Public Partnership Officer, Public Partnership Division, P2, NYHQ, Req

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 108,633 USD and 147,551 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 works in 190 countries and territories to protect the rights of every child and has spent 70 years working to improve the lives of children and their families. UNICEF believes all children have a right to survive, thrive and fulfill their potential – to the benefit of a better world. UNICEF works with a wide range of partners to help realize the rights of all children. Join us as a Public Partnerships Specialist, working with some of our major Government donors, in the Public Partnerships Division in New York Headquarters.

The Public Partnerships Division (PPD) works to strengthen UNICEF's position as a partner of choice for children's rights among governments and inter-governmental actors around the world. The Division is doing this by positioning children's rights in the intergovernmental and multilateral fora and engaging with governments and public institutions as resource, policy and programme partners. A key premise for PPD is that the engagement with countries should be holistic based on multiple aspects of partnerships, including policy advocacy and resource mobilization. The Humanitarian Partnerships and Financing Officer would be part of the Humanitarian Partnerships, Financing and Human Rights Team in PPD. Under the supervision of the Public Partnerships Manager, the Humanitarian Partnerships and Financing Officer will contribute to the humanitarian financing policies, mobilization, management and development of resources and partnerships for UNICEF’s humanitarian action. UNICEF humanitarian action for children covers seven regions with over forty individual humanitarian appeals annually.

Purpose for the job Support the Public Partnerships Manager in identifying and designing new and innovative partnerships approaches with member states with focus on humanitarian response. The overall results will focus on:

• Strengthened partnerships by exploring all possible sources of new and existing funding channels and horizontal cooperation opportunities in support of UNICEF’s humanitarian action.
• Effective support to UNICEF country offices for humanitarian resource mobilization.
• Through coordination and relationship management, effective engagement ensured with key humanitarian actors such as OCHA and support deliverables related to management of CERF and Humanitarian Country Based Pooled Funds.
• Increase evidence-base for humanitarian quality funding and support humanitarian financing inter-agency policy work.
• Create political space and influence partnerships for children's rights through a broad range of policy issues related to humanitarian financing and humanitarian engagement in the context of the Grand Bargain.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

Resource Mobilization and Partnerships Development:

• Contribute to the development of resource mobilization strategies for UNICEF’s humanitarian action for children. This includes identifying partnership (advocacy and resource mobilization) entry points through the gathering of financial and political intelligence of donors and matching it with UNICEF priorities with focus on quality flexible funding.
• Analyze humanitarian funding trends and monitoring of changes in humanitarian financing environment in close collaboration with all division funding clusters and Office of Emergency Programmes (EMOPS).
• Develop, initiate and coordinate implementation of processes for enhanced horizontal and vertical communication on humanitarian funding and related resource mobilization opportunities.
• Coordinate organization of briefings on humanitarian crises for meetings with key partners.
• Work with communication colleagues to bring more visibility to UNICEFs humanitarian results and funding needs.
• Facilitate bilateral meetings between senior management, including from the field and partner representatives in New York, Capitals in support of resource mobilization efforts for humanitarian response.
• Efficient Contributions Management to build trust and credibility. This includes due diligence and oversight related to grant creation and allocation, timely and quality reporting, etc.

Field Office support:

• In coordination with the Regional Office (RO), provide technical support to Country Offices in emergencies (focus on L2 and L3 corporate level crises) in the development of resource mobilization strategies and plans, and provide guidance on quality donor reporting, recognition, and visibility, etc as needed.
• Collection and dissemination of partner intelligence and mapping on a continuous basis to guide resource mobilization and partnership priorities and discussions with relevant partners.
• Coordinate the analysis, monitoring and reporting of all UNICEF humanitarian financial data including providing substantive inputs to for all UNICEF flagship reports i.e., SitReps, OCHA's Financial Tracking System (FTS) as well as other ad hoc reporting requests.
• Participate in and summarize results from internal and external meetings on humanitarian funding, including Emergency Management Team Meetings.

Strategic analyses and humanitarian financing:

• Monitor, analyze and report on perspectives on the global humanitarian financing which directly or indirectly affect children. Advise senior management of developments and trends as well as on recommendations regarding follow-up activities. Track and share emerging trends and directions through mapping exercises and documentation.
• Attend and report to relevant HQ and field colleagues on the discussions at the inter-agency humanitarian financing discussions.
• Contribute to internal inter-divisional discussions on finding financing solutions that provide more predictable and flexible funding for humanitarian activities.
• Support UNICEF’s participation, engagement and positioning in high level inter-agency meetings related to humanitarian financing and partnerships, including development of statements, and briefing packages (i.e., Grand Bargain, IASC Results Group on Humanitarian Financing, high-level inter-agency pledging events)

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

• Graduation degree in social science, international relations, public administration, law, or related field.
• Specialized experience with research (secondary-sources minimum), databases, analyzing and synthesizing information, producing accessible outputs to inform decision making.
• Experience in inter-governmental processes would be an asset.
• Knowledge of office computer systems (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook) and internet research tools.
• Ability to work in an international and multicultural environment. Competencies required: commitment, embracing diversity, integrity, teamwork, and drive for results; communication, judgment, planning, setting standards and monitoring work, analytical and conceptual thinking.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with a strong attention to detail.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

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. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. 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 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 are also 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.