Partnerships Specialist (Events & Innovation), P3, Office of Innovation, Stockholm, Sweden, (, 364 days)

Contract

This is a P-3 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 5 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 74,649 USD and 97,747 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, hope

UNICEF has a 70-year history of innovating for children. We believe that new approaches, partnerships, and technologies that support the realization of children’s rights are key to improving children’s lives. Worldwide, we innovate to tackle the most pressing problems faced by the most vulnerable children. We take a systematic approach to innovation, applying skills and energy across new tools and technologies, products, innovative financing, and new ways of working to boost our impact. The Office of Innovation (OOI) is a creative, unique, and agile team in UNICEF. We sit at a unique intersection, where an organization that works on huge global issues meets the startup thinking, the technology, the tools, the know-how and the partners that turn ideas and energy into scalable solutions for children.

The Office of Innovation is a dynamic and innovation forward work environment – successful candidates for the External Engagement Specialist role will shine and thrive in such an environment.

How can you make a difference?

1. EXTERNAL EVENT/ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY & MANAGEMENT: The strategy and subsequent work plan creatively target internal and external stakeholder audiences and will align with the 2023-2024 OOI Key Moments Calendar.

• Develop and implement an external event/engagement strategy to include companion budget, management, and coordination plans.

2. PARTNERSHIP AND RESOURCE MOBILIZATION SUPPORT: New and existing partnership/stakeholder management are supported through an effective and creative engagement strategy and engagement activities are implemented in collaboration with the Partnership & Communications team. Strong team player as part of the broader Partnership and Communications (P&C) team and overall OOI.

• Contribute to the development, delivery of communications components linked to OOI events/engagements.

3. ALIGNING GLOBAL PRIORITIES AND ENGAGEMENT EVENTS & ACTIVITIES: OOI has an effective process in place for influencing, integrating, and acting on UNICEF’s global engagement priorities and partnerships.

• Facilitate and coordinate engagement events and activities.

  4. MONITORING AND EVALUATION: Robust baselines are established against which the achievement of objectives of the event/engagement strategy are regularly analyzed to continuously improve and adapt real-time the effectiveness of event/engagement strategy and activities.

• Post-event/-engagement activities, learnings.

5. NETWORKING AND PARTNERSHIPS - EXTERNAL PARTNER & STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT & OPPORTUNITIES: The OOI has a well maintained and continually developed contact list of internal and external individuals, groups, and fora whose support is essential to/can assist in achieving the external engagement objectives.

• External partner and stakeholder management.

• Explore and secure strategic technical partnerships in support of OOI priorities.

  6. CAPACITY BUILDING AND SUPPORT: The OOI and broader UNICEF teams are provided with professional expertise and advice on all aspects of event/engagement strategy as required.

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

• Advanced degree in relevant field such as: social sciences, communication, public relations, business administration and management.
• At least 5 years of progressively responsible professional work experience in a relevant field. A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.
• Project management skills including task prioritization, budget monitoring, and results-driven strategies.
• Highly skilled in capturing and effectively communicating post-event learnings, insights with internal teams & external partners.
• Experience with conceptualizing and/or producing videos, direct mailings, websites, animations, invitations, webinars, etc. is a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Fluency in English. Competence in another UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish) preferred.

Please click here to access the full ToR and related information JD P3 Partnership.Events Specialist (Innovation)_v4.pdf

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results. To view our competency framework, please visit here. Click here to learn more about UNICEF’s values and competencies.

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are...

• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (2) • Works Collaboratively with others (2) • Builds and Maintains Partnerships (2) • Innovates and Embraces Change (2) • Thinks and Acts Strategically (2) • Drives to achieve impactful results (2) • Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)

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.

This position is not considered an elevated risk role. However, UNICEF reserves the right to conduct further vetting/assessment within the scope of child safeguarding as appropriate.

UNICEF only considers higher educational 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/

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.

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

The VA is open to all (internal and external) candidates.