Public Partnership Specialist, P-3, Public Partnership Division, NYHQ (Temporary appointment 6 months)

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 140,639 USD and 184,155 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

The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does — in programs, in advocacy and in operations. The equity strategy, emphasizing the most disadvantaged and excluded children and families, translates this commitment to children’s rights into action. For UNICEF, equity means that all children have an opportunity to survive, develop and reach their full potential, without discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the degree that any child has an unequal chance in life — in its social, political, economic, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There is growing evidence that investing in the health, education and protection of a society’s most disadvantaged citizens — addressing inequity — not only will give all children the opportunity to fulfill their potential but also will lead to sustained growth and stability of countries. This is why the focus on equity is so vital. It accelerates progress towards realizing the human rights of all children, which is the universal mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, while also supporting the equitable development of nations. The Public Partnerships Specialist will be part of the Humanitarian Partnerships and Financing a Team in PPD. Under the supervision of the Public Partnerships Manager, the Humanitarian Partnerships Specialist will contribute to the humanitarian financing policies, mobilization, coordination, 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.

How can you make a difference?

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:

• Deepen collaboration and coordination with key stakeholders and provide an interface for environmental scanning, knowledge exchange, resource mobilization, and policy influence within the scope of assignment.

• Serve as focal point and resource for colleagues on specific thematic areas of strategic relevance for partnership development. The key result is to ensure greater visibility for UNICEF and influence in support of its mission.

Strengthen 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.

• Lead in creating the 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.

Main Responsibilities and Tasks:

Resource Mobilisation and Partnerships’ Development:

• Contribute to the development of resource mobilisation 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.
• Analyse 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).
• Coordinate organization of briefings on humanitarian crises for meetings with key partners, including acting as PPD focal point for the coordination of the global 2024 HAC Launch Event.

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 mobilisation strategies and plans, and provide guidance on quality donor reporting, recognition and visibility, etc. as needed. Focal point and lead for ECAR and LACR.
• Collection and dissemination of partner intelligence and mapping on a continuous basis to guide resource mobilization and partnership priorities and discussions with relevant partners.
• Participate in and summarize results from internal and external meetings on humanitarian funding, including Emergency Management Team Meetings.

Strategic analyses and humanitarian financing:

• Coordinate the support for 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, high-level inter-agency pledging events)
• Monitor, analyze and report on perspectives about 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.

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

• An advanced university degree is required in one of the following fields: international relations, political science, communications, international development, or another relevant technical field.
• A minimum of five years of professional experience in one or more of the following areas is required: public affairs, programme management, resource mobilization, external relations, or other relevant area.
• Experience in inter-governmental processes would be an asset.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with a strong attention to detail.
• Experience in event planning and management is a plus.
• 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’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, eligible and suitable candidates from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

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.