, in support of UNICEF’s Strategic Plan and overarching direction set by the Chief of Private Sector Humanitarian Fundraising.

The post is responsible for managing specialists and working cross-functionally with other team members, sections and stakeholders including UNICEF National Committees and Country Offices, to sustainably grow the skillset necessary to leverage funding opportunities with emergencies.

How can you make a difference?

summary of key functions and accountabilities:

1. Strategic Advice

• Network and coordinate with a diverse and dynamic group of internal and external stakeholders – with a particular focus on Fundraising Directors in fundraising markets – to identify key opportunities for revenue growth with emergencies.
• Provide strategic advice and one-to-one support to priority markets to help achieve and exceed their income targets through emergencies, identify any challenges to strategic execution, and proactively explore solutions for implementation.
• Understand the hidden barriers to strategic implementation, at global and market level, and work collaboratively with others to overcome these internal and external barriers.
• Develop a continuous learning system to evaluate strategic execution against revenue targets, apply lessons and institutionalize new capabilities.

2. Capacity Building

• Works closely with priority National Committees, Country Offices, and line reports to ensure best-in-class humanitarian fundraising strategies are in place to grow revenue.
• Through regular contacts with private sector fundraising directors and specialists in markets, as well as other sources of insights at HQ level (Market Knowledge research, financial analysis, marketing, etc.), identifies trends and key factors of success and influence markets to adjust strategies and priorities through capacity building activities.
• Closely works with Knowledge Management and Internal Communication specialists to disseminate guidance on humanitarian fundraising strategies, techniques, and assets.

3. Management

• Manages staff and consultants in the Humanitarian Fundraising team for maximum results. Ensures work plans are developed and objectives and targets are achieved.
• Provides expertise and guidance on humanitarian fundraising strategy to line reports.
• With the Chief of Private Sector Humanitarian Funding, co-chairs and coordinates the PFP Emergency Task Force, which acts as an interdisciplinary working group on emergencies across fundraising, advocacy, and communication.

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

Education:

• An advanced university degree in Social Sciences or a related technical field is required.
• Alternatively, a first-level university degree in a relevant field combined with two additional years of qualifying professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.

Experience:

• A minimum of 8 years of progressively responsible professional work experience at the national and international levels in private sector fundraising and engagement, with emphasis on working on humanitarian response, is required.
• Understanding of the strategic challenges brought about by today’s private sector humanitarian fundraising environment is required.
• Experience working with business intelligence (market knowledge, market research and marketing insights) is required.
• Experience leading or implementing national and international fundraising plans for humanitarian response is required.
• Proven high-level organization and communication skills to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders are required.
• At least 2 years of supervisory experience is required.
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the UN private sector fundraising and humanitarian ecosystems is an asset.
• Experience with UN/UNICEF is an asset

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of other official UN Languages (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish) is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

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

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are...

• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1)
• Drives to achieve impactful results (1)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
• Works Collaboratively with others (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:

Kindly note that priority will be given to all the eligible candidates participating in the 2022 Mobility Exercise and Staff on Abolished post.

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

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.

UNICEF PFP-Geneva is currently reviewing organizational changes; therefore, the exact future location of the post is still under consideration/to be determined. Candidates may be asked to commence duties remotely. Should the selected candidate be assigned and relocate, they may later be asked to relocate and be assigned to another location during the initial contract or assignment period.

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