Partnerships Officer, NO1, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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Overview

Support partnerships for child rights through strategic collaborations

You have:

• A university degree in Humanities, including Development, Economics, CSR, Business Administration or other relevant field.
• Minimum two years of professional experience in the fields of business and human rights, corporate sustainability, corporate partnerships or CSR.
• Understanding of development programming for children or related field will be considered a strong asset.
• Advanced knowledge of partnership development and resource mobilization.
• Current knowledge of development issues, strategies, as well as programming policies and procedures in international development cooperation.
• Strong communications skills, verbal and written.
• Strong networking and negotiation skills.
• Strong familiarity with political and governmental processes.
• Ability to work in a multicultural environment and establish harmonious working relationships, both within and outside the organisation.
• Fluency in English and the local language.

Contract

This is a NO-1 contract. This kind of contract is known as National Professional Officers. It is normally only for nationals. It's a staff contract. More about NO-1 contracts.

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, Inspiration

Building from the recognition of the strategic role the private sector is playing in the national economy and in development, UNICEF Mongolia is developing strategies to engage with business programmatically and promote business respect and support for child rights for the larger purpose of enhancing programme effectiveness and achieving positive outcomes for children.

The Partnerships Officer will work under the supervision of the Representative. The position’s purpose is to support Programme Sections and senior management in deepening collaboration with key stakeholders, including private sectors, governors offices, and financial partners, and helping to provide an interface for environmental scanning, knowledge exchange, resource mobilization, and policy influence within the scope of assignment. The key result is to ensure greater visibility for UNICEF and influence in support of its mission.

How can you make a difference?

The Partnerships Officer gathers, analyses and reports information in a manner that draws out fact-based insights to inform approaches to partner relationships and support substantive discussion and strategies with internal and external stakeholders. S/he captures relevant information and progress, and ensures internal information sharing.

Accurate and timely information to partners will strengthen the credibility of the organization which in turn will result in trust and increase financial and non-financial resources to the organization.

Key functions and accountabilities:

1. Contribute to integrating the business sector into UNICEF Mongolia Country Programme results with technical expertise, research, support to programme implementation, fostered coordination and internal collaboration. This includes providing strategic guidance to the development of a cross-cutting vision and strategy for engagements and partnerships with the business sector which will leverage income, influence and impact for children in Mongolia.
2. Work closely with Programme Sections to identify, develop and maintain partnerships with business, governors offices for programme delivery and advocacy towards delivering on UNICEF’s programme outcomes, in line with UNICEF’s principles for private sector engagement and global due diligence guidance and criteria. This includes supporting Programme Sections with market intelligence and donor prospection, drafting programme propositions and partnership agreements, conducting negotiation when needed, and supporting donor reporting, while ensuring compliance with UNICEF rules and regulations.
3. Lead the office’s Child Rights and Business Principles work, including strategy development, partnerships’ management, engagements with key business stakeholders, capacity building, resource mobilization and the roll out of CRBP related initiatives and projects.
4. Lead the private sector resource mobilization to achieve yearly targets in contribution with programmes and office wide
5. Support the Government in implementation of the CRC General Comment #16 on Business and Child Rights in order to strengthen enabling policy environment for child friendly workplaces and businesses where the rights of the children are respected and supported.
6. Support the roll out of the Business For Results (B4R) initiative in Mongolia, working closely with Programme Sections and the Regional Office to apply knowledge and strengthen the internal capacity of UNICEF Mongolia to work with business.
7. Implement the work plan for assigned area, to ensure timely and cost effective delivery of results, in accordance with UNICEF Mongolia’s partnership strategy.
8. Maintain awareness of current activities, political and social events of UN and other multilateral bodies/governments, conduct analysis to understand how they may impact UNICEF activities and programmes and provide timely information to UNICEF staff for decision-making
9. Support the Office to maintain effective relationships with private sector and other partners, in order to keep them well informed on strategic operational aspects of the UNICEF work with business in Mongolia and increase the potential to collaborate with it, while protecting UNICEF’s interests.
10. Promote a culture of effective knowledge management on PSE/CRB in UNICEF and contribute with the development of thought leadership, results stories and knowledge management products and platforms that can capture UNICEF Mongolia’s experience in engaging with business to achieve results for children for regional and global dissemination.

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

• A university degree in Humanities, including Development, Economics, CSR, Business Administration or other relevant field.
• Minimum two years of professional experience in the fields of business and human rights, corporate sustainability, corporate partnerships or CSR. Prior experience in the field of children’s rights and business and in development of corporate partnerships, fundraising, marketing, or communication is desirable.
• Understanding of development programming for children or related field will be considered a strong asset.
• Advanced knowledge of partnership development and resource mobilization.
• Current knowledge of development issues, strategies, as well as programming policies and procedures in international development cooperation.
• Strong communications skills, verbal and written.
• Strong networking and negotiation skills.
• Strong familiarity with political and governmental processes.
• Ability to work in a multicultural environment and establish harmonious working relationships, both within and outside the organisation
• Fluency in English and the local language.

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

UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (3) Drive to achieve results for impact (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others.

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 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. 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 is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children.

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

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