Individual Contractor (full-time, 11.5 months) Junior Market Research, Market Knowledge Unit, Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP)

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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, hope

The PFP Market Knowledge Unit provides insights and knowledge to UNICEF National Committees and fundraising country offices, as well as other units within PFP.

The PFP Marketing and PR services for Fundraising Section provides UNICEF National Committees and fundraising country offices with guidance and technical support for their public outreach efforts, including individual donations, corporate engagement, and brand and communications. This involves providing market research services covering opinion surveys and market measurements.

How can you make a difference?

This individual contractor is being established to increase the Market Knowledge unit’s capacity to provide reporting, prepare supporting documentation and research summaries for an increasing number of markets and new projects. Five main areas have been identified:

1. Income Analysis and Benchmarking: identify growth opportunities by supporting the Peer Review, one of the MKU flagship products by producing 50 customized individual country reports where UNICEF fundraises.

2. Competitive Analysis: inspire PFP colleagues by spotting and tracking competitors’ successful campaigns or activities.

3. Partnerships: maximize the current partners (High value Channels) donation by identifying shared values and sweet spots for further partnership.

4. Sports partnerships: identify best prospects on thematic level with financial and non-financial support from the football sector and sports at large.

5. Tools and database: production of the Power BI dashboards and reports for the new Peer Review to allow MKU to produce the country Peer Review.

MAIN TASKS

In close coordination with the Market Intelligence Manager five key primary tasks:

1. Produce Country Market Peer Review reports for 50+ markets for National Committees and fundraising Country Offices to help them learn from best in class in fundraising. The Peer Review looks at competitors’ income results by income streams and markets.

2. Produce the Inter and the Intra Peer Review reports (2023) for Best in Class and Bright spots identification in main fundraising income streams.

3. Support the MKU team by providing examples from competitors.

4. Produce the Power BI dashboards and reports for the Peer Review.

5. Produce a football clubs mapping and scoring model for the Corporate Team and some national Committees in phase 1. In phase 2, extend the model to sports in general.

6. Depending on workloads and specific needs, ad-hoc tasks may be undertaken also, in coordination with the relevant Market Knowledge staff members.

DELIVERABLES

High quality, accurate and timely project management, reports, summaries and insights for all studies. Specifically:

1. January-February 2023: Inter and the Intra Peer Review reports to identity Best-in-Class and Bright Spots (in UNICEF) with 2021 data and Mid-Year dataset (half 2022).

2. February 2023: design of the SharePoint page for MKU to add the Corporate Trends in close collaboration with the MKU Assistant.

3. May-July 2023: Contribute to the Global Peer Review reports by preparing the charts from PowerBI.

4. June-July 2023: Top key market Peer Review reports (15 markets) for Mid-Year Review with the market development Team.

5. July-September 2023: Remaining market Peer Review reports (35 countries) for the markets and PFP.

6. September 2023: March 2023: in close collaboration with colleagues in MKU, issue a report on corporate trends and trends in the sport industry to deliver to High Value Channels (HVC).

7. September 2023-October 2023: Inter and the Intra Peer Review reports to identity Best-in-Class and Bright Spots (in UNICEF) with 2022 data.

8. At the end of each quarter (31/3/23, 30/6/23, 30/9/23): compilation of examples from the competitors in key areas (with focus on health, education, climate).

ESTIMATED DURATION OF THE CONTRACT AND PROPOSAL

Duration: 11.5 months, Full-time, tentatively starting in December 2022.

REPORTING TO

The incumbent will report to the Market Intelligence Manager of the Market Knowledge Unit, who will provide overall direction and guidance.

WORKPLACE

Office based in the Geneva office.

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

Education:

• First level university degree (Bachelor or higher), in marketing or Business administration, or another relevant field is required.

Experience:

• Minimum of 3 years of relevant professional work experience in marketing and data analysis with Excel and Power BI in Market Research areas, or other related fields.
• Prior experience in market research or monitoring for a non-profit organization is highly desirable.
• Strong experience in data analysis and turning data into insights (Market Insights).
• Strong command of Excel and Power BI, (Market Measurements).
• Experience in building dashboards with business intelligence tools is a plus.
• Experience in the area of partnerships and sponsorship is desirable.
• Some experience in desk research, monitoring companies/organisations’ best practices by industry sector (Market Intelligence).

• Experience working in an international environment is a plus.

  Language:

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

For every Child, you demonstrate…

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

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

Remarks: Please indicate your ability, availability and gross daily/monthly rate (in US$) to undertake the terms of reference above (including travel and daily subsistence allowance, if applicable). Applications submitted without a daily/monthly rate will not be considered. Also, please mention the earliest date you can start.

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. 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.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

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.